The conversation around electric vehicles (EVs) in Rwanda has matured significantly over the last few years. We are no longer debating whether electric mobility is viable.

Once again, this might be another one of my nearly offensive posts. Or not. Depending. But if you have a fragile heart and you feel like you might be offended by this, please do scroll on and have a beautiful rest of your day.

The World Health Organization estimates that 56.8 million people need palliative care each year, yet only about 14% receive it, with 78% of this need concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. Across Africa, the gap is even wider. Fewer than 5% of people who need palliative care receive it, even as the continent recorded about 1.1 million new cancer cases and 711,000 cancer deaths in 2020 alone.

Rwanda is becoming part of Africa’s artificial intelligence conversation in a serious way. The recent launch of the AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation in Kigali, together with Rwanda’s national focus on artificial intelligence, shows that the country is not treating AI as a passing trend.

The Indus river is about 1,800 miles long. Its western tributaries (Kabul, Kurram) are more than 700 miles; the eastern tributaries (Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) have an aggregate length of more than 2,800 miles. The system drains 450,000 square miles, and is one of the largest in the world. Most of the basin lies in India and Pakistan, influencing the history, culture and ecosystem of the South Asian region.

On the evening of 4 July 1973, while Kigali slept, Major General Juvénal Habyarimana turned the army of the Republic against the very president who had built his career.

Fidel Castro once said in 1961 “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past”. The Liberation Day celebrated in Rwanda on July 4th symbolizes the same truth because it was a political victory for the worth of a historic cause we won at an extremely high price of hardships. The struggle was really between the future and the past, and it still continues!

There are moments in the history of a nation that define not only its survival, but also its spirit. The liberation struggle led by Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) and Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) is one of those defining moments, a story of pain, sacrifice, resilience, and dignity.

Youth are the lifeblood of any society, the engine of growth, innovation, and change; however, they are also vulnerable. When exploited, their energy can be turned into a destructive force. Rwanda tragically exemplifies both possibilities.

On a steep hillside overlooking the upper reaches of the Nyabarongo River, farmers walk along carefully maintained radical terraces that have held firm through another intense rainy season.

When individuals frantically manufacture ceaseless falsehoods around a single event, it is usually because the truth is too dangerous for them to acknowledge. Truth has a persistent practice: it endures noise, propaganda, forged narratives, and rehearsed outrage.

Africa sits at an inflection point between hope, opportunity, and a global reset. Asymmetrical trade deals are being challenged, debt architecture is under pressure, and the institutions that once entrenched colonial-era hierarchies are wobbling. But windows like this do not remain open for long. Sixty-three years ago, on May 25, Africa’s founding fathers understood this and chose unity at the moment it mattered most. On Africa Day in 2026, that same choice is being demanded again.

On May 25, 1963, 32 newly independent African states gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and founded the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Emerging from the brutal legacies of colonialism and apartheid, the architects of Pan-Africanism understood one truth above all others: divided, Africa would remain prey to others; united, Africa could shape its own destiny. 63 years later, Africa Day 2026 arrives at another significant moment.

The death of Félicien Kabuga, the notorious financier of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, must not bring an end to the pursuit of justice.

The death of Félicien Kabuga closes one of the most haunting chapters of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, but leaves behind a painful reality: one of the genocide’s alleged chief financiers and planners has died without ever receiving a final verdict.

For more than two decades, President Juvénal Habyarimana was sold—carefully, relentlessly, and cynically—as “Umubyeyi”, the protective father of the Rwandan nation. This was not merely propaganda in the ordinary sense; it was political theater elevated into a governing doctrine.

For years, President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi has attempted to frame his country as a potential target of alleged Rwandan aggression. His latest claims in a Jeune Afrique interview, that "Rwanda harbors malicious intent against Burundi", fit a familiar pattern: a leader playing the victim to mask his own failed gambits.

At a time of mounting geopolitical tension, the stability of the Strait of Hormuz has become a matter of urgent global concern. This narrow waterway—through which a significant portion of the world’s energy supply flows—serves as a lifeline for both advanced and developing economies. Any sustained disruption is not merely a regional challenge; it is a global economic threat.

Rwanda’s development story is often associated with visible progress in infrastructure, tourism, housing, technology, and public services. Yet, another important transformation is taking place more quietly: the steady growth of the country’s capital market. Although this progress may not always attract daily attention, it is becoming an important pillar of Rwanda’s long-term economic development.

Signed on September 19, 1960, the Indus Waters Treaty has long been regarded as one of the world’s most durable water-sharing agreements.