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Collision Course: An Investigation Into The Death Of A Journalist Hated By Rwandan Authorities.
In January 2023, Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali was killed in a traffic collision. His relentless work documenting human rights violations, the persecution of political opposition and the suppression of the press had made him the subject of hostility from those in power, causing him to fear for his life.
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Covid 19: A Family Needs RWF 36,000 A Month To Comply With Government Instructions Of Mask Wearing
Nyirabariyanga clementine aged 50 a residence of Marantima village, Rwebera cell, Cyuve sector in Musanze district lost her husband in 2018 march

PEGASUS: THE NEW GLOBAL WEAPON FOR SILENCING JOURNALISTS
Khadija Ismayilova’s home in Baku had become like a prison. In Azerbaijan, an oil-rich nation nestled next to the Caspian Sea that since 2014 has increasingly stifled free speech and dissent

The Messiahs That Are Not “Abacunguzi Batari Bo
In 2010 the UK’s Department for the International Development (DFID) and the World Bank in partnership with the Government of Rwanda

Covid-19: Echoes Of The 20th Century In A 21st Century Pandemic
Diseases have plagued mankind throughout history. The Neolithic Revolution, which was marked by a shift to agrarian societies

Rwanda: Press Micro Managed, Ink And Resilience By: Samuel Baker BYANSI
Jourmalists cover a story at Rwanda Investigation Bureau heaquarters in Kigali on May 17, 2019. Photo: File. Newtimes Rwanda

The COVID-19 Lockdown Food That Never Reached
About 1.5million people in Rwanda’s capital Kigali are back in a government-instituted lockdown beginning the night of January 18. This lockdown is to control the spread of new COVID cases in the c...

Why It’s Hard To Remove An African President From Power
If Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang will still be in power by August 3rd 2023, he will have broken the record of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie who ruled for 44 years from 1930 to 1974. ...

EXPOSED: THE RTDA EXTORTION AND BRIBERY SYNDICATE IN AFDB-FUNDED ROAD PROJECT
A 51.54km road project in Northern Rwanda may have improved the lives of thousands, but has also destroyed the livelihoods of many others.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS: THE PEOPLE WASTING OUR TAXES
Government institutions are overspending billions of Rwandan Francs each year, from local to Senate level. As The Chronicles reports,