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Rwenzori Floods: UPDF Soldiers Start Evacuating Stranded Kasese,Bundibugyo Residents
The Uganda People’ Defence Forces has established structures to respond to the flood situation in Bundibugyo and Kasese Districts. This includes airlift support services on call, search and rescue, and a unit for relocation established on ground to respond to the emergency. UPDF contingent from the 222 Mountain Infantry Brigade under the command of Lt…
Rwandan National Arrested In Kabale For Vandalizing Street Solar Panels
The territory police in Kabale have arrested a 30-year-old Rwandan national for vandalizing and plucking off a street solar panel along Jackson Road in Central Division, Kabale municipality, at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Kabale branch. Elly Maate, the police spokesperson for the Kigezi region, stated that the culprit was identified as Alphonse Shimaka…
Rwandan General Secretly Chairs East Africa Armed Forces In Kampala
Representatives from the Military, Police, Prisons, civilian components and other stakeholders from all the six East Africa Community (EAC) partner states are meeting at Silver Springs Hotel in Kampala to discuss modalities of conducting the 12th Edition Command Post Exercise (CPX) codenamed Ushirikiano Imara 2019 in Uganda. The main planning conference (MPC) is chaired by…
Rwanda Tops 2023 Africa Visa Openness Index
Rwanda has become the latest African country to offer visa-free access to all African citizens according to the latest edition of the Africa Visa Openness Index jointly published on Dec.12 by the African Union and the African Development Bank Group. A visa is an endorsement–through a certificate or stamp in a travel document–showing that a…
Rwanda To Cover Cancer,Kidney Transplant Services For All Patients In Health Scheme
Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana has revealed that, starting from 2025, the government will include cancer treatment and kidney transplants in the community-based health insurance scheme ” Mutuelle de Santé.” Government plans to include specialised medical services including cancer treatment and kidney transplants in the community-based health insurance scheme (CBHI) commonly known as Mutuelle de Santé,…
Rwanda Seeks Economic Partnership Not Conflicts – Kagame
Rwanda’s international cooperation efforts seek partnership with the rest of the world for shared gains not pursuing favours as a darling of the world, President Paul Kagame has said. Kagame was speaking in Qatar at the 2019 Doha Forum, a leading thought platform which discusses varied topics including trends and technology, trade and investment, human…
Rwanda Security Agencies Arrested Me On Wrong Intelligence – Horizon Bus Manager
Horizon Coaches Horizon bus manager who was recently arrested by Rwandan security agencies at the Uganda-Rwanda border of Chanika in Kisoro district has been released. Mr.Sebizuru was arrested by Rwandan security officials on Wednesday evening as he was planning to go to Ruhengeri town in the Northern Province of Rwanda to pick his company’s…
Rwanda Releases SFC Soldier After Muhoozi Visit
Commander of Land Forces of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has returned to Kampala from a successful trip to Kigali, where he held talks with Rwanda President Paul Kagame. “We held very cordial and in-depth discussions about how to improve our bilateral relations. I’m confident that under the leadership of…
Rwanda Reinstates Covid-19 Partial Lockdown
Rwanda has again banned transport in and out of the capital Kigali and extended an evening curfew for another 15 days amid a deadly second wave of coronavirus. Rwanda, which in March last year was one of the first countries in Africa to impose strict lockdowns, has registered 105 deaths from Covid, half of them…
Rwanda Police Shoots Suspect, Another Arrested Over Assaulting MTN Agent
Rwanda National Police (RNP) together with Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), has arrested one of the deadly crooks who was captured on a CCTV camera assaulting and robbing Tuyisenge Jeannette an MTN agent in Remera – Gasabo district in the capital Kigali. Upon arrest, the suspect Emmanuel Irakoze was paraded before the press on Thursday, February…