Rwanda has taken the top title at the World Travel Awards Africa Gala Ceremony 2017, held in Kigali on Tuesday. On a night of high drama in host city, Kigali, the Land of a Thousand Hills…
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World Travel Awards touches down in Rwanda
Ahead of the Africa Gala Ceremony 2017, World Travel Awards (WTA) has touched down in Kigali, Rwanda. The prestigious event will take place in the country’s thriving capital, Kigali, at the Radisson Blu Hotel &…
Rwanda targets high-end tourist market
Nicaraguan singer Hernaldo Zuniga brought his entire family to trek through the lush forests and mist-shrouded volcanoes of northwestern Rwanda in search of mountain gorillas. He described their encounter with the critically endangered primates as…
Believe it or not – In Rwanda, a phone text can save a baby
Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme in isolated rural areas. The scheme has already…
Soap opera helps heal post-genocide wounds in Rwanda
Twice a week and for half an hour, everything stops on the hillsides of Rwanda as people huddle around a radio and listen to a soap opera that aims to help heal the wounds left…
Tourism in Rwanda: Genocide memorials as well as gorillas
Rwanda, which has staged a remarkable recovery in the years since the 1994 genocide, has opened visitors’ eyes to its past by putting its genocide memorials on the tourist circuit, alongside its iconic mountain gorillas….
Angelina Jolie visits Rwanda warzone rape victims
Angelina Jolie joined British Foreign Secretary William Hague to visit Rwanda today in a bid to encourage world powers to do more on tackling rape and sexual assault in war zones. Britain’s Foreign Office released…
Africa Movie Academy Awards ’13 deadline extended
The organisers of the Africa Movie Academy Awards have extended the deadline for receiving film entries to January 31, 2013. Tony Anih, the Executive Secretary of AMAA, says this extension is aimed at giving filmmakers…