Rwanda partners with US non-profit to open medical school By Wallis Wang and Angie Chan Ten years ago, Ellen Spellman was looking for an organisation to donate to. From a family of doctors in the United States, she wanted her money to work towards better healthcare in...
25 years later: Rwanda learns to teach genocide, not only remember Serge Rwigamba speaks to visitors at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Vivian Irabiz, 22, is one of more than 60% of the population born after the genocide. D’Artagnan Habintwal, a guide at the...
Rwandan women’s group takes steps to self-sustainability and community empowerment By Yoyo Chow and Candice Wong There were only four sewing machines and a meeting room at the Nyamirambo Women’s Center when 18 Rwandese women first launched it in 2007. After years in...
Rwanda fights for the mountain gorillas Ex-poacher village and Dian Fossey’s research centre continue conservation work By Anna Kam and Phoebe Lai Award-winning biopic Gorillas in the Mist, released in 1988, features primatologist Dian Fossey’s fight to protect...
Embracing Language: Rwanda Adapts to Globalization By Carol Yuan and Han Xu Greeting local farmers in Kinyarwanda; introducing attractions to tourists in English and French; using Swahili to communicate with traders from Congo. These are daily occurrences for Olivier...
Rwanda’s plastic bag ban cleans up country By Zhao Shuang and Gao Yue On a cool May evening after a rain shower in hilly north Rwanda, the streets sparkled, not a single piece of litter in sight. Rwanda, a country of almost 13 million in Central Africa, is...
