Kigali, Rwanda – Aime was only 16 years old when she was forced to drop out of school in Karongi district of western Rwanda due to extreme poverty. Her parents found it difficult to pay her fees ...

Karongi, Rwanda – Four years ago, Rwanda took the radical decision to begin shutting down all of its orphanages – a move that would have made it the first country in Africa to do so.

Officials of Karongi district have vowed to make it a ... All this is in line with the government's efforts to make Rwanda a clean place not only for visitors but also for locals for their wellbeing.

Western Province — Karongi District authorities are to construct new office blocks for all Sectors that do not have their own. This was revealed by Jean Batiste Hakizimana, the Karongi district ...

Rwanda is often referred to as the land of a thousand hills. It’s hard to dispute this given that you see hills everywhere you turn. I am not sure if anyone has ever done the actual counting but at my ...

Participants from Karongi, Rubavu, Rusizi, Ngororero, Nyamasheke, and Rutsiro engaged in enlightening discussions on Rwanda’s history, the destructive impact of divisive ideologies, and their ...

Karongi, Rwanda – When Jeanne Uwiragiye and her family were trying to return to Rwanda, in July 2009, they had little hope of finding a better life than the one they had lived in the neighboring ...

Between 3,000 and 4,000 refugees walked for two hours from the Kiziba camp to stage a protest outside the offices of the U.N. refugee agency in the Karongi district of western Rwanda. According to ...

Uganda’s Aquatic Academy dominated the 2025 Mako Sharks Invitational Swimming Championship, held from June 7–-9 in Kigali. The event, organised by Mako Sharks Swimming Club, took place at Green Hills ...

Rwanda’s National Commission for Human Rights ... 2018 Human Rights Watch interviewed six survivors from the killings at Karongi and Kiziba on February 22, 2018. They said the police were ...