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latest news & developmentsNuclear energy is a must
Africa must embrace nuclear energy to power economic growth and meet Agenda 2063 goals
African SMEs face finance, fragmentation and succession crisis, warns IFC chief
At the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Makhtar Diop calls for bold investment, private sector leadership and structural reforms
Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2
The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…
Becoming Umwana – a son
In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…
Kwibuka32: Never and never again
But as they mourn, remember and reflect on their past, Rwandans are building their country into one of the continent’s shining examples of what can be done when the people unite…
A breath of fresh air: How Kigali’s car-free Sundays keep people moving
The city’s car-free day is going into its ninth year, far outlasting most initiatives like it around the world, including in South Africa
The algorithm of love: Reimagining development leadership
Where algorithms see risk, we must see potential; where systems see statistics, we must recognise humanity
Bill Gates plays God in Africa’s agriculture and gets it wrong
Agra’s drive for a ‘green revolution’ has reduced crop diversity, created a dependency on commercial seeds and fertiliser and increased vulnerability to drought
Rwandan man powers entire community with hydroelectric energy
Fed up with the perennial darkness in his village, Israel Habimana sold his land and used the money to build a mini-hydroelectric power station
Please do not sit on the graves: Lessons from the Rwanda genocide
28 years after the killing of more than 250 000 during the Rwanda genocide, Lulam Njapa visits the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
Africa in brief: 4-11 September
What happened on the continent this past week
NBA and Fiba launch Basketball Africa League
Teams from 12 countries will play in the league in Kigali, Rwanda, from 16 to 30 May — but South Africa didn’t make the grade
Tensions loom over the Great Lakes region
President Félix Tshisekedi should abandon plans to invite neighbouring militaries into the eastern DRC
Rwanda’s gingerbread house
Kigali is flashing its sweetest smile to foreign firms, but there may be cracks in the image it’s presenting
Kigali’s trade-off: Sell and be arrested or starve
At first glimpse, Rwanda’s capital is a model African city: clean, organised, beautiful. But behind the gleaming facade, not all is well