- Mar172013
What’s the weather like in Rwanda?
Read moreRWANDA IS JUST SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR and its relatively high altitude (most of it is well over 1500 meters) means that the climate is often soft and pleasant. Temperatures vary considerably from place to place. In Kigali the average temperature is about 21°C. This graph, and the notes below, show the traditional pattern over the year. But Africa’s weather patterns
0 - Mar122013
Ardyn Halter: stained glass
Read moreONE OF TWO STAINED GLASS WINDOWS in Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali. Both are by Israeli artist Ardyn Halter. His notes for this first one, Descent into Genocide, say, “It concerns the period leading up to the genocide where there was no effort to intervene or prevent what was about to occur. shows a staircase and all the movement in semi-abstracted
- Mar052013
Ikobe Musik Group
Read moreLet yourself go to a world beyond hipster irony or the fastest-ever double-kick Mexican death-core… to the intricate, melodic crossroads between tradition and modernity.
- Mar032013
African roots guitar
Read moreJacques ‘Popo’ Murigande calls his music ‘world blues’. He loves playing around the intersection of the different traditional styles of Batwa, Bahutu and Batutsi music.
- Mar022013
Poo-powered prisons
Read moreRwanda’s fourteen prisons have introduced bio-gas burners, 75% powered by the inmates’ own waste. The burners need one thing – a reliable supply of waste – and jails can give exactly that. The bio-gas is produced by combining the inmates’ waste with water and cow dung from the jail’s farm cows. The prisoners’ diet isn’t rich enough to produce top
- Apr072012
Gorilla trekking $750 from 1st June 2012
Read moreThe cost of a permit to track the mountain gorillas will increase from $500 to $750 starting on 1st June 2012. “This increase comes at a time when there is significant growth of the gorilla population as well as an increasing demand for gorilla tourism,” a statement from the Rwanda Development Board said. “This means that there is need to
- Dec142011
Songs of the voiceless
Read moreTwo of the most marginalised groups in Rwanda are the slum dwellers and the traditional population known as the Batwa. On the hills outside Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali, traditional Batwa musicians found a new voice in the urban community through an unlikely collaboration with local hip-hop star, Pacachi. Australian Helene Thomas (ABC Radio National) went along for the music and
- Aug072011
Rwanda film festival 2011
Read moreBeneath a star-filled African sky, crowds of city dwellers and rural farmers gather before a giant inflatable screen. It’s movie night in Rwanda and thousands have come to see films selected in this year’s Rwanda Film Festival. Now the country’s artists – writers, directors and actors – are telling their own stories on their own terms. This year marks the
- Jul152011
- Jan252011
Rates of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda fall dramatically
Read moreRates of HIV/AIDS have fallen dramatically over the last decade in Rwanda. Today, the adult HIV prevalence rate has dropped to less than 3%, down from 13% in 2000. That’s about half the rate of other East African nations such as Uganda and Kenya, says Dr. Anita Asiimwe, executive secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission. Rates of new HIV
- Dec102010
Carbon market policy in Rwanda
Read moreThe country of a thousand hills is developing a carbon policy to create a carbon market. In Rwanda, climate change is considered one of the top three most likely causes of future poverty, because the majority of Rwandans rely on subsistence farming. So Rwanda’s National Strategy for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (2008-2012) highlights the importance of developing a carbon market. The
- Dec032010
