An unidentified gunman shot dead a journalist for a banned Rwandan newspaper on Thursday, according to media reports. Jean Leonard Rugambage, an editor for the local-language Umuvugizi newspaper, was shot twice in front of his home on the outskirts of the capital Kigali on Thursday night, a police spokesperson was quoted as saying. Umuvugizi’s editor, […]

Sixteen years after the start of the Rwanda genocide, the International Press Institute (IPI) spoke with Rwandan journalist Faith Mbabazi, chief editor of Radio Rwanda, the country’s largest radio station, based in Kigali. Although she was only 16 when the killings began, Mbabazi – who also heads the Association of Rwanda Women In the Media […]