Rwanda Media Programme

15/07/2025

“They started digging below Nizeyimana’s land and eventually reached my house… I reported it to the village authorities, but they just stopped him, and once it was forgotten, he continued mining." The illegal mining in Rwanda affects people in terrible ways. Dont miss this story, done by support of Rwanda Media Programme.

By Rosine Ntawurikura Epiphanie Nabonurwumwe ’s house of 50 yearsin Kamonyi District, south of the capital Kigali, lies in ruins. Illegal miners searching for tin burrowed so deep beneath the house that it collapsed, said the 65-year-old grandmother, who was forced to leave her home because the s...

10/07/2025

Rwanda Media Programme sometimes provides small grants for journalists attending our trainings. In the commentaryfield you can find some interesting stories coming out from that. Which story do you like most?

30/06/2025

Gender mainstreaming is a big part of Rwanda Media Programme and last Friday we could participate in the event National Dialogue on Gender and Media, arranged by our partner in Kigali. So many good discussions during the day, and it is amazing to see the awareness in gender growing inside the Rwandan media sector.

23/06/2025

The work with capacity building in the Rwandan media sector is constantly on-going for us. This week Rwanda Media Programme focusing on in-house meeting with some media houses that get some extra support with their own, different projects.

09/06/2025

The black market for drugs is huge and global. This is a story about the situation in Rwanda, and one of the stories produced during the trainings Rwanda Media Programme arranged on behalf of Thomson Reuters Foundation. More will come!

By Elie Mutangana KIGALI – Jean Bosco Mukurarinda, a doctor at the Baho Neza private clinic in Kigali, sees roughly

05/05/2025

How to engage the audience in the issue with climate change? That is a hard question where the answer is not clear. But a solution-driven journalism can be one way to solve the challenge. Rwanda Media Programme was supporting a training our partner Rwanda Environmental Journalists arranged on Solution Journalism recently. We hope we can share some stories that came out soon!

28/03/2025

There is so much to understand for journalists who report about IFF Illicit Finance Flows. The Rwanda Media Programme has, together with the Thomson Reuters Foundation arranged several trainings about this issue in Rwanda. Over 20 Rwandan journalists are now strengthened in this area, and we can not wait to see the results in stories being published in different media. Foto: Cina Crafoord

24/02/2025

Mwaramutse! Exciting news from Rwanda Media Programme today. We are searching for several experts to join our next phase in the media viabilty part of the programme this year. Are you an expert in community radio, AI-tools, subsricption models, digital transformation – or anything else connected to media and journalism? Please look at our four different calls in the commentary field. Last day to submit is the 3 of March, and applicants from outside Rwanda are welcome as well. Looking forward to your application!

21/12/2024

Rwanda Media Programme’s local team closed 2024 with a two days training about the basics in AI together with lecturers at the journalism schools in 🇷🇼. So much fun, so interesting and useful 😀. Let us see where those new skills will take us next year. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄

Rubavu (ICK News) – A transformative training session aimed at equipping Rwanda’s journalism lecturers with cutting-edge skills in artificial intelligence (AI) applications for journalism took place from December 19th to December 20th, 2024, at Stipp Hotel in Rubavu. The training, part of the Rw...

28/11/2024

Christmas comes early to Kigali this year :-). Rwanda Media Programme is in the process to provide equipment for mobile-journalism as a phone, microphone set and a tripod to 20 of the media houses has as partners. Good luck with your new equipment – and we can not wait until we see the stories produced with it.

21/11/2024

Can you explain the terms AMLID, FAFT, FIU, AML and APG? This and so much more can the journalist Annonciata Byukusenge from The Forefront Magazine do after a week of training in investigative reporting and Illicit Financial Flows, IFF. The training is managed by Rwanda Media Programme in cooperation with Thomson Reuters Foundation. Look out for a range of impressive stories coming out in Rwanda.

11/11/2024

We are happy to tell that journalism students from ICK, UR/SJC, MKU and EAUR this week are gathered for a three-day training organized by the Rwanda Media Programme. They will be covering topics as news writing, reporting on social media, multimedia storytelling and interviewing techniques – all about building practical skills for a dynamic media career :-). Pictured is one of the trainers, Jean Claude Ndayishimye, senior manager at RBA Digital.