Rwanda Media Programme

13/02/2026

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Arranged by Fojo through the AGILE consortium. Funded by the European union. The AGILE consortium is made up of: Internews Europe Thomson Media CFImedias ARTICLE 19 and Fojo Media Institute.

21/01/2026

“I’m particularly interested in investigative journalism, where we learn how journalists dig deeper into stories, verify facts, write investigative pieces, and publish them professionally." The quote is from one of the 30 students who are taking part in a week-long investigative journalism training delivered by Canadian investigative journalist Steve Buist.

More than 30 journalism students from the East African University Rwanda (EAUR) and the Institut Catholique de Kabgayi (ICK) are undergoing a four-day intensive training in investigative and data journalism, organized by the Fojo Media Institute in Muhanga District. The training, which runs from Jan...

19/01/2026

Rwanda Media Programme not only participated in last year’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP); we also informed the media sector about the findings in two different workshops last week. The significant underrepresentation of women in Rwanda’s media came as a big surprise to the participants, who were given a range of tools to help address this issue. If you are interested in the detailed figures, please consult the full report. The link can be found in the commentary field.

13/08/2025

Soooo much is going on in Rwanda Media Programme this week 😀. Journalism students in all our four partner universities have got an introduction both to fact-checking as a journalistic genre and AI for journalists. On group of journalists enjoys a several days training in special reporting about education - an area we think engages the whole society (we all have gone to school... 👩‍🎓). Another group of journalists is learning more about how to report in an ethical and inclusive way about disabilities.

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!