Sixteen injured as grenade attacks hit Kigali »
Sixteen people were injured in two simultaneous grenade attacks in Kigali last night at around 7pm. The attacks happened in Kimironko, close to the taxi rank, and in Kinamba, near the Gisozi Genocide memorial. The bombings occur less than one month after similar attacks in central Kigali. Only on Wednesday, President Paul Kagame blamed the [...]
Victoire Ingabire (does not) seek refuge at UK High Commission »
This story appears to be a hoax. I’m told Ingabire had a meeting at the UK High Commission and then went home. I can hardly wait until the presidential race starts for real. Just imagine the jolly japes…
According to her party’s Facebook page (basically a feed of press releases), the 2010 Rwanda presidential election hopeful, [...]
Kigali City Council crackdown on restaurant hygiene »
It’s good to hear that Kigali City Council are cracking down on unhygienic restaurants and bars in the capital. However, I couldn’t help but raise a smile at the gentile way in which this New Times reporter eased his way into describing the problems facing customers,
A mini survey carried out around premises in Kacyiru and [...]
Get on your wooden bike »
Rwanda’s third annual wooden bike classic will take place tomorrow, November 25, at the Amahoro Stadium over a distance of 40km. Participants compete on the ingenious wooden bicycles, that reportedly come from Musanze province but are widespread throughout East Africa; from Goma in the DRC to Uganda and they even appear in the National Museum [...]
On and off the road »
I’ve been on and off the road much of the week driving up to the Ugandan border and back down to Kigali. Unfortunately, I didn’t use the camera as much as I had hoped. I took the shot above on a rainy day, through a muddy windscreen on an iPhone as we made our way [...]
Introducing the Kigali post box »
As far as I can tell this is it. This is the only post box in central Kigali serving a population of circa 1 million souls. The old Post Office, on Avenue de la Paix in the downtown financial district, was knocked down a couple of weeks ago along with the A-Z Book Centre. The [...]
Live and direct from the streets of Kigali »
It took me a while, but I’ve finally manhandled my Kigali Wire blog into a fit enough state to open to the public. It’s basically a glorified photo blog come news aggregator come social media experiment. Can’t quite believe I started building the Wire almost 4 months ago… The bulk of the work was in [...]
Downpour in Kigali »
The heavens opened at around 3.30pm today. I was caught at the petrol station on the corner of Avenue des Mille Collines and Avenue de la Revolution hoping to sit it out as I snapped a few photos with my phone. No such luck, this was a long soaking. I hailed a cab and took [...]
Tearing down the book store »
The A-Z Book Centre in the centre of Kigali is almost no more. A large portion of land in the central downtown area of Kigali, including the post office, a multitude of moneychangers and the book store pictured above are being demolished. Mind your head as you walk by, falling debris is not thoroughly under [...]
Shopkeeper in Nyamirambo »
Rebecca Blackwell’s shot of a shopkeeper waiting for customers in the Nyamirambo district of Kigali makes it into this week’s San Francisco Chronicle Day in Pictures section. I keep the original photos I produce for Kigali Wire in this Flickr account.
