Members of Parliament in the health committee have said government should allow vaccination of children in schools. MPs say that it is unfair to let some students who were vaccinated be in the same classrooms as those who are not yet vaccinated. Rukungiri Municipality Member of Parliament, Dr Elisa Rutahigwa says they always expect disease outbreaks. This can easily attack ...

The Human Rights Watch, HRW, has said up until now, freedom of speech in Rwanda is still an issue. HRW says dozens of people have been harassed, threatened or prosecuted for holding critical opinions about Rwanda’s government. In a report by the US-based group, an urgent release of activists, journalists and opposition leaders arrested in Rwanda was demanded. In 1994, ...

Hon. Mbwatekamwa Gaffa has said he is ashamed and embarrassed to be identified as a member of Parliament. In this season where prices of commodities have gone so high, the Parliament has been put on the spot for apparently doing nothing about it. The most annoying thing, at least as expressed by the public, is that they gave the Zaake ...

National Unity Platform, NUP, has pledged to support their candidate, Hon. Francis Zaake as he heads to court to challenge the move parliament made to do away with him as parliament commissioner. NUP Secretary-General, Lewis Rubongoya, said they will not in anyway abandon Zaake in this fight. He added that process that the parliament used to throw him out as ...

The Director of communications and public affairs at Parliament, Chris Obore has said the Deputy Speaker is not responsible for what happened to Hon. Francis Zaake. According to him, it is the Members of Parliament that decided that Zaake should leave the commission. “The mover of the motion censuring Hon. Zaake was not the Deputy Speaker. It was Hon. Mapenduzi. ...