The New Times (Rwanda)

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Typical New Times front page
Type Daily newspaper
FoundedSeptember 1995
Website www.newtimes.co.rw

The New Times is a national English-language newspaper in Rwanda. It was established in 1995 shortly after the genocide against the Tutsi. A Kinyarwanda-language weekly called Izuba Rirashe was previously published. [1]

The New Times is published in Kigali from Monday to Saturday, with its sister paper the Sunday Times, appearing on Sundays. The New Times Online was launched in 2006. [2] The New Times often conveys optimistic stories about events in Rwanda. [3]

In May 2009, Human Rights Watch (HRW) described The New Times as a state-owned newspaper in a rebuttal to an editorial article that accused HRW of "sanitizing people who were attempting to negate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda". The New Times did not publish the HRW rebuttal. [4] In 2010, president Paul Kagame said that The New Times has been too servile to him and his party, and asked the Aga Khan to launch an alternative. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Izuba Rirashe newspaper launched". www.newtimes.co.rw. 14 December 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "About The New Times". newtimes.co.rw. The New Times. 28 July 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Brea, Jennifer (16 July 2007). "The new Rwanda". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 12 August 2010. "The headlines in a typical issue of New Times, the daily English-language newspaper, convey the optimism: "No more power shortage", "Promote women", "Population growth controllable", "Malaria no more"."
  4. ↑ "Response to The New Times Article on Rwandan Genocide". Human Rights Watch. 18 May 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "President Paul Kagame under scrutiny". The Economist . 5 August 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
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