Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founded | September 1995 |
Website |
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The New Times is a national English language newspaper in Rwanda. It was established in 1995 shortly after the Rwandan genocide. They also used to have a Kinyarwanda-language weekly called Izuba Rirashe. [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] President Paul Kagame has said that The New Times has been too servile to him and his party, and has asked the Aga Khan to launch an alternative. [5]