All Earth and Space Sciences unite for this evening’s Venus–Jupiter conjunction.
The two planets will appear exceptionally close together in the sky after sunset, offering a rare and beautiful viewing opportunity for observers across the World.
Watch our explainer below and remember to take photos.
Rwanda's Teleport achieves Tier 3 Certification from the @worldteleport (WTA), becoming the second fully certified teleport in Africa and the first space agency-operated teleport globally to get WTA certification.
A milestone for Rwanda's space sector and a recognition of the country's growing capabilities in satellite communications infrastructure.
Tube turetse ko Scovia amakosa yayashyize kuri Minister ngo yakoresheje indimi z'amahanga kandi yasubizaga abo abwira mu rurimi bavuga. Yaba byibura yamenye ko ya tagginze umuntu utari we 😂?
A meteor shower will appear in our skies tomorrow morning.
The Eta Aquariids - debris from Halley’s Comet - will peak in the early hours of 6 May 2026 (3:00–5:30 AM, UTC+2).
Also known as Kibonumwe in Kinyarwanda, these shooting stars will be visible, look up and you may catch one streak across the sky.
At this rate I won't be surprised to see an African Kristallnacht happen in Durban or Cape Town.
... And it will be their greatest undoing.
Because when the Oyibo-controlled media has finished giving them enough rope to fit around their own necks, the same Oyibo will come and kick the stool from under them.
They will demonize South Africa.
If 5 Zimbabweans get their Jaws broken in a random brawl in Soweto, CNN and Fox News will say they burned 50 of their fellow Africans alive.
They will isolate them from the rest of the continent.
So when a US aircraft carrier sails on the cape of good hope to "stop the violence" or "prevent white genocide", South Africa will have no friends north of Limpopo.
It's almost destiny at this point.
The colonizers have and will NEVER forgive their ooga booga neighbors for forcing them to give up many privileges (even though they still call most of the shots behind the scenes)
But then again, it's not too surprising because these kom kom heads are EXACTLY what you get when your "revolutionary" leader is a Mandela and not a Mao or even a Sankara.
He didn't redistribute land like Mao did.
He didn't send enough of the colonizers and uncle Toms to the gallows.
He didn't even properly nationalize key industries at gunpoint.
All the poor, melanated shanty-town residents got were kabuki theaters like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
A useless farce that achieved fuck all except entertainment on TV when people got to scream and cry and yell at each other.
The land remained in the hands of the colonizers.
The Oppenheimers still run the show.
The Stellenbosch networks are alive and kicking.
... And the South African state STILL does not have full control of the means of production.
But....
like their obstinate cousins from West Africa, most of these Mamelodi Sundown niggas don't care for nuance or thinking in systems.
As long as they get to harass their marginally less impoverished Nigerian or Zimbabwean neighbor, they are fulfilled.
Olodos.
We should normalize beating realtors when they come up with bs like this. Lets assume they are targeting expats because no Rwandan would pay $650,000 to share a balcony with someone. Also not just any expat because thats Newyork condo prices with ameneties not just access to a garden ifite ibihushi . Before you come in my mentions to excuse this know that I don’t hold civil discussions🙏🏾
Excited to announce our collaboration with @BruceMelodie, who is producing the anthem of our #HamweNatwe campaign : Together with us for youth and jobs.
Championing youth empowerment and the boundless potential of Rwanda’s next generation.
🇪🇺🇷🇼 #TeamEurope
In 2017, I stepped onto the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. They took us to the Oculus VR lab first. A geeky engineer gave us a demo of the VR features and ended on the haptic gloves that let you "feel" virtual objects without touching anything real. Then he paused, voice almost reverent: “Imagine connecting anyone in the world… real social interaction… without ever leaving home.” The demo was amazing but I walked out with a strange feeling. This guy is "solving for humanity" and is excited about a world no longer needs physical human connection
We passed a long hall of developers. One guy—Black, friendly—leaned over his monitors and asked where the group of us (mostly Africans) was from. We chatted. His desk had big screens, half-eaten snacks, the faint smell of takeout lingering. His neighbor, paler watched curiously but, too timid to join. The desks were comfortable, the food smell everywhere, as it was available in every corner. It all felt… contained. Like this campus was its own sealed ecosystem, where the world outside was just data to optimize.
Fast-forward to 2020. I work at Andela, where we placed remote engineers with Silicon Valley teams. Some companies flew their leads over to meet the "remote" teammates in person. When they visited the Kigali campus I went to dinner with them. They were 5. Of this dinner I vividly remember 2 conversations. One guy launched into how "all humans are actually lactose intolerant after infancy… we're the only species that keeps drinking milk." They all nodded, confessed their own intolerances like it was a quirky universal truth. Then came the photos: a dog's birthday party. Balloons, cake, friends invited. The owner beamed like it was his kid's party. I love dogs. But something twisted in my chest. These are the people shaping the tools billions use every day—yet their version of care, connection, family… felt redirected, abstracted.
Now it's 2026, and Sam Altman says training an AI costs less than "raising a human"—because it takes "20 years of life and all the food you eat during that time before you get smart." He compared childhood—first steps, heartbreaks, scraped knees, bedtime stories, learning trust—to server racks and electricity bills. I think back to that VR promise of connection without leaving home… to offices smelling of food and isolation… to dogs celebrated like children while real human messiness gets optimized away
Everyone’s reading this as “tech company does Africa partnership.”
The real story is why Rwanda specifically.
Rwanda is trying to eliminate cervical cancer by 2027, three years ahead of WHO’s global target. They already have 90% HPV vaccination coverage for girls, 81% treatment coverage, and 15,000 community health workers going door to door across 30 districts screening women aged 30-49. Their screening rate is at 31% against a 70% target, which means they need to more than double throughput in under two years.
That screening bottleneck is exactly where AI compounds. Pattern recognition on HPV DNA tests, triage prioritization across 1.3 million eligible women, resource allocation across rural health centers. Rwanda already built the physical infrastructure. They already have the human network. What they lack is processing speed at the edge of their health system.
This is what makes Rwanda a better AI deployment partner than countries 10x its GDP. They’ve been running national-scale public health programs with measurable outcomes since 2011. They have a community health insurance system covering 91% of the population at roughly $2 per person. They have a government that sets aggressive targets and actually reports against them.
Compare that to most AI health pilots: disconnected from national health systems, no community distribution layer, no insurance infrastructure to absorb follow-up treatment costs. The tech works in the demo. It fails at scale because there’s nobody to act on the AI’s output.
Anthropic picked the country where AI has the shortest path from prediction to treatment. Rwanda built that path over 15 years of health system investment. The 2,000 Claude Pro licenses for educators and the developer API credits are nice, but the cervical cancer screening acceleration is where you’d actually measure whether frontier AI changes population-level health outcomes.
If screening coverage moves from 31% to 70% by 2027, that’s the first real proof point for AI in public health anywhere in the world.
Every time you use a Rwandan app, access a government portal, or visit a locally hosted website, your data passes through somewhere. Do you know where?
Here's how local hosting benefits you!
#MyDataMyRights#DataPrivacyWeek#DPW2026
Law Nº 058/2021 of 13/10/2021 relating to the protection of personal data and privacy
- Article 5
- Article 6
- Article 37 par 2 & 3
- Article 56
Just in case @RIB_Rw a little help looking into this flagrant breach of privacy. As an aside, Data Privacy Week 2026 started today.
Had roommates that had never seen Die Hard so I decided to watch it with them. The entire movie they're doing chores and on their phones. At the end of the movie, one of them said "I didn't like it."
I asked him "why did the bad guys hold the building hostage?"...