{{Short description|Newspaper in Rwanda}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The New Times | image = NewTimesCover2007.jpg | caption = Typical ''New Times'' front page | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{Start date and age|1995|9}} | chief_editor = James Munyaneza | headquarters = M&M Plaza, Kigali, Rwanda | owners = | website = {{URL|http://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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/42318|title=Izuba Rirashe newspaper launched|date=14 December 2007|website=www.newtimes.co.rw|access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref>
''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14351&t=5|title=About The New Times|date=28 July 2011|website=newtimes.co.rw|publisher=The New Times|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927134457/http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14351&t=5|archive-date=27 September 2011|access-date=12 August 2010}}</ref> ''The New Times'' often conveys optimistic stories about events in Rwanda.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jul/16/thenewrwanda |title=The new Rwanda |work=The Guardian |date=16 July 2007 |access-date=12 August 2010 | location=London | first=Jennifer | last=Brea}} "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"."</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/18/response-new-times-article-rwandan-genocide |title=Response to The New Times Article on Rwandan Genocide |date=18 May 2009 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |access-date=12 August 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2010/08/05/president-paul-kagame-under-scrutiny |title=President Paul Kagame under scrutiny |newspaper=The Economist |date=5 August 2010 |access-date=12 August 2010}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Portal|Africa|Journalism}} * ''[http://www.newtimes.co.rw/ The New Times official website]'' {{Authority control}}
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