The Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya is a weekly podcast intent on keeping you up to date with current affairs in Rwanda. The topics discussed range from politics, business, sports to entertainment.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 2 hours 35 minutes
episode 32: Dissecting Rwanda’s nuclear ambitions and the risks involved w/ Dr Fidele Ndahayo, CEO Rwanda Atomic Energy Board
The announcement that Rwanda will partner with German-Canadian company, Dual Fluid, to conduct a Critical Demonstration Experiment is probably the biggest news this month. Why? Because this experiment is the first step in Rwanda’s nuclear journey.
This partnership is really exciting for me because this means that Rwanda is on the cusp of joining the exclusive club of nuclear states...
episode 31: REG BBC US basketballer Adonis Filer on the the state of local basketball and why Rwandan basketball teams continuously fail to impress in the BAL Finals
Adonis Filer currently plays point guard for the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) basketball team. He holds the BAL record for the most assists in a single game. Adonis has also represented Rwanda in the Afrobasket tournament.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in 1993, Adonis Jovon Filer started his basketball career in high school and sustained to college and beyond. Adonis played for the Clemson Tigers and Florida Atlantic teams in college...
episode 30: RDB CEO, Clare Akamanzi, on new Visit Rwanda/Bayern Munich partnership, building Brand ‘Rwanda’ and future plans for the tourism industry
With the announcement yesterday of the new partnership with German superclub, Bayern Munich, it brings to three, the number of European football teams that Visit Rwanda partners with. The first two being Arsenal FC, in England, and Paris Saint Germain in France.
What is especially noteworthy is that this new partnership comes exactly half a decade since the first one was signed with Arsenal in 2018...
episode 29: Making sense of Rwanda’s investment in sports & Entertainment facilities w/ BK Arena's Kyle Scofield
The Government’s investment in building a world class conference and sporting ecosystem is obvious. It has spent a reported 300 million dollars on the Convention Center, 104 million dollars on the BK Arena and is spending around 130 million dollars on renovating the Amahoro Stadium. This is in addition to the close to a billion dollars that has been spent on upgrading Kanombe airport and increasing the Rwandair fleet...
episode 28: Making sense of the Niger Crisis and the World Bank freeze on Uganda w/ Fred Golooba-Mutebi
On the morning of the 26th of July, a group of Nigerien soldiers from the presidential guard detained president Mohamed Bazoum and his family. This action was then followed by Presidential guard commander General Abdurahaman Tchiani proclaiming himself the leader of a new military junta.
The events that followed included presidential guard forces closing the country's borders, suspending state institutions, and declaring a curfew...
episode 27: Betting addiction and its danger to people and society w/ Adam Bradford
The concept of sheer luck giving us access to untold wealth is a tale as old as time. The other tale that is as old as time is, a fool and his money will be easily parted. The gambling industry is at the nexus of these two concepts.
The multi-billion-dollar gambling industry is probably the lucrative in the world. In fact, gambling is the foundation of entire cities like Las Vegas, Monte Carlo and Macau...
episode 26: The Ruto-Raila fight and the ongoing Kenyan economic crisis w/ Eugene Anangwe, Kenyan veteran journalist
When we are asked to identify the East African region’s big brother, we look to Kenya. It’s the richest country in the 8-nation East African community, its home to the biggest metropolis, Nairobi, it’s the regional manufacturing hub and its currency is the strongest. Its Gross Domestic Product in 2021 was slightly over 110 billion dollars. In comparison Rwanda’s was just over $11.5 Bn...
episode 25: Veteran journalist, Marc Hoogsteyns, on daily life in M23 territory and how FDLR is recruiting new soldiers in Rwanda today
The never-ending crisis in Eastern DRC is often in the news. We watch the terrifying scenes of war and carnage on our tv screens, then read stories of rape and killing in our newspapers. And on social media, we see images of the EACs heads of state meeting in different East African capitals to discuss the insecurity that has bedeviled Eastern Congo for close to 30 years...
episode 24: Dr. Usta Kaitesi, CEO of the Rwanda Goverance Board, on the role law reforms have played in the promotion of gender equality
For 4 days, from between 17- 20 July, Rwanda’s capital will welcome thousands of guests from around the world who’ve come to attend the Women Deliver 2023 Conference. With its slogan ‘Where the world comes together to advance Gender Equality’ the Women Deliver conference will host the great and the good of the global gender equality movement.
Choosing Rwanda as the host nation was, in my opinion, an easy decision...
episode 23: Dr. Yvan Butera, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health, on the fight against alcoholism
On the 30th of June, the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) released the second Rwanda NCD Risk Factors Survey, to quite a bit of media fanfare.
The study surveyed 5,676 people from across the country, the majority between the age of 30 and 44. And while the study included findings about tobacco smoking, physical activity, and food choices, the findings that seemed to have worried everyone, including the President of Rwanda, was the finding on alcohol consumption...