The New Times is a national English-language newspaper in Rwanda.

A Kinyarwanda-language weekly called Izuba Rirashe was previously published.

[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".

[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.