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 Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Emmanuel Ntirenganya
 AGRA’s Regional Head, East and Southern Africa, Jean Jacques Mbonigaba Muhinda, during an interview with The New Times, on August 12, 2023, ahead of the launch of a new five-year country strategy in Rwanda (Photos by Emmanuel Ntirenganya).
Agriculture
AGRA to double investment in Rwanda’s agric sector under new strategy
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Vincent Biruta and his counterpart Jin Park, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea after signing the MoU in Kigali on Saturday, August 12. Courtesy
Rwanda
Rwanda, South Korea sign cooperation pacts
A member of RDF medical personnel and that of US armed force personnel examine a medical condition affecting a child in Bugesera District (courtesy)
Health
Photos: RDF, US medics treat 2,000 Rwandan patients
Automatic cars may soon be considered in driving tests. PHOTO BY PLAISIR MUZOGEYE
Law
Law Reform Commission to complete review of road traffic bill by August 18
Patients wait for medical services in Burera District. The number of vulnerable households eligible for support by the government was slashed by 74.4 per cent from 450,000 to 115,000 in  fiscal year.  File
Health
Vulnerable households eligible for Mutuelle de Santé support drop by 74%
Some of  the old buses of ONATRACOM and the brand new bus of RITCO during the handover ceremony  after the privatization of  the former public institution on February 6, 2017.  Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Law
Rwanda reviews 27-year-old privatisation law: what’s new?
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta announcing the decision to have a diplomatic presence in Amman, on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Ayman Safadi, looks on. Courtesy.
Rwanda
Rwanda to open diplomatic mission in Jordan
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Ayman Safadi, sign three agreements including a visa waiver for holders of ordinary passports, in Amman, on Wednesday, August 9, 2023. Courtesy.
Rwanda
Rwandans can now go to Jordan visa-free
Some children during the launch of ADEPR's gospel through football national u13 children camp on August 7, 2023, at Muhanga Stadium, in Southern Province (Emmanuel Ntirenganya)
Featured
FEATURED: ADEPR’s Gospel Through Football initiative benefits school children
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Finance
Why extending deposit guarantee fund mandate matters
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Environment
New bill proposes mandatory permits for tree harvesting
Environment Minister Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya explains to journalists how a new bill governing forests and trees could help Rwanda to utilise carbon market, on August 2, 2023, in Kigali. EMMANUEL NTIRENGANYA
Environment
Rwanda counts on new forest bill to tap global carbon market
MPs  during a parliamentary session on June 15, 2023. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Rwanda
Extension of Parliamentarians tenure effected, revised Rwanda Constitution published
Two mothers carrying their new born babies at Kacyiru hospital on December 25, 2022. Photos by Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda extends maternity, paternity leave
A view of SP Visiga, a new station that SP Rwanda opened in Dar es Salaam.  According to the firm, its location holds a strategic importance for the trade route between Tanzania and Rwanda (SP).
Business
SP Rwanda expands fuel business to Tanzania
Environment Minister Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya speaks to journalists on the biosafety bill that chiefly seeks to regulate GMOs in Rwanda, on August 2, 2023, at Parliamentary buildings in Kigali. PHOTO BY EMMANUEL NTIRENGANYA
Agriculture
Minister Mujawamariya sheds light on move to embrace GMOs
Agric specialists during a seeds multiplication exercise in a greenhouse in Musanze District. Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture
House gives draft GMO law clean bill of health
(L-R) The newly appointed envoys Charles Karamba, Dan Munyuza, Michel Sebera, and Shakila Kazimbaya Umutoni. File
Rwanda
Munyuza picked among new envoys as Ngarambe lands new role

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