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 Esther Favour
Esther Favour
An aerial view of Kigali City. Rwanda is the eleventh country to be remapped through Google’s new feature Street View which doesn’t only show street addresses but also gives images of a place. Photo: File.
Technology
Google Street View comes to Rwanda’s streets
A doctor conducts eye screening at Masaka Hospital in Kicukiro District on October 13. Ministry of Health will carry out at least 1,000 cataract surgery on patients during an exercise slated to take place from October 13 to November 30. All Photos by Craish Bahizi
Health
Health ministry to carry out 1,000 cataract surgeries
A teacher helps  visually impaired students at Masaka in Kigali. Teachers who are visually impaired are calling for proper school infrastructure that caters for persons with disabilities. / Craish Bahizi
Education
Teachers with disabilities call for inclusive school infrastructure
Students arrive at Kigali stadium to board buses. According to NESA, more than 30,000 students, who sat for national exams, filed claims requesting to change schools they were allocated.
Education
30,000 students file for school transfers
Teachers who are visually impaired say they encounter challenges in marking transcribed exams and request the Ministry of Education to provide them with assistants who can visually read.
Education
Visually impaired teachers want teaching assistants
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Education
International Teachers Day: Teachers share lessons, experience in profession
A health worker during temperature screening at Gatuna One Stop Border Post on May 27, 2019.Rwanda opens seven testing sites for Ebola.File
Health
Rwanda opens seven testing sites for Ebola
Some of 1000 service providers and entrepreneurs in the tourism and hospitality industry who graduatesd on September 30 .
Featured
EF Education First programme graduates third cohort
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Business
PM discusses regional trade with new Trademark East AfricaCEO
Asma Redi, the Director General of Nation Building at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Peace spreaks at the event. Asma leads the Ethiopian delegation that is on a working visit in Rwanda to learn from the country’s journey of unity and reconciliation. Courtesy
Rwanda
‘Diversity shouldn’t be reason for division’– Ethiopian delegation
Markers on duty at one of national examination marking centres in Huye District at Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare. / Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Education
MINEDUC to increase national examination marking sites
Rwanda mountain gorillas of Susa group in Volcanoes National Park. / Sam Ngendahimana
Tourism
Gorilla tourism revenues up by 25 per cent
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Featured
Gasabo: Logistics firm pays insurance premiums for 350 residents
A health worker during temperature screening at Gatuna One-Stop Border Post on May 27, 2019. Rwanda has taken fresh measures to prevent Ebola virus from spilling over into the country from Uganda. / File
Health
Over Rwf60bn needed to reinforce Rwanda's epidemic preparedness
Children wash their hands before entering class at Groupe Scolaire Remera Catholique. Dan Nsengiyumva
Coronavirus
Covid: Clerics urged to back efforts to vaccinate children under 12
The Ministry of Education plans to invest Rwf10 billion to scale up the in-house production of textbooks annually, starting this fiscal year. File
Education
Govt earmarks Rwf10bn for in-house textbook production
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Business
Taking African fashion to the world: The story of Maryse Mbonyumutwa
Inside Norrsken House Kigali’s newly inaugurated facility that will allow the centre to host more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and innovators. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Business
What Norrsken means to Rwandan startups

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