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Fire fighters obscured by smoke as they damp down the charred debris after a fire swept through a marketplace in Nairobi, yesterday. Net photo.
Africa

Fifteen dead in Nairobi market fire, 70 injured

Friday, June 29, 2018
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Rwanda

Karongi: Man arrested over smuggling secondhand clothes

Friday, June 29, 2018
CRBC and Ngoma District officials touring the plot where the new stadium will be built. Eddie Nsabimana.
Rwanda

Ngoma District to get Rwf8bn stadium

Friday, June 29, 2018
Women with babies wait at Mushishiro health centre in Muhanga District. Courtesy.
International

New drug to save thousands of women’s lives from post-childbirth bleeding: WHO

Friday, June 29, 2018
Dr Bizimana speaks during a past event. Nadege Imbabazi.
Rwanda

Government welcomes life sentence against Genocide suspect in Sweden

Friday, June 29, 2018
The new High Court Chamber for International and Cross Border Crimes that was opened in Nyanza District Thursday. Athan Tashobya.
Rwanda

International crimes High Court chamber inaugurated in Nyanza

Friday, June 29, 2018
CEO of BK, Dr. Diane Karusisi (centre) with Urumuri competition winners. /Michel Nkurunziza
Business

Young innovators compete for Bank of Kigali interest-free loans

Thursday, June 28, 2018
The construction of the pipeline will take two years./Net
Business

Ethiopia to begin extracting crude oil and natural gas

Thursday, June 28, 2018
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Business

East Africa’s exports to EU rise by $200m

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Visitors at the arrivals section at Kigali International Airport. (File)

Angola waives visa requirements for Rwandans

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Officers of Rwanda National Police during a parade in a previous event. Rwanda emerged 40th globally in the latest Gallup's Law and Order Index. (File)

Gallup report: Rwanda is second safest place in Africa

Thursday, June 28, 2018
People gather in front of the Moroccan Parliament demanding the release of Nasser Zefzafi and other leaders of the protest movement in Rabat, Morocco, on June 27, 2018. Late on Tuesday, Nasser Zefzafi, figurehead of the protest movement, along with three other leaders, was handed 20 years' imprisonment. (Xinhua/Aissa)
Africa

Imprisonment sentences spark outrage in Morocco

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday commissioned the construction of a 1.5 billion U.S. dollars Chinese-funded Hwange Power Station expansion project, the second major power development project by China in the southern African country in five years. The expansion to be carried out by China's power and engineering construction firm, Sinohydro, will add two generating units each producing 335 megawatts (MW). (Xinhua/Zhang Yuliang)
Africa

Zimbabwe commissions construction of Chinese-funded power plant

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Joel Boutroue. / Internet photo
Africa

UNHCR urges jobs for refugee youths in Uganda to curb violence

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of European Border and Coast Guard Agency. / Internet photo
Africa

EU hails Egypt's role in tackling illegal immigration

Thursday, June 28, 2018
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Africa

Land prices in Kenya swell as political stability revs up demand

Thursday, June 28, 2018
President Kagame with Serge Kamuhinda, Board Member, Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda (left); Thomas Schaefer, the Volkswagen Group South Africa and Sub- Saharan Africa Managing Director (second from right); and Michaella Rugwizangoga, CEO, Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda (right). Village Urugwiro.
Africa

Kagame: Africa deserves better than second hand

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Some Volkswagen cars in the workshop at Kigali Special Ecomic Zone (Sam Ngendahimana)

How much will the locally-assembled Volkswagen cars cost?

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Members of Parliament yesterday passed the Budget Law for the Financial Year 2018 2019. Sam Ngendahimana.

Over 700 projects to be implemented as Parliament approves 2018/19 Budget

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Some of the drug addicts at the Mombasa Council Court in 2015. Over 38 drug addicts were arrested in an operation led by Mombasa police boss Kipkemoi Rop. Net.
Africa

Kenya tries to tackle illicit goods to boost manufacturers

Thursday, June 28, 2018