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Aerial view of Kigali Business District. The Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC) made the biggest leap to rank as the 67th most competitive financial centre globally. File
Finance

Kigali up 14 spots in new global financial centres' index

Monday, March 25, 2024
Some of the attendees of the African Youth Employment Clock launch event on March 21 in Kigali
Rwanda

Innovative tool launched to track youth employment

Monday, March 25, 2024
The new bill is prohibiting the harvesting of ‘immature trees’, and obliging residents to always seek permits to be allowed to cut mature trees. Sam Ngendahimana
Environment

Parliament to deliberate on ‘tough’ forest bill

Monday, March 25, 2024
In December 2020, the South Sudan government launched the export of Gum Arabic, also known as Acacia Gum, for the first time to the international market in a bid to reduce the overreliance on oil revenue. The country has large quantities of the Gum Arabic trees in the central, western, and northern parts of the country. Net photo.
Africa

South Sudan looks to exploit Gum Arabic amid slump in oil export

Monday, March 25, 2024
Smart Education Project Design.
Featured

[FEATURED] Smart Education Project: MINEDUC to establish education, research network for sustainable school, university connectivity

Monday, March 25, 2024
Supporters of Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrate in Dakar. Net photo
Africa

Senegal: Opposition's Bassirou Diomaye Faye leads race for presidency

Monday, March 25, 2024
Two Lake Kivu islands, Shyute and Kamiko that were once deforested and degraded will soon be restored with 156,000 different tree species
Environment

Lake Kivu: Two islands to undergo forest restoration

Monday, March 25, 2024
Ernestine Mukagihana drives a six-wheel 70-seater RITCO Bus, ferrying passengers from Kigali to upcountry destinations. Photo by Willy Mucyo
Women

How two women are shattering gender barriers in ‘jobs for men’

Monday, March 25, 2024
Rwanda TVET Board (RTB) scholarship programme is set to benefit a total of 1,500 students from poor families. Sam Ngenda
Education

Over 1,000 students to benefit from TVET scholarship programme expansion

Monday, March 25, 2024
Some visitors pose for a group photo during their visit in Bigogwe in Nyabihu District. Photos by Dan Gatsinzi
Tourism

Why Bigogwe should be on every Rwandan's travel bucket list

Monday, March 25, 2024
Residents of Ruliba cell who are beneficiaries of Ecobank's support dance with the bank's staff at the event. All photos by Dan Gatsinzi
Featured

FEATURED: Ecobank donates 1,000 community health insurance packages to vulnerable women in Nyarugenge District

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Officials inaugurate Bralirwa's new products at the company's brewery in Rubavu District, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Courtesy
Featured

FEATURED: Bralirwa inaugurates state-of-the-art production line as part of € 30m expansion project

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, also known as Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana, 52, was arrested in Uniontown, Ohio for concealing his alleged involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. INTERNET PHOTO
Crime

New details emerge about Rwandan engineer arrested in US for Genocide

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Graduates pose for a group photo with their certificates at the ceremony on March 22.
Featured

FEATURED: Century Park Hotel and Residences awarded for empowering Rwanda's workforce

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Women cadres and veterans of the liberation struggle of Rwanda during a tree planting activity to combat desertification in Bugesera District in Eastern Province. Courtesy
Women

Women liberators to combat desertification in Eastern Province

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Speaker of Parliament, Donatille Mukabalisa who is also president of Liberal Party (PL), during the National Congress on Sunday March 24,
Politics

Mukabalisa on why Liberal Party endorsed President Kagame

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Members of the Social Democratic Party during National Congress in Kigali on Sunday, March 24. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Politics

PSD party to lobby for increase of MPs

Sunday, March 24, 2024
The newly unveiled Tesla Model Y car during the ceremony that took place on Friday, March 22. All photos by Craish Bahizi
Featured

AUTO24 Rwanda introduces Tesla EVs in Rwanda

Sunday, March 24, 2024
The Social Democratic Party president Vincent Biruta speaks to journalists after chairing the party’s National Congress in Kigali on Sunday, March 24. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Politics

PSD party endorses Kagame as presidential candidate

Sunday, March 24, 2024
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Health

Rotary International president visits cancer patients in Kinyinya, pledges more support

Saturday, March 23, 2024