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A newly established national policy on the East African Community (EAC) integration will enable Rwanda to further advance her interests in the region, according to the Minister of EAC Affairs.

Rising incidents of poaching within the Greater Virunga Landscape has triggered fears among the countries sharing the ecosystem that is home to the Mountain Gorilla.

The draft annual report on capacity building activities of the 2010-2011 financial year in the public sector, released yesterday, indicates that civil servants have gained skills despite existing constraints.  

The Institute of Research and Dialogue (IRDP), a local Think-Tank, has launched a debati forum dubbed “A circle of intellectuals” that is expected to bring together intellectuals and experts in various fields to debate and share ideas on development-based issues.

Courts cleared 48.5 percent of cases related to corruption this week, the Spokesperson of the Judiciary, Charles Kaliwabo, confirmed yesterday

NYAGATARE - Fire gutted a commercial complex in the busiest commercial centre in Nyagatare town on Friday morning, destroying goods worth millions, according security sources.

During scrutiny of a draft law on health insurance schemes on, MPs in the lower chamber’s standing committee on national unity, rights and fight against Genocide, Thursday insisted that apart from a beneficiary’s spouse and children, parents must also be beneficiaries in the schemes.

A British firm, De la Rue, through a local charity Rwanda Aid, has financed the construction of a classroom block at Isha Primary School in Rusizi District for an unspecified amount of money.