Residents in the Northern Province are still reluctant to pay this year’s contribution for the community medical insurance cover commonly known as mutuelle de santé.

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The Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE) market went up slightly on Friday compared to Thursday’s trading session. The market bounced back from Thursday’s slow trading where registered a turnover of Rwf2, 497,800 from 15,300 BK shares and 1,400 Bralirwa shares traded in three deals.

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Usain Bolt sensationally defended his coveted title as the fastest man on the planet last night as he sprinted to glory in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds.

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First it was the swanky B-Club in Nyarutarama, then Executive Carwash in Kimihurura, now it is Downtown Café and Restaurant as well as La Classe in the city centre, that have succumbed to raging infernos.

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Television cameras and a host of news agencies and “experts” have been scrambling on the neigbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to figure out the ongoing conflict that has turned out to be yet another humanitarian disaster with thousands of internally displaced Congolese in North Kivu where the M23 rebels are tussling it out with the Congolese armed forces and the United Nations peace keeping force (MONUC).

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I run the risk of being the fifth person to write a piece on FDI in The New Times within the past week! This kind of attention is indeed called for: the cash is flowing in and Rwanda needs to strongly position its economy to take advantage of it.

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It is almost one year since Sudan established a full diplomatic office in Kigali. The New Times’ Felly Kimenyi interviewed the embassy’s Charger d’Affaires, Idrees Muhammed Ali, who spoke about a variety of issues including bilateral relations, the ICC, Nile Basin, the Darfur conflict, among others. Below are the excerpts. 

TNT: Tell us about the current state of the diplomatic relations between Rwanda and Sudan?

 ALI: The two friendly countries and people are now enjoying excellent diplomatic relations. Sudan opened its embassy in Rwanda in September 2011 which was the beginning of establishment of solid diplomatic representation at the level of the ambassador.

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