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A project to construct a peace-building centre under the Kigali Genocide Memorial received a major boost, Sunday night, when local business men and women in close partnership with Friends of Rwanda raised more than $100,000.

The City of Kigali in conjunction with the Ministry of Infrastructure, plans to scale up street lighting.

Kigali is set to host regional and international Startup World competitions where Rwandan ICT entrepreneurs, innovators and early stage business leaders will participate in the contest by presenting their best business “pitches.”

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) Monday said it had cancelled a business deal with a UK-based company to supply environmentally friendly plastic bags.

A visiting Indian expert, Dr Sejal Parag Sanghavi, is planing to introduce the Homeopathy treatment, an alternative medicine that treats not only the symptoms but also the cause of the disease.

Scientists believe they are a step closer towards developing a male contraceptive pill, after successful studies in mice.

The EAC Deputy Secretary General in charge of political federation, Dr Julius Rotich, says the prevailing insecurity caused by terrorism, human and arms trafficking were hampering regional integration.

The distance learning students at Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) have complained of insufficient facilitation in the course of their studies claiming that this has negatively impacted on their studies.