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The ongoing construction of Base-Butaro-Kidaho road by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) project in northern Rwanda. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Featured

50 years of CRBC in Rwanda: How a Burera road project is poised to drive regional growth

Friday, September 20, 2024
Kaddu Sebunya, the Chief Executive Officer of African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) during the interview with The New Times in Kigali on September 17, 2024. Emmanuel Dushimimana
Environment

Can Africa balance development and conservation?

Friday, September 20, 2024
Workers sort fresh chilli for export at NAEB in Kigali. Fisher Global Ltd based in Rwamagana District, exports 20 containers of dried chilli (amounting to about 300 tonnes as a container holds 15 tonnes) to the Asian country annually. File
Business

Rwanda needs $470m to unlock chili industry

Monday, September 16, 2024
The farmers also called for more irrigation facilities.
Agriculture

Rulindo farmers want more drying facilities as new agric season starts

Friday, September 13, 2024
Residents and security officers during an irrigation exercise in Gatsibo. Rwanda’s agriculture sector is expected to achieve over 6 per cent annual growth. Courtesy
Agriculture

NST2: How govt plans to drive agriculture forward

Thursday, September 12, 2024
A waiter serves a customer in Kigali. (Sam Ngendahimana)
Health

Is eating healthy, nutritious foods becoming a costly affair?

Thursday, September 05, 2024
One of Doreen Karehe's greenhouses in which juicy strawberries are growing in hydroponics in Bugesera District. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Agriculture

Inside Rwanda’s $2 million Agritech Innovation Fund

Monday, September 02, 2024
Agronomists work in a potato seed multiplication centre in Musanze District. Rwanda is getting ready to test genetically modified potato varieties resistant to late blight. Sam Ngendahimana..
Agriculture

Researchers root for agricultural biotech to tackle food insecurity in Africa

Sunday, September 01, 2024
Agronomist works in a potato seed multiplication centre in Musanze District. Rwanda is getting ready to test genetically modified potato varieties resistant to late blight. Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Rwanda to begin GMO trials for potatoes by February 2025

Saturday, August 31, 2024
Children enjoying a nutritious meal at an Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) in Nyamasheke District, thanks to the “Gikuriro Kuri Bose” programme that aims to combat stunting. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Health

Inside Rwanda's five-year plan to halve child stunting

Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Irrigation increased by around 50 per cent from 48,508 hectares in 2017 to 72,912 hectares in 2024.
Agriculture

How Rwanda's 2018-24 strategic agriculture transformation plan fared

Saturday, August 17, 2024
Agri-scientists work in Irish potato multiplication centre in Kiningi in Musanze District.
Agriculture

Top Rwandan crops on track to be 'genetically modified'

Tuesday, August 13, 2024