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Women package avocado for export inside the NAEB warehouse in Kigali. Some 11 companies are operating from this pack house where 320 employees u2013 80 per cent of whom women u2013 sort and pack horticulture produce prior to export. / Emmanuel Kwizera

Horticulture: Rwanda’s new cash cow

Monday, July 22, 2019
A social worker teaches schoolgirls how to use a sanitary pad. Campaigners have called for more accessibility of sanitary pads for women. / Courtesy

The quest to make sanitary pads accessible by all women

Monday, July 22, 2019
Tomatoes in a farm. A recent audit revealed that only an estimated 18.3 percent of fruits and 1.5 percent of vegetables produced in Rwanda are processed or value-added. / File

Audit reveals gaps in fruit and vegetable processing

Sunday, July 21, 2019
The New Times

The exploitation time bomb

Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Youth offer support to elderly Genocide survivors at a function in Nyanza District earlier this year. Government has moved to increase the monthly stipend for disadvantaged Genocide survivors, such as the elderly, to help improve their welfare. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Govt increases stipends for vulnerable survivors

Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The Minister for Youth, Rosemary Mbabazi (centre), IGP Dan Munyuza (right) and a Police engineer during the launch of the Police Month outreach activities in Mageragere, Nyarugenge District. Rwanda National Police on Monday launched a month-long outreach campaign to support community development and harness the ideology of community policing in crime prevention. Courtesy.
Rwanda

Police Month: Village offices, homes for elderly to be built

Monday, July 15, 2019
Some of the products inside Brian Bahendau2019s shop. Photos by Joan Mbabazi.
Business

The struggles of an emerging retail business

Monday, July 15, 2019
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an innovative multinational financing programme for Distributed Energy Service Companies which could see about 4.5 million people gain access to solar power by 2025. Net photo.
Business

AfDB approves financing programme for African energy providers

Monday, July 15, 2019
Farmers in Rwanda are growing the orange-fleshed sweet potato and will make a puree and use it to make bakery products like bread, biscuits, and chapattis, among others.

The essence of Vitamin A

Sunday, July 14, 2019
Nkundiye feeds his cow he got from VUP savings. He says that VUP helps him live a decent life despite being old and jobless. / Jean du2019Amour Mbonyinshuti

How Vision Umurenge Programme is changing lives one step at a time

Sunday, July 14, 2019
Rwanda Revenue Authority personnel at work at their headquarters in Kimihurura. For the financial year 2018_2019, Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) collection target Rwf1,421.7bn. / Emmanuel Kwizera

RRA surpasses target by Rwf30bn

Friday, July 12, 2019
French beans being packaged for export at National Agricultural Export Development Board in Kigali. According to Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente, Rwanda registered a $105-million trade surplus in informal cross-border trade in 2018. He was yesterday addressing a joint parliamentary session. / Emmanuel Kwizera

MPs urge government to do more to facilitate trade

Thursday, July 11, 2019