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A view of the newly constructed housing blocks to accommodate residents identified as high risk zone dwellers in Nyarugenge District near Mpazi drainage in Kigali. Courtesy
Housing

How Rwanda plans to enforce 'vertical housing' to ease land pressure

Thursday, January 23, 2025
The City of Kigali announced on Tuesday, January 21 the approval of nine settlement sites, with a green light for issuance of construction permits.
Housing

City of Kigali approves settlement sites with 40,000 plots

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) officials on Monday, January 13 announced that an upgraded building permit management system will be fully operational in May.File
Housing

Rwanda introduces improved building permit issuance system

Monday, January 13, 2025
Police officers escort people away from the scene of a fire outbreak on a commercial building in Musanze town. Courtesy
Rwanda

Govt launches national assessment for building insurance

Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Fire fighters on duty as fire engulfed SIGMA Industries LTD in the Kigali Special Economic Zone i on November 26, 2021. File
Environment

Emergency Ministry sounds alarm on building insurance as fire incidents rise

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Landowners around Amahoro Stadium were given a two-month deadline to redevelop the area to avoid landownership termination under the enforcement of the 2024 ministerial order.RBA
Rwanda

How property owners can avoid termination of land ownership contracts

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
A view of a segment of the artist's impression of Green City Kigali Project. Courtesy
Environment

Kigali Green City Project secures Rw38bn funding

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
A view of Kigali City in Nyarugende District. Following the announcement that government should repossess the unused land Civil society group urges for ‘alternative solutions’ over terminating land ownership contract.
Rwanda

Civil society group urges for ‘alternative solutions’ over terminating land ownership contracts

Saturday, October 12, 2024
A view of the ongoing construction works of Cyahafi housing project to accommodate residents near Mpazi drainage in Nyarugenge District. Courtesy
Housing

Inside models to upgrade unplanned settlements in Kigali

Friday, October 11, 2024
EAC Secretary General Veronica Nduva (3rd right) in a group photo with participants at the two-day roundtable discussion. In the front row are (from left) Prof Njuguna Ndung’u of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, EAC Deputy Secretary General Annette Ssemuwemba, Dr Joy Maria Kategekwa of AfDB, Allen Asiimwe of TradeMark Africa, and Amani M’Bale of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Wednesday, September 11. COURTESY OF EAC
Africa

Region’s Central Banks urged to embrace technology, facilitate cross-border trade

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Some of the apartments for vulnerable residents in the environs of Mpazi drainage in Gitega and Kimisagara sectors in Nyarugenge District .File
Housing

Innovative models Rwanda can leverage to boost affordable housing

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Tens of housing units at Bwiza Riverside Homes in Karama, Nyarugenge District. Emmanuel Dushimimana
Housing

Kigali: 10 key projects to address housing demands

Friday, September 06, 2024