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Workers sort new cassava varieties at a RAB station in Huye District. Rwanda, on February 21, published in its Official Gazette a law governing biosafety for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to ensure they are handled, transferred, and used safely. Photo Courtesy
Law

Rwanda finally passes law on GMOs: What next?

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
A farmer suspends maize cobs on a wooden structure to sun-dry in Mushikiri Sector, Kirehe District. Rains hindered maize drying efforts of farmers in the current harvest season, leading to adjustments in prices that were set on January 19, 2024 (courtesy)
Agriculture

Unusual rains impact maize prices in Rwanda

Sunday, February 25, 2024
Farmers in Rwangingo Marshlanda in Nyagatare District trying to salvage their crops in the aftermath of heavy rains on May 06 2020. Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) announced plans to save the 1,753-hectare Bugarama arable wetland from recurrent floods that have plunged rice farmers into losses in Rusizi District. Photo: Courtesy
Agriculture

Govt to save 1,700 ha Bugarama arable wetland from floods

Sunday, February 25, 2024
First Lady Jeannette Kagame talks to Coumba Sow, the Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rwanda.
Art

PHOTOS: Kigali Triennial Festival closes with culinary and couture creativity

Sunday, February 25, 2024
Amb Isao Fukushima (centre), Japan’s envoy to Rwanda, and Eric Ruganintwali, the then Quality Assurance and Regulatory Division Manager at NAEB, during a tour of coffee cooperatives supported under a Japan-funded project in Karongi, Kirehe and Ruhango Districts, in March 2023. Photo: Dan Kwizera
Economy

Top 10 countries consuming Rwanda’s coffee

Saturday, February 24, 2024
Central bank Governor John Rwangombwa addresses the media during a press conference in Kigali on Thursday, February 22. Photo Courtesy
Economy

Central bank maintains its lending rate of 7.5 per cent

Thursday, February 22, 2024
A technician during an installation of a solar panel. Africa experiencing the transformative power of solar energy. With 660 million people still living without power in their homes and communities. Fille Photo

2023 shone bright for solar power, setting stage for brighter, more impactful 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024
Japanese Investors pose for a group photo during the visit in Rwanda
Featured

FEATURED - JICA tour: Japanese investors visit Rwanda, tipped on local market

Monday, February 19, 2024
Cows drink water from a trough supplied by one of solar-powered boreholes constructed under the initial Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP), in Eastern Province, in 2020 (Photo courtesy of IFAD).
Agriculture

What $100 million project means to Rwanda’s dairy industry

Monday, February 19, 2024
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People

Professor Martin Shem; tribute to an extra ordinary life

Sunday, February 18, 2024
Rwandan man has been arrested in The Netherlands on charges of participating in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Crime

Rwandan Genocide fugitive, 64, arrested in The Netherlands

Thursday, February 15, 2024
Coffee farmer Mutibagirana and his wife harvest their coffee plantation. Farmers’ income is expected to increase by Rwf70 per kilogramme of quality coffee cherries .Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Economy

New coffee price offers more income to farmers

Thursday, February 15, 2024