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Over 10,000 people attended the Global Citizen's inaugural Move Afrika concert that was headlined by American rapper Kendrick Lamar at BK Arena, in Kigali, on December 6, 2023. President Paul Kagame also attended and briefly addressed the crowd. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza for The New Times.
Editorial

For Rwanda’s MICE sector, the only way is forward

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
One of robots dubbed 'Urumuri', that was deployed to Kigali International Airport to conduct mass screening of temperature during the Covid-19 period. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Technology

7 initiatives placing Rwanda as major player in AI field

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
President Kagame with other senior panellists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from January 15 to 19 hosted under the theme, “Rebuilding Trust”. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Economy

Rwanda’s key takeaways from WEF Annual Meeting

Monday, January 22, 2024
Professor Felix Maringe, formerly DVC Academics at University of Kigali has been appointed the Deputy Vice Chancellor – Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (DVC-IDRI).
Featured

FEATURED: University of Kigali appoints Professor Felix Maringe as Deputy Vice Chancellor – Institutional Development, Research and Innovation

Monday, January 22, 2024
Rwanda is set to host a high-level summit on artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. The summit will be hosted at the end of 2024 by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Rwanda (C4IR Rwanda. Olivier Mugwiza

Rwanda to host Africa’s inaugural high-level summit on AI

Saturday, January 20, 2024
Minister of ICT, Paula Ingabire poses for a group photo with other delegates during the signing of MoU between Rwanda C4IR and UAE C4IR. Photo Courtesy
Technology

WEF: Rwanda, UAE launch AI fellowship programme

Friday, January 19, 2024
The governor of the National Bank of Rwanda, John Rwangombwa.
Economy

Fintechs key drivers of economic growth – central bank governor

Friday, January 19, 2024
Experts examined the paradigm shift propelled by technological advancements towards a future dominated by AI. Courtesy
Technology

WEF: Impact of Generative AI on music, content creation

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Workers inside an agro-processing factory in Nyagatare District on June 19, 2020. Photo: File
Africa

AfCFTA: New report outlines top four investment areas

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Mohammad Al-Azzeh, the Managing Partner at IBSand Willy Claude Karasira, Co-founder and Executive Director of Centrika during the signing of the agreement in Kigali.
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IBS partners with Centrika to venture into African market

Wednesday, January 17, 2024
A view of the city of Kigali' Business District. Kigali is set to domicile the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) innovation financing facility, also known as Timbuktoo.Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Economy

WEF: Rwanda, UNDP launch Africa’s largest innovation fund

Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Equity Bank Rwanda has selected 36 high-performing students from the 2023 Rwanda National Secondary Leaving Exams for its Equity Leaders Program
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Equity Bank Rwanda welcomes 3rd cohort of scholars to Equity Leaders Program

Saturday, January 13, 2024