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Students during an electrical installation exercise at Musanze Polytechnic. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Education

Inside $200m package for skills development, youth empowerment

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Members of Kabaya Saving Group give their contribution. Residents realised that overcoming poverty depended on their own efforts, after a six-month training in 2021
Featured

From livestock to savings: Tracing Gakenke residents’ steps to prosperity

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. File
Africa

What would a second Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala term mean for Africa?

Friday, October 18, 2024
'The Cost of Media Stereotypes to Africa,' the study focuses on electoral processes in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt and the skewed coverage from giant media entities from the Global North.
Africa

Biased Western media eroding investors' confidence, stunting Africa’s growth – study

Saturday, October 12, 2024
Members of Parliament during a parliament session that approved the relevance of the draft law on simplified insolvency for micro and small enterprises (MSEs), on October 7. (courtesy)
Economy

Rwanda initiates bill to ease insolvency for micro, small enterprises

Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Officials during a guided tour of a fertilizer blending factory during its official launch in Bugesera District on December, 20, 2023. Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Rwanda rose by 63.5 per cent. file
Business

Foreign direct investment into Rwanda up 63% in first half of 2024

Monday, October 07, 2024
Girls in Gisagara show free pads that they got from an activist. In 2019, the Rwandan government added sanitary pads to the list of goods that are VAT exempted in a bid to ease their affordability. Photos: Courtesy
Health

Beyond the pad: Breaking barriers to menstrual health and equality

Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Prime Minister Édouard Ngirente meets with Fan Qimiao, the newly appointed World Bank Country Director for Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia, in Kigali on October 2. Courtesy
Rwanda

Rwanda, World Bank explore ways to deepen partnership

Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Vehicles at Nyarutarama in Kigali. Available data from Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), shows that on average, each number plate series registers at least 24,975 private vehicles. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Rwanda

Spike in vehicle ownership reflects Rwanda’s growing prosperity, but poses new challenges

Monday, September 23, 2024
Students celebrate during the graduation ceremony
Featured

Our Sisters Opportunity’s journey to creating last-mile women entrepreneurs

Friday, September 20, 2024
An aerial view of Hakan Peat Power plant in Gisagara District (80MW). One of projects through Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in Rwanda.Courtesy

Thinking of investing in Rwanda? Here’s why you shouldn’t wait...

Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Aliko Dangote, Africa's wealthiest person, speaks at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali in May. Courtesy
Africa

Dangote tells business leaders to own, catalyse transformation in Africa

Thursday, September 12, 2024