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 Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Emmanuel Ntirenganya
A tailor at a shop in Kanombe.File
Rwanda
New project to help fund more start-up businesses
Minister for Health Diane Gashumba (right) shares Rwandau2019s experience at a conference as Tanzaniau2019s National Health Insurance Fund Director General, Dr Bernard Konga, looks on in Kigali yesterday. Experts have called for proactive measures to achieve universal healthcare coverage in order to reverse the trend where millions of people are pushed into extreme poverty by unaffordable healthcare.  Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda
Experts: Universal health cover will reduce burden on economy
Beekeepers inspect beehives in Nyaruguru District. Net photo.
Rwanda
Beekeepers to use state forests for honey production
 A vocational student from Groupe Scolaire ADB Nyarutarama High School in Gasabo District, fixes her project of design and implementation of sound signaling system. (File)
TVET bodies get new leadership
Archbishop Antoine Kambanda. Courtesy.
Rwanda
Archbishop Kambanda outlines his priorities
A colony of bees in a beehive in Kayonza District, May 2017. Study findings have revealed that intense use of pesticides in crops has killed bees, reducing honey production  (courtesy).
Rwanda
Use of pesticides blamed for low honey production
Students during a class session. Emmanuel Kwizera.
Rwanda
Govt rolls out peer mentoring programme to address skill gap among teachers
MP Uwineza delivers her remarks after her election as chairperson of the women parliamentary forum on Wednesday. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda
New women parliamentary leaders pledge to fight GBV
Government aims to support graduates from TTCs to attain university education. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda
Government outlines reforms to improve teacher training colleges
Munyakazi addresses the senators yesterday. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda
Senators want pay raise for teachers
There is a plan to empower human capital resources in line with having a knowledge-based society. File.
Rwanda
Govt, Churches join hands to scale up pre-primary education
Twahirwa (bottom left) demonstrating the production process for chilli oil. The entrepreneur has secured a 37,500 litre-chilli oil export market to China for $2 million. Courtesy.
Rwandan agri-preneur lands $2 million chili export deal
The Minister for Agriculture, Gu00e9rardine Mukeshimana (left), and the Minister for Trade, Soraya Hakuziyaremye, address the media yesterday on the sustained irregularities in pricing of agriculture produce. Illegal price fixing and speculation have been cited as some of the drivers of food inflation. Nadege Imbabazi.
Rwanda
Govt launches crackdown on errant potato dealers
According to the mayor of Nyagatare District, Good Foundation Church came crashing down during stormy rains on Wednesday. (File)
Nyagatare church collapse leaves two dead, over 20 injured
A study by Rwanda Civil Society Platform calls for revisiting of potato pricing. File.
Rwanda
Study calls for revisiting of potato pricing model
Construction works on a section of the Kigali-Gatuna highway, in Gicumbi District, which was destroyed by landslides in May this year.  It is such disasters that  cost the economy a staggering Rwf204 billion in the first six month of this year. File
Rwanda
Economy loses over Rwf200 billion through disasters
Officials and residents on the banks of one of the ponds where fish stocks died mysteriously in Musanze District last month. File.
Musanze fish farmers compensated
Rugarama Sector offices that were flooded in May this year. Heavy rains mixed with violent winds are expected in some parts of the country from October 9 and 13. Regis Umurengezi.
Forecaster predicts stormy rains this week

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