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Farmers cultivate cassava in Rulindo District. Farmers without irrigation capabilities are adopting short-cycle and climate resilient crops. Courtesy

Farmers shift to short-cycle crops amidst minimal rains

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

A farmer inspects her sweet potatoes. Farmers without irrigation capabilities are adopting short-cycle and climate resilient crops such as sweet potatoes, beans, and cassava.

Farmers look to resilient crops as poor rains threaten harvests

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

A scene of an incident where a lightning strike claimed the life of one person, along with eight cows and sixteen sheep, during Sunday’s heavy rain in Kirehe District on October 20. Courtesy

Kirehe: Lightning kills 24-year-old woman, cows and sheep

Monday, October 21, 2024

Technicians retrofitting of fossil fuel motorcycles to electric motorcycles at Rwanda Electric Mobility Ltd in Kicukiro district on June 10, 2021.

Priorities of Rwanda’s new strategy to raise $6.5bn for climate, nature

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Farmers try to salvage their rice produce from a flooded plantation in the aftermath of heavy rains in Rwangingo Marshland in Nyagatare District on May 6, 2020. Courtesy

Ten things to know about Rwanda’s climate and nature finance strategy

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning Mutesi Rusagara delivers her remarks during the launch of the first-ever Climate and Nature Finance Strategy in Kigali on October 17

Rwanda launches Climate and Nature Finance Strategy to spur private sector financing

Friday, October 18, 2024

Residents plant bamboo trees near Rugunga drainage. File

Kigali: Three million tree planting drive targets residential, recreational zones

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Nyamulagira Volcano in eastern DR Congo has been erupting since October 12. Courtesy

DR Congo's Nyamulagira volcano erupting – reports

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A view of artist's impression of Nyabugogo wetland that is set to be revamped. Fishing ponds are set to be established as part of the $80 million rehabilitation of five wetlands in Kigali. Courtesy

Fishing to feature in five Kigali wetlands after $27m rehabilitation

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Rwanda Defence Force officer plants a bamboo tree on the banks of River Sebeya in Rubavu District. Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda to plant 65 million trees in one month

Monday, October 14, 2024

Members of the Rotary Club of Kigali Karisimbi during a tree planting initiative at GS Apace School on Sunday, October 13. Courtesy

Rotarians join hands for tree planting initiative

Monday, October 14, 2024

A view on the newly completed flood retention dam designed to contain the floods caused by River Sebeya in Rubavu District. Courtesy

Day for Disaster Risk Reduction: 10 Key measures Rwanda has taken

Sunday, October 13, 2024

More than 5,000 vertebrate species, a drop of 73% between 1970 and 2020.Photo by Mucyo Wlilly

Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years – report

Friday, October 11, 2024

Minister of Environment, Valentine Uwamariya and Martina Fors Mohlin, Chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of Sweden in Kigali during the signing ceremony on Thursday, October 3. Courtesy

Rwanda, Sweden sign deal to mobilise climate finance through carbon market

Friday, October 04, 2024

Hailstorm ravaged farmers’ crops in Gakenke District on the evening of October 1. Courtesy

Hailstorm ravages crops in Gakenke, forecaster warns of heavy rains in October

Wednesday, October 02, 2024

One of the resident who use Biogas to cook food as clean energy in Gisagara District. Rwanda is set to restore 70 per cent of non-functioning biogas plants (digesters) countrywide in two to three years. File

Govt to restore 70% non-operating biogas digesters in three years

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

A view of Rugezi wetland in in Burera, one of the restored marshlands in in Rwanda. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda to restore 1,000 wetlands as report highlights water crisis in Africa

Monday, September 30, 2024

Workers from Green Care Rwanda Ltd sort some plastic waste that are recycled to produce different items, including pavers. Courtesy

What will it take to end plastic pollution?

Thursday, September 26, 2024

A segment of a residential hotspot identified as a high-risk zone in Gatsata. Other hotspots include Jabana, Nduba, Kimisagara, Nyakabanda, Kigali, and Mageragere sectors, as well as areas near wetlands. Photo: File

What next after identifying 326 major disaster hotspots?

Sunday, September 22, 2024

White Pelican, one of hundreds of species that the new survey has documented.

Eight key findings from biodiversity survey on Rwanda's protected Rugezi Marsh

Saturday, September 21, 2024