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Rwanda

What International Day of the girl is all about

Monday, October 10, 2022
Senate President, Augustin Iyamuremye (left) addresses the media about issues that will be discussed during the 145th Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly due to start in Kigali on Tuesday, October 11. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

Migrant rights on agenda as Kigali parliamentary forum starts

Monday, October 10, 2022
Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente delivers remarks at this year’s Tallinn Digital Summit in Estonia on Monday, October 10. / Courtesy
Technology

PM Ngirente calls for more enforcement in cyber-security

Monday, October 10, 2022
Volunteers help a trauma victim. As the world mark the Mental Health Day on October 10, the event marked globally to create awareness and mobilise support for those experiencing mental health issues.
Health

World Mental Health Day: Activists make renewed call for fight against stigma

Monday, October 10, 2022
Teachers who are visually impaired say they encounter challenges in marking transcribed exams and request the Ministry of Education to provide them with assistants who can visually read.
Education

Visually impaired teachers want teaching assistants

Monday, October 10, 2022
The newly restored Ibanda-Makera forest, a 169-hectare natural forest of varied natural trees in a marshland connected to River Akagera. / Photo: Courtesy
Environment

Rwanda to restore drought-resistant trees amid rising temperatures

Monday, October 10, 2022
Lust is often used to explain why a sexual offender committed the crime. / Net photo
Crime

‘Lust’ and other sexual violence myths, misconceptions

Monday, October 10, 2022
Officials in a group photo with the winners of fifteen projects related to Science, Technology And Innovation who were awarded on October 7. / All photos by Craish Bahizi
Featured

NCST awards 15 innovative projects, concludes 7th council meeting

Monday, October 10, 2022
A resident of Mukamira Sector, Ndinayo is one of the men who are the first to directly get involved in the fight against stunting in Nyabihu District.
Featured

Nyabihu: Where men ‘lead by example’ in fight against stunting

Monday, October 10, 2022
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Featured

Cogebanque joins Rwandans to raise breast cancer awareness

Monday, October 10, 2022
President Kagame meets President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe on the sidelines of the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Kigali, March 21, 2018. Photoby Village Urugwiro
Africa

Kagame mobilises $800m for Zimbabwe’s rural electrification

Sunday, October 09, 2022
Emile Bienvenue, the Director-General of Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority.FDA said that four paediatric medicines that were recently found unsafe by WHO in The Gambia have never entered the Rwandan market.File
Health

Rwanda FDA investigates paediatric medicines found unsafe by WHO

Sunday, October 09, 2022
Ndera Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Gasabo District. The hospital revealed that it has recorded an increasing number of cases related to depression which has made the illness feature, for the first time, among the top five.
Health

Depression cases up by four fold - Ndera hospital

Sunday, October 09, 2022
Donatille Mukabalisa, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies said that the assembly will provide an excellent opportunity for our community of national parliaments to come together to strengthen parliamentary efforts. Dan Nsengiyumva
Rwanda

Rwanda gears up for global parliamentary forum

Saturday, October 08, 2022
Members of parliament during a session. They call for a coordinated planning mechanism that can help Rwanda to achieve the intended inequality reduction under the Sustainable Development Goal. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Rwanda

MPs call for greater efforts to reduce income inequalities

Saturday, October 08, 2022
Cogebanque officials and the bank’s customers and staff cut a cake as the bank concluded Customer Service Week on October 7. All photos by Dan Gatsinzi
Featured

Cogebanque concludes Customer Service Week on a high note

Saturday, October 08, 2022
The official launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area 's Guided Trade Initiative, on October 7. So far, eight countries are participating in the pilot phase. They include_ Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Tunisia, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Hopes high as AfCFTA launches Guided Trade Initiative

Saturday, October 08, 2022
Wamkele Mene, the Secretary General of the AfCFTA, announced the AfCFTA Secretariat Guided Trade Initiative during the Council of Ministers meeting held in July. Internet
Business

What is the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative all about?

Friday, October 07, 2022
Prime Minister Ngirente meets Jonathan Nzayikorera, Executive Director for the Eastern Africa Constituency at African Development Bank to discuss on areas of cooperation on October 7. Courtesy
Economy

PM Ngirente, AfDB Executive Director discuss development priorities

Friday, October 07, 2022
New prices for petroleum products will see a litre of gasoline costing 1,580 Rwf, down from 1,609 Rwf, while a litre of diesel will cost 1,587 Rwf, down from 1,607 Rwf. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Rwanda

Fuel prices go down

Friday, October 07, 2022