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Yves Kayihura, Head of Retail Banking at I&M Bank Rwanda, speaks at the launch. Courtesy
Featured

I&M Bank Rwanda launches Higa to help savings groups grow their money

Saturday, August 29, 2026
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), smallholders working up to 10 hectares manage roughly 80 percent of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Courtesy

Until farmers can sell what they grow, Africa’s Food System will not transform

Friday, August 28, 2026
Lahiru Silva, Chief Business Officer at LOLC Unguka Finance, and Amit Chawla, Managing Director of Spiro Rwanda at the signing of the new agreement on Friday, August 14. Courtesy
Featured

Bridging EV gap: LOLC Unguka Finance makes electric vehicle ownership easier

Friday, August 28, 2026
Nooliet Kabanyana, Executive Director of Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIVAIDS and Health Promotion, speaks at a workshop for member organisations in Kigali earlier this year. Courtesy photo
Featured

Rethinking health financing as aid declines

Friday, August 28, 2026
Bank tellers attend to customers at Bank of Kigali main branch in Nyarugenge. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Finance

How 8.75% central bank interest rate will influence household, business decisions

Thursday, August 27, 2026
A landscape view of Kigali's Central Business District in Nyarugenge. Rwanda's economy grew 9.4% in 2025, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). File

Vision 2050: Reality or Wishful Thinking?

Thursday, August 27, 2026
Minister of Trade and Industry, Antoine Marie Kajangwe, addresses participants at the closing of of the two-day African Mindset Reset Forum in Kigali on August 26. Courtesy
Aviation

Trade minister calls for lower air travel costs across Africa

Thursday, August 27, 2026
Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva and officials during a guided tour of Muvumba Multi-Purpose Water Resource Development Programme in Nyagatare District. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Infrastructure

Over Rwf330 bn needed to expand Muvumba irrigation scheme

Thursday, August 27, 2026
Yusuf Murangwa, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, said the transaction is part of efforts to diversify the country's financing sources. Photo by Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

Rwanda secures Rwf139bn in first-ever yen financing

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
(L-R) Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, President Paul Kagame , Ghana’s Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, at a presidential panel.
Politics

Africa must break cycle of failed governance, leaders say

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Telesphore Ndabamenye speaks during the opening of a two-day Eastern Africa Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in Kigali on Monday, August 24. Photos by Kellya Keza
Rwanda

Eastern Africa taps FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative to drive agrifood investment

Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The African School of Governance President, Francis Gatare delivers his remarks during the inauguration of Africa Minset Reset Forum in Kigali on Tuesday, August 25. Courtesy
Rwanda

Gatare calls for ‘Meta-Africanism’ to drive Africa’s next step

Tuesday, August 25, 2026