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 Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Students during an electrical installation exercise at Musanze Polytechnic. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Education
Inside $200m package for skills development, youth empowerment
Workers at Kigali Silk Factory before the factory postponed the production. File
Business
Lack of investor for Kigali Silk Factory hurting sericulture farmers: Ombudsman
Chief Ombudsman Madeleine Nirere presents the report to Members of Parliament a a joint plenary sitting on Tuesday, October 22. Courtesy
Rwanda
Ombudsman says over Rwf15bn owed to expropriated people
Local Government newly appointed minister, Patrice Mugenzi and the outgoing minister Jean Claude Musabyimana during the handover ceremony on Monday, October 21.Courtesy
Politics
From heading cooperative agency to Minister of Local Government: who is Patrice Mugenzi?
Brand new KIA Niro Plus (Hybrid) at Akagera Motors showroom. Hybrid cars imported into Rwanda increased by 237 times within four years (from 2021 to 2024). Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Business
Inside surge in hybrid cars in Rwanda’s automotive market
Technicians retrofitting of fossil fuel motorcycles to electric motorcycles at Rwanda Electric Mobility Ltd in Kicukiro district on June 10, 2021.
Environment
Priorities of Rwanda’s new strategy to raise $6.5bn for climate, nature
Mark Cyubahiro Bagabe, the newly appointed Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources. Courtesy
Agriculture
Bagabe, the food safety expert named new agriculture minister
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Health
Sabin institute CEO in Rwanda to discuss its 'vaccine roll-out'
Health Minister Dr Sabin Nsanzimana.
Health
Rwanda hoping to see 'zero new Marburg cases, deaths for several days'
Senate President Francois Xavier Kalinda, his deputies, Alvera Mukabaramba and Solina Nyirahabimana during the opening session of a two-day retreat at the senate ion Thursday, October 17. Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Rwanda
Rwanda’s five-year development plan takes centre stage during Senators’ retreat
Agric experts work in  a farm of  new variety of potatoes that are grown in a green house in Musanze District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture
What $10m agri-biotech programme means for Rwanda
The Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Ildephonse Musafiri speaks at the World Food Forum 2024  in Italy  on October 15. Courtesy
Economy
Rwanda pitches investment opportunities worth $785m at World Food Forum
A nurse takes care of a newborn at Kirehe Hospital. Surrogacy is a form of third-party reproductive practice in which the intending parent(s) contract a surrogate mother to give birth to a child. File
Health
Surrogacy: Justice foundation on why further regulation is needed
Jean-Claude Niyomugabo at the World Food Forum 2024, on Tuesday, October 15, in Rome, Italy. Courtesy
Agriculture
World Food Forum: RICA graduate says addressing digital divide can help smallholder farmers scale their businesses
Taxi-motor riders during a meeting with City of Kigali and Rwanda National Police officials in which they raised their concerns about motorcycle  insurance, at Kigali Pele Stadium on September 4, 2024. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Rwanda
Insurance: Are ever-soaring motorcycle premiums justifiable?
People who are vaccinated rose to 708, as of Monday, October 14. Courtesy
Health
Marburg virus: Over 700 vaccinated, recoveries reach 26
Agric specialists during a seeds multiplication exercise in a greenhouse in Musanze District. Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture
Inside Rwanda’s new Rwf13bn agri-biotech programme
A health care worker administers a vaccine for Marburg virus disease in Kigali on October 6, 2024. Courtesy
Health
Rwanda gets 1,000 more vaccine doses for Marburg virus

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