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Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Workers sort and package French beans at a packhouse. IDH helps horticulture exporters to build infrastructures for proper handling of fresh produce. (Courtesy).
Featured
We support Rwanda to unlock its horticulture potential - IDH official
Friday, September 09, 2022
The 2022 Africa Food Prize winner, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, being introduced by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday September 7. / Dan Nsengiyumva
Agriculture
Africa Food Prize winner backs highly productive, resilient crops
Thursday, September 08, 2022
Liliane Uwintwari, the CEO of Mahwi Tech,receives Agric award after boosting farmer incomes or something shorter in Kigali on September 7.Courtesy
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Rwandan woman wins agric award for boosting farmer incomes
Wednesday, September 07, 2022
A view of Nasho solar powered irrigation project in Eastern Province in Rwanda. Africa needs to up to $257 billion annually to develop its agriculture sector, in order to cushion its food systems from shocks. / File photo
Agriculture
Africa needs $257bn annually for robust agriculture sector – report
Wednesday, September 07, 2022
Workers sort some insects at the first commercial plant for insect-based animal feed in Rwanda in Bugesera District on September 5. All photos by Dan Nsengiyumva
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Rwanda to expand use of black soldier flies to boost poultry production
Tuesday, September 06, 2022
A teller serves a customer at Kacyiru SACCO. According to the Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Statement of March 2022, total contributors to EjoHeza increased by 168%. / Photo: Craish Bahizi
Rwanda
Activists call for strategies to address gaps in EjoHeza saving scheme
Monday, September 05, 2022
Kirambo trading centre in Burera District is one of the areas set to directly benefit from the proposed Base-Kidaho stalled road project connecting Rulindo and Burera districts.
Politics
PAC hearings begin next week
Thursday, September 01, 2022
District Administration Security Support Organ officers during a parade. Angelique Mukeshimana, one of the organ officers has to forgo lunch on most days as she struggles to make ends meet with her Rwf73,000 monthly salary. All photos: Courtesy.
Rwanda
Increase cap on taxable income – labour unions
Thursday, September 01, 2022
Workers package milk at Inyange Industries in Kigali on December 16, 2021. / Courtesy
Business
Milk shortages, price hikes bite as drought takes its toll
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Prof. Omar Munyaneza, Chairperson of the parliamentary Standing Committee on National Budget and Patrimony, speaks during a plenary session. / Photo: Sam Ngendahimana
Finance
How new law could improve public finance management
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Classrooms that were damaged by disasters at G.S Kibuye in Karongi on March 9,2022.Rwanda is set to increase the budget allocated to emergencies as stipulated in the new organic law on public finance management. Courtesy
Rwanda to increase emergency budget to respond better to crises
Monday, August 15, 2022
Senator Juvenal Nkusi speaks at Plenary Sitting on Wednesday, August 10. Some senators advocated for pension increase in response to the rising cost of living.
Senators seek increased pension benefits amid rising cost of living
Friday, August 12, 2022
Members of the Senate during a Plenary Sitting on Wednesday, August 10. Courtesy
Senators seek pension access for former Rwandan workers in Burundi
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Minister Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi speaks at the Plenary Sitting of the Senate on Wednesday, August 10./ Courtesy
New law to scrap degree requirement for Rwandan EALA parliamentary aspirants
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
A flooded wetland at Masaka in Kicukiro District in April. According to the State of Soil Erosion Control in Rwanda May 2022, more than 745,000 hectares of agricultural land in Rwanda are potentially eroded every year.Courtesy
How soil erosion is posing a threat on food security
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
L-R: Senators Juvenal Nkusi, Innocent Nkurunziza and Cyprien Niyomugabo during a plenary session that discussed a new draft law on public finance management on Monday, August 8. The Upper House approved the relevance of the draft organic law, which seeks to introduce changes in emergency budgeting and fiscal risk management. According to the government, the bill will help address the gaps in the organic law on state finances and property of 2013. Courtesy
Senate backs new bill on public finance management
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
Group photo of Good Food for Cities (GF4Cs) project kick-off meeting in Rubavu District, July 2022.
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FEATURED: Good Food for Cities project seeks to boost farmers’ income in Rubavu district
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
The Auditor General Alexis Kamuhire presents the annual audit report to a joint session of both chambers of the Parliament on May 12. Kamuhire has backed the newly created Ministry of Public Investments and Privatisation.
Auditor General speaks out on unimplemented recommendations
Monday, August 08, 2022

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