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Food stalls at Kimisagara market in Kigali. Rwanda has seen a significant improvement in its food security status, with statistics from a 2018 report showing that 81.3 per cent of its population was food secure. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

World Food Day: How Rwanda keeps focus on food security

Thursday, October 27, 2022
WFP constructs terraces on hillslopes to create land for agriculture and increase food production. The harvest on terraced land increased by more than double. Photo: WFP-John Paul Sesonga.
Featured

World Food Day: How WFP is working to strengthen food systems

Thursday, October 27, 2022
A farmer sorts her beans plantation.Rwanda is offering free fertilisers to its farmer as it responds to high food prices, and drought that is threatening to cause crop production failure
Agriculture

Rwanda offers free fertilisers, irrigation as drought bites

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Ngabitsinze speaks at the opening of the Ghana-Rwanda Business Forum in Ghana on October 26. Photo: Courtesy.
Economy

Inside Rwanda-Ghana plan to leverage AfCFTA framework

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, waves to journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct. 23, 2022. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
International

Profile: Xi Jinping leads China on new journey

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Chief Ombudsman, Madeleine Nirere presenting the Annual Report 2021-2022 of Office of the Ombudsman and Action Plan of 2022-2023 to the Parliament of Rwanda on Wednesday, October 26.Courtesy
Law

Ombudsman deplores heavy bailiff fees for minor cases

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Robert Masozera, the Director General of the Rwanda Cultural Heritage, officially receives more than 4,000 sounds and songs that were conserved by the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium, on Thursday, October 28, 2021. Photo: Courtesy.
Culture

Cultural heritage body to unveil sounds, songs recorded during colonial period

Thursday, October 27, 2022
A commuter pays fare using Tap and Go payment service on a bus in Kigali. This is one of the digital payment systems used in Rwanda. There are 29 instant payment systems in Africa of which 26 are domestic. Photo: File.
Technology

350 million Africans yet to access digital payment systems – report

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Paladie sharing her lived experience and advocating access to care at PENPlus in Action, September 2022.
People

My fight against diabetes and why it won’t derail my dreams

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Foodstuff vendors at Kimisagara market in Nyarugenge District. The food system involves the primary production of food, food services, consumption, and disposal. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Agriculture

Rwanda to build resilient, sustainable food systems with circular business models

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Eden Care staff. Photo: Courtesy.
Health

Eden Care: Inside the first digital health insurer in Rwanda

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Farmers weeding their potato plantation in Muko Sector Musanze District. Potato farmers will from now start paying only RwfRwf603 a kilogramme for the NPK 17-17-17, a commonly used fertiliser in potato production.Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Govt increases fertiliser subsidies

Tuesday, October 25, 2022