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Experts discuss on Africa's development on the sidelines of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meeting 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya on May 29. Courtesy
Africa

Experts tip African companies on securing investment funding

Friday, May 31, 2024
President Kagame and other dignitaries officially inaugurate BioNTech’s vaccine manufacturing plant in Kigali on December 18, 2023. The plant is set for $145 million in funding. Courtesy
Health

BioNTech's vaccine plant in Rwanda gets over Rwf180bn boost

Friday, May 31, 2024
The African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, President of the AfDB Akinwumi Adesina, Kenya President William Ruto, and Prof Njuguna Ndung'u, Cabinet Secretary for Treasury and Planning during the launch of AfDB’s new ten-year strategy (2024-2033), at the African Development Bank Annual Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, May 30. Courtesy
Africa

Private sector, green growth central to AfDB’s new strategy

Thursday, May 30, 2024
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Uzziel Ndagijimana, and the Ag. Director General of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Waleed Al-Bahar, during the signing of a concessional $20 million (about Rwf 26 billion) loan agreement on the sidelines of the African Development Bank Annual Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, May 30. The funds will go toward rehabilitation of Muhanga-Nyange road. Courtesy.
Infrastructure

Rwanda, Kuwait sign $20 million deal for Muhanga-Nyange road upgrade

Thursday, May 30, 2024
Aerial view of the newly revamped Amahoro stadium in Remera Kigali. According to the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey for 2023, Rwanda’s transparency score increased from 45 in 2021 to 50 in 2023.
Rwanda

Rwanda among most improved in global rankings on budget accountability

Thursday, May 30, 2024
EALA Speaker Joseph Ntakirutimana speaks during the 17th Meeting of the Bureau of EAC Speakers that was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 29, 2024. Courtesy
Africa

EAC parliament forced to postpone key activities due to financial constraints

Thursday, May 30, 2024
President Paul Kagame and AFDB President Akinwumi Adesina made a case for action to reform the global financial architecture, during a Presidential Dialogue on “Africa’s Transformation, the African Development Bank Group, and the Reform of the Global Financial Architecture,” at the AfDB Annual Meeting, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, May 29.
Economy

There is room for all to benefit in re-designing global financial architecture – Kagame

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Antonio Pedro, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the African Natural Capital Alliance Annual Summit Kenya on May 28.Courtesy
Environment

Carefully designed nature-based solutions could accelerate devpt, social equity – ECA’s Antonio Pedro

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Some members of genocidal group FDLR are fighting along the DR Congo army in its battle against the M23 rebel group in the eastern DR Congo. File
Security

New UN report exposes DR Congo’s continued use of FDLR as proxy

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente delivers remarks at the opening ceremony of the 4th Small Islands Developing State Conference in Antigua and Barbuda on May 27. Courtesy
Environment

Small islands deserve ‘special attention’ against climate crisis, says Ngirente

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The two-day meeting is, among other issues, discussing cooperation in trade and investment, tourism, agriculture, mineral resources, exchange of educational personnel and expertise, climate change and media.
Africa

Rwanda, Zimbabwe officials meet in Harare to bolster bilateral ties

Monday, May 27, 2024
President Paul Kagame interacts with Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group. Kagame is expected to attend the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meeting, slated for May 27 to 31
Economy

Kagame to attend African Development Bank meet in Kenya

Monday, May 27, 2024