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Christine Uwamahoro, a market trader in Muhanga said that before the support, it was a challenge to get a loan from banks but now she trades agricultural produce including onions, tomatoes, and peas. All photos were taken by Willy Mucyo
Women

How vulnerable women’s livelihoods are improving under a UN Women scheme

Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Yvette Murekatete and three other women started a beauty salon in Nyarugunga, Kicukiro, thanks to the UN Women project. Photos by Willy Mucyo
Women

How small businesses are transforming lives of once miserable women

Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Théoneste Karenzi, President of the local tennis federation. File
Tennis

Tennis: Rwanda aims to host more tournaments in 2024, reveals Karenzi

Monday, December 25, 2023
Jeanne Francoise Mubiligi, the acting chairperson of PSF, said they are currently reviewing an assessment highlighting the private sector’s unpleasant position concerning corruption. File
Rwanda

PSF, public officials take a stand against workplace corruption

Friday, December 22, 2023
The New Times

A blueprint for sustainable urban housing development in Africa

Friday, December 22, 2023
Expo 2023 underway at Lake Kivu Public Beach. Photos by Germain Nsanzimana
Business

Foreign exhibitors share positive experience at Rubavu’s Expo 2023

Friday, December 22, 2023
Maj. Gen. Tiago Alberto Nampele, the Army Commander of the Mozambique Armed Defence Forces, speaks to reporters in Mocimboa da Praia on Tuesday, December 18. Christianne Murengerantwari.
Africa

Cabo Delgado: Mozambican General likens Rwanda’s support to ‘gas in a stove’

Friday, December 22, 2023
Through COMESA, 21 African countries can easily trade among themselves free of customs duties.

East Africa's trade bridge: COMESA

Friday, December 22, 2023
A view of the newly launched BioNTech's first Africa site in Rwanda on Monday, December 18. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA
Health

What hosting new BioNTech manufacturing plant means

Friday, December 22, 2023
A woman works in Agakiriro after studying vocations in Bugesera. The government is currently facing a shortfall of nearly 400,000 jobs to meet the targets outlined in the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). FILE
Economy

Gov’t short of 400,000 jobs six months to end of NST1

Thursday, December 21, 2023
Sandrine Umutoni, the Minister of State for Youth and Arts, in an exclusive interview with The New Times on Thursday, December 21. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Rwanda

Minister talks priorities, investments as arts portfolio moves to Ministry of Youth

Thursday, December 21, 2023
(L-R): CEO of OCP Africa, Mohamed Anouar Jamali, Managing Director of Rwanda Fertilizer Company (RFC), Anass Khanchoufi, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Ildephonse Musafiri, Director General of Agriculture Modernisation at MINAGRI, Patrick Karangwa, and Minister of Trade and Industry, Jean-Chrysostome Ngabitsinze observe fertiliser samples during the official launch of the Rwanda Fertilizer Blending Plant in Bugesera District on December 20, 2023.The newly launched factory has an annual capacity to blend 100,000 tonnes of fertilisers.
Agriculture

How Rwanda’s new fertiliser plant could boost agriculture

Thursday, December 21, 2023