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Officials pose for a photo during the signing ceremony in Kigali on Tuesday, October 8. The fund aimed at improving access to public services, rehabilitating infrastructure, creating employment opportunities.

Rwanda secures €15m grant from Germany for rural infrastructure

Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Kigali Innovation City will host world-class universities, office spaces, and start-up business incubators, technology companies, biotech firms among others. Courtesy

Five things to know about Kigali Innovation City

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

A view of the ongoing construction activities of housing blocks to accommodate residents from high risk zones in Cyahafi in Nyarugenge.

City of Kigali mulls new plan to construct 10,000 affordable houses, upgrade slums

Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Samuel Dusengiyumva was re-elected as the Mayor of the City of Kigali on Thursday, August 22. Courtesy

City mayor pledges faster issuance of construction permits

Friday, August 23, 2024

President Paul Kagame (3rd-right) participated in a ceremonial match with global football leaders and legends to officially open then newly renovated and rebranded Kigali Pele Stadium on March 15, 2023. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA

City of Kigali announces interim solution for Pelé Stadium lighting issues

Friday, August 23, 2024

Bugesera District and NPD launched the construction and upgrading of a 2.1-kilometer stretch of urban roads within the district's urban area on Monday, August 19. Emmanuel Dushimimana

Bugesera District, NPD start works to upgrade Nyamata town roads

Monday, August 19, 2024

One of the newly completed housing units at the ongoing construction project of phase one of a halfway social reintegration centre commonly known as “Halfway home”. Courtesy

PHOTOS: First halfway homes to be completed this year - RCS

Saturday, August 17, 2024

A view of Nyabugogo bus terminal in Nyarugenge District. The works to revamp it is set to commence in 2025. Photo by Craish Bahizi

Nyabugogo bus terminal to get $100 million facelift

Thursday, August 08, 2024

A landscape view of the ongoing construction works of Mpazi Rehousing Project to accomodate residents who live nearby Mpazi drainage in Nyarugenge. Courtesy

How top 5 projects are poised to reshape Kigali

Monday, July 29, 2024

Road construction works at Nyabisindu in Gasabo. Nyabisindu is among settlements where Kigali City plans to commence drainage construction. Crai Bahizi

CoK to compensate landowners affected by drainage construction in unplanned settlements

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Aerial view of the ongoing construction activities of Muvumba Multipurpose dam on Muvumba River that is set to be completed in 2026. Courtesy

PHOTOS: Muvumba multipurpose dam under construction

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Eng Alain Munyaburanga, the Managing Director of Afrinest Engineering, a shipbuilding company constructing Nkombo Boat II. All photos by Germain Nsanzimana.

PHOTOS: Nkombo II, largest boat on Lake Kivu, nears completion

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Runway and taxiway with drainage channel at the new airport under construction in Bugesera District. Once completed, the airport will have a 130,000-square-meter main terminal structure capable of handling 8 million passengers per year, and this is expected to increase to more than 14 million in the future. Photos: Courtesy.

PHOTOS: Rwanda’s new international airport ground-level works 85% complete

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

⁠Rubavu old port. ALL PHOTOS BY GERMAIN NSANZIMANA

RPF promises to construct modern ports on Lake Kivu

Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Olivier Kabera, Minister of State in the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Who is Olivier Kabera, the engineer named state minister for infrastructure?

Friday, June 14, 2024

The construction of Mulindi-Gasogi-Rusororo-Kabuga Centre road has resumed.

PHOTOS: City of Kigali resumes Mulindi-Gasogi-Rusororo road construction

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Road construction through the Kigali Infrastructure Project (KIP) in Remera. After being put on hold for months due to funding constraints, the Kigali Infrastructure Project (KIP) will resume this month. Craish Bahizi

Prime Minister Ngirente says Kigali Infrastructure Project revived

Thursday, June 06, 2024

Finance Minister Uzziel Ndagijimana and Alain Ebobissé Chief Executive Officer of Africa50, sign the agreement in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, May 31. Courtesy

Kigali Innovation City construction to commence in September

Saturday, June 01, 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.

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

Thursday, May 30, 2024

President Paul Kagame and Mark Rugenera, the Managing Director of Radiant Insurance inaugurate the newly constructed Radiant Insurance building in Kigali, on Thursday, May 23. Photo by Dan Gatsinzi

PHOTOS: Kagame inaugurates new Rwf22 bn Radiant Insurance building

Thursday, May 23, 2024