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Economy clutches on food, construction and service sector holds back

Claver Gatete

When Paulo Drummond led an IMF mission to Ki­gali this month to review Rwanda’s economic policies under the Fund’s Policy Support Instrument (PSI), he found a changed environ­ment from the one he saw during the previous review in October 2012.

April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Business,Other News,Weekly Highlights | Read More »

When the international community failed Rwanda

March

Ernest Maniraho was sev­en years old in 1994 when the genocide against Tut­si occurred countrywide, yet the atrocities he went through somewhere in Kicukiro remain with him today.

April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Features,Other News,Weekly Highlights | Read More »

Doing business with a cup of tea

Egyptian shop

If you wondered why Arab people make an exception­al difference in the business world, you will have to pay a vis­it to Egypt to get to know the secrets of how they make wealth.

April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Business,Features,Other News,Weekly Highlights | Read More »

Tea plantations to be expanded

tea plantation2

During a meeting to discuss the Integrated Development Programs (IDP), shareholders including local and central government leaders have commit­ted themselves to accelerate the expansion of tea plantations. The target is to expand them by 18,000 hectares by 2018.

April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Business,Daily News,Other News | Read More »

As we budget for 2014, prioritize energy and roads to spur growth

Edward Ojulu.

By this time of each year, finance ministry technocrats are busy put­ting final touches on budget esti­mates of the five East African Com­munity member-states that will be simultaneously presented to nation­al parliaments in June.

April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Opinion,Other News,Weekly Highlights | Read More »

10,000th MTN Facebook fan wins BlackBerry

MTN Facebook

Valens Nyangezi, a student at KIST, has been announced as MTN Rwanda’s 10,000th Facebook fan and was rewarded with a number of freebies including a Blackberry phone.

April 19th, 2013 | Posted in Business,Other News | Read More »

Korea to fund a US$ 5.6 million ICT innovation center

Korea ICT

The youth and ICT ministry and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Rwanda have on Wednesday signed an MoU to enhance the ICT Innovation center. The center will be set up at the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Center (IPRC) Kigali Campus, in Kicukiro. KOICA’s contribution to the project will be US$ 5.6 million.

April 17th, 2013 | Posted in Daily News,Other News,Technology | Read More »

ICT Chamber tips members on RRA innovations

EBM

The Private Sector Federation (PSF) has urged its members in the ICT chamber to ready themselves to exploit opportunities presented by Rwanda Revenue Authority’s innovations.

April 17th, 2013 | Posted in Business,Daily News,Other News | Read More »

Turkish Airlines to launch cargo services

Burcin Isler

One year after launching commercial passenger flights between Turkey and Rwanda, Turkish Airlines had announced that it will also initiate cargo flights on May 13.

April 17th, 2013 | Posted in Business,Daily News,Other News | Read More »

Scholars debate Rwanda’s success story at Oxford

health care

Every year in Oxford, (UK), nearly 1,000 delegates from the private and public sectors around the world hold three-day de­bates on accelerating solutions to so­cial challenges.

April 14th, 2013 | Posted in Business,Other News,Weekly Highlights | Read More »

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