Africa Rwanda The Rwanda Mining Board has stated that the country is rich in mineral deposits and that their represents an investment opportunity, as the country only extracts 30-40% of the potential products and deposits
Africa Rwanda The government has opened up the public transport market to privately owned buses as a measure to address the shortage of vehicles and long queues in Kigali; previously, only public transport companies or cooperatives were allowed to transport passengers
Africa Rwanda Visa exemption for all Africans wishing to enter Rwanda has been introduced, making the country the fourth African nation to do so; this decision aims to capitalise on the booming African tourism market, driven by the continent's growing middle class
Africa Rwanda Theofrida Muginga, a student at the University of Rwanda, is creating 'Mkulima GPT', a chatbot in Swahili led by ChatGPT, to empower smallholder farmers by detecting crop diseases and providing culturally sensitive agricultural advice
Africa Rwanda The construction and equipping of a new aviation training facility in Kigali will be possible thanks to a $23,6 million loan from the African Development Bank
Africa Rwanda All military cooperation with the US is about to end after Rwanda was added to the list of countries that use or sponsor the use of child soldiers
Africa Rwanda President Paul Kagame has announced that he will run for a fourth term in next year's presidential election
Africa Rwanda A nuclear power project will be developed through agreement with German-Canadian company Dual Fluid Energy as a solution for growing energy demand and to promote industrialization efforts in the country
Africa Rwanda The Africa Food Prize 2023 was awarded to the Pan-African Bean Research Alliance, and the prize was received by Jean Claude Rubyogo, a Rwandan scientist specializing in beans
Africa Rwanda Last week, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay traveled to Rwanda to celebrate the country's significant progress in protecting gorillas and the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO Volcanoes Biosphere Reserve
Africa Rwanda At least 23 baby mountain gorillas born in the past 12 months will be named during a naming ceremony scheduled for next month in Rwanda
Africa Rwanda To address the shortage of nurses and midwives across the country, the Ministry of Health intends to quadruple the number of health personnel within the next four years
Africa Rwanda As a result of the ongoing unrest in Sudan, some 200 medical students have been admitted to Rwanda's School of Medicine and Health Sciences