Rwanda

Drones are being used to boost pig breeding, delivering pig semen to farms with a drone to help reduce distances that are difficult to travel

The country will host the headquarters of the African Medicine Agency; the decision has been taken at the end of the African Union Executive Council meeting

The country has adopted the RASME - Remote Assessment Supervision Monitoring and Evaluation - initiative, a tool that improves the collection of project data in remote areas, the first East African country to do so and the seventh in the entire continent

The Rwanda Water Resources Council intends to prequalify contractors for the construction of the multifunctional Muvumba dam and the installation of the power plant

26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is taking place in capital Kigali these days with dozens of sessions scheduled and over 5.000 participants from governments, business and civil society

All day schools in Kigali will be closed from 20 to 26 June, while the country will host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

Jonathan Nzayikorera, a Rwandan economist, has been elected by the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) as the bank's new executive director, representing nine East African constituencies

Former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta has gone on trial in Paris accused of complicity in the African nation's genocide, the highest figure yet to face justice in France over the 1994 massacres

The second phase of the Rwanda Urban Development Project (RUDP II) is expected to provide basic infrastructure in secondary towns and address unplanned settlements and flooding in the city of Kigali

Along the lines of the recent agreement with the UK on asylum seekers, the country is also in talks with Denmark on a new procedure for the transfer of asylum seekers

Unwanted pregnancies in the country fell by 31% between 1994 and 2019, a new study by the World Health Organisation and the Guttmacher Institute shows; abortion rates, however, are comparable