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President Paul Kagame has urged business and political leaders across Africa to leverage the growing regional integration across the continent and improve their collaboration in efforts to conserve African wildlife. The Head of State, who is also the current Chairperson of the African Union, made the call on Thursday while officiating at the opening of the Business of Conservation Conference organised in Kigali by the African […]

Rwanda has improved 11 places in the annual series of World Bank’s Doing Business Report, ranking 29th globally from the 41st the previous year. The country retained its second position in Africa. The report, released Wednesday, attributes the impressive score to improvements in Rwanda’s business regulatory environment captured in the various reforms the country undertook. According to the World Bank report which ranked 190 countries […]

China’s e-commerce billionaire and Alibaba Group founder, Jack Ma, is expected in Kigali today to launch a number of initiatives on which his firm will partner with Rwanda. According to Alizila, Alibaba Group’s news platform, one of the major announcements expected to be made is the launch of the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP). eWTP is a multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to make it easier […]

Rwanda registered major gains in public governance over the last ten years, according to the 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), which was released Monday. The country ranks eighth in the overall governance in Africa. The index measures four score categories of safety and rule of law, participation and human rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development. Overall, the report by the Mo Ibrahim […]

Greenlight Planet, the global leader in solar home energy products is thrilled to announce that it has completed a shipment of an order of 50,000 Sun KingTM Home Systems for Ignite Rwanda project during October. Ignite’s Rwanda project is part of the universal access and Rural Electrification National Plan 2024. The Sun KingTM Systems will be connected by Ignite to provide safe and clean power to an […]

President Paul Kagame on Tuesday urged world leaders to support global companies venturing into Africa as their sense of innovation in responding to Africa’s needs can play an important role in driving development on the continent. The Head of State delivered the message in Berlin, Germany, while attending a G20 Investment Summit that brought together German businesses and the Compact with Africa (CwA) member countries. He spoke […]

When President Kagame announced his new Cabinet last week, among the things that stood out was the number of women appointed and the entry of youthful first-timers. For people not familiar with Rwandan politics, this is without a doubt exciting – rightly so. There is a lot of talk about the low number of young leaders in Africa and yet the average age of youth on […]

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is planning a further financial outlay of $100 million in Rwanda’s economy, mainly the infrastructure sector, by the end of this year as it positions itself to tap into the country’s growing trade industry. The development is part of a $500 million commitment made in June last year by during the international lender’s annual general meeting in Kigali. Ademola Adeyinka, a […]