AllAfrica News: Rwanda

[Focus] Rwanda will face only Ethiopia in this year's Fiba Afro-basketball U-16 boy's championship after nine nations pulled out from the Zone V basketball championship slated for May 30 to June 3 at Amahoro Petit Stadium.

[Focus] The East African Business Council (EABC) has elected a Rwandan as its new chairman.

[Focus] Bank of Kigali was voted best regional bank in East Africa. This was at the Africa Bank awards 2015 held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The awards are the most prestigious in Africa's banking and finance sector.

[Focus] Umubano Blue Tigers volleyball club won its first national championship game after defeating Lycee de Nyanza by 3-1 sets on Saturday at Lycee de Nyanza.

[News of Rwanda] The Burera district vice mayor for finance and economic development Joseph Zaraduhaye said that the district is in a renewed bid to attract more contributions towards the Agaciro development fund.

[Rwanda Govt] The Ministry of Disaster Management and refugee affairs (MIDIMAR) together with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have asserted that Rwanda has effectively responded to the influx of several thousand refugees from Burundi over the last two months.

[Rwanda Govt] Last week Rwanda's Minister of Trade and Industry, Francois Kanimba, hosted Negm Namira, the Egyptian High Commissioner to Rwanda to discuss bilateral trade ties. The two high-ranking officials discussed ways to strengthen and foster trade relations and investments between Rwanda and Egypt, and agreed to renew the two countries' efforts and commitment to boost trade relations, a move that will see an increase in Rwanda's exports to Egypt.

[Rwanda Govt] Rwanda and Korea Telecom (KT) partnership through Olleh Rwanda networks and Nokia received yesterday in London, United Kingdom the Global Telecom Business Innovation award.

[Rwanda Govt] President Paul Kagame has said that the central purpose of peace operations is the protection of civilians.

[Rwanda Govt] As an active and committed contributor to peacekeeping efforts around the world, the Government of Rwanda is organising the Kigali International Conference on the Protection of Civilians from 28-29 May 2015. The forum brings together most of the top 30 UN troop contributing countries, the ten financial contributing countries and Rwandan institutions to evaluate and discuss how to effectively implement the Protection of Civilians mandate in peacekeeping.

[Rwanda Govt] President Paul Kagame has called on the youth to own the country's transformation journey, dedicate their young age to a worthy cause and always focus on excellence.

[Rwanda Govt] From 25 -From 25-26 May 2015 Rwanda hosted a regional employment forum discussing ways to promote productive employment through curbing the soaring unemployment and underemployment rates in the region.

[Rwanda Govt] Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi has said that Rwanda lauds the efforts of the private sector which have helped in the fight to improve the quality of health care across the country.

[EA Business] Kigali, Rwanda -Rwanda's Minister of the East African Community Amb. Valentine Rugwabiza has advised Rwanda professionals to sort out the challenges that are preventing them from crossing borders to work.

[EA Business] Kigali, Rwanda -Amb. Claver Gatete, the Rwanda finance minister was last week recognized as the Finance Minister of the Year at the African Bankers Awards 2015.

[New Times] The National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA) recently unveiled an ambitious strategy designed to help more than double the country's industrial output in the medium-term.

[New Times] The Minister for Education, Prof. Silas Lwakabamba, has called on African varsities leadership to adapt higher education systems to the continent's aspirations for socio-economic development.

[RSF] Rwanda's announcement that it is indefinitely banning BBC broadcasts in the local Kinyarwanda language has highlighted the country's questionable methods of media regulation. Reporters Without Borders believes the ban is part of a planned gag on the media, partly with an eye to presidential elections in 2017.

[News of Rwanda] Presentation by General Patrick Nyamvumba, Chief of Defence Staff, Rwanda Defence Force, at the Kigali International Conference on Protection of Civilians, 28-29 May 2015

[New Times] Ugandan RnB singer Michael Ross Kakooza has released a Kinyarwanda song titled Ndakwikundira.

U16 Basketball - Rwanda to Face Ethiopia

Rwandan Elected to Head East Africa Business Body

Bank of Kigali Wins Best East Africa Bank Award

Blue Tigers Volleyball Club Wins First Game of the Season Game

Burera in Renewed Bid to Attract More Contributions for Agaciro Fund

Rwanda Has Effectively Responded to the Influx of Burundian Refugees

Rwanda and Egypt to Strengthen Bilateral Trade Ties

Rwanda 4G LTE Project Scoops Global Telecom Business Innovation Award

Keeping People Safe From Harm Is the Minimum Standard to Expect From Peacekeeping Operations, President Kagame

Rwanda to Host an International Conference On the Protection of Civilians in Peacekeeping Operations

You Should Not Accept or Tolerate Mediocrity, President Kagame Tells the Youth

To Address Unemployment, We Need to Shift Our Thinking - Prime Minister Murekezi

Rwanda Encourages Private Investments in the Health Sector

Rwanda Plans for Cross-Border Jobs

Rwanda Finance Minister Tops Africa

Support NIRDA in Its Noble Mission

African Academicians Called On to Drive Economic Growth

What Lies Behind Indefinite Ban On BBC

Why the World Wants More Rwandan Peacekeepers in Hotspots

Uganda's Michael Ross Releases Kinyarwanda Song