12-Year Basic Education Program to Start in February
Focus (Kigali)-Given the remarkable success of the 9-year basic education program, the government is now seeking to extend it to 12 years. This was also one of the campaign pledges made by President...
View ArticleLocal Leaders Who Obstruct Justice Must Be Held Accountable
New Times (Kigali)-Delayed execution of court verdicts has increasingly been cited by residents, countrywide, among the main causes of conflicts at the grassroots. Residents of Nyarubuye Sector,...
View ArticleMugesera in Custody After Deportation From Canada
New Times (Kigali)-At exactly 11:27 p.m., the plane carrying Léon Mugesera touched down at Kigali International Airport after a long flight from Montreal, Canada, as 16-year deportation battle came to...
View ArticleRDB Targets U.S.$800 Million in FDI
New Times (Kigali)-Rwanda is set to witness a sharp rise in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on account of Rwanda Development Board's (RDB) shift in strategy.
View ArticleLocal Tea Sales Dip At Mombasa Auction
New Times (Kigali)-Rwanda's tea sales at the Kenyan-based Mombasa Tea Auction market slipped by 5.6 per cent to $4.57m (Rwf2.7b), last week, from $4.83m (Rwf2.8b) in the previous week's trading,...
View ArticlePSI Global Chief Calls On Premier
New Times (Kigali)-The Board Chairman of Population Services International (PSI), Frank E. Loy, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pierre Damien Haburemyi at his offices in Kigali.
View ArticleDistrict Hospitals to Practice Telemedicine
New Times (Kigali)-Hospitals will soon begin using telemedicine technologies to treat patients.
View ArticleMugesera Will Get Fair Trial-MPs
New Times (Kigali)-Members of Parliament have said that the deportation of key Genocide suspect, Leon Mugesera, proves that the West trusts the country's justice system and that the suspect will be...
View ArticlePrivacy Limitations Dominate Access to Information Debate
New Times (Kigali)-The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Political Affairs, yesterday, failed to determine the exact limitation of invasion of privacy in the much-awaited media bill, leaving it to...
View ArticleCourt Orders Gasabo District to Back-Off Hotel Tech
New Times (Kigali)-The Intermediate Court of Gasabo has ordered Gasabo District to halt, with immediate effect, its plans to evict Hotel Tech from the Remera-based controversial premises and to pay Rwf...
View ArticleMugesera's Deportation an Eye Opener for Revisionists-Survivors
New Times (Kigali)-Leon Mugesera's deportation and imminent trial in Rwanda as one of the masterminds of the Genocide against the Tutsis, speaks volumes to those who still denying that the killings...
View ArticleWill Anyone Battle These Little Village Gods? Anyone At All?
New Times (Kigali)-I'm sorely tempted to write about the arrival (finally) of deported linguist, Leon Mugesera. I was avidly observing his legal gymnastics in the Canadian court system and, truth be...
View ArticleLessons From Coffee Tasting Competition
Daily News (Dar es Salaam)-THE Eastern Africa Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA) holds a yearly National Taste of Harvest Competition, which recognizes specialty coffee, in one of its eleven member...
View ArticleHigh FDI Inflow Will Spur Economic Development
New Times (Kigali)-Rwanda Development Board's (RDB) preliminary projections suggest that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows will reach US$800million, this year, the highest in the history of Rwanda.
View ArticleEric Mucyo's New Track Wibabara Out
New Times (Kigali)-Local Zouk artiste Eric Mucyo has just released his new song "Wibabara".
View ArticleCountry Leads Region in 2012 WB Growth Projections
New Times (Kigali)-Rwanda is likely to maintain its lead in registering the highest rate of economic growth within the East African Community (EAC) this year, if predictions set by the World Bank in...
View ArticleCestrar Welcomes Gov't Workers' Pay Rise
New Times (Kigali)-The national union of workers associations, CESTRAR (Centrale des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Rwanda) has welcomed the recent government announcement to increase salaries of civil...
View ArticleThe Capital Market Will Focus On Other Alternative Areas of Growth-Cma Boss
New Times (Kigali)-There has been talk that the announcement by government to shelve its much awaited pipeline of Initial Public Offers( IPOs) would dampen activities at the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE)...
View ArticlePremier Renews Calls for People-Centred Development
New Times (Kigali)-Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi, Monday, said that the Government was mainly interested in people-centred development projects.
View Article10 Injured in Muhanga Grenade Blast
New Times (Kigali)-A grenade blast in Muhanga town, Southern Province, yesterday evening, injured 10 people, two of them critically.
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