Fraudsters Invade the Growing Mobile Phone Money Transfer Sector
[New Times] Kenya is grappling with an increase in mobile phone related crimes as the number of subscribers and users of money transfer services rise in the country.
View ArticlePersonal Finance - Beware of Salary Overdrafts
[New Times] Many banks now offer overdrafts especially to salaried employees, who receive their monthly salary through them. An overdraft occurs when money is withdrawn from a bank account and the...
View ArticleNelson Tugume a Tale of Rags to Riches
[New Times] As the Inspire Africa Business reality show draws closer to its final launch on March 31 in Kigali, The Business Times' Dias Nyesiga talked to Nelson Tugume, 28, the CEO Inspire Africa, and...
View ArticleWe Exploit Methane - We Do Big Things!
[Focus] Rwanda is about to put to commercial use a natural resource that just a few years ago no one thought the country had a snowball's chance in hell of ever exploiting.
View ArticleNation and India Strengthen Cooperation
[Focus] Specifically, the MoU's related to the establishment of a vocational training center and an incubation center, renewable energy cooperation and the electrification of 35 rural schools with...
View ArticlePay Local, Foreign Tutors Equally
[Focus] The Rwanda Education Board is in the process of recruiting local and foreign teachers who are proficient in English to mentor others in the use of English as a language of instructing students...
View ArticleThe Dignity of Adoption
[Focus] We intuitively know when one is treated with dignity. We know that dignity is not a matter to negotiate. Human dignity is for all - rich or poor, black or white, adult or child. Many of have...
View ArticleCountry On Track to Meet Maternal Health MDG
[Focus] Maternal health is very important and impacts not only the mother and child but the whole family. To highlight that importance, the United Nations put maternal health in its 8 millennium...
View ArticleKagame Urges Africa to Raise Agriculture Investment
[Nation] Rome - African countries have been urged to increase investments in agriculture to guarantee the continent's food security.
View ArticleICTR Refers Another Genocide Suspect to Local Courts
[New Times] Prosecutors in Kigali yesterday welcomed a decision by the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to defer the case against Fulgence Kayishema to Rwanda.
View ArticleProfessional Legal Services Will Curb Shoddy Contracts
[New Times] The Attorney General has decried the rate at which public institutions continue to subject the Government to court battles over breach of contracts.
View ArticleAU Backs Kigali for UN Seat
[New Times] Rwanda is poised to replace South Africa at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after receiving the support of the African Union.
View ArticleMinister Urges Youth to Focus On Entrepreneurship
[New Times] The Minister of youth, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, has called on the youth to focus on entrepreneurship as a way of curbing on the rate of unemployment.
View ArticleExiled Journalist Comes Out of Hiding
[Fahamu] Gasasira has reason to be wary of Rwandan authorities. After three men beat him severely in 2007, his newspaper was suspended in April 2010 and his deputy editor assassinated in unclear...
View ArticleDownpour Causes Floods in Kigali
[Focus] Heavy rains that lasted for over an hour in the early afternoon of Thursday left several areas of the capital flooded, causing disruption to traffic and some damage.
View ArticleICTR Appeals Chamber Delays Uwinkindi Transfer
[New Times] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has today ruled to delay the transfer of Jean Uwinkindi until an operational monitoring mechanism by the African...
View ArticleGatare Advises on Mobile Technology
[New Times] The Minister in the President's Office in charge of ICT, Dr. Ignace Gatare, has called on financial service providers and telecommunication operators to work hand-in-hand with local...
View Article'Traditional Healer' Held for Raping Patient
[New Times] A man said to be a self-styled traditional doctor in Ruhango District has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman who was seeking his traditional services to conceive a child.
View ArticleWater Master Plan in the Pipeline
[New Times] The Rwanda Natural Resources Authority (RNRA) has embarked on a project to put in place a Water Resource master plan.
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Optimistic About the Country
[New Times] Close to 120 Rwandan entrepreneurs teamed up with a group of 15 Canadian to brainstorm on how to contribute to poverty reduction and transform Rwanda into a middle-income country, with an...
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