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The Rwandan embassy in Morocco was inaugurated at a ceremony on Wednesday Jan. 15 in Rabat in an official ceremony attended by Rwandan Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe, and Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita. The opening of the Rwandan embassy comes after Morocco opened its diplomatic representation in Kigali in […]
The European Union is providing €10.3 million support package to the UNHCR’s Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Rwanda, which provides a life-saving avenue out of Libya for people in need of international protection, with a view to their further resettlement. The announcement was made by Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica during a […]
Morocco and Rwanda have agreed to bolster their cooperation in poultry industry which plays a key role in ensuring food security in the African continent. The agreement was inked, on Wednesday in Kigali, by Mohamed Youssef Alaoui, Head of Moroccan Poultry Federation and Andrew Butare, President of Rwandan Poultry Industry Association. The signatories pledge to […]
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called for international solidarity to allow the distribution of refugees stranded in Libya to other countries. Welcoming the agreement with the African Union and Rwanda to set up a refugee transit mechanism for evacuation of vulnerable refugees out of Libya, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi […]
The 2019 Global Policy Forum (GFP) kicked off Wednesday in Kigali, with the participation of 800 global policymakers, regulatory institutions and development partners from 94 countries, including Morocco. The event is hosted by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). The three-day forum, held under the theme “Using […]
OCP Group and the National Basketball Association (NBA) tied a new multiyear partnership aiming at expanding the NBA Junior League programs in Morocco and Rwanda, but also at building new basketball courts in Khouribga and Benguerir (Morocco) and in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, while using the transformative power of basketball to empower Moroccan and Rwandan […]
Rwanda, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the African Union have signed this Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a transit mechanism for evacuating refugees out of Libya. Under the agreement, the Government of Rwanda will receive and provide protection to refugees and asylum-seekers who are currently being held in detention centers in […]
Egypt’s flag carrier Egypt Air carried out Sunday its first flight to Douala, Cameroon, with the Central African country becoming the third new destination of the airline after new routes to Rwanda and Côte d’Ivoire. The maiden flight to Cameroon’s second city came from N’Djamena, Chad, via Cairo. The airline in a statement said it […]
The Rwandan government signed an agreement with Nots under which the Dutch company will invest $70 million in a factory that will manufacture equipment for home solar kit suppliers. According to Rwanda’s Minister of Infrastructure Claver Gatete, there is an arrangement to purchase equipment for at least 100,000 households that will pay for them gradually […]
Rwanda plans to build Africa’s first green city, located on the outskirts of Kigali to provide fully sustainable infrastructure, green spaces and housing for low-income people. The ambitious project worth $5 billion is seen as the materialization of the “Wakanda”, in reference to Black Panther, a movie which depicts “Wakanda”, a fictional African city in […]