Tag: Rwanda

Burundi re-opens borders with all neighbors including Rwanda

October 24, 2022

Burundi has reopened borders with its neighbors including Rwanda with whom it has had sour relations since 2015 over accusations that Kigali provides safe haven ... Read More

Uganda’s thriving financial sector ranked no.1 in East Africa

October 18, 2022

Uganda is running an economy with the most developed financial sector in East Africa, which is only the latest feat that depicts a major milestone ... Read More

2022 YouthConnekt Africa summit wrapped up in Rwanda with calls to invest in youth

October 17, 2022

The 5th edition of the YouthConnekt Africa summit that ended in Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday (15 October) was attended by thousands of young innovators and ... Read More

Uganda’s president sorry for son’s tweet threatening to invade Kenya

October 6, 2022

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has apologized to Kenya after his son, a general who has been outspoken on social media, tweeted threats to invade the ... Read More

UN tribunal opens trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect

September 29, 2022

A United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague opens a trial with a frail 87-year-old Rwandan accused of encouraging and bankrolling ... Read More

East African economies: conflict, drought and inflation signal tough times ahead

September 28, 2022

East African economies will decline this year driven due to political instability, unreliable rainfall and reducing agricultural yields, says the latest Macroeconomic Outlook Report for ... Read More

Central African farmers warn of looming hunger as Russia’s war in Ukraine disrupts imports

September 15, 2022

Disruptions in food supplies caused by Russia's war in Ukraine have deepened the struggles of millions of Africans to survive, more than 60 farmers’ associations ... Read More

Benin in talks with Rwanda for logistical, expertise support to curtail terrorism

September 12, 2022

Benin has turned to Rwanda for the supply of logistics and expertise in the fight against terrorism in the West African country. Talks are ongoing, ... Read More

Mozambique struggling to stem insurgency in troubled Cabo Delgado

September 9, 2022

Islamist militants in the Mozambique’s northern Nampula province have killed six people, all by beheading, abducted three others and set dozens of houses on fire, ... Read More

Google’s Black Founders Fund to empower female entrepreneurs in Africa

September 7, 2022

Unlike in 2021, this year, Google is funding an equal number of men and women-founded startups through its Black Founders Fund, which embodies the tech ... Read More