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The US oil company "Chevron" has granted 1,5 million US dollars to the national environment management program to support actions under the strategies for the preservation of planet earth.
Regional Development Manager of West and Central Africa of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Mr Daniel Perrier has said human capital development remains the most important aspect of modern Customs administration.
Rwanda customs officials have banned Ugandan clearing agents operating at Katuna border town from clearing goods in their country at the adjacent border town of Gatuna saying that they have enough staff to handle trucks entering and leaving their country.
Gasabo District Advisory Council has given the Vice Mayor in charge of Social Affairs a deadline of December, 25 to have paid over 150 primary and secondary school teachers their salary arrears, some of which date back to nine months.
Kigali City is set to have a new world class five-star hotel in a record time of 28 months as construction works have kicked off with the Minister of Economic Planning and Finance, James Musoni gracing the ground-breaking ceremony on Monday at the former Jali Club.
A little over one year ago the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) was created out of eight previously separate government agencies and given the mandate of fast-tracking private sector development in Rwanda. Joe Ritchie, an American businessman with long ties to Rwanda, was named as the agency's first CEO.
Rwanda's private inflows from abroad are expected to reach $175m (Rwf99.6b) by the end of this year with an increase of 30 percent from last year, the National Bank of Rwanda has said.
Rwanda's entry into the Commonwealth serves as a vital source of various forms of technical assistance which is necessary to support the goal of political, social and economic development.
The government of Burundi has expressed interest in joining the joint DRC-Rwanda exploitation of methane gas on Lake Kivu.
The Security Council today extended and expanded the arms embargo and related sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been in place since 2003, for another year.
After more than seven years since Nyanza landfill became Kigali's only garbage site, the Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) and the authorities of Kigali City Council, are putting final touches to plans that will see a German company extract methane gas from the site, The New Times can exclusively reveal.
The promotion is open to all MTN vendors and outlets involved in selling airtime and Sim Packs. It will be monitored by a team from MTN supported by their franchisees and distributors. The winner will be selected based on an analysis of the sales returns.
Rwanda is an attractive emerging market and on the right course to become one of the major players in the region. That is the conclusion of a group of foreign investors who have been on a three-day visit in the country.
Barely a year after the relaunch of Rwandatel's mobile phone network and MTN's tenth anniversary, Tigo last week added its blue to an already colorful telecommunications landscape.
Last week Rwanda signed one of the world's largest bio-fuel investment deals with an estimated value of US$250 million over the life time of the project.
For a long time now, we have heard whispers about the fabled master plan for Kigali City, but without seeing anything tangible. Last week, KCC has broken the silence.
RwandAir has cancelled a leasing contract with Kenya based Jetlink Express after one of the aircrafts crash landed at Kigali International Airport (KIA).
MTN Rwanda has acquired the first and largest syndicated loan of US$18 million from six local banks for upgrading its network.
STANDARD Bank has been granted a banking licence in Angola, opening the way for it to start operating as a full- service bank in Angola by the middle of next year .
Districts have been ordered to standardise the recruitment of teachers in their areas to cement any loopholes that currently cause delays in remittance of salaries and in some cases, existence of 'ghost' teachers on the payroll.
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Antonio Pedro is Executive Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa UNECA)'s Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa. He spoke to Business Time's Berna Namata about the work of the Commission.
Rwanda's national carrier RwandAir, has received a loan facility worth $40 million (Rwf22.8 billion) to support the carrier's development plans. The loan is to be secured from the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA).
Despite the spills of the global financial crisis the banking industry still maintained it bullish mood attracting some $880 million in total assets in the year 2009.
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