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Christian Angermayer, 31 is the founder of the Angermayer, Brumm & Lange (ABL) group of companies, one of Germany´s largest and fastest growing independent financial service groups.
Parliament on Monday approved a $23.5m grant from the African Development Bank's for the rehabilitation and maintenance of Butare-Kitabi-Ntendezi road project.
A new national policy on mining is in its final stages with a selected technical team working on it before it heads to parliament for debate.
Parliament on Monday approved government's request of a $10m loan from the OPEC Fund for International Development to extend reliable and affordable electricity to areas of Kigali and the western Province.
The African Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Rwanda unveiled a $7.9m (Rwf4.5b) project yesterday in a bid to promote competitiveness and enterprise development across the country.
MTN Rwanda yesterday launched a retailer promotion that will run until the end of the year in an effort to motivate the frontline retailers of airtime and simpacks.
Last Sunday, Rwanda entered a groundbreaking agreement with two international firms Eco-fuels Global LLC, from the United States and Eco Positive Ltd from the UK.
The governor of central Bié province, Cândida Celeste da Silva, said Monday in Kuito that 50 percent of the local population are already consuming drinking water, thanks to the implementation of the "Water for All" programme.
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Rwandair CEO Amb. Gerald Zirimwabagabo addressing mourners at the funeral of Mrs Azela Nyirangororo who died at King Faycal Hospital following Rwandair plane crash at Kigali International Airport.
Taqwa, a Tanzanian bus operating company has opened new routes, the longest of which being from Kigali to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.
The Government of Rwanda yesterday entered a groundbreaking agreement with US-based Eco-Fuel Global and UK's Eco Positive Ltd-which will see the two companies sink $250m in a project to produce bio-diesel.
The Japanese government through its International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has provided fertilisers worth 300 million Japanese Yen (approximately $3.3 million) to Rwanda.
Rwanda offers one of the best investment opportunities on the African continent and doing business in the country has been eased by a set of reforms that favour investors, a renown Germany entrepreneur told The New Times yesterday.
The movement of people and goods from Uganda to Rwanda is to be facilitated 24 hours a day starting April next year, the two neighbouring states have agreed. The development comes following growing traffic of both cargo and passenger vehicles crossing the two borders.
Prime Minister Bernard Makuza is today slated to address the Saudi-East African Economic and Investment forum that is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Life temporarily came to a standstill on Friday morning at Nyabugogo main taxi park as over 200 commuter drivers parked their vehicles in a strike over high parking charges imposed by their association.
A team of 44 investors from Germany arrived in Rwanda last night on a study tour of the country's growing investment opportunities.
Details have emerged that the Rwandair aircraft that crashed into the VIP lounge on Thursday at Kigali International Airport, killing one passenger had made an emergency landing at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, a day earlier on Wednesday.
Ocir-Thé -the agency that regulates tea activities in Rwanda predicts that volumes of made tea sold through the Mombasa auction will rise as the rainy season sets in.
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group shares cross listed on the Rwanda Over-The-Counter (OTC) market rose slightly by 4.6 percent or Rwf 7 to close at Rwf160 on Friday from Rwf153 as local investors reacted to the upward trend on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE).
In a village perched a difficult climb half-way up a steep mountain slope in South Sudan, a woman is grinding up leaves plucked from a tree.
The National Bank of Rwanda has approved MTN Rwanda's request to offer a service that will enable its clients to send and receive money anywhere in the country.
Former finance minister Gerald Sendaula has said his quick instincts made him survive death on Thursday when a Rwandair plane bound for Entebbe rammed into the Kigali International Airport in Kanombe, a Kigali suburb.
The visiting former British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that Rwanda is on a brink of reaching a whole new stage of economic and social development.
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