Rwanda’s ICT Minister Calls for Africa’s Digital Independence

Rwanda’s Minister of Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) and Innovation, Paula Ingabire, delivered a powerful message to African leaders at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Africa 2025 in Kigali: the continent must shift from being a...

Kigali, ADHI Group Win World Economic Forum Global Award

In a historic first for Africa, Kigali and ADHI Group have been honoured by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Urban Transformation Summit in San Francisco, receiving the Global Public-Private Collaboration Award. The distinction recognises a...

U.S., Rwanda Hold Nuclear Power Talks

2 The Prime Minister Dr Justin Nsengiyumva and his delegation hold talks with U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Washington, D.C. — Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Dr. Nsengiyumva, has met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright in Washington to...

Kigali, ADHI Group Win World Economic Forum Global Public-Private Collaboration Award

1 In a historic first for Africa, Kigali and ADHI Group have been honored by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Urban Transformation Summit in San Francisco, receiving the Global Public-Private Collaboration Award. The distinction recognizes a...

Cardinal in Rwanda Calls for “strong governance, transparency" to Curb Exploitation of Africa’s Natural Resources

“Africa is not a young continent only because of its youthful population but also because its natural wealth is relatively untouched,” said the Rwandan Catholic Church leader, and added, “However, the abundance of natural resources also presents...

Human touch must remain in trade and logistics, summit told

KPA boss Captain William Ruto, KNCCI Mombasa chair Aboud Jamal, Transport PS Mohamed Daghar and KNCCI president Erick Ruto at the ITLS 2025 on Tuesday / JOHN CHESOLI title: Balance technology with human resources, logistics stakeholders told...

Event: Urban Design as a Development Strategy: The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MAS

The 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda, by MASS. In addition to detailing RICA’s innovations in sustainable design and its...

In Zimbabwe, Secondhand Clothes From the West Are Collapsing the Local Textile Industry

Africa, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Environment, Europe, Featured, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment, Women & Economy A vendor speaks to a customer at a second-hand clothes market in...

Canal+ set to enter Ghana’s fibre internet industry with GVA launch

Ghana’s broadband industry is bracing for heightened competition as French media and telecommunications giant Canal+ readies to launch its high-speed fibre internet service in the country. Through its internet subsidiary, Vivendi Africa (GVA),...

JCI, Rwandan Embassy discuss enhancing economic cooperation

Ammon News - The Vice Chairman of the Jordan Chamber of Industry (JCI), Mohammad Walid Jitan, met on Wednesday with Rawandan Ambassador to Jordan, James Ngango, to discuss ways to enhance bilateral industrial and investment cooperation and review...

Barbados’ DJ Puffy brings Caribbean energy to Kigali this December

Engineers Without Borders fuels international change

You might think that the University’s engineering talent remains confined to its cornfields until students graduate. But members of Engineers Without Borders are pushing the boundaries of how far innovation can take them, both metaphorically and...

Inverness fears becoming ‘Labour’s Rwanda’

As the clouds hung low over Inverness, the shoppers in the high street seemed reluctant to linger. Instead, they scuttled off to avoid getting soaked by the rain, as a busker’s Pink Floyd cover echoed down the sloping parade of shops. A sense of...

50,000 Households to Get Free Cooking Gas Kits Courtesy of Rwanda-Saudi Deal

1 On Monday, President Kagame arrived in Riyadh, where he began his visit with a bilateral meeting with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ahead of the 9th edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII9) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —...

Innovation, energy and human capital will define Guyana’s global competitiveness

—President Ali tells world leaders in Saudi Arabia GUYANA is rapidly emerging as one of the most dynamic developing economies, leveraging its newfound oil wealth to drive sweeping transformation across energy, technology and human-capital...

Inside Kapeeka: How Uganda’s industrial dream is taking shape

At sunrise, the hum of machinery rises over Kapeeka’s hills in Nakaseke district. Trucks loaded with cement, clay and pineapples move down dusty roads toward a sprawl of warehouses and steel-roofed factories. The once-sleepy trading center is now...

Red Rose Film Festival returns this weekend with local, international films on show

The Red Rose Film Festival will bring locally made and nationally made films to Lancaster County this weekend in a celebration of films in all their forms. Attendees can view several dozen films on the big screens at Penn Cinema in Lititz and...

How to Stop the Genocide in Sudan

As we write, a massacre without precedent is taking place in Sudan’s North Darfur region, and it is somehow being met with near-total international indifference. After its takeover of El Fasher in Darfur last month, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

Africa at the China International Import Expo: Products, Partnerships, Prosperity

On October 28, a shipment of exhibits arrived at Shanghai. The cargo, weighing 4.7 tonnes in total, included South African wine, tea, and dried fruits. To ensure the swift entry of these imported products that have traveled from afar, Shanghai...

Elderly African rulers sidestepping democracy

Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya is now poised to stretch his time in power to five decades. If he finishes his new seven-year term, Biya will be nearly 100. By contrast, the median age of Cameroon’s 30 million citizens is just 18....