The Rwandan government has announced it will reopen airports for commercial flights on August 1, following the closure of all borders in March due to the New Coronavirus outbreak. The…
Economy
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Rwanda will have to wait until next week to get a final decision about its 2000 Kigali-bound containers held in Tanzania. Last week, KTPress reported that over 2000 containers owned…
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Rwanda and the United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed a five-year financing agreement to commit to Rwanda’s development efforts. The signing was…
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A United States funded project Hinga Weze has entered into a deal with Equity Bank to start offering loans worth Rwf2, 5billion to farmers, cooperatives, aggregators and agro dealers. The…
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Economy
France, Rwanda Sign €45.8M Financing Agreement to Support National COVID-19 Response
by KT Press Staff Writer 6:52 pmRwanda and France have signed a credit facility agreement and a grant, to the tune of €45.8 million (approximately 45.8 billion) aimed at supporting the Government’s response to the COVID-19…
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Rwanda Development Board (RDB), the government body charged with promoting tourism and investment, says the country’s tourism and hospitality industry is picking up following reopening more than a week ago. …
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Economy
2000 Containers of Rwandan Traders Held at Mombasa, Dar-es-Salam Ports over Fines
by Daniel Sabiiti 7:03 pmRwanda private sector federation has decried reasons behind Kenya and Tanzania’s intention to slap a heavy fine on Rwanda-bound containers which are currently lying at the Mombasa and Dar-es-Salaam port…
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The minister of infrastructure on Tuesday appeared before parliament to explain verbally why several road and water projects in Kigali and across the country are either substadard or incomplete despite…
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Economy
Rwanda Focuses 2020/21 National Budget On Addressing COVID-19 Impact
by Edmund Kagire 9:10 pmRwanda will direct a bigger portion of the resources in the 2020/21 National Budget towards activities that will resuscitate the economy from the New Coronavirus pandemic impact. While presenting the…
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Economy
Rwanda’s Minister of Finance Presents the Rwf 3,245.7bn Budget at Parliament
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 4:55 pmEconomic transformation will take the lion’s share in the Rwf 3,245.7 bn of 2020-2021 fiscal year’s budget that was presented to the parliament by Minister of Finance and Economic Planning…
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Donatille Mukakomeza is one of the farmers in Nyamagabe district and also chairperson of Agro-Dealers Cooperative of Nyamagabe (KOPABINYA). Though farming activities were not halted by COVID-19 lockdown, their activities…
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The National institute of Statistics (NISR) has released preliminary figures which show that the economic growth slowed down while the agriculture sector was hardest hit in the first quarter of…