KIGALI – Rwanda’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 8.75%, tightening monetary policy further as inflation accelerated to 14.5% in July, well above …
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KIGALI — Rwanda is adopting a new financing approach that allows it to raise money from commercial lenders with support from the World Bank, while seeking to keep borrowing costs and …
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MASISI, North Kivu — AFC-M23 forces have captured Remeka and Katoyi (Gatoyi) area of southern Masisi Territory, in a significant shift in a region long associated with the Democratic Forces …
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KIGALI – President Paul Kagame has defended Rwanda’s crackdown on illicit and substandard alcoholic drinks, saying the government cannot justify allowing businesses to operate when the products they produce or …
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KIGALI – Africa’s next generation of leaders will inherit a continent that has spent decades defining where it wants to go. The harder question is whether those coming behind are …
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KIGALI, Rwanda — August 25, 2026 — Sudanese giants Al Hilal SC and Al Merrikh SC will play in Rwanda’s BK Pro League for a second consecutive season under special …
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International
Kagame Again Comes to Defense of Media Freedom in Dispute Between Journalist and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister
KIGALI, Rwanda — President Paul Kagame on Monday delivered one of his most striking public interventions on the relationship between Rwanda’s political leadership and the media, siding with journalist Scovia Umutesi …
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Regional
Kagame Rejects Burundi President’s Claim That Rwanda Failed to Honour Commitments
by Fred Mwasaby Fred MwasaKIGALI — President Paul Kagame has rejected clai ms by Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye that Rwanda failed to honour commitments made during engagements between the two countries, saying Kigali had …
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President Paul Kagame has acknowledged that housing in Kigali has become increasingly expensive for ordinary Rwandans, particularly young people, but said the challenge is a consequence of rapid growth and …
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KIGALI – President Paul Kagame says Africa’s biggest trade challenge is no longer creating a continental framework, but getting countries to follow through on the commitments that are supposed to …
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KIGALI – President Paul Kagame has warned that Rwanda cannot afford to place its survival in the hands of international peace efforts whose interventions have failed to address the underlying …
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For more than three decades, the FDLR has survived repeated military defeats, the deaths of its commanders, and the loss of territory — yet it has never fully disappeared from …