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When the NBA and FIBA first planned their inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL) back in 2019, the striking bronze oval of Rwanda's newly built Kigali Arena was slated as one [...]

The Rwandan government has begun a drive for increased cheese quality to help boost dairy exports. Will McBain examines the potential for growth of cheesemaking in the country In 1994, [...]

IN A SQUAT RECTANGULAR building just north of Kigali city centre, Rwandan civil servants mill around in open plan offices, discussing the country's economic renaissance over strong cups of locally [...]

Rwanda, the newest member to join the Commonwealth, will host the next Summit in 2020. Rwanda is now considered Africa's rising star worldwide. What makes this small country so special? [...]

Rwanda's accession to the Commonwealth last November marked another step in the landlocked African nation engaging with the outside world. The group of mostly former British colonies brings together industrialised [...]

The Rwanda Development Board registered 173 investment projects in Rwanda worth a total of $2bn in 2018. An estimated 26% of investments registered represented export-oriented projects, while manufacturing, mining, agriculture [...]

For all the excitable talk about Rwanda's economic emergence, the gap between ambition and reality can be stark. Nowhere is this more apparent than a visit to Rwanda's tiny stock [...]

Rwanda is becoming a leading investment destination across the continent of Africa. In 2008, the Government of Rwanda established a consolidated entity, Rwanda Development Board, with the key mission to [...]

For a tiny landlocked country like Rwanda, overpopulation is a major concern. The last census put the population at 11.5m and government fears of rapid population growth has led to [...]

Cynics often take 'the next Singapore' to connote the perceived illiberal political regimes of both countries. He Zongying has an alternative interpretation. In the 2015 press freedom index, Singapore was [...]

Kigali is seeking to build an economic structure that will overcome many of the weaknesses that helped to destabilise the country even prior to the genocide in 1994. Rwanda's over […]

Rwanda signed a deal worth $10m for five years with Chinese-owned C&H Garments, to open up the garment manufacturing sector. Equipment shipping from China will soon commence and an initial [...]

In the summer of 1999, I made my first visit to Rwanda to attend a conference hosted by the Rwanda chapter of a business association. Over the course of three [...]

Along with plans to boost the IT sector, Rwanda also has ideas to further diversify its economy, hoping to attract more service industries and install itself as a financial hub [...]

The EU announced 620m [euro] of new support to DR Congo and 460m [euro] for Rwanda for the period 2014-2020. Overall, governments and regional organisations in 10 countries of Central [...]

Western donors have finally accepted the reality on the ground and have now embarked on the sorely needed reconstruction effort in partnership with the new Government. Francois Misser reports from [...]

Landlocked and overpopulated, Rwanda has deliberately chosen to lean on the quality rather than the quantity of its tea. This policy has earned the country the distinction of being the [...]

Rwanda is in top position in the first business rankings conducted by the East African bloc. The Doing Business in the East African Community 2011 report prepared by the International [...]

Two years on from the genocide and mass exodus which brought Rwanda to the attention of the world, this remote country now faces the challenge of rehabilitation. As Francois Misser [...]