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Frenchman Alexandre Geniez won the fifth stage of the road cycling race Tour du Rwanda on Thursday covering a distance of 124,7km between Muhanga (South) and Musanze (North).
Rwanda Meteorology Agency on Thursday warned of growing lightning strikes as heavy rains intensify in different parts of this country of the Great Lakes region in Central Africa.
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday announced the appointment of Valentine Rugwabiza of Rwanda as his new Special Representative for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
Rwanda announced Monday that it was phasing out analogue passports issued before 27th June 2019 to pave way for new electronic ones.
Rwanda is set to host the first edition of the Africa Coffee and Tea Expo (ACT) this year on July 12 – 14, 2022 at the Kigali Convention Centre – The Village Exhibition, organisers of the event disclosed Monday.
The Burundian authorities have handed over three cows stolen from Nyaruguru district in Southern Rwanda by suspected cattle raiders a few weeks ago to the Rwandan authorities, local media reported on Saturday, quoting a senior local administrative official in the region.
A presiding judge in a primary court at Nyaruguru, a district in Southern Rwanda has been arrested in connection with a sex and corruption scandal involving a woman who wanted the tribunal to rule in her favor, several correspondents in the remote regions reported Saturday.
Rwanda’s national basketball team has arrived in Dakar, Senegal ahead of the forthcoming FIBA World Cup 2023 qualifiers, scheduled for February 25-27, Sports source confirmed Saturday in Kigali.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially launched a US$14.8 million, 5-year agricultural export program. The program is entitled Feed the Future Rwanda “Kungahara Wagura Amasoko” (“prosper while expanding markets”) and is designed to inclusively and sustainably boost economic growth, in a statement obtained Saturday.
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is preparing to appoint the long serving Rwandan diplomat, Valentine Rugwabiza, as the new head of United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic MINUSCA), a diplomatic source said on Friday in Kigali.