London, April 28, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Coventry University Group is to open a new overseas hub in Rwanda to support its links in Sub-Saharan Africa and help extend its corporate functions across the world. The hub will open in Kigali to coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the capital in June. It is part ...

London, April 18, 2021 (AltAfrica)-A Rwandan genocide suspect who served a 10-year sentence in U.S. prison for lying about her role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to obtain American citizenship, and then lost her bid for a new trial, has been deported to the East African nation and is likely to face prosecution there. The ...

London, April 3, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda on Friday commenced the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to people who received the first one. Rwanda’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign that kicked off in early March has been employing Pfizer and AstraZeneca, two of the vaccines that require the recipients to get two doses to increase the protection for their ...

London, March 20, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda is the first African country to set an ambitious target of becoming a green country through eliminating gas emissions and adopting use of gas as an alternative of using charcoal for cooking.  In 2016, the country adopted a law on preservation of air quality and prevention of air pollution while ...

London, March 4, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwandan govt has turned to power tillers in bid to help small farmers produce more food and started to engage private sector operators to import more power tillers to ease the cultivation of land for framers and help meet agricultural mechanisation targets by 2024.  Power Tillers are a two-wheeled agricultural implement fitted ...

London, Feb. 16, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda is set to produce 15 megawatts of electricity by June this year, in its first phase of methane gas extraction from Lake Kivu, Shema Power Lake Kivu (SPLK) engineers have said. Overall, the plant seeks to add 56 megawatts to the national grid after investing $400 million in methane gas ...

London, Feb. 10, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda has received a set of robots that will support the country in decontaminating COVID-19 as part of the ongoing fight against the global pandemic. The three solar powered robots, worth $210,000 were donated on February 9, 2021 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the government of Japan, adding ...

London, Jan. 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Britain has added the United Arab Emirates, Burundi and Rwanda to its coronavirus travel ban list from Friday, prompting Emirates and Etihad Airways to suspend all their UK flights. British Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced the new bans on Thursday, with the two Middle Eastern airlines announcing flight suspensions a few ...

London, Jan. 21, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda says graduates from three private universities in the country are academically substandard and warned public institutions against hiring them According to the Ministry of Public Service, “these graduates will have to repeat some specific courses before they qualify as employable in public institutions, while those already in employment have been ...

London, Dec. 30, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Africa’s second peat-fired power plant in Rwanda is to commence operation early year 2012. Already, the company behind a project HQ Power says it will release 40MW into the national grid by March 2021. Peat, sometimes known as turf is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. For a country ...