London, Dec. 4, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Rwandan government has announced a new programme that will provide cervical cancer prevention options to women aged between 30-49, that have not had a chance to get vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus, when they were younger. The new programme set to commence in January 2020, will complement the existing efforts that ...

London, Dec. 2, 2019 (AltAfrica)-At least 10 per cent of housing units to be constructed in a model green city in Kinyinya sector of Gasabo district in Rwanda will be offered to destitute residents from 1st and 2nd Ubudehe categories, according to Rwanda Green Fund. The announcement was made during special Umuganda Community work in Kinyinya sector where ...

London, Dec. 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Rwandan President, Paul Kagame on Saturday joined hundreds of residents of Rugando Cell, Kimihurura Sector in Gasabo District to observe environmental sanitation day, known in the country as Community Service Day where he joined residents to build water drainage systems and other road infrastructures. Kagame who was joined by his wife, ...

London, Nov. 9, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda projects to generate $102 million (about Rwf93 billion) from tea exports in the 2019/2020 financial year, up from $83 million it earned in the year before. The National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB) said that in order to generate such revenues, the country expects to export 34,000 tonnes of processed ...

London, Nov. 5, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A Rwandan victim of human trafficking, identified simply as Umutesi has narrated the horror of her journey from Kenya to Kuwait after been promised a better life by sweet talking agents and how she was sold twice to different suitors by fellow African In April 2018, she was enticed by a ...

London, Oct. 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Car maker Volkswagen has launched a pilot project in Rwanda to test the viability of electric cars in Africa, the New Times Rwanda newspaper reports. The project is a partnership between Volkswagen and Siemens and will see four Volkswagen Golf model cars, dubbed e-Golf, rolled out in the Capital, Kigali. The ...

London, Oct. 28, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Going to school has always been associated with human beings in Rwanda and education is not the only thing that people get from an educational institution but other life skills too. Dogs, too, need education and other skills like discipline to carry out several tasks that they are assigned to. READ ...

London, Oct. 24, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Participants in Rwanda’s first-ever public exercises for pregnant women have told the BBC that they enjoyed it and want authorities to continue with the programme. More than a 100 women attended the first session in the capital, Kigali, over the weekend in what organisers say is aimed at “changing the myth ...

London, Oct. 23, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A national survey released in Rwanda says the country is making great strides towards achieving the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90 target that helps end the epidemic. READ ALSO: RUSSIA DAZZLES AFRICAN LEADERS WITH LATEST MILITARY HARDWARE AT SOCHI SUMMIT The Rwanda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment showed that 84 ...

London, Oct. 12, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A group of 123 African refugees including an eight months old baby have arrived in the Rwandan capital Kigali from Libya and have been given asylum-seeker status while their cases are assessed, according to the UN Refugee Agency. The refugees, who are mainly from Eritrea, were taken to a transit facility ...