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 ...

London, Dec. 29, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Rwandan Health Centres (HCs) in different parts of the country have been ordered to conduct Covid-19 tests, to all citizens free of charge by the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) According to Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana the Director General of RBC, since last week, his institution has started distributing rapid diagnostic tests to health centres ...

London, Dec. 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-New guidelines from the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) compel all people who wish to stay in hotels across the country to first present Covid-19 tests before checking-in The guidelines which apply for both local guests and those travelling from abroad are in line with the Cabinet resolutions issued on December 14 ...

London, Dec. 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda says it is going for AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and would be delivered in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Minister for Health Dr Daniel Ngamije With the announcement, Rwanda has chosen a different direction from Morocco and Egypt that have ...

London, Nov. 19, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The Rwandan government has approved the evacuation of another batch of asylum seekers who are stranded in Libya as part of the commitment by the government to provide a safe passage for Africans who have been stranded in the North African country for years. The move is in line with the ...

London, Nov. 18, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda has taken covid-19 mass testing exercise to the secondary school across the country and already the Ministry of Education is targeting 3,000 Covid-19 sample to begin with The flag-off by Minister for Education Valentine Uwamaliya, is the latest in a series of efforts by the government to tackle the spread ...