AMAHORO NATIONAL STADIUM - President Paul Kagame yesterday called on the youth and women to take an upper hand in championing development in the country.

A partnership between Canadian volunteers and Building Bridges with Rwanda (BBR), an organisation founded by a Rwandan living in Canada, is helping in the fight against water Hyacinth in the wetlands of Gashora, in Bugesera District.

Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), yesterday officially unveiled three state-of-the art scanners to be used at different customs points to speed up inspection and effectiveness in screening contents of vehicles entering the country.

Hundreds on Monday gathered at the Supreme Court to pay their last respects to city lawyer, Jean Marie Vianney Ruzagiriza Gatanazi who passed away suddenly on December 12.

Diaspora students currently pursuing education in Switzerland have vowed to return to Rwanda to engage in national development.

Kacyiru Primary Court yesterday provisionally released city entertainment mogul Barry Ndegenyingoma after the latter acquired two people to stand as his sureties.

The incoming Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Development Board (RDB), John Gara has promised new a momentum in achieving increased investment in flows and growing the Rwandan business community.

The Deputy Commissioner General of Police (DCG) Mary Gahonzire was in October 2009 named as the new head of prisons. DCG Gahonzire's appointment saw the prisons department being elevated from a directorate to a national service within the ministry of

Over 90 percent of the disputes reported at the Ombudsman's office are land related.

The newly appointed Minister of Finance and Economic Planning John Rwangombwa, and the State Minister for Energy and Water, Eng. Colette Uwineza Ruhamya, were sworn-in yesterday before President Paul Kagame at a function held in Parliament.

A female student at Kigali Institute of Management (KIM) allegedly petitioned the university's top governing body, the senate, to intervene in a case where her lecturer doctored her marks downwards because she turned down his sexual advances.

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for local sales, which measures the average change in prices of locally produced products, registered a modest rise of 1.19 percent from July to September, according to official statistics.

President Paul Kagame yesterday said that the country's progress and ambitions can only be achieved if the country adopts home grown initiatives rather than importing solutions that may not necessary address the needs of the country.

The Social Security Fund of Rwanda (CSR) yesterday swore-in eight 98 to increase compliance of paying security contributions by institutions across the country.

The withdrawal of two "key witnesses" used by a Spanish Judge in concocting indictments on 40 Rwandan senior army officers reveals to the world how the issue of international justice is being manipulated and abused to serve sinister intentions.

After months of training on how to design and sustain income generating activities, over 250 former sex workers and beggars from Kigali City have been given Rwf33m to start small businesses.

The East African stock exchanges have established a Securities Industry Training institute (SITI) centre in Kampala that will help train market practitioners in the region.

Red Cross-Rwanda (RCR) is set to advocate for the expansion of the Orphan and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) project so that it can reach out to children in the entire country.

The Mayor of Kigali City, Dr Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, took the boldest move this week and apologized to residents of Jabana, Gasabo, for not taking action when the city was informed of the dangers posed by stone mining activities in

The chairperson of Transparency International-Rwanda chapter, Marie Immaculee Ingabire, has urged the government to also focus its attention to the low levels of leadership.