Diane MUREKATETE is a Rwandan journalist and a final-year university student studying Mass Media and Communication. She is passionate about journalism and committed to informing, entertaining, and sharing meaningful stories with the public. She has worked with EAMG TV and currently works with UMUNOTA.COM.
More than 615,000 women across 21 districts have been reached through Gendana Konti, a financial inclusion programme launched by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) to help women access and manage financial services.
Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Dr. Justin Nsengiyumva, has called for developing countries, particularly those in Africa, to have greater capacity to assess and oversee artificial intelligence (AI) systems before and after they are deployed.
Farmers in Gisagara District expect the Giseke irrigation dam to help expand the area under cultivation and increase agricultural productivity to as much as seven tonnes per hectare by providing a more reliable water supply.
More than 50 museum and heritage professionals from 13 African countries are in Rwanda for a learning tour focused on history and heritage sites, as they seek to learn from the country’s experience in preserving and promoting its history.
Rwanda is expanding its biodiversity conservation efforts beyond national parks and wetlands, with a new five-year plan that will integrate environmental protection into agriculture, urban planning, infrastructure development and other areas of the economy.
Young entrepreneurs in Rwanda’s rural areas say the high cost of equipment and limited access to finance are making it difficult to increase production and expand their businesses.
African medicine regulators have called for stronger quality controls and faster information sharing between countries to prevent unsafe medicines from reaching patients across borders.
For many Rwandans, accessing basic government services once meant long journeys across hills and valleys. Today, residents say decentralisation has brought essential services closer to their homes and changed how they access healthcare and other public services.
The Ministry of Health is working on measures to ensure health centres can continue providing services during power outages, after concerns that unreliable electricity is causing delays for patients.
Rwandans, particularly residents of Kigali, who missed the nationwide exercise to have their photos and biometric data captured for the new digital national identity have been given more time to complete the process at designated registration sites.
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