A quiet revolution in cooling infrastructure is underway in the heart of Africa - and the world should be paying attention.
Kinshasa's pledge to neutralize the Hutu rebel group is overdue - and its success is far from guaranteed.
For once, both Kigali and the rebels are negotiating under genuine pressure - and that changes everything.
By Charles F.V. Chitekwe In a move that deserves far more global attention than it has received, Rwanda has eliminated visa fees for citizens of all...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu On Saturday, March 14, 2026, Rwanda announced it may pull its troops from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an Islamist...
By Sheena Raikundalia US President Trump’s decision to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act through December 2026 has sparked jubilation in Nairobi. But beneath the...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s demographic surge presents both an extraordinary opportunity and a formidable challenge. By 2050, the continent’s least developed countries will need to absorb...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Danilo Desiderio In the decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as one of Africa’s most compelling development success stories. From the ashes of...
By Danilo Desiderio On December 18 2023, the Financial Times published an article that had an international resonance, which argued that Africa cannot grow without increasing...
Rwandan president Paul Kagame has appointed Soraya Hakuziyaremye as the new Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), making her the first woman to lead...
By John Kourkoutas Being landlocked presents both challenges and opportunities. This compelling map from Voronoi App illustrates the 45 landlocked countries globally, including 16 in Africa,...
A private equity firm backed by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is set to acquire Java House, a leading East African coffee chain. Mauritius-based Alterra Capital,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The uranium used in the creation of the first atomic bombs was largely sourced from the mines of the Lubumbashi area in...
By Gregory Simpkins Making arrangements to travel often begins early in the year, especially if it involves international travel. The Business Insider Africa website has rated...
The government of Rwanda has signed a strategic partnership with American comedian and television host Steve Harvey’s company, BILT LLC, to promote tourism and investment in...
Bloomberg | Botswana’s push to diversify its economy away from mining and into financial services positions it to compete with Mauritius as an African hub for...
By Danilo Desiderio The competition among African nations to emerge as the next Silicon Valley is growing more intense. In East Africa, countries like Kenya and...
Rwanda’s ambitious bid to host a Formula 1 event has ignited competition among three contenders, signaling the potential for the first Grand Prix on the African...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In junior high school, particularly in a subject called “social studies” under the Ghanaian curriculum, we were taught that the assassination of...
Rwandan Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente has presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kigali Innovation City (KIC) in Masoro. The US$300 million initiative aims to transform...
Lewis Hamilton has voiced his support for the idea of Rwanda potentially hosting a Formula One Grand Prix in the future. This follows his recent travels...
By Nii Simmonds and Ayodele Okeowo The recent announcement of a partnership between the US Trade and Development Agency and Kenya to boost semiconductor manufacturing in...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the second-largest and fourth-most populous country in Africa, joined the East African Community...
By Gregory Simpkins The South China Morning Post reported on March 29, 2024 that by 2050, it is projected that only a quarter of countries in...
By Walter Dorn As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda, it is important to understand...
AP | Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African...
By Temitope O. Sogbanmu Two weeks into January 2024, Nigerian authorities took steps to curb environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution in the country. The Federal...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last week the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) validated the re-election of Felix Tshisekedi. For an election...
Reuters | COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech aims to start production at its mRNA vaccine factory site in Rwanda in 2025, company officials said on Monday, the...
By Alan Hirsch President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya’s borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Integration in Africa was one of the pressing topics in the 1950s and 1960s. At a point, disagreement over how to achieve...
AP | Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such...
By Morgan J. Robinson Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It’s been adopted as a working language at the African...
Business Daily | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced plans to remove visa requirements for African nationals travelling to Kenya for business as a first major...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) – the Central Bank of East Africa – will be made this year, a key...
By Gregory Simpkins I have worked on analyzing Africa issues for more than 40 years, and during that time, I have constantly heard appeals for humanitarian...
Barbados has secured a major “game-changer” contract with the government of Rwanda to establish a new pharmaceutical industry – the first in the Caribbean. Prime Minister...
The East African | Kenya exported its first goods under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to Ghana late last month. Kenyan-made Exide batteries...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
Rwanda will host the new African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a venture by the African Development Bank (AfDB) that is expected to boost the continent’s access to...
Press Release | Russom Woldemichael, owner and founder of shoe and leather goods company Barcon Getta, knows that a journey of a thousand miles begins with...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
The target is to reach 75 percent of the population by June this year.
By David Walwyn The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the...
Platform will further integrate informal traders into formal markets through better access to digital finance systems.
MVX wants to make freight shipping and trade finance easier for African businesses by bringing booking and deployment processes online.
The dependent on pharmaceutical imports leaves Africans vulnerable to shortages of medication. More local manufacturing of medications could strengthen health systems throughout the continent.
Since 1996, Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa's Higherlife Foundation has provided education to vulnerable and orphaned African children.
"So long as Africa remains dependent on other regions for vaccines, we will always be at the back of the queue" - Rwanda President Paul Kagame
(PRNewswire) Rwanda is preparing to commission in early August 2014 the first utility-scale solar PV power plant in East Africa with a production capacity of 8.5...
(PRNewswire) – In Nyamata, a rural town of Bugesera district, a 30 minutes’ drive south of Rwanda’s Capital – Kigali, Jeanne Musabende’s husband is hanging out...
By Djifa Kothor In 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), came to Lome, Togo to sign a peace accord. The agreement...
The East African Community (EAC) comprising Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya has increased import duty on rice in a move to discourage cheap imports of...
Rwanda’s economy is expected to grow by 6 percent this year from 4.6 percent in 2013, while inflation will remain contained, the IMF said. Growth in...
Rwanda’s finance minister said the country will soon allow derivatives trading on its stock exchange and a new investment code, which could offer tax breaks for...
High speed Internet broadband services based on 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology will be in place by August, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, the Minister for Youth and...
A fortnight ago in Abuja, Nigeria the World Economic Forum brought together political, economic and thought leaders from throughout the continent. This included Rwanda’s Paul Kagame,...
Rwanda signed a deal Thursday to install a new solar power plant in the Kayonza District. The plant will add 10 megawatts to the national security...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, expects to raise $22 million (about Rwf15 billion) when it issues its local...
The Rwandan government Tuesday launched a $329 million plan to stop malaria deaths in the country by 2018. The Rwanda Malaria Strategic Plan is a public...
Rwanda has committed itself to driving policies and reforms that will attract investment and promote growth in the country. According to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, “It’s...
World Telecommunication and Information Society (WTIS) Award 2014 has been awarded to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea and Mexican billionnaire...
Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are looking for an adviser to help them secure financing for a $4.13 billion railway project aimed at boosting cross-border trade in...
Upcoming entrepreneurs in East Africa have been given a gleam of hope after the announcement of a 20 million dollar fund. The fund, named the Novastar...
Rwanda’s Tigo will invest a million dollars into its tech business incubator Think as part of its broader innovation and digital strategy. “What the idea behind...
In a checkout line at Kigali’s Nakumatt shopping center, employees pack groceries in paper bags. After non-biodegradable polythene bags were banned in 2008, owners found that...
What is Zambia’s president Michael Sata so suspicious about? How did Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame solve his seating problem? What is the hush-hush talk about Dlamini-Zuma’s...
In the past two years, private equity deals solidified in Kenya have doubled, according to a Capital FM report. As outlined in the article, an East Africa...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
Businessmen and policy-makers at the Africa CEO Forum in March agreed that in addition to focusing on major national companies, SME networks need to be strengthened....
Rwanda and Nigeria are Africa’s most promising markets for global retailers, according to consulting firm A.T. Kearney, as foreign investors look at all corners of a...
In 2013, Rwanda had the highest proportion of female members of parliament in the world with 64 percent of the seats taken by women in its...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
Kenyan book publisher Longhorn reported a 78 percent increase in its pretax profit for the six months ended in December. The growth was driven by the...
A new slate of leaders in the public and private sectors are seeking to prove their independence, improve credibility and attract investment. Rwanda’s great and good...
Loans to the private sector have picked up as Rwanda emerges from the effects of delayed aid disbursement, but the country is still too dependent on...
Global chains, direct flights and a state-of-the-art conference centre will bring yet more visitors to a capital in demand. Rwanda’s drive to become one of East...
Rwanda says it is likely to miss its 2013 economic growth forecast of 6.6 percent after the performance of the service sector fell short of expectations...
By Tony Elumelu (Reuters) – To Africa’s many challenges, add one more: unemployment. Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that...
Precisely 3 weeks ago, we sat opposite a cabinet minister of an East African nation. When the subject of regional integration was broached, the Honorable scoffed at...
East African integration is moving closer to reality with the signing of the East African Monetary Union Protocol during the Heads of State Summit to be...
Rwanda is busy trying to reinvent itself as the east and central African regional high tech hub by rolling out free nationwide wireless connectivity. In September...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
By Nicholas Norbrook Governments across the continent are looking for new development models after the policies of privatization and liberalization seem to have run their course....
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
Around 100 people are feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, the government said Tuesday. “So far, the tentative information we...
While the U.S. Federal Reserve prints the greenback with what some may refer to as feverish abandon; and much as this may, in negative extremity, lead...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A raft of trickle-down economic policies adopted by East African governments to fight poverty seems to...
Bosco Ntaganda. PHOTO/Getty Images Barely a week after 11 African Union leaders met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa in a bid to find a solution...
East African financial institution, the Kenya Commercial Bank has announced another round of layoffs. This comes 2 years after the bank started reducing on staffing costs...
Kenya is among African markets considered a favored destination for private equity investments in 2013 while Tanzania and Rwanda will be favorites in East Africa, according...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
(Bloomberg) — Inflation in East Africa may slow this year as food prices ease, while rising oil costs will probably boost imports and widen trade deficits,...
France said Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Rwanda after authorities in Kigali refused to accept Paris’s choice of a new envoy. “The Rwandan authorities...
Rwanda may be on track to become one of the most compelling case studies in favor of foreign aid since South Korea emerged as an economic...
(Reuters) – Nakumatt Holdings, Kenya’s leading supermarket chain, expects to grow sales 20 percent in its 2012/13 year, helped by expansion into east Africa’s fast-growing middle-class...
Economies of the East African Community (EAC) member states grew by more than five per cent last year, making the region one of the fastest growing...
Construction of the US$4.7 billion railway line linking Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania will begin in 2014, after the three governments finalize fund raising activities. Tanzania and...
Uganda, Tanzania raise the red flag against Khartoum’s practice of Sharia law, treatment of women. Khartoum’s application to join the East African Community (EAC) was on...
(Reuters) – A federal court in the state of Oklahoma has dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame (pictured), brought by the widows of two...
Businesses in East Africa have continued to thrive and grow despite a global downward economic trend, a report by a UK based research organization indicates. The...
President Kagame received President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on his first visit to Rwanda. Three years ago a commission of inquiry set up by Rwanda’s President...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American university to do so in central Africa. The...
A fund ran by Japan’s SBI Holdings Inc. and Abu Dhabi’s Invest AD said on Thursday it bought into the initial public offering of Bank of...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Odette Kayirere’s life was turned upside down when a militia captured and killed her husband during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. One year later, Kayirere...
In a bid to ease the activities of the judicial sector in the country, courts will, from next month, be digitally interlinked. In an interview with...
ARUSHA, Tanzania — The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes...
A maverick entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, Sina Gerard is probably Rwanda’s most famous businessman. Having established a business empire from the bottom up, he’s now training...
