The New Times Rwanda
Public transport operators start carrying sitting passengers at full capacity
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- Public transport operators start carrying sitting passengers at full capacity
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- 1:23
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- 6 years ago
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- On Thursday, October 15, RURA announced new public transport tariffs after the government recently lifted restrictions on public transportation, allowing buses to fill all their seats and at least 50 per cent of the standing passengers.
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- Rwandan varsities reopen after six months of closure
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- 4:46
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- 6 years ago
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- How BPR has supported the expansion of public transport sector
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Meet 22 year old Mutesi, Rwanda's most outstanding teacher for 2020
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- 8:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Christine Mutesi, 22, was recently awarded as the country's most outstanding teacher for 2020.
Alongside a certificate of recognition she was also given a tablet, brand new taxi moto and a cow.
Mutesi, who currently teaches at GS Nyaruguru, Ruhango District, becomes the first youngest teacher to ever win the country-wide award.
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- RDF parades 19 armed Burundians| Monnet-Paquet called-up in Amavubi squad || Weekly review
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- 4:23
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 05-11/10/2020. For more details on these stories and many others, visit newtimes.co.rw
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- Kevin Monnet-Paquet is the solution Amavubi have been looking for — Vincent Mashami
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- 4:54
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Vincent Mashami, head coach of the national football team Amavubi, is confident that forward Kevin Monet-Paquet will make instant impact when he makes his debut for Rwanda next month.
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- How two students started laundry business from their savings
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- 3:34
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Covid-19 has seen many students redundant at home, but two friends, Anastasie Umutoniwase and Mia Benitha Iradukunda, aged 20 and 22 respectively, decided they were going to use the time to their advantage.
The two went from just being high school friends, to housemates and eventually business partners.
In September, they began conducting business, ‘Home Delivery Laundry’, at their home. In order to get clients, they market their services through social media, while friends and family help in spreading the word.
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- Karongi and MuganzaTea Factory proudly financed by BPR
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Eden Farm Limited proudly financed by BPR
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Rusesabagina's bail appeal dismissed| Mineduc warns against schoolfees increase|| news review
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- 4:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 28-04/09/2020. For more details on these stories and many others, visit newtimes.co.rw
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- Meet the maker of a special portrait of President Kagame with his granddaughter
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- BPR finances completion of African Leadership University (ALU) campus
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- BPR finances completion of University of Tourism, Technology and Business Studies (UTB) campuses
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- 3:12
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- K’Ru on showcasing Africa’s heritage through music and art
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- 4:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In 2018, Kevin Rugamba, a.k.a K’Ru, founded Pineapple Undertones, as a fascination for African music. Overtime, the concept has grown to an edutainment platform that seeks to uncover, explore and promote African musical traditions by preserving its past and documenting its present for Africans to take greater ownership of its future.
He has also explored art with graphic designs, designing flyers, a skill he was very deliberate about developing in the past couple of years.
As a community and cultural lead at the African Leadership University, he had the opportunity to co-curate the murals at the university’s new campus that depict various forms of African heritage and culture.
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- Outgoing UNDP boss reflects on his five-year service in Rwanda
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- 5:45
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- It's an emotional moment for me. I often tell people that it's not just five years of work, it's five years of your life. And those five years for me have been five incredible years, I felt so much love, so much warmth from the Rwandese people, and that letter was just a way for me to say thanks for welcoming me, thanks for making me feel so at home and feel so much like a brother.
#StephenRodriques
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- Rwanda Celebrates World Heart Day
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is one of the leading killer disease, causing 17.9 million deaths worldwide, according to WHO.
In Rwanda, around 40 per cent of deaths are caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with 14.1 percent of the NCDs being heart disease.
The triggers, which manifest primarily as heart attacks and strokes, are tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol. These in turn show up in people as raised blood pressure, elevated blood glucose and overweight and obesity.
World Heart Day is celebrated worldwide, on September 29, of every year.
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- New dates for CHOGM2021 announced|Rusesabagina challenges the decision to remand him|Weekly Review
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- 4:35
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 21-27/09/2020. For more details on these stories and many others, visit newtimes.co.rw
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- Rosine Micomyiza: The rise of a basketball star
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In most African countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, women’s basketball is undeniably lagging behind. It is actually rare to find countries with active women leagues in this particular sport.
On the local scene, here in Rwanda, basketball for women is fairly competitive, and as far as the region is concerned, the country is not faring badly.
Though it is not at the level of men’s basketball, there are some trailblazing women defying the odds and showcasing what they can do in the sport.
Point guard Rosine Micomyiza is one of those women making a difference and inspiring the next generation in the game. The 25-year old captains local side the Hoops Rwanda and was part of the milestones they registered last year as the won the Heroes Cup and finished second in the league.
Having played in the local league and also outside Rwanda, Micomyiza has a story to tell as one of the most sought after female basketballers in the country.
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- Juno Kizigenza speaks on his new song || promising music journey || mentor Bruce Melodie
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- 3:18
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Rwanda received 40 ambulances from the Kingdom of Belgium
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- “This gesture will boost Rwanda's sustainable development agenda for the socio-economic welfare of its people. In addition, it brings a benefit to the work in progress to ensure Universal Health Coverage.” Minister Ngamije said.
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- Meet Clarisse Uwayo, a rising Taekwondo star
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- At a young age, Clarisse Uwayo once watched people perform taekwondo and she immediately fell in love with the martial sport. In 2013, she decided to be part of the team in Rwanda.
Over the years, the 22-year-old has improved from the white belt and currently has a second degree black belt in taekwondo.
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- Kigali Car free day is back
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- 5:51
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- After a six-month wait, people of all ages ushered into streets across Kigali as the Car Free Day finally returned on Sunday, September 20 following the Ministry of Sports’ announcement a week before.
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- PSG academy to begin operations in Rwanda | Rusesabagina remanded for 30 days| News Weekly Review
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- 4:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 14-20/09/2020. For more details on these stories and many others, visit newtimes.co.rw
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- Gender gaps in the private sector: What's PSF doing?
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- 4:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In partnership with the Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) and two UN agencies, Rwanda’s Private Sector Federation (PSF) has embarked on an initiative to eradicate rampant gender gaps which remain rampant in different industries.
Driven by a four-year Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, the programme dubbed Gender Equality Seal the campaign intends to help private companies lay out a gender-responsive work environment.
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- Rusesabagina's case file sent to prosecution|Tentative dates for Tour du Rwanda| weekly news review
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 07-13/09/2020. For more details on these stories and many others, visit @newtimes.co.rw
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- Jacques Tuyisenge: ‘I had my best moments at Gor Mahia’ ll memorable goal against Everton
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- 6:29
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Jacques Tuyisenge is renowned footballer in this generation. the striker is celebrated locally, but also regionally - particularly in Kenya where his career experienced a resurgence with extraordinary goal scoring exploit.
Since leaving the Rwanda premier League for Kenya in February 2016, 28 year old has registered a number of accomplishment to his name, among which he stands written in Gor Mahia's story books as the leading foreign goal scorer of all time at club.
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- Kezem: Telling the Rwandan story through fashion
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- 4:00
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- As a young boy, Emmanuel Keza watched his mother go about her tailoring business. Today, the 23-year-old is the founder of Kezem, a local fashion brand that expresses his love for the Rwandan culture.
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- Survivors of FLN attacks recall atrocities, call for justice
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- 14:06
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The latest person to be arrested for allegedly being linked to these attacks is Paul Rusesabagina.
National Liberation Front (FLN) rebels have been accused of being behind these attacks. On this note, last year, the former spokesperson of the terror group, Callixte Nsabimana, pleaded guilty to all the charges against him, claiming that he ordered attacks on public installations and security organs.
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- Special Olympics: Sangwa explains the newly launched Unified Champion Schools programme
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Special Olympics Rwanda, an organization that engages children and adults with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities into sports has recently received support worth 650,000 USD from the Sheikh Mohamed the King of Abu Dhabi.
With the support, they have recently launched the Unified Champion Schools (UCS), a model that aims to promote social inclusion of students with and without intellectual disabilities in their schools, through inclusive sport activities.
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- KIAC: 7 years of Promoting Arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolutions
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC) made 2019-2020 another successful and record-breaking year.
KIAC was established by PSF Rwanda the Government in 2012 to increase the use and effectiveness of Arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADR) in Rwanda and beyond.
KIAC has helped public institutions, domestic and international businesses resolve commercial disputes in an amicable way.
KIAC is now one of the leading arbitration institutions in Africa.
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- New Artiste Bukuru Christiane with her new song "Indamu"
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- 5:27
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Choreographer on promoting fitness through dance
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Nadege Rusamaza does not recall her life without dance as the common feature. Dance for her is more than just a mere term.
About the progress of dance, the 23-year-old dancer and choreographer is happy that people are starting to see dance classes as something worthy of their time and money.
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- Rwanda-Burundi intelligence chiefs hold talks | Repatriation of Burundian refugees | News Review
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- 4:06
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review brings to you a recap of five stories that trended most between 24-30th/08/2020. For more details on The New Times' stories, visit newtimes.co.rw
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- About 500 Burundian refugees repatriated
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- 7:01
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- On Thursday, August 27, 493 Burundians refugees living in Rwanda were facilitated to go back home after they voluntarily requested for it.
The event was attended by delegates from the Ministry of Emergency Management (Minema), UNHCR, representative of Burundian government and security officials from both countries among others.
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- Miggy on his rise to football stardom | unfulfilled dream to feature at AFCON
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- 5:21
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- After representing Rwanda at international level for 14 years, midfielder Jean Baptiste ‘Miggy’ Mugiraneza retired from the national team this month. He racked up 68 appearances and scored 7 goals
#Jean Baptiste ‘Miggy’ Mugiraneza
#Amavubi
#APR
#Haruna Niyonzima
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- Few days after extending curfew hours, how is the directive being observed in Kigali?
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- On August 26, a cabinet meeting resolved to extend the curfew directive by two hours, to further contain Covid-19 in the country. It now begins at 7p.m to 5 a.m.
Two days after the resolution, The New Times paid a visit to Kigali's sites known for high traffic jam in evening hours to witness how curfew is being observed
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- Inside Art Rwanda Ubuhanzi Showroom where talents are showcased
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- 5:16
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Located at Kigali Business Centre (KBC) in Kacyiru, the showroom is home to the best products by the first class of artists selected among the best during the first edition of Art-Rwanda Ubuhanzi talent search in December 2018.
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- UGHE graduates students from MGHD 2020
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- 6:03
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- On Sunday, August 9, the University of Global Health Equity has graduted 28 students hailing from 12 countries with Masters in Science for Global Health Delivery
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- Rwanda-born Igaba signs for Arsenal| Rwanda sets up financial intelligence centre|News weekly recap
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- 4:22
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review got you covered with five stories that headlined the week of August 17-23 in Rwanda
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- East African Wedding Show to go virtual
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- After a successful inaugural show last year(2019), the East African Wedding Show is back, although this year it will take place virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- A tough year for banks - Diane Karusisi
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- 10:46
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- It all started as a health crisis that turned into a huge economic crisis, and that’s what we are now battling with. On the health front, as far as Rwanda is concerned, [we] believe things have stabilized – we know how to protect ourselves, we know how to protect our families and our staff.
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- Nyandungu Eco-tourism Park Project stalls
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The creation of Nyandungu Ecotourism Park on 130 hectares will not be completed this year (2020) as had earlier been scheduled.
Funded by Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA), the project was designed in 2015 and works started in 2016 and the plan was to complete the two-phased project within five years.
To follow up on the progress on the ground, The New Times visited the location of the multi-billion project.
There was low activity and the local security guards chased The New Times crew, blocking the filming of the progress and works done.
However, from a distance, one could visibly see women watering plants as well as what appears to be paved pedestrian walkways and cycling routes.
The ornamental ponds that had been planned were no longer visible while those that were created a few years ago are now full of bushes looking like a stagnant water source from which two women were fetching water for watering the plants.
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- Nyabugogo market and Nyarugenge city market are put under lockdown
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Nyabugogo Market (commonly known as Kwa Mutangana) and the Nyarugenge City Market have been closed since Monday, August 17, for one week as the government seeks to control a sudden spike in new infections in Kigali.
The New Times visited both markets and found closed shops, Rwanda Biomedical Center teams testing them in masses and spraying disinfectants all over the buildings.
Nyabugogo market is one of the food merchandise hot spot in Kigali. Fruits, vegetables and flours from across the country are known to be collected at the market.
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- Inside ALU Rwanda's new Rwf 14 billion campus
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- 5:13
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The multi-million dollar facility lies on 6,500 square metres, and is spread out in three different buildings which house the Learning Commons, the Enterprise Commons, and the Social Commons.
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- Rwanda-Uganda ties, national passports phasing out, new Covid-19 deaths | news weekly review
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review got you covered with five stories that headlined the week of August 10-16 in Rwanda.
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- MTN Rwanda's growth projections for 2020
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- 5:12
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Coming into 2020, we had ambitious plans to grow digital. For us as MTN Rwanda, growing digital means data, mobile money, enterprise connectivity.
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- A man suspected of trafficking "high-class girls," into sex jobs
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- According to RIB, he has been earning money from men to connect them with "high-class girls," a business he was doing alongside a network of other culprits who would assist in finding women to be used in these illegal activities.
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- SN Brussels blocks Kigali-bound flights | Burundian Refugees in Rwanda request to return home
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- 4:05
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The New Times News Weekly Review takes you through five big stories that trended most between 03-09/08/2020.
SN Brussels blocks Kigali-bound flights| Burundian Refugees in Rwanda request to return home| Local face-masks manufacturers counting losses and many other big stories
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- From APR player to head coach: The journey of Karim Nkusi
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- 3:50
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- If you are looking around for a legend for the APR basketball team, Aime Karim Nkusi’s name is way up on the list. The famous shooting guard featured for the local outfit for a whopping 10 years, before he went out of Rwanda for new pastures; and later returned and took over the coaching reins at his boyhood club.
Karim Nkusi, 37, a celebrated basketball player is one of those few sports personalities in Rwanda that have the opportunity to serve a club for a long time as player and later on as coach.
He also had a big presence in the national basketball team, in addition to enjoying a lengthy career at APR from 1999 to 2010. Nkusi had short stints in Uganda and in local club Cercle Sportif de Kigali (CSK), before he could later in 2017 takeover as the head coach of APR volleyball team.
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- How muslims slaughtered sheep, goats and cows to celebrate Eid-Al-Adha
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- For the second time this year, Muslims are celebrating
another of their holy festivals under the restrictive wrath
of the coronavirus. as it honours the famous story of the willingness
of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son As usual, among other activities that were done to mark the day, is the observance of the tradition of slaughtering animals as a form of sacrifice to God and to reflect on Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
