The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
This policy brief examines the prospects for mobilizing private climate finance in Rwanda, focusing mainly on adaptation, and highlights measures that could stimulate investment. There is a strong expectation that the private sector will provide a large share of the 100 billion USD per year in climate finance that world …
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - From dusk till dawn, an ongoing stream of people crisscrosses La Petite Barriegrave;re, one of the two main borders that divide Rwanda and DRC. Women carry baskets full of vegetables, potatoes and fish. Men carry buckets of cow meat, the blood oozing down their …
Government efforts aimed at increasing supply of clean energy to power its green growth ambitions have gotten a boost, thanks to a new off-grid renewable energy support programme. Scaling up Off-Grid Energy in Rwanda (SOGER) aims to grow sustainable off-grid renewable energy markets by supporting private sector companies to deliver …
The document titled ‘The True Cost of Poor Sanitation’ was compiled by Oxford Economics to determine the link between cost of sanitation and the factors behind it. But for a continent fraught with epidemics, the report by the Japanese firm paints a grim picture of sanitation on the continent. The …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) sitting in Arusha has added its voice in the fight against poaching. The region has been used as a conduit for illegal game trophies for many years. But it has also contributed to the trade that has been taken over by organised crime syndicates. …
Over 4,000 water tanks were installed by the end of July in different districts across the country under the Rainwater Harvesting Project which aims to improve livelihoods and to reduce surface runoff-overflow which causes erosion. The project prioritised high rain density areas, with a target of installing 10,000 water tanks …
Researchers have combined satellite imagery with AI to predict areas of poverty across the world. There's little reliable data on local incomes in developing countries, which hampers efforts to tackle the problem. A team from Stanford University were able to train a computer system to identify impoverished areas from satellite …
Nigeria: Illegal Diversion of Explosives - FG Exonerates, Recalls Mines Officers Five suspected illegal miners, including two women, have been arrested in Rutsiro District following an operation conducted in Rusebeya Sector on Tuesday. Police also recovered 1438kgs of cassiterite and 702kgs of Coltan from the suspects. The District Police Commander …
Effects of climate change such as drought and flooding on agriculture, coupled with crop diseases, have continued to ravage crops in recent years, causing losses on farmers' investments. For instance, in Eastern Province districts of Kayonza and Nyagatare, some of the farmers did not get any harvest over the last …
Random species of trees have been planted across Kigali and other towns around the country with less regard to international standards for urban forestry, officials say. It is against this background that the government has embarked on formulating a policy, which will complement Kigali City Master plan and the national …
Ministers and high-level representatives of 25 countries, including Rwanda, have backed the adoption of an ambitious amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase-down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Hydrochlorofluorocarbons are compounds consisting of hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, and carbon atoms that destroy the stratospheric ozone layer essential to life on Earth …
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Water Facility (AWF) will be participating in the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW-6), holding from 18-22 July 2016 at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. On 20 July 2016, the AfDB will unveil …
The ministry of agriculture and animal resources (MINAGRI) has said the current drought in Rwanda is a global issue and over 50 million people are facing the same disaster in Africa. Severe drought hit Nyagatare, Gatsibo, Kayonza, Kirehe and Ngoma districts in the Eastern Province. Over 23,448 hectares of crops …
The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the question of refugee impacts does not lend itself to conventional impact evaluation methods. We use …
As the number of poor Rwandans keep moving out of poverty every year, a significant part of the population shockingly descends into it and this is worrying government. At least 10.4% of Rwandan households that were not poor in 2011 dropped into poverty in 2014 while the overall poverty reduced …
After nearly three decades of depending on silted water from Lake Cohoha in southern Rwanda, Mukahigiro Davita, one of the residents living in the villages along the banks of this lake, now fetches water free of sand, soil and mud. Mukahigiro’s new ray of hope is as a result of …
Bank of Kigali (BK) has supported a local non-profit environmental conservation organization with Rwf 25m to plant 150,000 trees within three years from now in Nyagatare district. The move is part of its activities to mark 50 years this December since it was incorporated in 1966. "We understand that climate …
A local resident of Rusororo carries a tree. Bank of Kigali to plant one million trees in climate change mitigation effort. Bank of Kigali says it will invest part of its annual operations budget in supporting efforts by a local non-profit environmental conservation organisation to plant one million trees in …
Rwanda is to host Africa Carbon Forum tomorrow where over 1,000 climate change experts will put heads together to bring lasting solutions. Carbon market players, policy makers and project developers from across Africa will convene in Kigali to discuss Africa's road map to sustainable development, shared prosperity and how to …
The effects of climate change have been felt through destruction of crops, and property by floods and prolonged drought. Floods and landslides have also killed people, damaged crops and drought has posed a serious threat to the welfare of people resulting in food insecurity both on national, regional and global …
