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 …
For the world to sustainably tackle climate change and its subsequent effects, there is need to catalyse more private capital investment in climate change mitigation initiatives, Environment Minister Vincent Biruta has said. Biruta was speaking at the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) event on Financing Sustainable Landscapes in New …
The Government has outlined plans which include applying ‘polluter pays principle’ as well as replenishment of River Mugara, River Mukungwa and three ponds owned by farmers in Musanze District with fresh fish following massive death of fish caused by water contamination last Friday. The PPP is an environmental policy measure, …
Rwandan miners have protested a new law that bans artisanal mining, saying it could frustrate investment and push out most of them. The new law repealed all provisions for artisanal mining, and now the cheapest contract will cost about Rwf700 million ($8 million) — which is ten times more, thereby …
According to the official statistics published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, the country registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly debated and repeatedly questioned in national and international forums, which provided the primary …
Rwanda, as part of efforts under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, has reiterated the commitment to achieve over 85 per cent reduction in consumption of planet warming gases known as “HFCs” by 2049 which will be through increasing use of planet climate friendly electronics. The commitment was recently …
The East African wetlands are in great danger due to human activities including human settlement. According to research conducted by John Kalisa from the University of Rwanda, there are gaps that have contributed to this situation. For instance, pollution of the environment around the wetlands area is on the rise. …
The increasingly unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change pose a serious threat to coffee production in Africa, experts said here Friday. Higher temperatures and long spells of droughts followed by intense rainfall due to disastrous effects of climate change are negatively affecting coffee plants across Africa and this will …
Some residents of Rubavu and Nyabihu districts who used to own land on the outskirts of Gishwati Forest have appealed to Government to expedite their compensation. The residents were expropriated in 2008 to pave way for the development of Gishwati-Mukura National Park. Gishwati-Mukura National Park, which was created in 2015, …
From Pakistan to Panama, a steady stream of countries from the Global South have endorsed China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promoting connectivity since its launch in 2013. The trend continued this week as Senegal and Rwanda inked deals under the BRI banner during President Xi Jinping’s tour of the …
Rwanda has officially joined Africa50, a Pan-African infrastructure platform that was created to bridge the infrastructure gap. The platform seeks to develop and invest in bankable projects, catalysing public sector capital, and mobilising private sector funding. Finance ministry's Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Caleb Rwamuganza, who signed Rwanda's …
KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) -- Livestock farmers and veterinary officers in eastern Rwanda have been baffled by an unidentified disease that they say has killed more than 100 cows in the past about three weeks. The disease broke out in Ngoma and Kirehe districts toward the end of May, farmers and …
In order to explore the potential co-evolution of agricultural transformation and energy transition in Rwanda, and to highlight the trade-offs and synergies between them, SEI and the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) have undertaken participatory scenario-building activities using SEI’s energy and water planning tools: Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) and …
Rwanda's economy rebounded in the second half of 2017. The rebound, driven by improved exportperformance and revitalized agriculture, pushed annual growth to 6.1 percent and led to upwardrevisions of the growth projections for 2018 and 2019. However, although growth is currently recovering and is more balanced, it will most likely …
Sanitation is currently high on the international development agenda. But for policy to be effective, basic enabling factors are required – the right institutional environment and the right governance structures – which in many countries are not yet fully in place. It is even more important to get these basic …
While Rwanda’s ambitions to pursue a climate resilient green growth development pathway are laudable, the disconnect between sectors at the national and district levels poses a considerable long-term threat to sustainable resource use and ecosystems preservation. This policy brief highlights some of the hotspots where resource use competition between sectors …
Impact Hub Kigali has launched a nationwide search for innovation in solar energy, aimed at identifying a company or individual with the most innovative solar solution or product that can inspire further innovation and adoption of renewable energy. The campaign is part of a pan-African programme that kicked off in …
Rwanda on Tuesday launched a nationwide awareness campaign on the dangers of plastic pollution to humans, farm animals, aquatic lives and the environment. The Beat Plastic Pollution campaign, which will run until Saturday, focuses on raising awareness on the dangers of plastic pollution as well as engaging the private sector …
Heavy rains have left hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced across various parts of East Africa. Kenya, Somalia and Rwanda are the worst hit. The flooding comes as the region tries to recover from a severe drought in 2017 that threatened millions of people. Across Kenya, …
At least 60,000 refugees in Kigeme, Gihembe and Nyabiheke refugee camps will benefit from a Rwf10billion 3year project to provide affordable and sustainable sources of renewable energy, officials have announced. The project will be implemented by UNHCR and Practical Action NGO in partnership with the Ministry of Disaster Management and …
East African governments will be forced to dig deeper into their pockets to repair infrastructure damaged by the heavy rains that have gone on for close to three months now, with a trail of destruction across the region. The rains have caused massive flooding, triggered landslides and fault lines that …
