A report by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) on the economics of climate change in Rwanda has revealed that climate change has had a significant setback on the economy, especially in the past four years.

A Senatorial Standing Committee on Economic Development and Finance is currently meeting with members of the agricultural export board to seek ways of boosting the country's exports.

Government has set an aggressive campaign to mobilise resources for increasing investments in irrigation that would see improved agricultural productivity and markedly food supply.

The Director for East and Central Africa in the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Joy Hutcheon, is in the country for a two-day visit.

I read with wonder and bemusement an article by Mr. Derek Ingram titled Should Rwanda be allowed to join the commonwealth? Mr Ingram ably articulates the justification for Rwanda joining the Commonwealth as being adjacent to Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda

Government has finalised negotiations with undersea fibre-optic cable operator SEACOM where the latter will deliver the Synchronous Transport Module (STM-1) in Rwanda on Saturday November, 2009.

Farmers in the three districts that make up Kigali city have identified lack of market and packaging problems as their main challenges.

Millicom International Cellular, the global telecommunications company that operates under the Tigo brand has just launched its mobile phone services to the Rwandan market.

The Central Bank Governor, François Kanimba, has said that overall economic growth is expected to grow by between four to five percent, down from earlier projections of 5.3 and 7 percent.

Rwanda's national carrier, Rwandair has signed contracts with two Rwandan pilots ahead of the arrival of its two 50 sitter CRJ200 aircrafts by the end December 2009, Management said on Tuesday.