By: Mugabo Ignatius
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: News of Rwanda
The World Bank has extended a credit financing worth U$95 million to Rwanda the development of the country’s six secondary cities that are under the urbanization strategy.
According to the agreement penned on Wednesday, the funds will…
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Women activists have called for policy changes to allow people jointly owning a piece of land that is less than an hectare in size to use it as they please.
The request was based on concerns that when one of…
By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times
According to the United Nations, the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66 per cent by 2050. Best Practices have shown that the global “urbanization”, when properly managed, may drive the…
By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini
Date: June 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Female "silence and submissiveness" stop women from taking advantage of equal property laws in Rwanda
By Anna Pujol-Mazzini
LONDON, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female "silence and submissiveness"…
By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rwanda's women have equal rights in law. But the government and regular Rwandans must confront the country's systems of discrimination
In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and…
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most…
By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted…
Date: 21 décembre 2016
Source: Uneca
La terre en Afrique est devenue l'atout le plus sûr pour ceux qui ont des fonds de réserve à investir. Avec sa population croissante, le Rwanda, comme beaucoup d'autres pays sur le continent, attire de plus en plus de promoteurs des biens immobiliers afin de…
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