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Rwanda’s internet fastest in the region
The New Times Rwanda’s First Daily
By Edmund Kagire
Fiber optic cables are being laid across the country (File photo)
A new global report on internet connectivity has put Rwanda among the top three African countries with the fastest internet broadband connectivity and downloading speeds, ranking the country ahead of more developed African economies such as South Africa [...]
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Can Rwanda control its exploding population?
by The Lancet
http://rnanews.com/national/3774-can-rwanda-control-its-exploding-population-/
Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:56
Kigali: Rwanda’s Government has put slowing the country’s population growth rate at the centre of its Vision 2020 plan for the future. The scientific journal, The Lancet, reports on the problems and progress so far.
Not ghosts, babies!: Experts say there is no way the country can make economic [...]
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World leaders move accelerate deployment broadband: Rwanda
ITNewsAfrica.com
July 12, 2010
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=8284
Broadband Commission is co-chaired by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Mr Carlos Slim Helú
Leading lights from industry, civil society, UN agencies and the creative sphere, who together comprise the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, have emphasized the critical role of broadband networks in future global development.
Commissioners met in private session in Geneva [...]
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Rwanda: Use Broadband Technology to Achieve MDG’s – Kagame
The New Times – Rwanda’s First Daily
By Edmund Kagire
President Kagame, Dr. Hamadoun Toure, (L) and Mr. Carlos Slim (R) at the meeting yesterday (Courtesy Photo)
President Paul Kagame, has called on the world to recognise the important link between broadband technology and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s).
Kagame, made the remarks, yesterday, at the first [...]
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Toms Shoes Donates 33,333 shoes in Rwanda
Toms Shoes, a California-based shoe company that matches each pair sold with a pair given to a child in need, has donated over 30,000 shoes to the children of Rwanda. New Life Church of Little Rock, AR is making its second trip to Rwanda to distribute these shoes. In March, they performed a ‘warm-up’ run [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Awarded for Education
AllAfrica.com
By Florence Mutesi
July 5, 2010
Kigali — Rwanda International Network Association (RINA), over the weekend, awarded President Paul Kagame for his continuous efforts in the promotion of Education.
The award was received, on behalf of the President, by James Kimonyo, Rwanda’s Ambassador to the USA at a function held at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
The function was [...]
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Rwanda: 361 Graduate at INES-Ruhengeri
AllAfrica.com
By Bonny Mukombozi
July 2, 2010
Musanze-Ruhengeri Institute of Higher Education (INES), on Wednesday held its first graduation ceremony where 361 students graduated with degrees in various disciplines. 45 percent of the graduates were female.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Charles Murigande, who also acts as the institute’s Chancellor and represented President Paul Kagame at the function, said [...]
Rwanda: You Have What It Takes to Develop
allAfrica.com
By: Edmund Kagire
June 28, 2010
Kigali — President Paul Kagame, yesterday, told the youth that they form the engine that the country can run on to achieve its development goals and build the country that the Rwandan people want.
Addressing thousands of youth from across the country, who had converged at the national stadium to mark the [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Accepts UN Appointment
Allafrica.com
By Edmund Kagire
June 25, 2010
President Paul Kagame yesterday said that he feels greatly honoured to be appointment co-chair of the MDG Advocacy Group, made up of the world’s leading thinkers, coming together to combat poverty.
He said that he is ready to share Rwanda’s experience with the rest of the world.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon named [...]
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Paul Kagame, Rwanda President Video About Future Growth