Modern bricks provide green solutions for affordable housing in Africa
Low-carbon brick industry clusters present a strong model to create local supply chains necessary to address the high demand for affordable housing in Africa’s Great …
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Harnessing diaspora investment to build affordable homes in Rwanda
Rwanda’s growing housing sector is relatively under-financed. Kenny Washington explains how the country’s affordable housing market presents an opportunity to mobilise new sources of finance …
Rwanda’s rapid response stalls march of coronavirus
Early and decisive action to close its borders and impose a lockdown has so far paid off for Rwanda in terms of few infections and only two deaths from coronavirus
Paul Kagame: No compromise on African values
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame defies standard categorisation. Some see him as the greatest living African leader who has built a shining, virtually corruption-free nation of …
The border inside
Back in 2002. Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Uganda President Yoweri Museveni speak to the residents of Kabale, 22 km from the Uganda-Rwanda border, at a meeting to improve relations between the two countries. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
Why is Kagame at loggerheads with neighbours?
Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is lauded as an arch pan-Africanist but his relations with neighbouring countries have become fraught. He has accused some of them, including …