In the year 2000, Ugandan exports to Rwanda were worth $9 million. By the 2017/2018 financial year, this figure had shot up to $197 million, against imports of $20 million, giving it a surplus of $177 million, despite the icy relations currently prevailing. In the same period, in a ...
1 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after a man died of Ebola in Goma, capital city of the North Kivu province, the DRC presidency said Thursday. The presidency's office said in a statement that it regretted a "unilateral decision" by...
KIGALI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday physically marked their boundary on the shared frontier adjacent to western Rwanda's Rubavu district and eastern DRC's Goma town. The demarcation took place at the Rubavu-Goma common border on an o...
ENTEBBE, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Sunday the problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo need urgent attention. Kagame, who is also the chairperson of the African Union, said despite the presence of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in t...
Eastern DRC is a complex security puzzle for Rwanda and too far flung for Kinshasa to controlGeorgianne Nienaber
Could the outbreak spread even further? The outbreak is occurring where the DRC's eastern borders meet Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan and the fear is that it may spread across the borders to these countries. The effort to prevent this has been extensive, and theWorld Health Organisation (WHO...
KCB plans to buy Rwanda, Dar banks in Sh4.3bn deal Nov 27, 2020 -3 min read “We are still very keen to grow business into DRC and that is what we will be looking at in the next two years,” said Mr Oigara. “We are not holding pause. We will continue. We will keep lo...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) offers a few learning points. The decade-old conflict in the DRC began when a faction of the Congolese army mutinied and formed the M23 rebel group, particularly in North Kivu Province, which borders Rwanda and Uganda. ...
has shared that the country plans to begin using the vaccine in the border city of Goma, which is a trading hub for the DRC and neighboring Rwanda. A number of global health organizations, in collaboration with DRC stakeholde...
The South Kivu province borders the neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Burundi and it is an area mostly operated by rebel militias. Kasereka however indicated unconfirmed reports claimed there were as many as four officials who had been seized, but the military only had solid information ...