Energy 4 Impact has said it will involve community members in the development and operation of mini-grids in Rwanda under its Sida-funded Scaling Off-Grid Energy in Rwanda (SOGER) programme, These will see community-owned cooperatives join forces with mini-grid developers to construct pico-hydro grids at 10 sites across Rwanda, providing clean energy ...
Pikkostores.com, Rwanda's top local ecommerce B2C marketplace aims to provide small businesses and local manufacturers the best way to reach the country's growing online customer base and as well help Rwandans to find all products they love under one roof. Founded in January 2017 by Emmanuel Ishimwe, Pikkostoress.com, also aims to make eCommerce ...
The Rwanda Government has set up the Government Blockchain project to lead the county into becoming more digitized to enable secure transactions, digital authentication and legally binding signatures. The government says its objective is to realise the benefits of digital transformation with a more open, transparent and publicly verifiable system that ...
BRCK in March announced Moja, a free public WiFi project for smartphone users in Kenya. The service is finally live in a number of areas in Nairobi, Kenya's capital and has signed up partners Facebook and Vanu for similar trials in rural Rwanda. Moja was announced sometime back in Kenya and is ...
The vehicle washing industry seem to be a very big one in Africa. Especially given that cars and motorcycles are always on the increase in cities, and the owners wants to keep them clean. While there might not be too many leople using tech to solve this problem, we have ...
Obviously, unemployment is a general problem in Africa. It is therefore to see that people are trying to solve it in many creative ways. The cause of this could've be either limited jobs, or unqualified people. BAG innovations, a startup hoping to put an end to this menace, thinks it's ...
Lendable has raised$ 6.5m (KES671 million)in a Series A round of investment to scale operations, drive market expansion, and roll out new products. With the round, Lendable aims to scale up its operations in Nairobi and New York and launch its services in Tanzania, Rwanda, and at least one other ...
According to Shakila K. Umutoni, a PR officer at Imagine We, "the reading culture in Rwanda is pretty low in due part because Rwanda has a culture of oral storytelling. But the lack of a reading culture has translated into low literacy rates. National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda found ...
Digiskool, a school management system which takes away the hustle of information management, and digitizes a school by bringing together core and auxiliary function together in a seamless and functional way has raised $50,000 from UK's East Africa Investments to expand across East Africa. Developed by Kenya's BigBrainz Solutions, Digiskool ...
The Tanzanian government has announced it's launching the world’s largest drone delivery service to provide emergency on-demand access to critical and life-saving medicines beginning in the first quarter of 2018 in Dodoma, the country’s capital. According to the government, it will use drones to make up to 2,000 life-saving deliveries ...
Amplify, Africa’s first paid-fellowship for content creators, held a graduation for its inaugural cohort on Friday 7 April in Nairobi, Kenya. The graduating class, which comprised of 25 fellows from Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria, went through an intensive six-month fellowship where they learnt technical, creative and business skills to enhance ...
AFC, Finnfund and several others are set to finance a $350 million 80 megawatt power project in Rwanda in a move expected to improve access to electricity for the three quarters of the country’s population that is currently off the grid. The power plant, which is expected to increase installed capacity ...
Kasha, a startup that sells and delivers women’s health products confidentially over a widely accessible mobile retail platform, was selected the best startup in Rwanda for its online/offline women’s health care retail solution. As a part of the prize, Kasha will be participating at Seedstars Summit, taking place in Switzerland ...
Rwanda's Zipline, the world's first national drone delivery service, has raised $25m series B led by Visionnaire Ventures with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital,Subtraction Capital and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to make delivery of medical supplies in remote areas a reality. In mid October, the government of Rwanda officially launched Zipline anticipating it to ...
Founded early this year by Afshon Wallace Ngige, Rwanda's 250 Taxi, a taxi hailing app for Rwanda, has launched 263 Taxi in Zimbabwe to help people hail cabs from one point to another via their mobile phones. According to the founder, the Zimbabwe launch is in line with the firm's long-term goal ...
Img:surdelltaxi.com Fone Taxi has launched in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya to give every great driver on the road a platform to make money and create jobs for others. Developed this year in Rwanda by Christian Niyonkuru, Fone Taxi aims to make its service available initially in several more ...
East Africa-focused off-grid solar company BBOXX, has closed a $20 million Series C investment from co-investors MacKinnon, Bennett & Company (MKB), ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies and KawiSafi Ventures, as well as existing investors Khosla Impact Fund, Bamboo Finance and DOEN Foundation to increase its presence in Kenya and Rwanda. The Kigali-headquartered firm owns and operates retail ...
Rwanda's Africa Engineering Base is yet to be launched platform seeking to raise $11k to connect smart entrepreneurs across Africa with other computer engineers to utilize their skills ...
Affordable solar systems firm operating in Tanzania and Rwanda, Off Grid Electric has secured $10 million from Helios Investment Partners and $8 million in debt financing from a lending group led by responsAbility to provide millions in Africa with clean and sustainable solar energy. Totaling $18 million, this funding will enable Off Grid Electric to continue on the path ...
Pivot East, East Africa’s mobile startups pitching competition held annually in June or July since 2011 has been moved to November this year and more details about the date change will be communicated in due time m:lab's East Africa lead told TechMoran. The m:lab East Africa initiative aims to ...
MTN Rwanda has partnered with the Bank of Kigali to improve access to mobile financial services (MFS) by enabling customers to transact money between MTN Mobile Money wallets and the Bank of Kigali accounts. Bank of Kigali customers can now use the MTN service centres and MTN Mobile Money agents to ...
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB's) recently launched African Gender Equality Index measures gender equality in economic opportunities, human development and in laws and institutions on a scale of 0 (Low) to 100 (High). South Africa (75%), Rwanda (74%) and Namibia (73%) provide Africa’s best gender equality. South Africa is 3rd ...
It will now be possible for Rwanda subscribers to make cross-border mobile money transactions to Kenya or Tanzania after MTN Rwanda and signed an agreement. The New Times Rwanda reports that with the deal, customers will make use of the M-Pesa platform for transactions within weeks . Norman Munyampundu, the ...
Across Africa, democratic rule is being sought after by the people. According to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA), Rwanda’s 98% voter turnout rate for presidential elections (voting is non-mandatory) is the world’s highest with 9 other countries from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) outscoring France (80%) and the ...
Airtel Rwanda subscribers will now be able to access up to Rwf50,000 in soft loans after the telco unveiled a micro-money lending platform in conjunction with Atlantis Limited, a micro-finance institution. New Times Rwanda reports that the service dubbed ‘Igurize Amafaranga’, will give subscribers a two-week period to repay the ...
Armed with a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology, from the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Nkurunziza Christophe is building Yubeyi.com, Rwanda's Amazon on his own! Launched late last year, Yubeyi.com has only one major aim, to be Rwanda's largest online mall with a 3-day free ...
Hot on the heels of Tanzania which is moving to enforce cyber security laws especially in the field of e-payment is Rwanda whose cabinet has just approved its National Cyber Security Law. According to New Times Rwanda the new law is meant to protect public and private infrastructure, personal information ...
High life expectancy is an indicator of good health in a population; according to the World Bank, 9 of the 10 countries that have improved the most between 2000 & 2012 in terms of life expectancy (additional years gained) are located in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with Rwanda (+16), Zambia (+15) ...
Data from the ILO database shows that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) registered the highest job growth by volume among all world regions between 2009 and 2014 – 6 times the job growth in developed economies & the EU. SSA is poised to create the second highest number of new jobs - ...
Data from the WEF’s Global Information Technology Report (2014) reveals that South Africa (4.8), Rwanda (4.8) and Mauritius (4.5) have the three most developed legal systems relating to the use of ICTs in Africa, and these three countries outperform China (4.3), India (4.2), Brazil (4.2), and Russia (3.5) – scores ...
