The skyline of Rwanda’s capital Kigali has been transformed in the past 20 years with new architecture emerging to help support the growing economy. Today, some of the key buildings that are helping ...

Kigali City authorities face an up-hill task of urgently finding $2.5 billion over the next couple of years to build about a half a million affordable houses for its alarmingly growing population.

In the early 1990s, long before petrol stations, supermarkets, and hardware stores reshaped the urban landscape, the area between what was then known as Rwandex and Mburabuturo pulsed with a distinct ...

Kigali — The Rwanda Housing Bank (BHR) is planning for 2,150 housing units in Kigali city. If the project goes according to plan, it is expected that it will cater for the increased housing needs in ...

Kigali city dwellers should expect at least 1,000 affordable houses from three different housing projects around the city this year, Fidel Ndayisaba, the City of Kigali (CoK) Mayor has revealed.

Editor, the City of Kigali authorities should also think about people with low income. They are many in this city; we can say that they represent more than half of the population living in Kigali, and ...

Officials say the destruction of hundreds of houses built on or near wetlands is necessary to protect people from flooding and landslides after unusually heavy rains. But residents complain that they ...

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu. President Edgar Lungu last month ordered the national prayer session after the kwacha fell 45 percent against the dollar. FILE Private equity (PE) firm Phatisa, which ...

Few governments in Africa have been as ambitious as Rwanda’s when it comes to thinking about their urban future. To anyone who knows the country, this intensity of ambition should come as no surprise.

Authorities in Rwanda have begun demolishing homes in the capital Kigali which they say are threatened by "climate dangers". Officials say the destruction of hundreds of houses built on or near ...