Value addition of coffee exports drives up value

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Michel Nkurunziza

 

Roasted coffee beans. File.

Rwanda coffee farmers for the first time exported ten tonnes of roasted coffee beans to the United States.
Officials from National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB) said it is the highest shipment from Rwanda saying that it adds value to the sector’s development as previously exports were washed green coffee.

Market watch: Tomatoes, onions prices up in Kigali

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Appolonia Uwanziga

 

Fruits in Kimironko market. Prices for some commodities have risen up in Kigali. Appolonia Uwanziga.

Food prices have remained high in markets across Kigali city with some prices more than doubling within just months, according to a mini-survey carried out by The New Times last week

22-year-old’s experience in footwear production

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Joan Mbabazi

 

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  The sandals are made by use of crotchet method. Joan Mbabazi.

Samantha Freedom Ahirwe  says that she founded Posh Creative, a local footwear company, with two social aims; empowering  vulnerable women and making sandals from easily available material.
Her choice of materials was crotchet and rubber as she wanted her products to be unique and have an edge over others in the local market.

National budget set to increase by 16 per cent

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Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti

 

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  MP Constance Mukayuhi gives her comments after the minister’s presentation yesterday . Nadege Imbabazi.

The Government plans to spend over Rwf2.4 trillion in the upcoming financial year (2018/19), which starts in July, representing a 16 per cent increase from the current 2017/18 budget (over Rwf2.1trillon).

South Sudan rebels free abducted aid workers

Sudan and South Sudan. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

In Summary

• ICRC said that it welcomed the gesture and urged the South Sudan parties to stop aggression against humanitarian workers
• The aid workers went missing while on a mission to provide humanitarian aid to the residents of Yei

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A South Sudan armed group has set free 10 aid workers who went missing last week in River Yei State.

We will come back, vow Australian tourists

From MARC NKWAME in Arusha

ABOUT 300 wealthy visitors from Australia who have just completed the Tanzanian itinerary of their global tour have vowed to return.
“We are definitely going to return here,” they vowed after sampling attractions in Serengeti and Tarangire National Parks.

Three drown as boat capsizes on River Nile

 

In Summary

• The Obongi County, MP Hassan Kaps Fungaroo who was in the constituency at the time of the accident blamed the ferry management for being rigid and refusing to pick up their colleague, who asked for their help.
• Mr Musa Taban, the Gombolola Internal Security Officer Obongi, says Ocen was returning to work from leave in Eastern Uganda.