Kazana Kamba 🏀

🏀 Hooper

[Sunshine Tour @Sunshine_Tour]

🎥 Recapping the first round of the #RwandaOpen. 📺

[Facts On Rwanda @FactsOnRwanda]

RWANDA 🇷🇼🇨🇳 CHINA

FROM SANCTIONS RISK TO ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

In April, Facts On Rwanda observed that the US sanctions on Rwanda could accelerate Kigali’s interest in yuan-based trade, financing and alternative payment systems.

Five months later, a significant piece of financial infrastructure has emerged.

Bank of Kigali, Rwanda’s largest bank, has become the first bank headquartered in East and Central Africa to join China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) as a direct participant. The agreement was signed in Xiamen on September 8.

The significance goes beyond a new payment service. CIPS is China’s principal infrastructure for cross-border RMB clearing and settlement. By the end of August, it had 211 direct and 1,642 indirect participants across 192 countries and regions.

For Rwanda, direct participation creates another channel through which trade and financial flows with China can be settled in RMB, with less dependence on intermediary banking routes.

It would be premature to describe this as a replacement for the dollar system. But academically, it can be viewed as another incremental step in financial diversification: when geopolitical exposure rises, states and institutions can respond not only through diplomacy, but by expanding the infrastructure through which their economies transact.

In April, this was an observation about where Rwanda could be heading.

By September, the payment infrastructure is beginning to reflect it.

#FactsOnRwanda

[Tristan Ngamije @TristanNgamije]

Rwanda's UN envoy, Ambassador Martin Ngoga’s question is as precise as it is necessary.

If the UN’s own reports already document Kinshasa’s ties to the FDLR; the ideological heirs of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi; why the reluctance to name and condemn that alliance?

[Sir. Uracyaryamye @byukavuba]

Iyi ni Sober Generation 👌😂

[Kazana Kamba 🏀 @Selecta_Huzzoo]

@LydiaMutyebele 🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮

[Greg Le Grec @GregLeGrecq]

From 🇺🇲 to 🇧🇮...

Uko bimeze kuvanwa mu gihugu cambere gitunze kw'isi winjizwa mu gihugu cambere gikenye kw'isi:

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

Every human being has equal value. Every single one.

At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.

No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.

What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.

Love and a little kindness. For everyone.

[Dr. Dash @dr_dash250]

You will laugh and you will learn.

Zimbabwean comedian based in South Africa, Learnmore Jonasi, spoke on Podcast and Chill about how RWANDA 🇷🇼 is one of the best African countries he has ever visited.

He also joked about UGANDA 🇺🇬 being that African country you always see on the news with five people on one motorcycle and things like that, making you wonder if those countries actually exist! And when u go to Uganda, u see it yourself.

[SIMBATV2 @simba_tv2]

RWANDA TO THE WORLD 🌍🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NIGERIAN & RWANDAN 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Fabrice Rugumire @FabRugumire]

Rwanda-China Cooperation— Hon. Amb Nduhungirehe, MFA 🇷🇼

[Richard Kwizera @Muzungu4]

OFF TO RWANDA✈️🇷🇼

#Australian🇦🇺 football club Como-Jannali departed Sydney earlier this morning for #Kigali, for a two-week visit that combines football, community engagement and tourism. The club is coming with a 30-member delegation comprising its U-18 girls’ team, club officials and parents. According to Como-Jannali FC President Adam Cranney, the visit is aimed at exposing these young Australian players to a different part of the world while building connections through women’s football. #VisitRwanda

[Rwanda Development Board @RDBrwanda]

“Together we can move beyond simply trading goods to producing them together, adding value, and creating jobs in both our countries.” — @RwandaTrade Minister @AKajangwe.

Watch highlights from the Rwanda-Pakistan Investment Forum held in Kigali.

#InvestInRwanda

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

For Rwanda, health security is everyday work — strengthening institutions, keeping teams ready and building systems that can anticipate and respond to emerging threats.

[🦅 @OtengaSiauu]

HE William Ruto drops a bombshell at the United Nations General Assembly.... Listen to our president oozing wisdom

[🍒Umutamenwa Erica🇷🇼 @Umutamenw_Erica]

🇷🇼In Rwanda we have RwandaAir🇷🇼

🇹🇿In Tanzania they have Air Tanzania🇹🇿

🇰🇪In Kenya they have KenyaAirlines🇰🇪

🇺🇬In Uganda they have UgandaAirlines🇺🇬

In 🇧🇮Burundi 🇧🇮 they have...........?

In 🇨🇩 Congo 🇨🇩 they have............?

[Basketball Africa League @theBAL]

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES! 🇷🇼🔥

RSSB Tigers are heading to the semi-finals, representing Rwanda and Africa on the global stage! 🐯🌍

[Sunshine Tour @Sunshine_Tour]

The #RwandaOpen is finally here!🇷🇼
We preview what to lookout for at the Kigali Golf Resort and Vila’s and who are some of the leading players on The Courier Guy Order of Merit playing this week.

[Kazana Kamba 🏀 @Selecta_Huzzoo]

#Rwanda

[Robert Cyubahiro McKenna @RobCyubahiro]

I was at The Kigali Golf Resort today, listen #RwandaOpen is the next big thing i Rwanda!

[IGIHE @IGIHE]

Abraham Dellman Makinde bet on Rusororo when others thought he was crazy. Today, he is building high-end homes and investing in Kigali’s growing real estate market.

In this exclusive IGIHE interview, the British-Nigerian entrepreneur and founder of Dellman Group takes us inside his real estate projects, including Lujoso by Dellman, a fully automated four-bedroom luxury home in Rusororo valued at $1.2 million.

Watch the full interview for an inside look at the projects, the investment journey and the thinking behind Kigali’s luxury homes 👇.

↔️Catch Full Interview Here: https://t.co/9dgJYUCDKa

🎙️: @w_nyamasege

#IGIHENews

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Rwanda saved a 1965 school from demolition and turned it into East Africa's biggest bet on entrepreneurship.

East Africa has some of the fastest-growing economies in the world but struggles to pull in the foreign investment that growth needs. Norrsken Kigali House exists to close that gap, giving founders workspace, visibility, and access to capital.

It sits on the historic École Belge site in central Kigali, one of Rwanda's oldest international school campuses. Developers wanted the land for high-rises. MASS Design Group chose adaptive reuse instead, renovating three original classroom blocks and building one new structure alongside them, rather than clearing the site.

What could have gone to landfill became the building. The old gym's steel was fully salvaged and rebuilt into an outdoor pergola event space. Reclaimed materials became benches, feature walls, and pathways across the campus. Nothing about preserving history here was sentimental, it was structural.

The building performs as hard as it looks. Clay-shaded facades and natural ventilation handle cooling, backed by a thermal labyrinth, a sustainable system that moves air through underground channels to regulate temperature before mechanical systems ever have to. Solar panels cover the roof. Stormwater gets managed onsite or harvested to flush toilets. The result: a 32 percent reduction in embodied carbon compared to the global average for offices this size, and a target EDGE Advanced certification for over 40 percent energy savings.

Kigali, Rwanda. Architect, Landscape Architect, Engineer: MASS Design Group. Photography: Chris Schwagga.