Tag Archives: Rwanda

MTN Uganda, Rwanda Add New Mobile Money Services

MTN Uganda announced that it will be joining Zain and Safaricom in offering international mobile money transfers to its subscribers. Zain announced a parternship ...
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Kigali Welcomes Citywide Wireless Internet

Kigali announces fast speed mobile wireless Internet. Using a technology called WiBro, a wireless broadband solution developed by South Korean telecoms, users will be able ...
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This Week in Appfrica [Jun 14 - 20, 2009]

“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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Tech Crunch Blogger Goes to Rwanda

Sarah Lacy is one of my favorite blogger/writers. I frequently use her piece “Why the Smart VCs Are Boarding their Jets” as an example of ...
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Rwandese Envoy Given Conditional Release

The battle between France and Rwanda in relation to the 1994 genocide has taken a new twist. Rose Kabuye, the Rwanda’s chief of State Protocol ...
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Japanese Blogger versus Rwandan Hotsauce

The little bottle pictured above is called Akabanga, a Rwandan hotsauce that the Japanese apparently import. How hot can it be though, right? Japanese ...
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Corrupt Database

I came back from some work in the field in Rwanda today to discover that my WordPress Database was corrupt but not before a blank ...
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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund: Investing in African Ideas

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$50-100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by ...
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