Rwanda: Kigali City to Deploy New Tech to Monitor Illegal Construction

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Rwanda: Kigali City to Deploy New Tech to Monitor Illegal Construction

[New Times] If you have been or intend to use the cover of the night or weekends to illegally construct or apply unwarranted extensions on your house, then your days are numbered.

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