{"id":5844,"date":"2019-10-09T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"rwanda-opens-first-entirely-homemade-smartphone-factory-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/09\/rwanda-opens-first-entirely-homemade-smartphone-factory-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Opens &#8216;First Entirely Homemade&#8217; Smartphone Factory In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kieron Monks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda&#8217;s President\nPaul Kagame Monday inaugurated what is being described as Africa&#8217;s &#8220;first\nhigh tech smartphone factory&#8221; in the country&#8217;s capital Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kagame hailed the launch as another\nbreakthrough for development in Rwanda, which has enjoyed rapid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2019\/06\/25\/rwanda-economic-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">economic growth<\/a>&nbsp;in recent years and gained a reputation\nas a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/14\/africa\/rwanda-tech-hub\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hub of innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Mara Phone joins a growing list of\nhigh-quality products that are made in our country,&#8221; the president said at\nthe Mara Phones Factory which is situated on the outskirts of Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mara Group, a Pan-African business\nheadquartered in Dubai, says the factory will deliver &#8220;high quality\nsmartphones at an affordable price.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mara is producing two types of smartphone in\nRwanda: The Mara X with 16GB storage space will retail for 120,250 francs\n($130), while the more advanced Mara Z model with 32GB storage is on sale for\naround 175,750 francs ($190), the company said\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/08\/africa\/rwanda-smartphone-factory\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kieron Monks Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame Monday inaugurated what is being described as Africa&#8217;s &#8220;first high tech smartphone factory&#8221; in the country&#8217;s capital Kigali. President Kagame hailed the launch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}