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National News Updates |
 Company’s issues with local staff, suppliers and vendors almost getting out of hand About six Tigo Rwanda management employees have either been sacked or have resigned in a space not longer than four months. These managers have one thing in common: they are all local Rwandan staff, and they were hired under the tenure of former CEO Alex Camara – whom the parent company Millicom replaced with Marcelo Aleman, a Bolivian, earlier this year.  This road at Gisozi has been like this for months and months.  Less than a year after the start of the joint management of Akagera, much progress has been made. Yet poaching remains a major obstacle.  Even before, Nyabugogo taxi park with all its potholes was a mess. Now that rehabilitation has started, it’s worse. But it’s all for the better. Meanwhile at Rubangura, it’s all the same. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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Facts just won’t get into the way of a good story As the Rwandans went to the polls early last week the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and just about every international news organ kept informing their audiences that “the run up to the elections had been ‘marred’ by the barring of two opposition parties from contesting the presidential elections; the murder of an opposition party politician; the closure of two newspapers; the shooting of a dissident general in South Africa and the murder of a journalist who was ‘investigating that shooting’”. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
 Can a Rwandan national airline company be made profitable? For Rwandair’s new boss, it’s a question of when, not if. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
 With a growing middle class as well as wider access to information, there is an increased awareness of the importance of physical wellbeing. Yet while more and more people go to the gym or take to jogging, not everybody can afford it. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
 In an age where many buy cloths based on what is available in shops and price, local fashion designers are often left behind due to lack of capacity to mass-produce their creations. |
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