The Central Bank, BNR, or whoever else may be responsible has to rethink the 2000-franc note.
Our second highest denomination note is badly designed, becomes dirty and grubby much quicker than the other notes, and is more susceptible to damage. It is a very poor quality note. Please BNR, please government, rethink and redesign the 2000. Read more »
Former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu is a real comedian. Wednesday evening listening to the Kinyarwanda news program I was laughing fit to bust my ribs listening to the self-exiled politician who has been living in Belgium for the past several years. Read more »
This Wednesday we were subjected to some horror stories during celebration of heroes day in our neighborhood (umudugudu). The theme was: let us celebrate heroes’ day while denouncing child abuse. A few individuals talked about the lives and times of Rwanda’s most notable heroes: King Mutara Rudahigwa, the late Maj. Gen. Fred Rwigema, the late Agatha Uwilingiyimana and others. Then a local leader got up to talk about some incidents of child abuse that have taken place in the sector over the past few years. Read more »
The other day, the prime minister of Rwanda was declaring war on malnutrition. According to a report in The New Times, he wants this terrible problem over and done with in exactly six months!! (Or else what?, one feels like asking; if by the end of June we still have malnutrition in Rwanda what then will the Hon. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi do?) Read more »
Kigali is catching up with other cities!
Yes, things are changing at a fast pace. For example: now we have dealers of Apple products. The shop is situated in the new high-rise in town, Kigali City Tower. What a charge of pleasure for fans of Steve Jobs’s toys! Walk into the glass-fronted shop and you will find all these people drooling over the latest iPhones, MacBook Air and other laptops, iPods, iPads, big desktop Apples and so on. Read more »
Christmas has come and gone. People partied, late into the night. They feasted, gorging themselves on rice, chicken, beef stew, matooke, roast goat etc etc, and drank rivers of beer and alcohol. Those mainly in the big towns anyway. Spare a thought for the seriously impoverished, mostly upcountry dwellersthat still went to bed hungry. Even on such a big day as Christmas, which culturally is understood to be a day you eat and drink like there is no tomorrow. Read more »
Welcome to this blog; hope you will be a regular, not to mention engaged reader. I begin the blog not only as a regular (in fact daily) sharing of thoughts and ideas with our readers but also as part of an effort to make the newly revamped website of The Rwanda Focus one with more content, more features and a more exciting website. The Rwanda Focus, ever since we began six years ago has carved itself a niche in Rwanda as the premier investigative, whistle-blowing journal in Kigali – and therefore Rwanda. Read More
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