When supplying something to a government institution, prepare three invoices (because the first two will be lost), and accept to wait for months for your payment. How you manage your cash-flow is your business, as long as you pay your taxes.
In preparation of this year’s legislative elections, the Rwandan Civil Society Platform last week met with the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to examine its role in the process. Eugène Rwibasira, spokesman of the Rwandan Civil Society Platform in discussion with Pierre Damien Habumuremyi, the executive secretary of the National Electoral Commission. Eugène Rwibasira, the spokesperson [...]
Regular commuters will acknowledge that the old taxi park in the city center was a chaotic place. Yet now that it has been closed, the situation has only gotten worse with Rubangura serving as the assembly point for busses. And apparently, nobody is looking for a solution.
Rwanda is preparing to host the first ever East African investment conference. The idea is to market the East African community as a block, rather than individual countries separately promoting their assets.
The Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) last week presented the first ever Kinyarwanda to Kinyarwanda and Kinyarwanda to French dictionary. The three-tome volume will also be condensed into a smaller single volume edition. The director general of IRST, Jean Baptist Nduwayezu, said that in the quest to improve the learning and understanding of [...]
Recently, a new book was presented documenting the genocide in Nyarubuye, written by Privat Rutazibwa and Paul Rutayisire. While presenting the French-language book Génocide à Nyarubuye, Ombudsman Tito Rutaremara explained that his office also had a role to play in the fourteenth genocide commemoration.
In the novel Angels and Demons, the prequel to Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code, a scientist claims to be able to find proof of the existence of God through his research on particles, which are the smallest building blocks of all matter since they cannot be broken down into any other particles.
According to the Millennium Development Goals, Rwanda should be able to cure 85% of its known tuberculosis patients. It reached 86% in 2006. Yet Aids and drugs-resistant TB threaten to spoil the party. Making sure that patients take their medication is an important part of DOTS. “Last year, I developed a heavy cough which lasted [...]
“We are indeed delighted to register our first regional presence outside Kenya in Rwanda, as a recognition of the vibrant local economy and conducive investment conditions,” Nakumatt holdings director Thiagarajan Ramamurthy explained after the signature of the sales contract last week in the UTC complex.
