The evolution of certain health indicators over the last three years shows that public health is improving. Yet major efforts remain to be done, especially in the field of family planning and infant and maternal mortality.
After a 5 years pilot study of child survival in Nyamasheke which registerd success, a new community-based health program to combat child mortality from malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea was officially launched in Nyamagabe district.
The conference is slated for 26-28 June, and among the topics local business leaders expect to have addressed, they say, are some of the new reforms RIEPA and collaborating government agencies have put in place to make Rwanda a more business-friendly investment destination.
With the help of the Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA), the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) wants to fully digitalize its operation in order to become more efficient. To this effect, the two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding last Friday which is aimed at facilitating synergy in the area of statistics such [...]
Kamal Desai, head of Colina Enterprises the company that sold a web printing press to Rwanda has been staying at the Serena for a week now, getting up early in the morning daily expecting to talk to Oscar Kimanuka so they can map the way forward. Mr Kimanuka has so far avoided him.
Mr Kimanuka’s troubles began when he decided to take a round-about route in trying to explain an allegation by one journalist of a private newspaper who said TV Rwanda would not air images of supposedly unhygienic food at the Le Printemps hotel in Kimironko.
Take six young men, all singers. Add Hip-Hop. Let them simmer in creativity and craziness for music. The result is the Chiizi Family. Chiizi Family is a group five young Hip-Hop talents, who explain the Swahili name of their group as meaning “creativity and crazy in music” (although the africanlanguages.com website also translates it as [...]
A purchase agreement between Electrogaz and gas extraction firm Contour Global may mean cheaper electricity for Rwanda—but will it be more reliable? Local power players are poised to sign two major methane contracts that may reduce the cost of electricity for Rwandans—but the new form of fuel won’t fix old problems with an ageing power [...]
The Rwandan Office for Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN) initiated the gorilla naming ceremony as a way to celebrate conservation success, raise awareness of the gorillas and promote Rwanda as a tourist destination.
About Frw 1.6 billion worth of checks were found to have expired in the drawers at the ministry of commerce, Frw 1.4 billion of which were revenue from a Japanese fuel grant.
