Kigali City Council has been demolishing slum houses and shacks in Rugenge, the area popularly called Kiyovu cy’Abakene. The bulldozers, with policemen standing on guard, have been flattening the shacks, some of them still with tenants in them.
It must have been one of the BBC World Service’s lowest moments. During the London concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, the anchor of a radio news program asked the reporter at the party if the man himself had already arrived. To which the obviously junior journalist replied: “No, Nelson is not yet here…” [...]
Columnist Rugumire Makuza takes a quasi humorist, half angry look at the ravages of humankind on nature and the environment. “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague …” says the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix. This about sums up man’s so called ‘development’ and the toll [...]
James Gashagaja is recovering from malaria at the Kicukiro health center. He has spent almost a week in there, and is now worried about the bill he will have to pay. Mr. Gashagaja does not have any medical insurance.
The Secretary General in the ministry of health, Caroline Kayonga has announced that a fresh round of ant-malaria spraying is due to start in the second week of August. Last year the Minisante conducted the first Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) exercise with the support of the US President’s Malaria Initiative.
Cell phone companies are contending for a third spot in Rwanda’s lucrative telecom market—but is it a fair fight? When the government launched the bidding process for a third telecom spot this June, keen investors the world over were expected rush in with their bids.
The author of this article had contacted Ms Coralie PIRON, Managing Director of THOMAS & PIRON in Rwanda, with a view to interviewing her concerning the current difficulties between the Housing Bank the Social Security Fund of Rwanda and our company.
A few weeks ago, suddenly BRALIRWA products increased in price. However, customers didn’t bother too much thinking that the two consecutive holidays at the beginning of the month (Independence Day on July 1 and Liberation Day on July 4) were the cause and that things would get back to normal soon.
A group of 13 volunteers from Belgium and 6 Rwandans working with Rwandan Red Cross are helping in the construction of 150 houses in Rurenge sector Ngoma district for the returnees coming from Tanzania. 103 houses will be occupied by the returnees and 47 will be given to vulnerable people in Rurenge.
A novel project wants to promote both a healthy diet and family planning by giving kitchen gardens to women. It is often said that if you want to develop a nation, you should start with the women since they cause the biggest trickle-down effect. This applies even more when you want to feed a nation. [...]
