To achieve business success in an environment of global competition, innovative ideas fueled by mutual collaboration is a key tool. That is the idea behind Kigali Business Inspiration, an initiative which was launched on Thursday.
A newly launched web portal aims to inform and connect private investors in Africa and Europe with the objective to develop economic activity in several African countries, including Rwanda.
Tigo Rwanda has launched an HIV/AIDS policy that promotes awareness of the disease amongst its employees and partners, while providing and encouraging testing, as well as care and support at the workplace for those affected.
Rwandan politics tend to be quiet. For some time now, the public has shown little appetite for loud political discussions. Even last year during the presidential campaigns and elections you did not sense that passions were about to run out of hand or anything like that. Most Rwandans seem only to want to get on with their lives with as little fuss as possible.
Jim Tumwebaze, a Ugandan working in Rwanda is fond of telling the story that, for him, highlights the cultural differences between the two countries. He had been asked by his previous landlady to leave her house because she did not approve of his girlfriend – who followed him from Uganda – moving in with him.
While condoms are important tools in the fight against sexually transmitted disease and excessive population growth, many people are still embarrassed to be seen buying them. An unlikely actor is now trying to help them overcome that reluctance.
For many years now, public transport in Kigali City has been a real nightmare, especially during the morning and evening rush hour, when commuters have to wait for ages to find an empty seat in a bus. One company that is in the vanguard of improving this situation is Kigali Bus Services (KBS). KBS is [...]
A foreigner’s tales of making it in Rwanda Deciding to move to Rwanda four months ago was one thing. Settling on a place to stay proved a whole other battle. Although back home I had speed dial number for a broker in case I needed to move; I had no such luxury here. Another advantage [...]
With many anxieties popping up during pregnancy, expecting women – especially over weight ones – also have to keep an eye out for the possibility of developing gestational diabetes (or gestational diabetes mellitus, GDM). GDM is, according to Dr. J. Bosco Mpatswe Mugabo, a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood [...]
The Rwanda Focus congratulates all those candidates who have won their senatorial polls and are now ready to serve. The National Electoral Commission has done exemplary work in organising and supervising the polls and we look forward to more years of service from them (NEC). Obviously the naysayers and critics and scoffers will be saying [...]
