Kigali

Rwanda: Bonds Issue to Go On

Posted to the web 3 November 2008 Mark Kapchanga Nairobi Despite the gloomy outlook in the global financial markets, Rwanda will go on with its issuance of municipal bonds to finance the modernisation of Kigali. Executive...

MTN Airtime Prices Hiked By 50 Per Cent

Kigali Vendors in Rusizi district have doubled the prices of MTN airtime vouchers as the franchise in the area runs out of stock. By press time, a Rwf500 airtime voucher had shot to Rwf1,000. That of Rwf1,500 was selling at...

EIF Drafts Support Plan for Entrepreneurial Development

Kigali The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a trade support project has drafted a five year plan for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SMEs). The project is aimed at SMEs' development by bridging the gap between demand and...

Youth Laud Gov't on Regional Integration

Posted to the web 4 November 2008 Our Reporter Kigali Youth civil society organisations last Friday in a joint statement commended the government for its regional integration efforts. This was on the eve of celebrating the 2nd...

Central Africa: Why Kabila, Kagame Must Negotiate

The fresh violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), leaves no option but for Kinshasa and Kigali to negotiate. The international community has also weighed in, with the United Nations and the Louis Michel, the...

Greetings With a Difference

Posted to the web 3 November 2008 Kigali KELVIN ODOOBO discovers a card business that is simultaneously making money and changing lives A nondescript grey building by the roadside in the Kigali suburb of Rubilizi is anything...

Oxfam Launches Strategic Direction

Posted to the web 3 November 2008 Charles Kwizera Kigali A five-year strategic program, Peace Consolidation and Livelihoods Development in Rwanda, was on Friday launched by Oxfam Great Britain (GB), at Novotel Hotel, Kigali....

Wife Regrets Burning Husband With Hot Cooking Oil

Posted to the web 3 November 2008 Grace Mugoya Kigali Kayitesi Feza 26, is married to Sinayobye Juvenal 28 who is now admitted in the surgery ward at University Hospital Centre ( U.H.C ) in Kigali. A mother of four and nine...

Reptiles, Rockstars, Respite Under the Zanzibar Sun

From Arab merchants to Portuguese explorers to Omani ivory-sellers and British missionaries, Zanzibar has had more than its share of visitors over the years. Now, with new direct flights to Nairobi, Kampala and Kigali, as well...

RWANDA: Aggressive campaign to protect mums and babies

KIGALI, 3 November 2008 (PlusNews) - While neighbouring countries struggle to get pregnant women to visit antenatal centres, women in Rwanda seem to be flocking to them. Rwanda manages to reach 72 percent of pregnant women with...