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August 09, 2012

Diaspora students tour development projects

Nyagatare – Students from the Diaspora currently undergoing civic education training at the Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, Tuesday, toured several development projects in the Eastern Province.

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Power utility decries theft of electric cables

Electric cable wires have been targets of thieves causing financial losses to Energy Water, and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) in Ngoma District.

Business »

Coffee exports up, tea revenues slip

Rwanda’s export receipts rose by 25.13 per cent in the fist half of this year, driven mainly by the rise in coffee exports, according to the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR)

Sports »

Nirisarike finally released for Junior Wasps qualifier

BELGIUM club Antwerp has finally released defender Salomon Nirisarike to play for the junior wasps against Mali in the return leg of the Africa Youth Championship qualifier due on Saturday.

Entertainment »

‘Kinyarwanda’ shown to locals

Award-winning movie, “Kinyarwanda” was recently screened to hundreds of cinema-goers at Ishyo Arts Centre’s Theatre Hall in Kigali.

I received a message from a European friend recently asking me why Rwanda was again at war with its vast neighbour, DRC. As I laboured to explain the background to this crisis and showing how DRC’s conflict is a cocktail of so many interests at hand, he’s questions only pointed to one thing: the ignorance out there on the real problems that sparked the latest wave of fighting.

Commentary »

The urgent quest for Ebola vaccine

When President Yoweri Museveni went on air to emphatically caution Ugandans on the recent Ebola outbreak, it underlined the defencelessness, not only of the Ugandans, but of the regional and global citizen for lack of available drug or vaccine against the virus.

Europe’s crisis of tongues

Insight »

Q&A: Immaculate Mukankaka has moved from a tragic past to spinning a great future for herself

Pelagie N Mbabazi talked to Immaculate Mukankaka, the founder of Bed Cover Products, on the sidelines of the 2012 Expo. Below are excerpts:

Can you tell us about yourself?

I was born 26 years ago to the of late Leostauce Habyarimana and Clemance Mukasinave. I was born in Cyangungu in Kamembe Commune in a family of four boys and four girls.
I never had a chance to attend school because in 1994, shortly before the Genocide against the Tutsi, my parents sent me to stay with my brothers in Kigali, one who was doing business and the other who had just completed his studies in Ivory Coast. Almost immediately after, the Genocide begun and my dream of going to school ended.

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Building a secure clean green city

The spick-and-span in the City of Kigali has come into being as a result of several deliberate efforts crafted by the policy makers, implemented by the technical staff managing the affairs of the city, with the full embrace and ownership by the Kigali citizenry.