Doing Business Report : Rwanda’s hopes high
Today the World Bank officially unveils the 2010 Doing Business Report. 183 countries compared to last year’s 181 are awaiting their ranking in the WB report which assesses legal and regulatory environment, to ascertain whether it is condusive to doing business in the respective countries. The report, basing on 10 indicators, mainly focusing (...) Soma ibindi...

UN agency buys food from Rwanda farmers
The World Food Programme (WFP) will purchase foodstuffs from Rwandan farmers as part of a program to increases their incomes and support HIV/Aids patients to supplement their nutritional needs, the agency said. Under a new initiative dubbed Purchase for Progress (P4P), the UN food agency says the programme starting January next year targets (...) Soma ibindi...

EAC to present report on education harmonisation
As part of the efforts geared towards deepening regional integration, the East African Community (EAC) will soon submit findings on how education systems in the region can be harmonised. The findings, according to EAC Affairs Minister, Monique Mukaruliza, will be presented during the last round of the Common Market negotiations scheduled for (...) Soma ibindi...

Business reforms boost investment
As the country gears up for the 2010 World Bank Doing Business Report, assessment done by RDB and the Commerce Ministry indicates that major reforms done to boost the investment climate have increased investment levels, despite the Global Financial Crisis. Addressing a Press Conference at MINICOM yesterday, Clare Akamanzi, the RDB Deputy CEO (...) Soma ibindi...

French commission member becomes Senator
Prof. Jose Kagabo, one of the seven commissioners who investigated the role of France in the 1994 Genocide has been named Senator by President Paul Kagame, RNA reports. ImageA renowned historian who has been teaching at several French universities, Prof. Kagabo was the documented voice on the two-year commission which released the highly (...) Soma ibindi...

EAC members to agree on joint defence policies
East African Community (EAC) partner States have agreed that suspected criminals arrested abroad be handed back to their countries of origin. They also agreed to form a Combined Joint Task Force of 1,556 personnel, including key stakeholders, from the five EAC Partner States. The move aims to promote peace, counter terrorism and manage (...) Soma ibindi...

HIV vaccine research gets major boost
Scientists searching for an HIV/Aids vaccine have discovered two powerful new antibodies to HIV which they say could aid development of a vaccine – as a WHO conference concludes in Kigali, RNA reports. After more than a decade of research, these antibodies are the first of their type to be identified, according to findings by the International (...) Soma ibindi...

Belgian defence chief to visit
The Chief of Belgian Defence (CHOD), Gen Charles-Henri Delcour, is expected in Kigali tomorrow for a four-day visit. Gen Delcour will hold talks with his Rwandan counterpart, Gen. James Kabarebe on a wide range of issues to enhance the excellent bilateral military cooperation already existing between the two armies. According to the Rwanda (...) Soma ibindi...

EAC Federation: Big ambitions, big question-marks
What exactly is “East Africa” these days? The idea of a United States of East Africa is less far-fetched than it was. Certainly, the parts of old British East Africa—Uganda, Tanzania (first a German colony) and Kenya. They have trodden very different paths since colonial days. Uganda has had coups, turmoil under Milton Obote, bloody convulsions (...) Soma ibindi...

Couple on Gacaca trial over genocide
A semi-traditional Kigali Gacaca Court has been trying for two months a man and his wife for their alleged role in the genocide committed against mainly ethnic Tutsis in 1994, reports Hirondelle Agency. Vincent Uzarama and Odette Uwimana, who are tried before the gacaca court of Nyakabanda, are accused of complicity in the murder of Berthilde (...) Soma ibindi...