Entrepreneurs Holdup District Development
Mayors have revealed that entrepreneurs play a big role delaying implementation of the performance contracts districts pledge when they delay to implement tenders they win.
During a provincial meeting with partners on...
Kamonyi Civil Servants Lay New Strategies on Labor Day
While celebrating this year’s Labor Day (1st May 2012), Kamonyi Civil Servants spared time to look into their routine structure of work and make some resolutions.
Kamonyi District Mayor Jacques Rutsinga called...
Muhanga: Genocide Survivors Ask for Aid
Genocide survivors request their supporters to help them with something to do and save for the future instead of being given food that does not last.
The 1994 genocide against Tutsi survivors...
Rwandan Politics: Decentralization policy, the path to Rwandans’ Maturity
It is highly believed that the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was possible due to the presence of a sub culture of passive obedience, created by the past governments which left...
Rwandan Politics: Poverty Eradication, a Priority of the Current Leadership
In 2007, the government adopted the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). The strategy at the time set out the country’s objectives, priorities and major policies for five years (2008-2012).
It...
Rwanda is “BEST PLACE” for Women Politicians – Study Reveals
Are you a woman and thinking of a career in politics anywhere on earth? Rwanda is that single country where you have much chance of rising through the corridors of power,...
Like Father, Like Son – Appeal Dismissed
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana and his son Gerald Ntakirutimana in December 2005 lost their appeal against conviction handed to them by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , based in Arusha, Tanzania.
Judges at...
From Warriors to Peace Makers: The Women of ‘NDABAGA’
During the civil war in Rwanda in 1994, military units on both sides of the conflict included women among their ranks. The number of women in combat was 339. They had...
Media in Conflict During the Rwanda Genocide
The 1994 Rwandan genocide is the seminal example of the use of media as a tool to instigate conflict. By now the tragic series of events is well-known. Following an April...
GENOCIDE: When Gender Didn’t Matter
"I didn't intend to commit genocide. It is my children. I didn't plan to kill my children", Ancila says
Ancila Mukaminega a prisoner, was married to a Tutsi. She says she killed...
