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Rwanda’s poor customer care scares away tourists.
Every Rwandan prides in them because several world influential persons are increasingly visiting Rwanda just to glance at the rare giant mountain gorillas in the cold Virunga Volcano Mountains. While at the Gorilla naming ceremony in 2005, the Director General of Office of Rwanda Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN) Rosette Rugamba disclosed that by then about 90,000 people from over eighty countries in the world had since visited Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas.
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Africa’s success won’t come from WTO, charities.
Africa’s success will not come to fruition if major aid donors who happen to dominate opposition at the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks continue using their leverage to force poor nations into accepting less. A threat to withhold aid is more significant as individual regimes know how crucial the monies are for survival. That is why many African finance ministers declared success after the ministerial meeting in Asia when actually nothing of substance was achieved.
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HIDA could help institutions to deliver.
If well implemented and subsequently accepted, the Multi-Sector Capacity Building Programme (MSCBP) could help knock out the vacuum in the country’s public administration which has been characterized by deficiency in infrastructure, poor policies and deployment of personnel in public service without requisite aptitude.
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Human traffickers transit Rwanda.
Human traffickers of Europe-bound Somalis have transited through Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda and flown out of Burundi for the past three months without any intervention from governments involved.
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Kabuga may sour Rwanda-EAC relations -Kenyan envoy.
The Kenyan Ambassador to Rwanda H.E. Ketter Alex has expressed concern that the unresolved issue involving Felicien Kabuga wanted for charges in the Rwandan 1994 genocide and subsequent crimes against humanity might ruin the general cooperation between Rwanda and the East African Community.
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ORTPN, Microsoft in e-tourism partnership
Following the recent conference held in Cape town, South Africa that was aimed at identifying methods of improving tourism industry’s competitiveness and quality in developing countries especially those of Africa, ORTPN has disclosed that it has been selected alongside with South Africa both to act as models for e-tourism.
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Ubudehe to get Frw 40 billion until 2011
A poverty reduction strategy Ubudehe that uses a bottom-up participatory approach has won the approval of the EU which has pledged Frw 40 billion for the next 5 years. EU representative David Mcrae made an impassioned speech to the EU to give Ubudehe 8 billion every year until 2011.This year, Ubudehe received Euro 10 million, about Frw 7 billion which was shared by over 9000 cells throughout the country in order to build public and private wealth. The money also boosted the finacial base of local finance companies especially Banque Populaire, a citizens bank with branches throughout the country.
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