Eric M Wong is The Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali. As a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S Department of State, he has served in China, Africa, and Washington D.C. This is his second assignment in Rwanda. He first served at the US Embassy in Kigali as Political Officer. Last […]

Rwanda’s economic growth and people getting eager to use technology always bring in new business offered online, and one recently introduced was Hellofood helping men and women of office not to join restaurants to have their food. Introduced only two years ago and available in 45 countries around the world, Hellofood is now available in […]

{Arnaud Ndizihiwe, 22, is a Rwandan student in Australia who was recently selected by Mars One project among 1058 people likely to go starting a human colony on planet Mars by 2025.} This young aspiring Rwandan astronaut who pursues a business degree at S P Jain School of Global Management talked to IGIHE’s Elisée Mpirwa […]

A three-day meeting held in Kigali involving women of 11 countries from the African Network of Women Shelters (ANWS) called for action to women's rights violence. The eleven countries include Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Cameroon, Liberia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the host Rwanda. Under the theme, “Women's Safe […]

The KIST Entrepreneurship Club in collaboration with KIST (Kigali Institute of Science and Technology) is hosting a Global Entrepreneurship Week featured event called “The CleanTech Open”. The Cleantech Open is the world's largest clean technology business competition. The mission of Cleantech Open is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s […]

Rwanda’s artist Riderman (Gatsinzi Emery)arrived Thursday in India where he will perform at a concert to be attended by Rwandans living in India. Organizers of the event say Riderman’s invitation aims at promoting Rwandan music and artists. The event was organized by Rwandan students in the Indian state of Tamilnadu who joined efforts to invite […]

The outgoing speaker of East African Legistlative Assembly Hon. Abdirahim Abdi has commended President Paul Kagame for the support he rendered to the EALA since Rwanda joined the East African Community. Hon. Abdi whose term ends before the end of 2012 was in the country to bid farewell to President Kagame. Abdi thanked president Kagame […]

The Rwanda Development Board officially launched a new national wide campaign titled “Na Yombi” in order to influence behavioral change both in the public and private sector. Clare Akamanzi, the Chief Operating Officer at RDB stressed that the new campaign will create more awareness through public dialogue. “It is different this time because we consulted […]

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the National Bank of Rwanda in partnership with Visa International have launched a Financial Literacy campaign aimed at helping citizens with money management skills. The campaign includes road shows to equip the population with information and tools that will help enable access to financial services. The launch […]

The Rwanda Development Board in partnership with Google, commence a mapping exercise with the objective of increasing access to information and visibility of Rwanda’s tourism attractions on the web. This event dubbed Rwanda Tourism MapUp from March 23rd to 24th 2012, started with team’s road trip from Kigali where key touristic features were mapped and […]