Details seen by RwandaPost show government seeks to cut “unnecessary or non-essential/ non-efficient” spending by institutions, such as those related to official travel, physical meetings, workshops and conferences.
One would not be wrong to call a section of Rwanda’s broadcast stations or at least their programs an extension of the written press that would run out of content and subsequently become irrelevant if men and women at the publications they review every day laid down tools.
Is this possibly the end of evictions to clear slums? Should people bid farewell to the old slum eradication drives that result in unending disputes over compensation payments and miseries for landowners?
The audit flagged 88 cases of idle assets worth Rwf37.2 billion were identified in 49 public institutions. They comprise 54 new cases worth Rwf28.8 billion, and 34 cases worth Rwf8.4 billion flagged by last year’s audit by Mr. Kamuhire’s predecessor Obadiah Biraro.
Soaring inflation means consumers, and especially low income and poor families struggle to afford key food and non-food items, while meeting other households’ expenses such as rent, transport, school fees, water and electric, among other bills.
There is no way the sponsors, just like relevant organs of government, would not have sensed that something was amiss in the Miss Rwanda contest way before things got out of hand.
There has been a rise in incidences of viral online spread of fake news over the recent past from false announcement of death of high ranking officials to defamatory claims that name and shame, and assassinate characters linked to criminal cases under investigations.
According to legal experts house arrest implies the suspect is confined to his or her home and is subjected to certain requirements/restrictions. Details of Mr. Bamporiki’s terms of house arrest were not made public.
Rwanda health ministry Covid-19 data show the last patient was admitted on April 2. There were five patients in total. Four of them were subsequently discharged after recovery.
Schools’ reopening for the third term Monday is expected to induce a further rise in costs of essentials as most rush to the market to fill their stock.
What do humanitarian agencies or the United Nations think of such schemes? Is it legal for a country to transfer its migrants, refugees or asylum seekers abroad, and under what circumstances is it acceptable?
