With road closures being enforced to ease movement in and around locations that will host delegates and events of the summit, Rwanda National Police (RNP) announced its traffic department will be issuing daily traffic advisories.
Rwanda’s National Institute of Statistics (NISR) report shows costs of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which had increased by 15.7 per cent and 5.5 per cent on annual and monthly basis in April again rose by 24.2 per cent.
This is yet another rise after petrol and diesel prices had increased for the fourth consecutive time to Rwf1,359 and Rwf1,368 respectively on April 4.
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.
Effects of both the rising cost of living and unemployment have seen families do without some basic necessities or make shifts in spending as costs outstripped incomes for majority who derive a living from work in the informal sector.
The consumer rights lobby group is of the view that it is high time for government to consider the widening mismatch between current market prices and people’s purchasing power.
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The gauge of routine changes in the cost of living nationally shows the index increased to 7.5 per cent last month from 5.8 per cent in February after prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 10.2 per cent on annual basis and 5.1 per cent on monthly change.
Fuel costs in the latest review are the most expensive ever recorded in the country in recent years, and will likely see producers and manufacturers, yet again, hike prices of products to levels beyond reach of majority in the low income earner and the poor brackets.
