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JUNE 2014 ISSUE 41 Telling Rwanda’s Story Magazine FREE COPY Twenty years of building the Cityof KigAli www.hope-mag.comwww.hope-mag.com The management and staff of RULIBA CLAYS LIMITED wish all Rwandans a Happy 20th National Liberation Day COVER Twenty Years of Building the CITY OF KIGALI HIGHLIGHTS The main achievement to me is the 22 Police on GBV improvement of service delivery to the residents of the city. Developing 7- EDITORIAL City of Kigali epitomises 20 infrastructure is important but more years of liberation important is ensuring that the population can access what they need and are entitled 8 - KCC 20 years of building a secure to, more easily. Service improvement has economically viable City been achieved through two developments; 22- POLICE Confronting GBV head-on the decentralization process that enabled many services which had in the past 24- MTN 21 days of MTN’s Y’ello Care, a been sought from the highest office to be perfect model of sustained outreach taken closer the residents. Considering the 26- RDB What you need to know about governance structures of the city before reforms in doing business and immediately after the genocide, Kigali was a Prefecture under the leadership of a 36- SKOL Skol Lager; everything that Prefect who was charged with offering every Rwandans like in a beer service. 44- KPA Kenya Ports Authority Kigali City of Kigali Mayor Liaison Office Guarantees world-class Fidele Ndayisaba service to Rwandan traders 48- BMC Bio Medical Centre Cherishing contribution to Rwanda’s health 51- TIGO a World first, Tigo’s parent, Company Millicom acquires Rswitch Rwanda 55- IMA- International Maritime Agency Rwanda Offering all-round logistical solutions 56- TOPSEC-Ten years of offering unequaled security services 60- TUMBA College of Technology - Linking RDB Bussiness Reforms skills development to market needs 4 June 2014 Issue 41 JUNE 2014 ISSUE 41 PUBLISHER’S WORD HOPE TEAM Abraham Rumanzi Albert Ndata Amanda Simbi Christela Umuhire City of Kigali epitomises Gahima Vital Karugahe Mutoni L. Latim Lawrence W. 20 years of liberation Manzi Joseph Matthew Rwahigi Muziba Sheilah Rwanda’s walk in the last twenty years has been a long one, Ndella Rugema I. bumpy and sometimes stormy; but the leadership of the Nyiridandi Jacky country has unwaveringly remained focused, steering every Rebero Daniel sector of the economy, every area of the polity and rebuilding of the social fabric into vibrancy. PUBLISHED BY Hope Magazine Ltd, ity of Kigali is the epitome of this development that has infrastructures defiantly grow, social services and amenities strewn and taken nearer to the people with the quality of life tremendously improving for the better. The citizenry have ADVERTISING & grabbed the opportunities so created in Kigali and using the established facilities Cto further promote and get involved in trade, services and improving the quality. GENERAL INQUIRIES P.O. Box 6176 City of Kigali competitiveness has been a great blessing to the growing tourism Kigali-Rwanda industry. The quality of services rendered in all different sectors; transport, hotel, +250 788 524189 / clearing and forwarding, attracting investors, issuing construction permits and attending to the citizenry with a clear sense of considering timeliness have translated +250 788 404138 into a consistent growth. [email protected] Website: hope-mag.com Unplanned settlements of spontaneously erected buildings that were making it difficult to connect households to the water system, collection of garbage and other services are gradually phasing out, disaster management is getting better and with a good network of health facilities, disease management is also some of the best in region. COPYRIGHT 2013 Today to approve any new building plan, it has to meet all the yardsticks of sanitation, reserved by Hope hygiene and landscape considerations. There is zero tolerance to unauthorized Magazine Hope illegal constructions. This is done in the spirit of preventing disasters and avoiding Magazine a monthly suffocation. In these and more senses, City of Kigali epitomises Rwanda’s journey of Magazine is published successfully transforming from smoldering into consistent vibrancy. by Hope Magazine Limited. All rights reserved. The opinions expressed We appreciate your feedback. Please keep sending more on [email protected] or visit in the magazine are not www.hope-mag.com to post your comment on any published story. necessarily those of the We shall pick it and respond to you asap! editors and publishers of Hope Magazine. Rebero Daniel Care is taken to ensure accuracy, Hope Magazine assume no liability for error or omissions in this publication. All Advertisements are taken in good faith, opinions and views contained herein are not necessarily those of the Publisher. All copyrights and trademarks are recognized. No part of this publication or any part of the contents thereof may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system or transmitted in any form without written permission by Hope Magazine. An exemption is hereby granted for extracts with the purpose of fair review. © 2013 www.hope-mag.com 7 KWIBOHORA 20 2020 yearsyears ofof buildingbuilding aa secure,secure, economicallyeconomically viableviable citycity Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda, situated in the centre of the nation, and has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda since it became capital at independence in 1962. It has a population of approximately 1.2 million people. he city is built in a hilly contender to be the capital of the new had been pulled, beginning nationwide country, sprawling across independent nation, but Kigali was massacres of Tutsis across Rwanda. about eight ridges and the chosen because of its more central Though the onslaught had was planned Tvalleys in between. The city location. Kigali was part of German East and spontaneously carried out across centre is located on one of these Africa from 1890 to1916, when it was the country, the toll that the genocide ridges, with the main government captured by allied forces during World had on Kigali was more amplified area on another. War I. As part of the former Ruanda- for it was the seat for the genocidal Urundi territory, it came in trust under government and home to the infamous Kigali also is an important centre for Belgian control from 1919–1962, when RTLM radio station which mobilized trade in local produce. the independent states of Rwanda and the Hutu population to turn the blades The city was founded in 1907 Burundi were created. of their machetes onto their neighbors, under German colonial rule, but family members, and friends. did not become the capital until hen the plane carrying Rwanda’s independence in 1962. Rwandan President Juvenal Besides the destruction of the city’s The traditional capital was the seat Habyarimana and Cyprien population, especially the elites who of the Umwami (king) in Nyanza, WNtaryamira of Burundi was were to build it, the genocide tramped while the colonial seat of power was shot down on April 7th in 1994 as it Kigali’s nascent infrastructure as in Butare, then known as Astrida. descended on Kigali, the trigger that the uncontrolled mobs roamed its streets Butare was initially the leading genocidal government had waited for taking the lives of her own, burning 8 June 2014 Issue 41 KWIBOHORA 20 roads and destroying buildings with bombs being reinforced by the partisan army of the time. Reconstruction n the aftermath of the genocide, the government of Rwanda embarked on an ambitious plan to Irebuild the country’s capital and it competitive on the international stage; to attract investments and thus fast track the nation’s development. Dramatic population increase has been recorded over the past two decades with the post genocide period being the time this city experienced the highest population growth. This was because most of the returning Rwandans tended to go to the capital where there was considerable security. The post 1994 Kigali witnessed a boom in construction but equally in many other sectors of the economy. Business in Rwanda is growing, and many new buildings are emerging The Mayor of Kigali, Mr Fidele Ndayisaba across the city. Tourism provides an important input into the economy of the city which also is home to Mr. Fidele Ndayisaba explains, the and during the genocide because of Kigali International Airport. It is the challenges that Rwanda faced in 1994 many reasons including the fact that hub of Rwanda’s transport network, and the very make up of the genocide even the demarcations of the city with hourly express bus routes to all founded the Rwandan spirit that has increased to result into an area more major towns in the country. taken the country and city forward. than double the initial size. The city is now has an area of over 730km2. In an interview, the Mayor shares a number of key factors that have seen In terms of population, we have also Kigali repackage itself as a global more than doubled from about 500,000 beacon of successful urbanization, from people to over 1.2 million, according to the city that was almost known only the 2012 statistics. for the genocide that tore its social This increase in size and population & and economic fabric apart. Here are is no accidental occurrence but one Q A excerpts of the interview. that has been driven by constantly eing the capital of Rwanda, improving infrastructure and facilities Kigali was at the centre of Q: Take us through the journey in the city; which have not only the 1994 genocide against Kigali has travelled these last 20 attracted Rwandans from across the the Tutsi planned and country but also an ever widening B years? executed under the watch of the expatriate community.