After fencing the Akagera National Park, for the first time in Rwanda the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) will accept for the people who want to keep wild animals and to bring animals that were rare in Rwandan national parks.

The fact that Akagera National Park is small compared to the animals that live in it and what to feed them caused many problems in the past like animals escaping from the park and destroying people’s crops and even killing people,  Télésphore Ngoga who is in charge of National Parks in RDB.

Ngoga went on to say that this problem is being fixed by fencing this national park and they will remain with only the animals that they can take care of and which will not destroy people’s crops or kill them.

Ngoga said that after fencing this national park, local people might get the authority to own some of the wild animals that used to be in this park. “If a person can pay to watch impala in the park, why can’t a person have a zoo of his/her own and see them instead of finding them in the park? Like in other countries where a person can have their parks with animals like antelopes, buffaloes, crocodiles and they are used to make a living.

Apart from giving local people authority to own animals, many other animal species will be brought to Rwanda like lions, rhinoceros and others. For this to be possible, people have to first accept and show willingness to rear wild animals and the government to make laws that will guide the process.

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abikorera bo mu karere ka Rubavu taliki ya 29 Kanama,2012 bateguye igikorwa cyo kwibuka abazize jenoside yakorewe abatutsi muri Mata 1994, aho bashoboye no gutanga inkunga igera kuri Miliyoni bateye igikorwa cyo kubuka urwibutso rwiswe Komini Rouge.

Nkuko byasobanuwe na Hitayezu Dirgea ngo kuba barateguye ibikorwa byo kwibuka nyuma y’iminsi 100 nuburyo bwo kugaragariza ko abantu badakwiye kwibuka iriya minsi 100 gusa ahubwo igihe cyose umunyarwanda afite inshingano yo kwibuka abazize jenoside yakorewe abatutsi aharanira ko ibyabaye bitasubira.

Hitayezu avuga ko uretse no gushishikariza buri munyarwanda guhora yibuka ibyabaye byanajyanye no gushaka n’uburyo bwo gushyigikira igikorwa cyo kubaka urwibutso rwiswe Komini Rouge kubera ubwicanyi bwahakorewe burimo n’igerageza rya Jenoside mbere 1994.

Kabanda Innocent perezida wa Ibuka mu karere ka Rubavu akaba atangaza ko u rwibutso rwiswe Komini rouge ruzuzura rutwaye akayabo ka miliyoni zirenga 170 ubu amaze gutangwa akaba agera kuri miliyoni 50 kandi bizera ko n’andi azaboneka kuko uru rwibutso rufite amateka menshi.

U rwibutso rwa Komini Rouge ruherereye mu mujyi wa Gisenyi, rukaba rushyinguyemo abantu bataramenyekana umubare kuko mbere ya jenoside hari irimbi kandi igerageza rya jenoside ryakorewe abatutsi mu Bigogwe, Kibirira na Nkuri mbere ya Jenoside abishwe bose bajugunywe muri iri rimbi.

Hakaba hacyekwa ko haba harajugunywe imibiri igera kuri 3000 batarashyingurwa mucybahiro, ngo nubwo uyu mubare ushobora no kurenga bitewe n’uko abantu bavuye Kigali no muzindi Ntara biciwe Gisenyi ariho bajugunywe kandi batari bazwi.

Mucyifuzo cy’akarere ka Rubavu ni uko uru rwibutso mu cyunamo cya 2013 rwaba rwuzuye kandi imirimo yo kubaka ikaba yaratangiye bityo abafite ababo bahajugunywe bakaba bashyingurwa mucyubahiro.

Haracyabura inkunga bemerewe na Minisiteri y’umuco na Sport kugira ngo urwibutso rube rwubatse neza,rurwanije ubukonje bityo ntirwangirike;kuko bitewe n’ubukonje amarangi agenda yomoka ,akangirika akanasa nabi

Nk’uko twabitangarijwe n’uwunganira ushinzwe inzibutso mu karere ka Nyabihu Murwanashyaka Bosco,urwibutso rw’abazize jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi  rw’akarere ka Nyabihu rufite ikibazo cya “Humidité” cyangwa se ubukonje burimo imbere,ku buryo hari impungenge ko ubu bukonje bushobora kuba bwarwangiza.

Kubera ubu bukonje,amarangi bashyizemo agenda yangirika ku buryo bagerageje no gushyiraho irindi nabyo ngo biba iby’ubusa. Igitera ibi byose ariko ngo kikaba ari uko ubusanzwe uru rwibutso rwari rwaragenwe kubakwa mu buryo bwa “etage”,bufite “cave” cyangwa se bufite igice cyo munsi hari n’ikindi gice kiri hejuru.

Kugeza ubu kuri uru rwibutso hubatse igice cyo hasi gusa nyamara haragombaga kongerwaho igice cyo hejuru,kiriho andi mazu hanasakaye ku buryo urwibutso ruba rusakaye neza nta kibazo cy’amazi nk’uko Murwanashyaka Bosco yabidutangarije. Kuba haragombaga kubakwa igice cyo hasi no hejuru,hakaba harubatswe igice cyo hasi gusa ngo nibyo bikurura ikibazo, kuko urwibutso rudasakaye bityo iyo imvura iguye amazi agwa hejuru kuri beto,bikaba byakurura ubukonje imbere.

Ku birebana n’imyubakire y’uru rwibutso, mu mwaka wa 2010, Minisiteri y’umuco na Sport yari yarabemereye inkunga ingana na miliyoni 65 zo gukomeza kubaka urwo rwibutso,nyamara kugeza ubu ntayo barabona ngo babe bakomeza iyi mirimo yo kurwubaka. Bosco avuga ko bagerageje kwandikira iyi Minisiteri,nayo ikandikira CNL J ariko kugeza ubu bakaba nta gisubizo bari babona. Hakaba hategerejwe ko izo nzego zagira icyo zikora kuko akarere ngo kagerageje uko gashoboye kose kuri iki kibazo.

Akarere ubwako kakaba kamaze gutanga amafaranga asaga miliyoni 40 mu ku nyubako y’uru rwibutso. Rukaba kugeza ubu rwubakiye, rukoteye,rufite ubusitani  bukoze mu nyuguti zigaragaza ko ari urwibutso  hakaba hari n’umukozi uhoraho ukurikirana imirimo yo gukora isuku yarwo uko bwije n’uko bukeye .  Gusa ikibazo gihari ngo kikaba ari igice cyo hejuru kitarongerwaho ngo rube rusakaye neza kandi rwubatse ku buryo bwateganijwe.Mu myubakire yarwo hakaba hari hateganijwe amafaranga agera kuri miliyoni 105 ngo rube rurangiye neza nk’uko byagenwe. Asigaye akaba agera kuri miliyoni 65, ari nayo Minisiteri yari yarabemereye kugeza ubu bakaba bakiyategereje.

Bamwe mu bayobozi bakuru b’igihugu barimo na Minisitiri w’intebe Dr Pierre Damien Habumuremyi bishimiye ko ikiyaga cya Karago cyasubiye ku murongo,kinasubirana amazi cyahoranye

Ikiyaga cya Karago,giherereye mu karere ka Nyabihu mu murenge wa Karago. Mu myaka ishize iki kiyaga kikaba cyarangijwe cyane n’isuri yatewe ahanini n’iyangirika ry’imisozi y’ahahoze ishyamba rya Gishwati. Iyi misozi y’ahahoze ishyamba rya Gishwati yatemweho ibiti ku buryo bukabije,isigara isa n’iyambaye ubusa ku buryo bworoheye cyane isuri kujya imanura ubutaka kuri iyo misozi,igaca inkangu ,zigahitana abantu,amatungo n’ibintu.

Iyo suri yamanukaga kuri iyo misozi ,niyo yirohaga mu mugezi wa Nyamukongoro wisuka mu kiyaga cya Karago bityo iyo suri ikiroha no mu kiyaga inyuze muri Nyamukongoro,ibyo bikaba byaratumye cyangirika ku buryo igice kimwe kingana na ha 10 z’ubuso bwa Karago cyari cyarakamye nk’uko Karambizi Benjamin ushinzwe ibidukikije mu karere ka Nyabihu yabidutangarije.

Imirimo myinshi yarakozwe mu rwego rwo kubungabunga ikiyaga cya Karago,umugezi wa Nyamukongoro n’imisozi yamanukagaho isuri yacyangizaga

Inzego zitandukanye zarahagurutse mu rwego rwo gukemura ikibazo cya Karago ndetse n’imisozi y’ahahoze ishyamba rya Gishwati n’umugezi wa Nyamukongoro byari nyirabayazana w’iyangirika ryacyo,aha bateraga ibiti ku misozi y’ahahoze Gishwati hirindwa isuri harengerwa n’ibidukikije

Nk’uko Karambizi Benjamin yabidutangarije,imirimo myinshi yarakozwe mu rwego rwo kubungabunga ikiyaga cya Karago nk’umutungo kamere, hanakemurwa ahanini nyirabayanaza y’iki kibazo.

Bimwe mu by’ibanze byakozwe n’inzego z’akarere ndetse n’iz’igihugu mu kubungabunga ikiyaga cya karago,hakaba harimo kurwanya isuri no gutera ibiti. Hakaba hararwanijwe isuri ku misozi ya Rubare na Cyamabuye yo mu murenge wa Karago iterwaho ibiti. Iyi misozi ikaba yarateweho ibiti kuri ha 55, hanacukurwa imiringoti kuri iyo misozi yavagaho isuri nyinshi. Ikindi kandi ngo hakaba hazabungabungwa zigera kuri 800 ku misozi ikunze kumanukaho isuri yangiza ikiyaga kugira ngo amazi yacyo azase neza.

Habungabunzwe kandi inkengero z’umugezi wa Nyamukongoro wiroha mu kiyaga cya Karago hakaba harasinzwe 10m ku nkengero zawo ku burebure bwa km 8, uhereye aho Nyamukongoro itandukanye ku isoko,ukageza ahagana aho yisukira mu kiyaga cya Karago . Iki gikorwa kikaba cyarakozwe ku nkunga y’ikigo cy’igihugu gishinzwe kwita ku bidukikije REMA.

Ku nkunga ya Minisiteri y’umutungo kamere MINIRENA  hakaba harubatswe urugomero rutangira amazi ya Karago yavagamo akangiriza abaturage. Aha igikorwa cyari kigikorwa

Mu rwego rwo kubungabunga ikiyaga cya Karago ku buryo burambye,Minisiteri y’umutungo kamere yubatse urugomero “barrage” yo gutangira amazi yasohokaga mu kiyaga cya Karago akangiza. Ubusanzwe Karago ikaba yari ifite metero zigera kuri 2 z’ubujyakuzimu, MINIRENA ikaba yarubatse urugomero rugera kuri m 4 bikaba byarongereye karago uburebure aho yageze ku bujyakuzimu bugera  kuri m 6.

Kubera imirimo itandukanye yakozwe,ikiyaga cya Karago cyasubiranye amazi cyahoranye ariko hari ibindi bigomba gukorwa

Ikiyaga cya karago cyasubiranye amazi cyahoranye kubera byinshi byakozwe ariko hari n’ibindi bibazo bigihari

Kubera imirimo itandukanye yakozwe ku kiyaga cya Karago,ubu iki kiyaga cyasubiranye amazi cyahoranye ku buryo bushimishije. Ibi bikaba byarashimishije Minisitiri w’intebe Dr Pierre Damien Habumuremyi ,ubwo yagisuraga kuri uyu wa 14/09/2012.  Yasabye ko cyarushaho kubungwabungwa no kwitabwaho, ubundi kikabyazwa umusaruro nko kugiteramo amafi n’ibindi.

Nyamara kandi kubera iki kiyaga cyuzuye kikibasira n’amazu y’ikigo cya Gisirikare cya Mukamira,Minisitiri w’intebe yasabye Minisiteri bireba kuzabiganiraho zigakemura iki kibazo ku buryo hazashakishwa uburyo bwo gukemura iki kibazo cy’amazu yangijwe n’iki kiyaga.

Iki kiyaga kandi kiracyarimo ibyatsi bitandukanye byacyangiza,bisabwa ko hazakorwa ibishoboka byose ngo bikumirwe ndetse kinagirirwe isuku. Ibyo bizatuma ubwo cyasubiranye amazi cyahoranye kitarakama kizanasubirana  isura nziza y’amazi meza cyahoranye.

Inkengero z’ikiyaga cya Burera

Ubuyobozi bw’akarere ka Burera buratangaza ko ubwiza nyaburanga bugaragara muri ako karere bugiye kubyazwa umusaruro kurusha ho kugira ngo ba mukerarugendo baza kuhasura bahasige amadovize bityo abanyaburera basezere ku bukene.

Mu karere ka Burera hari ibintu bitandukanye bikurura ba mukerarugendo: birimo ibiyaga bya Burera na Ruhondo n’imisozi ibikije, igishanga cy’Urugezi kibyara amazi y’ibyo biyaga ndetse n’ikirunga cya Muhabura kirimo ingagi zo mu birunga.

N’ubwo ariko hagaragara ibyo byiza nyaburanga, akarere ka Burera nta buryo kari karashyize ho kuburyo abakerarugendo bahasura bashobora kuhasiga amafaranga. N’ubwo bahasuraga nta naho babonaga barara kuko nta mahoteli ahari.

Sembagare Samuel, umuyobozi w’akarere ka Burera avuga ko abakerarugendo baza gusura ako karere bakabura aho barara, bakajya kurara mu mahoteli yo mu karere ka Musanze, bakaba ariho basiga amafaranga. Ngo mu gihe kiri imbere ariko amafaranga yose azajya noneho asigara muri Burera.

Mu mihigo y’umwaka wa 2012-2013 akarere ka Burera kahize Hoteli izubakwa muri santere ya Kidaho, mu murenge wa Cyanika. Ni iya Musenyeri Dr.Mbanda Laurent wa diyosezi ya Shyira. Izaba yubatse muri kilometero eshatu uvuye ku kiyaga cya Burera nk’uko abisobanura.

Agira ati “twahize hoteli, baduhaye amashyi menshi cyane…ni inzu nini uko banyeretse igishushanyo mbonera cyayo, ni nziza…iyo ni imwe ariko abakuru barashimye bati “nibura akarere nyaburanga ntigakwiriye kubaho nta hoteli kagira…”

Akomeza avuga ko hari n’indi hoteli igiye kubakwa mu murenge wa Kagogo, nayo ikazaba iri hafi y’ikiyaga cya Burera. Izo hoteli zombie nizimara kuzura abakerarugendo bazajya baziruhukira mo basige amadovize kandi nozo zinatange akazi ku bantu benshi nk’uko Sembagare abivuga.

Amato agezwe ho mu biyaga

Umuyobozi w’akarere ka Burera avuga ko mu rwego rwo gukomeza gukurura ba mukerarugendo bagiye gushyira amato mato yihuta mu kiyaga cya Burera kugira ngo abo bamukerarugendo bajye bakorera mo siporo.

Akomeza avuga ko kandi udusozi dukikije ibiyaga bya Burera na Ruhondo bazadukora kuburyo dukurura ba mukerarugendo kurusha ho. Ibyo bizatuma nibazajya bava kureba ingagi bazajya bahita baruhukira ku biyaga.

Agira ati “…barebe ingagi aho gusubira Musanze baze ku mazi. Turagura amato matoya. Dufite abafatanyabikorwa twaraganiriye, bagiye kuzana amato matoya bakore siporo yo mu mazi matange amafaranga”.

Akomeza avuga ko ibiyaga biri muri Burera biboneka hake mu Rwanda. Niyo mpamvu bigomba kubyazwa umusaruro atari uw’amafi gusa nk’uko abisobanura.

Umuyobozi w’akarere ka Burera yongera ho ko ibyo byose ari ibyo bahize mu mihigo y’umwaka wa 2012-2013 kugira ngo urwego rw’ishoramari rutezwe imbere muri ako karere.

Mu mihigo y’umwaka wa 2011-2012 akarere ka Burera kabaye aka gatandatu mu turere 30 tugize u Rwanda. Uwo mwanya bawubonye kubera ko batateje imbere ishoramari. Iyo baba barariteje imbere bari kuza mu myanya y’imbere   kurusha ho nk’uko Sembagare abisobanura.

Akomeza kandi ashishikariaza n’abandi bashoramari, gushora imari mu karere ka Burera bahubaka amacumbi, bahubaka inganda zitunganya ibihingwa bihera n’ibindi bityo abanyaburera batere imbere bakora imirimo idashingiye ku buhinzi gusa.

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A section of the Murambi genocide memorial site in Southern Rwanda (Photo by Flikr/leepitts)

Four of the largest memorial sites for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide against Tutsis have been lined up for consideration to be granted the UNESCO World Heritage status.

Rwanda’s ministry of culture wrote to the UN agency on June 15 asking it to look into giving global status to the sites including; Gisozi (Kigali), Nyamata in Bugesera (eastern Province), Bisesero – in western Rwanda and Murambi, in the South.

We have now established from government sources that UNESCO wrote back on September 21 with indication that the process for consideration had been launched.

The four sites have been placed on what has been called the ‘tentative list’, suggesting there are high chances they could be selected.

The Gizozi site is famously known globally as the Kigali genocide Memorial site where some 300,000 victims are laid to rest. Last year, more than 42,000 foreigners visited the site.

The Mutambi site in Southern Rwanda where French troops based there splashed lime into mass graves where some 45,000 Tutsis had been dumped. Murambi was a technical school that turned into a slaughter ground.

By the time the site was redeveloped recently, the bodies had not decomposed. At the moment, the remains of full human structures are visible for visitor to see. Survivors of the massacres at Murambi report that French soldiers played volleyball on the mass graves.

As for Nyamata site, located some 30km outside Kigali, is where up to 30,000 Tutsis were left for dead by genocide militias using bombs, guns and machetes. Before the massacre, the site was a catholic church. But within a few days, the tens of thousands that had sought refuge there were no more.

Inside the Nyamata complex, there are cloths of the victims and many other personal belongings – all of which show human brutality, mass rape, brutalization of women and the use of HIV as a deliberate weapon of genocide.

As for the Bisesero site in western Rwanda, is where at least 30,000 victims perished. Tens of thousands of Tutsis sought refuge at this location because it was up in the hills believing they had escaped the militia.

They were regularly attacked by thousand of interahamwe with reinforcements from the French military based in the area at the time. Despite fighting back with stones and sticks, they could not hold back the fire power of the government militia forces.

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Some of species of birds that are visited

Rwandans are being called upon to visit birds so that they can see the different types and also the beauty of Rwanda.

Jean Pierre Rwasa,the head of Terintambwe Tourisme Bugesera cooperative[TTBC],a cooperative concerned with birds tourism, said that “the tourism done in Bugesera district is most times done by foreigners and therefore asks Rwandans to also come for it.

“We do not want this tourism to be done by foreigners only, but Rwandans also should come for it since they are many types of birds that they have not seen and they can get to see the from here, “said Rwasa.

Jean Pierre Kangabe one of the leaders of tourists of birds, said that since they started birds’ tourism  in Bugesera district in 2011,there have been few Rwandan that go to visit.

Bird species that are not found anywhere in the world

He adds on that “Rwandans have now known what tourism is since they visit parks of different types, but they have not done much bird tourism. They should come and we show them the different types of bird they have not seen, that are mainly in western countries, and other parts of the world, and are now here in Rwanda”.

To visit these birds foreigners pay 10,000Rwf per person while Rwandans pay Rwf3000 per person ,adding on that the best time to visit the birds is in the early morning hours like at 5:30am-7:00am and also at 5:00pm.

TTBC was started with an aim of promoting bird tourism and it works in four sectors which include Rweru, Rilima, Gashora and Juru.

Since tourism started in Bugesera district, 200 tourists have come to visit the bird park but Rwandans are really few yet even most of them that come are just escorting the foreigners.

Some of the birds that are visited mostly include, ibishuhe, Nyirabarazana, amafundi, imisure, imisamanzuki among others.

Bugesera district comes the first in bird tourism in Rwanda. It has mainly birds of the water and seasonal birds, because of the swamps around with about 200 types of birds.

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Nyuma y’uko urwibutso rwa jenoside yakorewe abatutsi muri mata 1994 ruherereye mu mudugudu wa Gikuyu, akagari ka Ninzi mu murenge wa Kagano mu karere ka Nyamasheke rusenywe n’ibiza, ubu noneho imirimo yo kurusana yaratangiye.

Nk’uko bitangazwa n’umukozi ushinzwe urubyiruko, umuco na siporo mu karere ka Nyamasheke, Nyirahabimana Marie Noella, ngo uru rwibutso ruri gusanwa n’akarere ka Nyamasheke binyuze mu murenge wa Kagano ruherereyemo, uyu murenge ukaba warahawe amafaranga n’akarere nyuma yo gukora inyigo y’amafaranga akenewe.

Gusana uru rwibutso bizatwara amafaranga asaga miliyoni imwe n’igice y’amafaranga y’u Rwanda.

Uru rwibutso rwasenyutse mu ijoro ryo ku itariki ya 18 rishyira kuya 19/09/2012, ubwo igiti cy’ingazi cyari kiri hafi yarwo cyaruguyeho maze rusenyuka ku gisenge igice kimwe, ibi bikaba byabaye mu mvura yaguye mu masaha y’ijoro.

After heavy rains that contained storms destroyed the memorial site for 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Gikuyu village, Ninzi cell in Kagano sector in Nyamasheke district, reconstruction process is under way.

Supervisors of the reconstructions are Nyamasheke district authorities according to Marie Noella Nyirahabimana the officer in charge of culture, youth and sports in the district.

Reconstrrenovatingucting this genocide memorial site will be worth Rwf1.5 million which was agreed upon by the district and Kagano sector after conducting a study on this memorial site.

This memorial site was destroyed during the night of the 18^th.Sept.2012 after being hit by a nearby tree with one part of the roof being completely destroyed.

Intumwa z’abayobozi baturutse mu ntara ya Rhenanie Palatinat ziri mu ruzinduko mu Rwanda ziyobowe na Minisitiri ushinzwe ubutegetsi bw’igihugu, ibikorwa remezo na sport Roger LEWENTZ zasuye ingoro yo mu rukari iri mu karere ka Nyanza tariki 9/10/2012.

Ibyishimo byari byose muri urwo ruzinduko bagiriye mu Ngoro yo mu Rukali

Muri uru ruzinduko izo ntumwa ziturutse mu gihugu cy’ubudage zasuye ibice bitandukanye by’ingoro yo mu Rukali zisobanurirwa amateka y’u Rwanda rwo hambere n’uko babagaho muri icyo gihe bitandukanye n’uko abanyarwanda bo muri iki gihe babayeho.

Impamvu y’urwo rugendo ni ukwitegura umunsi mukuru wo kwizihiza isabukuru y’imyaka 30 ishize hari umubano wihariye witwa jumeraje hagati y’intara ya Rhenanie Palatinat n’u Rwanda uzizihizwa tariki 12/10/2012 mu murwa mukuru w’u Rwanda.

Urwo rugendo rwamaze umwanya muto Roger LEWENTZ, Minisitiri ushinzwe ubutegetsi bw’igihugu, ibikorwa remezo na sport wari uyoboye izo ntumwa bari kumwe bose uko bavanye mu gihugu cy’ubudage yishimiye  ibice bitandukanye yasuye byo mu Ngoro yo mu Rukali.

Mu magambo yanditse mu gitabo cy’abashyitsi akoresheje ururimi rw’ikidage ariko akaza gusobanurwa mu rurimi rw’icyongereza n’umwe mubo bari kumwe agira: “ Here, i have received a wonderful insight into the history of the partnership between Rwanda and Germany. Thank you very much indeed”

Roger LEWENTZ yandika mu gitabo cy’abashyitsi basura ingoro yo mu Rukali

Nk’uko byanditse muri icyo gitabo  ayo magambo uyagenekereje mu Kinyarwanda agira ati: “ Hano, Nakiriye amakuru yimbitse ashimangira amateka y’ umubano w’u Rwanda n’Ubudage.  Murakoze cyane cyane! ”

Umubano hagati y’u Rwanda n’intara ya Rhenanie Palaratit yo mu Budage ni umubano uba hagati y’abaturage b’impande zombi ushingiye ku bikorwa bitandukanye by’iterambere n’umuco.

Kuri uyu wa kane tariki ya 11 ukwakira,2012 mu murenge wa Rwimbogo akagari ka Munini, hatangijwe igikorwa cyo kwishyura abantu bangirijwe n’inyamaswa zo muri pariki y’akagera, ibi bikaba byarabaye ku matariki ya 27 mata 2011 na 18 kamena 2011.

Abaturage bahawe indishyi ni abonewe bo mu kagari ka Munini mu midugudu ya Nyamwiza na Gikobwa, nkuko byatangajwe n’umuyobozi mukuru w’ikigega gishinzwe kugoboka abangirijwe n’inyamaswa Ndashimye Bernardin,ngo  abagomba kwishyurwa ni abaturage 110 bakaba bishyuwe miliyoni zisaga 18.

Bamwe mu baturage bishyuwe

Umuyobozi mukuru w’ikigega gishinzwe kugoboka abangirijwe n’inyamaswa n’ibinyabiziga yatangaje ko hishyuwe amafaranga angana n’ibyangirijwe, yagize ati”twagiye tureba ibyononekaye cyane cyane bikaba byari imyaka, twagendeye rero ku giciro iyo myaka yagurwagaho icyo gihe maze tugateranya tukishyura nyirubwite.”

Umwe mubishyuwe ibyo yangirijwe nizo nyamaswa madame Mukantabana Venancie wo mu kagari ka Munini wishyuwe  miliyoni 2 n’ibihumbi 531, yavuze ko kuba yishyuwe bimutunguye cyane kuko ntabyo yari yiteze, aboneraho n’umwanya wo gushimira Leta y’u Rwanda kubw’iki gikorwa.

Ku ruhande rw’ikigo kigihugu gishinzwe iterambere RDB twavuganye n’uhagarariye ibikorwa muri icyo kigo Toni Sanganira adutangariza ko bafite ingamba zitandukanye mu rwego rwo kugirango izo nyamaswa zitazongera kumenera mu baturage zikabateza umutekano muke.

Yagize ati”hari ikibazo gikomeye cy’amazi make muri uyu murenge bigatuma abaturage bajya kuyashaka mu mbago za pariki tukaba rero turi kubaka uruzitiro rw’amashanyarazi kugirango dukumire iki kibazo kitazongera kubaho, inyamaswa ntizigaruke mu baturage n’abaturage ntibasubire mu mbago za pariki.”

Iki gikorwa kikaba kitarangiriye aha kuko ngo kizakomereza no mu tundi turere twose tw’igihugu tugaragaramo ibibazo by’inyamaswa zihohotera abaturage

Nyungwe’s canopy walk is one of the premier adventures on offer when you visit the park (Photo by RDB)

Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park has been nominated by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) to receive an award for “Best Overseas Project/Attraction”, it was announced Monday, October 22, in London.

The BGTW is one of Britain’s leading professional organizations for those in the fields of travel writing, photography, editing, and broadcasting. Each year, the guild hosts an awards gala dinner on the eve of the World Travel Market to recognize outstanding global tourism products and journalists’ coverage of them.

The award for Nyungwe’s development agenda is being supported by a USAID-funded, DAI-led project called “Strengthening Sustainable Ecotourism in and around Nyungwe National Park (SSENNP)”. DIA (or Development Alternatives, Inc.) is a private global development agency operating in more than 160 countries.

The goal of the Nyungwe project is to foster inclusive ecotourism development for the benefit of the surrounding communities and to leverage private sector investment in management, construction, and maintenance of new and existing park infrastructure.

The project hosted a group of travel writers back in May and as a result of that trip, in September, the guild voted for the annual tourism awards and the park was voted as one of the top three destinations.

The winner will be selected and announced November 4 at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London, the night before the start of the 2012 World Travel Market. This is an excellent opportunity for additional international media exposure for the park.

One of the major developments in Nyungwe is the 5-star Nyungwe foreign, the canopy walk and exclusive birding adventures.

Best Western Eco Hote, ni hotel imaze amezi abili ifunguye imiryango rwagati mu mugi wa Karongi. Ubusanzwe bimenyerewe ko abashoramari bubaka ama hotel ku nkengero z’ikiyaga cya Kivu, ariko nyiri Best Western Eco Hotel we ngo yasanze no mu mugi hakenewe hotel cyane cyane ko ari nayo ya mbere yafunguye imiryango mu mugi rwagati.

Umushoramari wagize icyo gitekerezo ni uwitwa Nahayo Vincent, usanzwe afite kampani itwara ba mukerarugendo yitwa Nyungwe Chimps Travel Agency (NCTA), akaba ari nawe uhagarariye Rwanda Environmental Awareness Project (REAP) umushinga ukangurira abantu kurengera ibidukikije.

Nahayo Vincent yaganiriye na www.sightsofrwanda.com ayitangariza impamvu yahisemo gushyira hotek ye mu mugi rwagati mu gihe usanga abandi bazishyira ku nkengero z’ikiyaga:

“Mu Kinyarwanda bavuga ko ntabareshya, ni byiza kuba waryama hafi y’amazi; ariko sinibaza ko abantu bose babikeneye! Ubukeneye zirahari ariko jye nahisemo kwegereza abantu serivisi. Iyo ugiye gukora business urabanza ukareba aho ugiye kuyikorera n’abo ugiye kuyikorera. Reka nguhe nk’urugero. Ushobora kuza uvuye i Kigali unaniwe ushaka guhita ubona aho kuryama utabanje kongera gutega. Urabizi amahoteli yose yibereye ku kivu, hari igihe rero ushobora kugera mu mugi wa Kibuye bwije, wenda utanateganyije amafaranga yo gutega indi modoka cyangwa moto, kandi abantu bose ntago bafite imodoka. N’izo moto ni nkeya ugereranyije n’abatazifite, ese umunsi moto yabuze ntuzaryama? Ni byiza rero ni byo nakunze, nahisemo nishimiye gushyira hotel yanjye Best Western Eco Hotel mu mugi wa Kibuye”

Ku birebana n’izina rya Hotel Best Western Eco Hotel Nahayo Vincent asobanura ko yayise agendeye ku bintu bibili by’ingenzi. icyambere ni ijambo West, kubera ko hotel yubatse muri Karongi iri mu Ntara y’iBurengerazuba kandi ikaba ari kimwe mu mishinga myinshi afite muri iyi Ntara harimo ibyo bita camp sites azashyira ahantu bita ‘Ku Hepfo’ mu karere ka Rusizi. Ni agasozi kinjira mu kiyaga cya Kivu aho abantu bazajya baruhukira bari mu mahema, bahumeka umwuka wo hanze. Muri Rusizi kandi arimo kuhubaka indi hotel nayo iri hafi kuzura.

Nahayo Vincent arakomeza asobanura iby’uwo mushinga wa camp sites, cyangwa kurara mu ihema riri hanze:

“Abanyarwanda, benshi muri twe baraye mu mahema aruko bahunze. Bafite amateka atari meza ku ihema, ariko reka turebe umunyarwanda utarigeze arara mu ihema aruko yahunze. Mu by’ukuri uzabigerageze urebe. Imyaka uraye mu nzu ni myinshi. Kandi nubwo byitwa ihema, ntago ari ihema ribonetse ryose. Ni ihema ryabigenewe rifite ibyo bita sleeping bag, ntago ugombera ikiringiti, ntago ukenera kwiyorosa. Uryama mu ihema, ugafata akayaga gaturutse hanze mu biti, kandi abize iby’imihumekere y’umuntu bavuga ko urushaho guhumeka neza iyo uri ahantu hari ibiti, ugasohora umwuka mubi kuri 85% winjiza umwiza”

Best Western Eco Hotel

Umushinga wa camp sites anawufite mu karere ka Karongi ahitwa impembe, aho yamaze kwishyura umuryango ugomba kwimuka agatangira kuhatunganya iyo camp site.

Ikindi Nahayo yagendeyeho yita hotel ye Best Western Eco Hotel ni ijambo Eco, kubera nyine ibyo yiyemeje byo guteza imbere no gufata neza ibidukikije. Nahayo avuga ko hotel yubatse ku buryo itangiza amazi y’imvura, yatangiye no gutera ibiti mu busitani bizajya bifasha kuzana umwuka mwiza muri hotel kubera ko yubatse mu mugi ahakunze guca imodoka nyinshi nk’uko abisobanura:

“Urabona nk’ahangaha turi hafi ya gare hari ibinyabiziga bihagenda, birekura imyotsi. Ni yo mpamvu rero dufite gahunda yo gutera ibiti byinshi bizajya bifasha kurwanya iyo myuka mibi. Ikindi kandi mu byumba twahasize amarangi atangiza imyanya y’ubuhumekero.”

Mu rwego rwo kongerera agaciro hotel ye, ibice biyigize yabihaye amazina ya parike z’u Rwanda uko ari eshatu akurikije n’imiterere y’inzu hotel irimo nk’uko abisobanura:

“Izi nzu uko ari eshatu iyo urebye usanga imwe iri  mu majyepfo indi iri mu majyaruguru indi iri mu burasirazuba. Iri mu majyepfo yitiriwe parike ya Nyungwe, iri mu majyarugru yitirirwa parike y’ibirunga, iri mu burasirazuba yitirirwa parike y’akagera. Nyuma y’ibyo ntago byarangiriye aho. Igice twitiriye Nyungwe kirimo ibyumba 10 twagiye tubiha amazina y’ubwoko 10 bw’inguge ziboneka muri parike ya Nyungwe.”

Usibye business ya hotel na camp site, Nahayo afite na gahunda yo gutangiza ibyo bita package. Ese ni business iteye ite? Nahayo arabisobanura:

“Package ni ibintu bikunze gukenerwa n’abanyamahanga, ariko n’abanyarwanda babikora batabizi. Ni kwakundi umuntu agusaba ku mutwara ukamujyana ahantu runaka, tuvuge nka hano ku Kibuye, ariko atazi neza aho agomba kurara, wowe wamutwaye umufasha gushaka aho kurara akishyura, bwacya ukamugarura. Burya rero ni package uba umukoreye ya Kigali-Kibuye-Kigali, si ngombwa ngo umuzengurutse u Rwanda rwose, ariko nabyo abishatse wabikora. Wowe icyo gihe uba ufite hotel runaka ku Kibuye cyangwa i Gisenyi, izo hotel iyo uzizaniye umukiriya zifite amafaranga runaka zikugenera nk’uko biba biri mu masezerano.”

Business ya Nahayo, si we wenyine iteza imbere. Yashyizeho n’uburyo bwo gukorana n’abamotari, aho umumotari uzanye umukiliya umwe kuri hotel agenerwa frw 500 yo gushyira muri telefone, yageza kubantu 10 bakamuha 5000frw.

Ubu buryo bukoreshwa n’abamotari baturuka mu murenge wa Rubengera baza mu mugi wa Karongi kandi usanga baramaze no kumenya kureshya abakiliya, bagenda babasobanurira ibyiza bitatse umugi wa Karongi, babageza mu mugi bagahita babajyana kuri Best Western Eco Hotel, cyane cyane nk’abakiliya bananiwe, baba bifuza guhita baruhuka batagombye kujya kuri hotel ziri kure y’umugi.

Ibiciro bya Hotel usanga bidakanganye ukurikije na serivisi itanga zirimo aho kuryama, television na internet ya wireless ikoreshwa ku buntu n’abakiriya ba hotel.

A tourism company, ‘Gazella Safaris’ has embarked on emphasizing tourism in Rwandan society especially youth starting in Bugesera district and proceeding to other parts of Rwanda.

Marie Claire Ingabire, Director of Gazella Safaris asserts that tourism is all about relaxation and pleasure but many Rwandans never spare time to eye their country’s treasures.

“It’s not having money that makes whites tour our land, but because they understand the importance of travelling and touring. Even those without a lot of money spend time saving to visit countries tourist attractions,” she narrates.

Ingabire reveals that they have introduced the program to the four schools in Bugesera district that is Nyamata High school, ETO Nyamata, GS Catholique and GS EPR.

“We formed “tumenye ubukerarugendo” clubs, which are responsible for sensitizing other students on the importance of tourism,” she adds.

Augustin Mudahunga, Assistant Director of Gazella Safaris

Assistant Director of Gazella Safaris, Augustin Mudahunga says that Rwandans are not much into tourism just because they do not understand how and what to tour.

“We have different bird species and a lot of lakes in Bugesera district, why is it that Rwandans do not appreciate nature when it’s not expensive?” he wonders

It’s for this matter that Gazella Safaris has embarked on sensitizing all people the advantages of tourism and to start from the attractions available in their areas of residence, Mudahunga points out.

He adds that ever since sensitization began in four schools, students have toured Kigali city before the end of the term.

Gazella Safaris is supported by Rwanda Development Board (RDB) in “Domestic Campaign” program, which aims at promoting tourism among Rwandese starting from Rwanda.

Ba mukerarugendo babiri n’umusirikare umwe bitabye Imana  baguye mu gitero bagabweho n’abarwanyi ba Mai-Mai muri Pariki ya Virunga muri Repubulika iharanira Demokarasi ya Kongo.

Umuyobozi wa Pariki ya Virunga, Emmanuel de Merode  yavuze ko abo bamukerarugendo  bari baherekejwe n’abasirikare baguye mu gico cy’abarwanyi ba Mai-Mai babasukaho urufaya rw’amasasu babiri bahita bahagwa ndetse n’umusirikare umwe.

Yagize ati: “Batewe n’abarwanyi ba Mai-Mai bafite intwaro zikomeye babamishaho urufaya rw’amasasu.”

Mu icyo gitero, havuguyemo inyeshyamba za Mai-Mai zigera kuri eshanu; nk’uko ibiro  ntaramakuru by’Abongereza  Reuters bibitangaza.

Kuva  mu mwaka w’i 1996, ba mukerarugendo 130 bamaze kwicwa muri Pariki ya Virunga ibamo imitwe inyuranye  yitwara gisirikare irwana muri Repubulika iharanira Demokarasi ya Kongo.  Ngo iyo mitwe itunzwe ahanini no gushimuta inyamaswa zitandukanye ziba muri iyo pariki.

Pariki ya Virunga ni imwe muri pariki igikungahaye ku ngagi ziba mu misozi aho habarurwa izigera kuri 790.

Best Western Eco Hotel opened its doors two months ago. It is located in the middle of the town of former Kibuye now Karongi. Investors in Karongi prefer to locate their hotel business on the lakeshores of Kivu but Best Western Eco Hotel owner chose to make a difference and put it in the heart of Karongi town.

Apart from restaurants and food stores, Best Western Eco Hotel is the only hotel located in the central town.

The investor who the idea is Nahayo Vincent, the owner and Director General of Nyungwe Chimps Travel Agency (NCTA), also Legal Representative of Rwanda Environmental Awareness Project (REAP).

In an interview with www.sightsofrwanda.com, Mister Nahayo explained why he prefers his hotel in the middle of the town: “Not all people are equal financially speaking, of course it’s good to sleep by the lakeside but I don’t think everyone needs it! I preferred to run my business in the central town to facilitate access to my customers. Before you start a business you need to first of all study your market. I’ll give you an example, you’ve just arrived from Kigali and you need a place where to rest without making extra travel. You know all hotels here are located by the lakeshores. Imagine you arrive in Karongi at night and you’ve not provided for extra transport fares. What will happen then? I guess you’ll definitely need to go to the nearest hotel. That is how the idea crossed my mind and I started my hotel business here in Kibuye town.”

Concerning the name of the hotel, the owner says he chose ‘Best Western Eco Hotel’ based on two main points: the word Western to indicate the location because his business is in Karongi district, which is part of the Western Province. The hotel is also part of a large business he runs in the Province including a campsite in western Rusizi district. The campsite is currently under development at a peninsula in Lake Kivu. Besides, Nahayo Vincent says he’s also finalizing the construction of another hotel in the same district. The businessman tells more about his campsite business:

“Most Rwandans slept in tents in exile as a result of the 1994 genocide and war, so they have a relatively harsh memory about tents, but let’s talk about those who didn’t have that experience. How many years have you slept indoors? In fact try a tent it once and you’ll see the result. We call them tents but those used for camping are actually designed for that particular purpose. They’re fully fledged with sleeping bags and ventilations to let you breathe fresh air from camping site.”

Best Western Eco Hotel in the town of Karongi (former Kibuye)

Nahayo’s campsite project will be extended to Karongi district, where he has already purchased a land at Mpembe. The second part of his Hotel name is Eco. He says this is in line with his passion to promote environment.

“You see, the hotel is in a busy town next to the bus station. You can imagine the smokes from the exhaustion pipes polluting the air. So I’ve envisaged to plant trees that will help provide fresh air around the hotel. Moreover, the rooms are painted with environmentally-friendly paints.”

The shape of the building follows Rwanda’s geographical situation and the location of its parks. Nahayo says this is an add-value component as he points out:

“The building comprises three parts. One facing the South, the second one facing the North and the third one looking East. We have Nyungwe Park in the south, the Volcanoes National Park in the north and the Akagera National Park in the East. Furthermore, the 10 hotel rooms in the southern part of the building bear 10 names of 10 species of primates found in Nyungwe Park.”

On top of Hotel and campsites businesses, Nahayo have plans to start package tour business:

“Package tour or package holiday is not common in Rwanda but people do it without knowing. It consists of transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator. Other services may be provided like a rental car, activities or outings during the holiday. Package holidays are organized by a tour operator and sold to a consumer by a travel agent. Some travel agents are employees of tour operators, others are independent.”

Nahayo has extended his business to further innovations where he employs local motorcyclists who attract customers to his hotel (Best Western Eco Hotel) in Karongi. Each motorcyclist who brings one customer earns a 500Rwf airtime, and if they bring up to 10 people per day they get a 5,000Rwf incentive. It’s a very effective way since there are no other means of public transport around the town but taxi motorcycles.

The tariffs at Best Western Eco Hotel are reasonable compared to services which include bedrooms with television and wireless internet for free.

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The mountain of Rubavu prepared for tourism

In a meeting that took place on 26/10/2012, the Rwanda association or hotels, bars, restaurants and lodges in the district of Rubavu advised the people to always show things that they do to develop tourism.

The district of Rubavu is one district with many hotels and lodges but these hotels and lodges are not known because the owners do nothing to advertise them. This becomes a problem to tourists since they will not know where they are going yet there are people to receive them.

Apart from the big hotels, with well-known names, other hotels that do not advertise themselves get few people, and this is because they do less in promoting themselves.

The president of the association of the owners of hotels, bars, restaurants, and lodges, Denis Karera said that “working together as an association is very good and since one person with many people can be able to refer others to someone else because of the good working conditions”.

Karera added on saying that “advertising their work is good since it helps them get known by people yet this is done by few of them. He added on saying that “this together with good service delivery will help them get their customers that visited back. Good service delivery is one thing that is being emphasized by this association in this district”.

  The district of Rubavu has a lot of tourist attraction apart from Lake Kivu, and the Congo border, since people with hotels, bars, restaurants, and lodges have other different things they do that promote tourism as said by Beniot Munyakindi an employee of RDB in Rubavu district were they have the mountain of Rubavu that is being prepared for tourism activities and also the one of Nengo that has the history of the world war 2.

Ubuyobozi bwa Parike y’Akagera burasaba inzego zose gufatanya mu rwego rwo guhangana na ba rushimusi  bamaze iminsi bayogoza iyo Parike. Ba rushimusi bibasira iyo parike baba bashaka igiti cyitwa Kabaruka n’icyitwa Umushikiri, ubusanzwe bifite isoko mu gihugu cy’Ubugande kuko ngo byaba bikorwamo imibavu.

Cyakora hari na ba rushimusi baba bagamije guhiga no kwica inyamaswa za Parike nk’uko bivugwa na Mutangana Eugene ukora muri iyo Parike.

Ubuyobozi bwa Parike y’Akagera butangaza ko muri iyi minsi ba rushimusi barushaho kwiyongera ku buryo buteye inkeke. Tariki 31/10/2012, abashinzwe kurinda Parike y’Akagera bataye muri yombi abantu barindwi kandi bafatanwa ibiti bari bamaze gutema muri iyo Parike. Abo bariyongera ku bandi babiri bafashwe tariki 25/10/2012 bafatiwe mu mukwabo wa polisi, na bo bakaba barafatanwe impu z’inyamaswa zo muri parike y’Akagera.

Uretse ba rushimusi bibasira ibiti n’inyamaswa za Parike, hari abaturage bajya kurangura ikiyobyabwenge cya Kanyanga mu gihugu cya Uganda bakanyura muri Parike bihisha inzego z’ubuyobozi.

Inyamaswa za Parike zajyaga ziva muri Parike zikajya konera abaturage, bamwe zikanabahutaza. Ibyo byatumye iyo Parike izitirwa kugira ngo inyamaswa za yo zitandukanywe n’abaturage. Gusa mu gihe uruzitiro rutaranuzura neza, ngo hari hari ba rushimusi batangiye kurwangiza bakata Senyenge za rwo kugira ngo babone uko binjira muri Parike.

Parike y’Akagera ni imwe mu maparike yinjiriza u Rwanda amadovize menshi. Mu gihe abo ba rushimusi batahashywa burundu, ngo bishobora guteza leta igihombo kandi bikanagira ingaruka ku banyarwanda bose, kuko bamwe muri ba mukerarugendo bashobora kureka gusura Parike.

Through the Nyungwe Nziza Project, conservationists want to make it easier to visit the Park (courtesy photo)

Nziza Project, located in Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest has been named winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ top Globe Award (BGTW), at the Guild’s prestigious annual awards dinner in London’s Savoy Hotel on the night of November 04.

Sited in south-west, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) project was praised for harmonising tourism, wildlife, environmental and agrarian development in one of Africa’s last surviving patches of primeval pre-Ice Age rainforests. The project was described as one of the world’s richest and most diverse eco-systems and home to 25 percent of all of Africa’s primates.

In presenting the award, Guild Chair Roger Bray said: “Nyungwe Nziza is a model tourism project for developing countries whose benefits will long outlast this or subsequent governments.”

The Nyungwe project also came first in the awards’ Wider World category where the two runners up were central Georgia’s Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, nominated by Peter Lynch, and San Antonio, Texas’s Morgan’s Wonderland, nominated by Mary Moore Mason.

The former project, sited in the largest true wilderness area in continental Europe, has opened up accommodation, bridges and foot, bike and horseback trails to the public in the last few years, and the latter project is the world’s first theme park designed specifically for physically and mentally disabled people.

Other major awards –all given to tourism projects completed in the past three years – went to Greenwich’s Cutty Sark Restoration and to France’s Loire à Vélo cycle trail.

The BGTW also presented travel writing and photography awards, selected by an outside jury, to its own members during the evening, which was attended by some 300 top travel industry and media representatives. It was sponsored by the city of Las Vegas, which presented an array of glittering entertainment.

The runners up were Glasgow’s Riverside Transport Museum, nominated by David Prest, and Edinburgh’s Extended and Improved Museum of Scotland., nominated by Paul Wade. The former is an outstanding collection of vintage cars, ships and boats set in a bold Zaheer Habib-designed building and the latter, the UK’s most visited attraction outside London, has integrated two adjacent museums into one, adding 16 new galleries and displaying 8,000 objects for the first time.

The third category – for the best new European tourism attraction – was nominated by Gillian Thornton and honoured the completion of the safe, 800km Loire à Vélo cycle trail from Nevers to the Atlantic after 10 years of work by two French regions and six départements.

The runners up were France’s totally revamped Toulouse Lautrec Museum, set in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Albi, and the Museum aan de Strom (Museum of the River) in Antwerp, Belgium. Nominated by Kathy Arnold, the first attraction contains the world’s largest collection – some 1,000 paintings – by world-renowned artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The second attraction, nominated by Stuart Forster and housing some 450,000 historical artefacts and works of art, has helped regenerate what had been the abandoned docklands north of central Antwerp.

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President Kagame shares a light moment with guests during dinner with business leaders in Lagos, 9 November 2012 (Photo by PPU)

Rwanda’s national carrier RwandAir, Serena Hotel and Thousand Hills Expedition have put together a discounted package for Nigerians planning to travel to Rwanda, in a deal announced Thursday November 15, 2012.

The promotion launched in Lagos, Nigeria, will provide an affordable travel package which is inclusive of what has been described as “out-of-this-world expedition experience and five-star accommodation” in Rwanda.

RwandAir, which now flies five times weekly Kigali-Lagos route in partnership with Serena Hotels, one of the largest hotel chains in East-Africa and Thousand Hills Expedition, leading tourism company in Rwanda, put together the exciting package.

For only US$1,350 per person, Nigerian travelers will get an all inclusive four-night package to experience the beautiful greenlands of Kigali and Gisenyi, a return flight ticket, tour services, meet and greet and return airport transfers, said the firms in a joint statement.

While explaining the travel package at a destination Rwanda promotion seminar for travel agencies in Lagos, RwandAir Nigeria Country Manager, Hafeez Balogun detailed the bouquet of the airline’s offerings which includes numerous discounted fares on all RwandAir destinations.

Balogun said: “RwandAir is one of the fastest growing airlines in the continent giving passengers special treat with young and reliable aircraft fleet.”

“The Lagos-Kigali route is serviced by the new Boeing 737-800NG, the very first on the African continent.”

Denise Benzinge-Omany, Sales & Marketing Manager Kigali Serena Hotel said: “we are focusing on Nigerian travelers not only to use Rwanda as transit point to their final destination, but also for the travelers to have a feel and experience the beautiful natural scenery that our country offers”.

Jacqui M. Sebageni representing Thousand Hills Expeditions at the seminar stated that the travel package is targeted at Nigerian travelers who desire a different kind of vacation from the ordinary as well as feel at home.

At the function, RwandAir also gave away one business class return ticket Lagos/Johannesburg via a raffle draw at the seminar. Olaoye Olubimpe Priscilla of Giovanni Travels and Tour was the lucky winner.

The latest promotion comes after President Paul Kagame completed a two-day high level visit to Nigeria last weekend. The President met Nigerian business leaders and gave a historic lecture at a function hosted by Nigerian Young Professionals.

Following President Kagame’s visit, Nigerian media have been abuzz with articles praising him and lambasting Nigerian politicians and other African leaders. On social networks, there is still a fierce debate about the state of affairs in Nigeria compared to Rwanda. Some have actually suggested that they would like to have a Kagame-like leader for Africa’s most populous country.