G

IPO-Eastern Africa Network

Where Creative Minds Congregate for Community Development!

Tag: African Growth and Opportunity Act

Human Rights Watch, in a 22-page report titled They Threw Me in the Water and Beat Me: The Need for Accountability for Torture in Rwanda, documents torture and ill-treatment by prison officials and detainees in Nyarugenge prison in the capital, Kigali; in Rubavu prison, western Rwanda; and in an unofficial detention facility in Kigali known as "Kwa Gacinya" and that judges ignored complaints from current and former detainees about the unlawful detention and ill-treatment, creating an environment of near-total impunity.

Rwanda Punished for Rejecting Used Foreign Clothing

By Harris Africa Partners Published June 8, 2018 United States of America is punishing Rwanda for rejecting its hand-me-down clothing popularly known as mitumba. The Donald J Trump Administration has suspended duty-free access to US markets for Rwandan clothing. RELATED:Illicit Financial Flows and Inadequate Energy Hinder Africa’s Industrialisation Rwanda and several of its neighbors within…

Read More