The Eye Rwanda                                                                                                                                                                                        

The Eye Rwanda is a free quarterly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Rwanda, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is distributed for readers and advertisers through national and regional airlines and tour operators, the airport information office, foreign diplomatic missions and NGOs, selected restaurants and bars, supermarkets and gift shops, all major hotels in Kigali and sorrounding areas and ORTPN (The Office Rwandaise Tourisme et Parcs Nationaux).It's also distributed to tour operators between Uganda and Kenya.

Articles in This Issue

Rwanda: The Land of Opportunity

	“I bought a three piece suite with my first payment and a new sideboard with the second. So now, every time I sit on my sofa or use my sideboard I think of my trees”, said Beatrice Ahsimbwe, a widowed school teacher from Bushenyi.        More
Vehicle Review: Review: Nissan Tiida
	I drove the vehicle for two days and covered around 25km’s. I would have preferred to have taken the car for a longer drive and perhaps even on a track to get a better understanding of the handling capabilities under pressure, but the roads in Uganda are not really conducive to giving a car the full road test.      More
Kigali City: A Profile
	Kigali City is the capital of Rwanda in Central Africa. Located at Rwanda’s geographical heart, Kigali is not only the national capital, but also the country’s most important business centre and main port of entry. It is the gateway and nucleus of the Rwandan economy.Serviced by an efficient international airport and connected to neighboring Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi by surfaced roads.   More
Travel Review: Ha'buharo Island
	The all new L200 is stronger, safer, more manoeuvrable and better to drive, it’s also far more powerful than its predecessor yet more economical and much more comfortable too – a vehicle which has proved its worth many times in world class cross country rallying.                                                                               More
Dr. Stockley - Malaria, Mozzies and Mzungu (Part 2)
	Kampala has just had a new flu virus hit us like a tidal wave. Hundreds of children and adults with high fevers, often up to 40 degrees, sore throats, red eyes and a cough. Half of them are told it is malaria and are given Artemether if they are lucky, and injection quinine if they are not, the rest are taking antibiotics.I have lost count of the parents coming in who have told me the child had a cough so they went to a pharmacy and were given Amoxyl syrup.                                      More
Charity: Rwanda Knitts Project
	RWANDA KNITS provides hand-operated, American-made knitting machines, technical and business training to Rwandan and refugee women living in Rwanda to enable them to increase their incomes through economically sustainable knitting cooperatives, producing garments for both the domestic and export markets. More
Hotel Review: Kivu Serena Hotel
	It’s almost fitting that the task of reviewing, and therefore reading, Shake Hands with the Devil, Romeo Dallaire’s wrenching first-hand account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was a task studiously avoided by many of us around the offices of ascent. Fitting, as it mirrors in a microcosm how Dallaire’s cries for help were also largely ignored at the time by the West.                                                      More
Hotel Review: Kivu Serena Hotel
	Wine is one of the great success stories of the late twentieth century. World-wide sales are booming, wines from many new countries are on the shelves, prices for wine are as low in real terms as they have ever been, choice is enormous and availability is excellent. Supermarkets and high street chains have revolutionised the way we think about and purchase wine.                                                 More
Book Review: The Africans
	With ‘’The Africans’’ David Lamb has produced a timely and valuable work that cuts through many of the distorted images propagated by Africans themselves, by the continent’s apologists and by its detractors. Mr. Lamb spent four years as the correspondent for The Los Angeles Times in Nairobi, Kenya.                          More
Restaurant Review: Papyrus Restaurant
	I travelled to Rwanda from England, a country slowly getting taken over by a celebrity chef called Jamie Oliver. He is everywhere, blanketing the media with new television shows and cookbooks or just yelling at mothers that they don’t feed their children well enough at school. His recent fame explosion is the result of a project called 15                                                                                       More