CHANGE OF GUARD AT THE HEAD OF RDB’S TOURISM AND CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT
(Posted 31st March 2014)
After four years at the helm of the Rwanda Development Board’s Tourism and Conservation Department has Ms. Rica Rwigamba left the organization as Ambassador Karitanyi was appointed last Friday by the Rwandan cabinet to take over this critical position.
Ms. Yamina Karitanyi has previously served as Rwanda’s High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya.
This latest change follows in the footsteps of similar changes in Uganda, where an orderly transition took place a few weeks ago when former UTB CEO Cuthbert Baguma retired, in Burundi where an entirely new team was installed earlier this month as reported here in both cases and in Tanzania where the CEO of TTB was unceremoniously sacked last week, also reported here as breaking news at the time.
While Ms. Karitanyi is new to tourism and conservation, she has a strong team to support her integration into the RDB Tourism and Conservation Department with her first major public benchmark event being this year’s 10th edition of Kwita Izina on the 21st of June. Welcome to Yamina and all the best for the challenges ahead.
Also, cognizant of the fact of excellent cooperation over the past four years by Ms. Rwigamba it is only appropriate to thank Rica at this stage and wish her well in her future endeavours.
