Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Das Boot
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is having a summit conference at the end of May. The summit, expected to draw over 1200 delegates from 20 Comesa member states will focus on crucial issues in trade liberalization, customs cooperation, industry and energy, transportation, communications and economic and social development. I heard a rumor that Bill Gates will be here. The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, will take over as COMESA chairman.
So, as a long term guest of the hotel, I get special treatment - I get kicked out like everyone else! I received a letter which I had to sign which said I agreed to leave the hotel before 28 May and not return until after June 3. And I could not leave anything for storage there. People staying at one of the other 2 main large Kigali hotels got the same letter. The conference will be hosted at the Intercontinental hotel, just down the road from the U.S. Embassy.
So I arranged - to the hotel's delight - to leave 4 days earlier than scheduled. My work is almost completely done - building a web site is just a start - CAPMER's real work of making the web site effective is just beginning.
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