Rwanda

CFO East Africa chatted with Daniel Ngumy, managing partner at Anjarwalla & Khanna, Stanbic Bank Kenya's Dennis Musau and EABL's Risper Genga Ohaga for this two-part special feature on tax in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.

At the age of only 39, Hermann Malan boasts an impressive career as a CFO, having traversed various regions of Africa. His journey began in West Africa, extended to South Africa, and eventually led him to East Africa.

Although Jurgen Paulis has worked all over the world, he has found a passion for Africa and for the work that AIF does. And looking back at his career, he is also most proud of the work that he is doing at AIF.

MTN Rwanda expects an improvement in EBITDA margins in the forthcoming quarters with the implementation of its expense efficiency programme (EEP) and the launch of its own 4G network. This is according to Mark Nkurunziza, MTN Rwanda’s chief finance officer, who was commenting on the company’s first quarter results.

Equity Bank is set to become the second largest bank in Rwanda, based on its intention to acquire Cogebanque, with Equity Holdings CEO James Mwangi seeing growth opportunity in the unpenetrated financial services sector.

Miriam Kaggwa was earlier this year appointed as the CFO of WPP-Scangroup. She has extensive experience in the marketing and communications industry in North America, the United Kingdom and emerging markets.

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