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President Paul Kagame has warned against anybody working to destablise the country.

“Rwandans will not tolerate them. He said such people were not working in the interest of the nation and the Rwandan people and should therefore be resisted.”

Kagame sounded the warning while speaking to residents of Mukarange Sector in Gicumbi district urging the residents to jealously protect what they have achieved.

The head of state said that no Rwandan should be a subject of poverty, “Everybody could work their way up the wealth ladder if they invested all their efforts to prosper.”

Gicumbi residents were tasked to scaleup their efforts towards development cautioning them against external elements that may be bent on reversing the progress registered.

During the liberation war between 1990-1994,Rwanda Patriotic Army rebels used Gicumbi district to launch a determinant battle against forces of the Genocide regime. RPA emerged successful thus advancing to capture the Capital city,Kigali.

President Kagame thus reminded Gicumbi residents of their valued role in the country’s liberation.

He also encouraged all Rwandans to maintain the momentum at which they are working to rebuild Rwanda saying they will not only succeed in reducing poverty, but in eliminating it altogether.

While in Gicumbi, President Kagame visited a model farmer Gervais Uzabakiriho.

Uzabariho received a cow eight years ago. He has since improved his living standard and also donated cows to his neighbours.

He currently has 18 cows and two houses – one of which he donated to his brother – and has also given several cows to his neighbours.

The President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh has insisted that all prisoners on Death Row must be killled.

Nine prisoners have already been executed by firing squad on Sunday.

President Jammeh has vowed to kill all 47 death-row inmates by mid-September.

Amnesty International attacked the policy last week when it reported that the executions had been carried out three days earlier.

Many of Gambia’s death row inmates are former officials and top military officers who have been detained for treason since 1994, when Jammeh took power in a coup.

One woman was among those executed, the Interior Ministry said, listing crimes such as murder, treason, arson, drug and human trafficking as being punishable by death.

It was not clear what crimes each of the nine prisoners were executed for.

Bureau Veritas has awarded Inyange Industries, Rwanda’s leading food and beverage company, with the IS0 22000:2005 certificate for food safety management.

This world class certification confirms Inyange’s adherence to high international industry standards.

The certification process aimed to achieve two goals: to improve the company’s efficiency by cutting operating costs, and to improve customer satisfaction by consistent delivery of products that meet customer expectations in factors including quality, safety and legal compliance.

Inyange is seen as an innovator in Rwanda, having been first to introduce milk vending machines.

The company’s products include milk, fruit juices and mineral water, and are reaching an international market that includes Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo and Congo Brazzaville.

Uwinkindi Jean, a genocide suspect currently being tried in Rwanda has rejected all counts against him saying that he was arrested for crimes he did not commit arguing that the arrest warrant carried a name of Uwinkindi Jean Bosco not Uwinkindi Jean.

Uwinkindi made the remarks while appearing before Nyarugenge court August 27.

This followed prosecution’s request to keep Uwinkindi in dentention through the course of his trial but Uwinkindi and his lawyers sought for a release saying he was innocent.

Uwinkindi’s lawyers including Gatera Gashabana and Niyibizi Jean Baptiste requested court to release their client saying the names appended on the arrest warrant used to seize Uwinkindi are not the names of their client and thus he should be set free because he is innocent.

The Genocide suspect who had previously refused to say anything in court, later said the Arrest warrant issued by the ICTR in Arusha bore the names of Uwinkindi Jean Bosco yet he is refered to as Uwinkindi Jean.

French President François Hollande announced August 27, that he will participate in the Francophonie summit (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)in DRC capital,Kinshasa in October.

“I’ll go in a few weeks to the Francophonie Summit in Kinshasa. I will reaffirm that the Francophonie is not just a language but also share common principles and ideals,” he told a French Ambassadors Conference at the Elysee Palace.

François Hollande has promised to meet with the political opposition, civil society activists and civil society.

“This is the meaning of the new African policy of France say everything everywhere and ensure that what is said or done,” he said, indicating that in 2050, “80% of Francophones are Africans, 700 million women and men, everyone understands what is at stake here. ”

The Rwanda National Police (RNP) inaugurated a new Peace Support Operation Training centre in Gishali Police Training School in Rwamagana District aimed at facilitating the force’s Peacekeeping Missions.

The centre which boosts of three blocks is a donation from the Germany International Cooperation Agency (GIZ).

During the event, GIZ also handed over to Police two vehicles, which will facilitate the force in its Peacekeeping training activities.

GIZ is one of the force’s major partners, which has also been supportive to its several programmes such as forensic science in photography, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and traffic policing.

The son of Rwanda’s senate president is reportedly under intensive care in critical condition at a hospital in Belgium.

Unknown people attacked and stabbed him in the stomarch severely injuring his intestines.

Roger Ntawukuriryayo was on his way to The United States to resume studies after a two months holiday.

Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, the president of Rwanda senate, told IGIHE that his son flew out of Rwanda on August 23 enroute to U.S where he is a university student.

He said his son had to make a stop over in Belgium to pick some documents before he would continue to U.S. Roger completed his college education in Belgium.

Roger Ntawukiriryayo was reportedly walking with his two Rwandan friends and one Congolese friend.

They encountered a group of other people numbering about eight; He was later stabbed in the stomach and severely injured. He was rushed to hospital.

The attackers have not been identified and the motive of the attack hasn’t been established.

“Investigations are being conducted,” its possible the attack could be related to the recent attacks against Rwandan citizens by Congolese nationals in Belgium,” Dr. Ntawukuriryayo told IGIHE.

IGIHE correspondent in Belgium said the Rwandan Embassy in Belgium is also making investigations into the matter.

It is said the hospital where Roger Ntawukuriryayo is being hospitalized is heavily guarded by Police making it very difficult to access.