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  • Leaders Urged to Reside In Areas of Jurisdiction

    Local Government Minister James Musoni has urged government local leaders to reside in their areas of jurisdiction full time 24hours a day and 7days of the week unless on authorised ‘Work Leave’.

    ‘’The Government expects much from you. The population expects alot from you. You must reside in your areas of jurisdiction closer and responsive to the community needs”, Musoni stated.

    Musoni made the remarks while presiding over the closlusion of the Mayors’ Retreat (28th July 2012) at Musanze.

    The retreat was organized by Rwandese Association of Local Government Authorities(RALGA) .

    The leaders in question are governors, members of district executive committee, executive secretaries of Provinces and Kigali city, districts, sectors, and cells.

    The Minister warned those who don’t follow such instructions, adding that measures will be taken against those who trespass them.

    The chairperson of RALGA Justus Kangwagye said local leaders already reside in their areas of operations full time at 95%, and few leaders who do not follow the instructions will change their mind thanks to the reminder by the minister.

  • South African Musician Completes College at 60 Years

    ‘Burn out’ is an oldies hit by south african musician Mabuse Sipho “Hotstix”.
    This might not sound new to your ears but the musician has just completed college at the age of 60.

    Mabuse who dropped out of school in the 1960’s has proved that he didn’t ‘burn out’ but fired up to obtain his college diploma.

    He enrolled in adult classes near his home in Soweto

    South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma praised Mabuse for reaching an “amazing milestone”.

    “You are indeed an inspiration to all of us by showing us that one is never too old for education,” he said.

    According to the United Nations statistics, 12% of South Africa’s adults are illiterate.

    This is mostly due to the past apethide regime which segregated against the black majority who were denied access to education and many more social services.

    Mabuse Tweeted,”I needed my #matric to feel complete even with all my musical success. Forty-five years out of class is no childs play.”

    Some of Mabuse’s popular hits; Shikisha, The creator has a masterplan, Thiba Kamoo.

    Mabuse and Om Alec Khaoli, Selby Ntuli Founded Harari–a legendary Afro-Rock group founded in the late 60’s. It is one of the most successful band in Southern Africa.

  • Bar Owner Kills CLient for Breaking Bottle

    Police is holding two men suspected of beating to death a 51 year old man Erade Nkerabahiz while in a bar in Muhanga district.

    Jean Baptist Mbonyumugenzi was beaten by a reveler at the bar and Azalias Mutsindashyaka, the bar owner.

    The incident took place at Cyeza Sector, Kivumu Cell at about mid night.

    Police investigation revealed that Nkerabahizi died on his way to Kivumu health center following a savage beating after misunderstandings over payment developed between him and Mbonyumugenzi.

    The quarrel reached a climax when Nkerabahizi accidentally broke a bottle, then the bar owner who was in the next room quickly intervened forcing Nkerabahizi to pay.

    Other clients in the bar tried to calm the two without success.

    Eye witness accounts indicate that the victim was hit twice in the head before he was whisked to the health center.

    Witnesses further said the three were under alcohol influence.

    Police Spokesperson Superintendent Theos Badege regrets the incident saying that abuse of alcohol and drugs must be avoided because it affects people’s emotions, sensibility and thinking and makes them susceptible to violence.

  • District Mayors Discuss Better Service Delivery

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    Aimed at improving performance in their areas of jurisdiction, all District Mayors in the country met on 27th -28th July 2012 at La Palme Hotel, Musanze District.

    The meeting was in the context of the regular fora organized by the Rwandese Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) to allow its members to share experience and to devise ways to improve their performance.

    During the meeting, for local leaders were able to interact with Central Government officials and exchanging on how to improve their collaboration.
    Participants discussed the decentralization policy and agreed there exisits challenges affecting implementation process.

    Key challenge identified was that some civil servants from Ministries and public institutions do not yet have enough understanding of decentralization principles sometimes working outside its framework.

    District Mayors recommended there should be continuous sensitization initiatives for such people and institutions.

    As one of the guest speakers during the meeting, the Minister of Local Government, James Musoni, commended Mayors for “dedication and impressive professionalism” in terms of planning, monitoring, performance indicators, and mass mobilization.

    He encouraged them to build team work and abide by a set of values that upgrade the quality of a good Mayor in general.

    He gave them hints for effective team work such as mentoring, information sharing, continuous coaching, and empowerment for collective delivery.

    Joseph Bahenda also presented. He is the Director General of ASSETIP, an association bringing together various actors in the field of implementation of public infrastructure projects in Rwanda.

    Considering the benefits some Districts got from their collaboration with this association under the completed PIGU Project, Mayors strongly recommended the government to adopt a framework that would allow all Districts to work with ASSETIP to speed up the implementation of infrastructure projects in Local Governments.

  • Odinga’s Son Marries Ethiopian Lady

    Fidel Castro Odinga the Son of Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga tied the knot in an invites-only event held Saturday.

    Odinga Junior and Lwam Getachew Bekele, an Ethiopian had their reception party at 6pm at a private club in Loresho, in the presence of their parents.

    There had been rumours that the socialite was planning to marry his Ethiopian girlfriend for a while now, after a year and half relationship with her.

    For Fidel this will be his second marriage commitment after they parted ways his first fiancée Veronica Wanjiru Ng’ang’a, after a rather public ceremony that attracted the who’s-who in society, on claims that they had irreconcilable differences.

    Some had cynically seen the union at the time as a convenient arrangement since the lady came from the central region and there was an impending election.

    Fortunately for the lovebirds, who have been together even at public outings together, this time the buzz is subdued.

  • Satellite Radio Says Prime Minister Zenawi Dead

    Ethiopian Satellite Radio and Television (ESAT) just reported in its tonight news that Ethiopian Prime Minsiter Meles Zenawi has died at 57.

    The radio cited its sources from the International Crisis Group (ICG) and diplomatic community.

    During Rwanda’s 15th Anniversary of Liberation Day – Kigali, 4 July 2009, President Meles Zenawi was decorated with some of Rwanda’s top Medals of honour Including; “Uruti” National Liberation Medal and “Umurinzi” Campaign Against Genocide Medal.
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    Minister Bereket Simon also head of Government Communication Affairs Office (GCAO) said July 19th that Prime Minister Meles was “in very good health and he will be back in his office in a very short period of time.”

    About Zenawi

    Meles Zenawi Asres was born on 8 May 1955 in Adewa, Tigray and has been the Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 1995.

    He was President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995. Since 1985, he has been chairman of the Tigrayan Peoples’ Liberation Front(TPLF), and he is head of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

    He graduated from the General Wingate high school in Addis Ababa, then studied medicine at Addis Ababa University (at the time known as Haile Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in 1975 to join the TPLF.

    Meles Zenawi acquired an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the Open University of the United Kingdom in 1995 and an MSc. (Masters of Science) in Economics from the Erasmus University of the Netherlands in 2004.

    In July 2002 Meles received an honorary doctoral degree in political science from the Hannam University in South Korea,

  • Rwandan Diaspora Youth To Work Towards Bright Future

    The Ministry of Foreign affairs and cooperation together with MINEDEC, MYICT, MINADEF, NURC and ITORERO have organized ITORERO for Rwandan Youth living abroad aged between 18-35 years.

    More than 258 Rwanda Youth living abroad will participate in this Itorero witch will start on 30th July and end 11 August 2012 at Gako Military Academy themed-‘working towards a bright future’.

    Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi officially opened ITORERO. High profile Government Officials had a free interaction with the youth, sharing the life story of the country, its achievements and all discussions will focus on sensitizing the youth to actively participate in the socio-economic development of their mother-land Rwanda.

    The Director General of the Rwanda Community Abroad, a directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parfait Gahanyi, said that young people are the most educated and enjoy the best levels of all social benefits in Rwanda.

    “This is a good opportunity for the youth to meet, share the achievements of the county an learn how to contribute in building their country”, said Gahanyi.

  • Kenya Risks Losing Flower Investors to Uganda

    Flower Investors are increasingly focusing on relocating to Uganda where they say the cost of doing business is much lower and favourable as opposed to Kenya where they have been operating.

    Kenya Media reports that the Kenya Flower Council (KFC) is worried of the costs of doing business in Kenya, even when the sector’s export returns continue to plunge due to the financial crisis in the Eurozone.

    KFC is also alarmed by rigid tax legislation, declining revenues, climate change and political instability in Kenya.

    “Investors are adopting a wait and see attitude,” says KFC Chief Executive Officer, Jane Ngige. Some have shown an interest in Uganda because it is presently looking more attractive than Kenya.”

    Details from KFC indicate that the sector registered a steady growth of about 10 per cent between 1995 and 2008 in tonnage, but presently there is a 1.7% slowdown.

    “The reasons for this are several but a reduction in investment due to the Kenyan currency (shilling) remaining stronger than the pound and euro increases input costs, fuel, airfreight, fertilisers, chemicals and labour wages,” says Richard Fox, Director of Finlays Horticulture.

  • Scientists Reveal How CO2 is Sucked Deep into Ocean

    Scientists announced Sunday that they had unravelled a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is sucked deep into the Southern Ocean to be safely locked away –a process that may itself be threatened by climate change.

    Wind, eddies and currents work together to create carbon-sucking funnels, said the research team from Britain and Australia in a discovery that adds to the toolkit of scientists attempting climate warming predictions.

    About a quarter of the carbon dioxide on Earth is stored away in its oceans — some 40% of that in the Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica.

    At a depth of about 1,000 metres (3,200 feet), carbon can be locked away for hundreds to thousands of years, yet scientists had never been sure exactly how it gets there after dissolving into surface waters.

    They had suspected the wind was the main force at play, pooling up surface water in some areas and forcing it down into the ocean depths.

    Using 10 years of data obtained from small, deep-sea robotic probes, the researchers found that in addition to the wind, eddies — big whirlpool-like phenomena about 100 km in diameter on average, also played a part.

    “You add the effect of these eddies and the effect of the wind and the effect of prominent currents in the Southern Ocean, you add these three effects, it makes … 1,000 km-wide funnels that bring the carbon from the sea surface to the interior,” study author Jean-Baptiste Sallee said.

    The team had also used temperature, salinity and pressure data collected from ship-based observations since the 1990s.

    “This is a very efficient process to bring carbon from the surface to the interior. We found in the Southern Ocean there are five such funnels,” said Sallee.

    The team also found that the eddies counterbalanced a different effect of strong winds — that of releasing stored carbon by violent mixing of the sea.

    “This does seem to be good news, but the thing is what will be the impact of climate change on the eddies? Will they stop, will they intensify? We have no idea,” said Sallee.

    A changing climate could theoretically affect the nature and effect of the Southern Ocean eddies by changing ocean currents, intensifying winds or creating stark temperature spikes.

    The findings mean that eddies must be taken into account in future climate models, said Sallee. They are not currently.

    The study focused on the part of the Southern Ocean south of 35 degree south latitude.

    The team could not say whether the same funnelling process would be at play in other seas, but Sallee said the Southern Ocean was “one of the most energetic places on Earth”, and the effect of eddies would likely be larger there than anywhere else.

    There is also another carbon capturing process, not covered by this study, of CO2-producing micro organisms that live near the ocean surface sinking to the sea floor and settling there when they die.

  • Ebola Pushes Kampala into Panic

    Uganda Capital, Kampala is currently in panic following confirmation that a woman who died at Mulago hospital a few days ago was suffering from Ebola.

    The woman had travelled from Kibale district where 14 people died from Ebola on Saturday. she was a health worker who had been handling the Ebola patients.

    The Government of Uganda has immidiately banned any physical contact among citizens.

    Schools in Uganda are reportedly closing in response to the Ebola news that has caused panic.

    Clare Muhumuza 40, was admited at uganda’s largest hospital Mulago and died within a few hours. She was the clinical officer treating the patients at Kagadi Hospital.

    “She came to Mulago very sick and by morning she was dead. She suffered multiple organ failure,” said a senior doctor in Mulago.

    Foruteen Ugandans had been reported dead on Saturday when the deadly viral disease was reported in Kibale located 200km west of the Ugandan capital.

    Mulago health workers admited they were in fear saying they had handled Muhumuza without protection in ignorance.

    Currently Suzan Nabulya, a sister to the late Muhumuza, who was tending to her before she died, has been admitted at Kagadi Hospital while Muhumuza’s four month old baby, Milca Ninsima, has died.

    Uganda and Rwanda are experiencing increased crossboarder inteructions on a daily basis through business and other forms of engagements.
    Understanding Ebola

    Cause: Ebola is caused by a virus belonging to a family called filovirus. There are five distinct types of the virus namely Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Côte d’Ivoire, Ebola Bundibugyo and Ebola Reston.

    Transmission: The disease is transmitted through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs, fluids or bodies of infected persons.

    Family members and health workers handling the patients can become infected easily if they do not wear protective facilities such as gloves and masks. Ebola is not air borne.

    Symptoms: The average incubation period is 21 days. The disease is characterised by sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.

    This is often followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.

    Treatment: No specific treatment or vaccine is yet available for Ebola haemorrhagic fever.

    There is neither a cure nor a vaccine for Ebola. The patients are given symptomatic treatment to reduce pain and prevent dehydration.

    Several potential vaccines and drugs are being tested but it could take years before any is available.

    How to protect yourself

    Isolate suspected cases from other patients

    Wear gloves, goggles and masks while handling patients

    Patients’ clothing should be disinfected with household bleach such as JIK

    Areas contaminated with patient’s fluids should be disinfected with household bleach such as JIK

    Avoid touching the bodies of those who have died of Ebola

    People who have died from Ebola should be promptly and safely buried