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  • Frustrated Judge Composes Divorce Song

    Musician and judge, Francis Bihoyiki popularly known by his stage name Baket, has released a song by the name Ubutane (divorce), the 4 minute song discourages separation among married couples.

    Baket is a judge at Gatumba’s lower instance court in Ngororero district, he highlights that he decided the theme of song due to a number of divorce cases which consistently appear on his desk.

    “I get frustrated whenever I look at some of the issues which can be solved amicably, my song advises couples to exercise better communication especially in solving various domestic issues, really some problems are too petty to result to divorce,” he advises.

    His latest song Ubutane is seen by the majority of his fans as a comeback. The once gospel singer has been silent since the year 2009 after getting the job as a judge.

    “Let me set the record straight I won’t be singing or perform for any financial gains since the law restricts me to do that, but rather I will be singing for fan since I believe I’ve a calling to educate my society on good morals,” he explains.

    The judge started composing songs in 2004 while he was pursing Law Degree at the National University of Rwanda. In 2006 his music career climaxed after releasing his debut album which contained hit songs such as Agahinda k’inkoko (the agony of a hen).

    So far there’re allegations that his divorce song is in line with his preparation to release a second album slated to be unleashed by the end of this year.

  • Minister Kanimba Launches Growing SMEs Conference

    The Minister of Trade and Industry, Honourable Francois Kanimba has officially opened the Growing SMEs International Conference at LEMIGO Hotel in Kigali.

    Minister Kanimba told the participants from different parts of the world that Rwanda is a favourable doing business destination recognized by World Bank and other international agencies.

    The Minister said, on macroeconomic policies, Rwanda is the most stable in the region and has been Implementing Comprehensive governance reform agenda including; zero tolerance to corruption.

    “This is not a slogan but a reality and we are close to attaining total compliance, “says Kanimba.

    Over 36 speakers are expected to present at the conference launched under the theme, “Connect, Exchange and Invest.”

    The Conference is centered on discussing policies and exchanging ideas about assisting SMEs in becoming competitive and export oriented. What role can government play to enhance the comparative advantages of SMEs or to alleviate their comparative disadvantages?

    What role can government play to make SMEs competitive in Export markets? What are the best practices and how can we learn from the best players? The conference is intended to answer all these questions.

    The Conference is organised by BiD NETWORK in conjuction with JCI-Rwanda and Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

  • U.S. Donates $50,000 to Congolese Refugees

    Between April 27 and May 16, more than 8000 refugees fled from North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, across Rwanda’s northwest border, fleeing fighting in Eastern Congo.

    To assist with immediate refugee relief efforts, the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda has provided a $50,000 donation from USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to UNICEF/Rwanda.

    These funds will be used to finance improvements in the sanitary conditions of the Nkamira Transit Center through the construction of additional drainage ditches, garbage disposal pits, latrines, and showers.

    The funds were handed over to UNICEF/Rwanda’s Country Director Noala Skinner today by U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Donald Koran.

    In addition, on Friday, May 11, the U.S. Embassy donated medical supplies and
    blankets to UNHCR.

  • CPA Launched in Rwanda

    Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and the Certified Accounting Technicians of Rwanda (CAT) have been for the first time in history officially launched in Rwanda.

    They have been introduced by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR) and launch was held late last week by the Rwanda Local Government Minister, James Musoni.

    Speaking at the launch, Peter Rutaremara, ICPAR president; “It is a great day as the ICPAR Rwanda president to see that both CPA and CAT exams will be organized and done in Rwanda.”

    “Our country will now have the capacity to produce accounting professionals that will compete with international standards,” he added.

    Rutaremara added that CPA students in Rwanda have been doing exams set from abroad. This made it expensive through examination and registration fees. Now the exams will be cost effective as students will pay in Rwandan currency.

    CPA and CAT syllabuses were benchmarked and given credits by regional and international professionals in the field as they match with other related programs in other countries.

    These have been prepared working alongside twinning partners from a well established Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPAI), formed in 1943, a founding member of IFAC in 1977 and a body with over 5,000 members and students.

    Minister Musoni, in his remarks said that earlier government wanted to launch the program but there were delays. He applauded ICPAR to take up the developmental initiative.

    CAT where the institution targets to put much emphasis will be done by students who finished high school but with at least 13 points. CPA on the other side; students will be required to have finished high school with at least 32 points up to the Bachelors degree level.

    The number of qualified accountants is expected to increase and also enhance proper financial reporting standards among Small and Medium Enterprises.

    According to ICPAR, there are currently 214 registered professional accountants in the country, of whom only 55 are Rwandans. But during the inception of the institution, they were targeting to have reached up to 500 professionals by this year.

  • Rwanda, Uganda to Strengthen CrossBorder Security

    Security between Rwanda and Uganda will remain excellent to maintain crossborder trade between the two countries. This was emphasised by Maj. Gen. Alexis Kagame the head of RDF 2nd Division based in the Northern Province.

    The comments followed a meeting of military officials in the Northern Province together with their Ugandan counterparts. The meeting held at Byumba Town in Gicumbi District was aimed at assessing the security situation at the border between the two countries.

    The Ugandan delegation was led by Brig.Gen Patrick Kankiriho accompanied by Col. Bitumbika and Maj. Bernard Tugume.

    The Rwandan side was led by Maj. Gen. Alexis Kagame accompanied by Col. John Gashayija, Col. Evariste Murenzi, Col. Karegeya and Lt.Col. James Burabyo.

    Maj. Gen. Kagame noted that the meeting was aimed at finding ways that would further strengthen the crossborder secutiry to enable trade between the two sides. “we have foundout that some citizens on both sides still use illegal ways to cross the border. We intend to work together to solve this problem”.

    Brig. Gen. Kankiriho said that the cooperation between Uganda and Rwanda is very excellent compared to other East African Neighbours.

    The Military officials later visited a Genocide memorial site at Gisozi to pay tribute to victims of the 1994 genocide against ethnic Tutsi.

  • Girls, Get Some Standards

    Iam a girl. I believe that girls are gifted in different departments of life; from natural love to professional potential abilities in the outside world.

    I also believe that we are considered strong and brave according to what we endure in life. Enduring biological changes and dealing with what happens around us in the world ( men can confirm my statement). We are Ladies and strong women… at least we should be!

    We are not Ladies and strong women at birth, we become ones and it requires a lot of effort and work.

    Girls today behave in very strange ways. They are desperate, give in easily, forget what they are worth and misbehave in so many ugly ways. They completely forget their values and identity as women –to- be. They really cheapen themselves.

    Let me tell you something, we are the ones responsible for whatever guys think negatively of us, our actions and behaviors push them into thinking of us the way they do; that we are cheap,easy,dumb and do not pay attention to our own selves and values. As a reminder; men respect women who respect themselves.

    Our mothers have always told us to watch out what we do because what we do determines who we are. Girl, that boy is cute, good to you and has the money you need but what’s the money to you? Will it buy you respect and love? I don’t think so.

    You’re worth uncountable zillions of money you shouldn’t let what he owns first impress you. Many of them run after you, how do you act? Like a sport fishing girl or like one with strong personality? If you act like a girl to whom money means everything, you might get that money but will you be treated the way you deserve to?

    You settle with every guy running after you, does that show them the way you respect yourself? The fact is you’ll be followed by a hundred more men if you want to but only once they’ve seen that you distinguish yourself and they will be following you for very different purposes here I mean decent purposes.

    What I am trying to say here is that you are full of potential, your brain is there for you to be used, your character and personality to show how you really act and your actions to determine what kind of person people are dealing with. Become a Lady, let people who approach you respect you in such a way that they think twice before they let anything out of their mouth to you.

    Set yourself standards, respect them and let them known, recognize and regain your value, respect yourself first if you want to get it in return. Be a Lady so that everyone shall recognize you on that note.

    Let the one who’ll get you be with you because he fell in love with your personality, the person that you truly are and for the many decent things that you are able to offer instead of loving you for what he can easily get from you.

    A Lady deserves true love, real respect from others and appreciation for the wonderful person she naturally is, for her worth, but most especially for how important she considers her special and precious self. So girls, become Ladies and let men treat you like one.

  • Acid Attack Victim Needs Frw7M For Surgery in India

    After being released from the CHUK hospital in Kigali, Nyiransabimana Vestine who was burnt by acid has written to IGIHE seeking for help.

    On 7th May 2012 at 8:00 pm that is when I left CHUK hospital where I had been admitted for more than three months receiving the treatment. I was burnt by the acid. Currently am resident at kimironko with a relative taking care of me.

    Though I haven’t recovered well, I am so pleased and happy because the CHUK hospital were so good to me and gave me all the possible treatment I needed by that time and really helped me so much.

    As per now I am regaining strength, I still feel much pain in some parts especially right eye, nose, mouth, the neck, and the left side of my Jaw and all those parts need surgery but its expensive.

    A group of doctors who came from India assured me that if can go to India they can nurse back all my wounds but it needs about Frw 7million and I don’t have any.

    For the past three months I have been using medication prescribed by the doctor to apply on my skin and the medicine is expensive such as a cream (Iso-bethodine iodine 10% crème au ger). It is not on my insurance that I have (RAMA)

    The person who did this to me left me with a lot of damage. The acid destroyed my skin. I feel traumatised.

    I thank to those who were supportive to me especially people who sacrificed to support financially where by a number of 13 people have offered me (Frw 122,000). Through using my account number and MTN mobile money.

    I am here again pleading to all who still have a loving heart and compassion to help me.

    My account number in BPR is No 403-1076590-11, Tel 0788511830 MTN mobile money, Tel 0728511830TIGO cash or email: [email protected].

  • Woman Steals Baby

    Police in Gicumbi district is holding a woman identified as Uwamariya Christine for allegedly stealing a new born baby from Byumba Hospital. Uwamariya is a resident of Kaniga Sector, Gicumbi District.

    The incidence happened on the evening of Saturday. While the mother of the baby was bathing Uwamariya sneaked and whisked away the baby.

    Mukantibenda Diane the mother of the stolen baby was quoted by the public broadcaster saying, “Uwamariya had been loitering around the place for some time. She came where I was sitting and asked me to help with the baby so that I could bathe. I gave her the baby and went to bathe. After only 20minutes, I came back and found the baby and the woman missing, it was there that I suspected that my baby had been stolen”.

    Mukantibenda and her mother, immediately rushed to the Police and reported the matter, to which to the Police responded with urgent action, launching a hunting operation to recover the baby.

    After only one day, Uwamariya Christine was found in possession with the baby and consequently arrested.

    Uwamariya admitted to National Radio that she is barren and admitted to stealing the baby, but defended her action, saying she did it out of desperation for a baby.

    Uwamariya said that she had lied to her husband that she was pregnant. The Husband was very excited and was anxious to the forthcoming baby.

    Uwamariya said that at the elapse of nine months, she went to the hospital and started looking for where she could steal a baby to present to her husband.

  • Sarkozy Could be Questioned

    Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to face questioning as soon as mid-June when he loses his immunity a month after his successor Francois Hollande officially assumes office today.

    Hollande is swon in today as new President of Republic of France.

    The most immediately dangerous case for Sarkozy involves a series of overlapping inquiries surrounding illegal campaign financing by L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman.

    Magistrates are investigating claims that Bettencourt’s staff handed over envelopes stuffed with cash to Sarkozy aides to finance his 2007 campaign, with her former book-keeper testifying to one 50,000 euro ($65,000) donation.

    However, Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing. But the conviction last year of his predecessor Jacques Chirac on graft charges has shown that French courts are now willing to go after former leaders.

    “In the past the kind of behaviour that Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of was very common, but the courts did not launch prosecutions,” said Philippe Braud, a political analyst at the Paris-based Centre for Political Studies.

    Under France’s electoral code, individual election campaign contributions may not exceed 4,600 euros.

    Claims were also made during the campaign that former Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi’s regime financed Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, but no investigation is known to have been opened.

    However, Sarkozy has denounced that claim as “grotesque” and said he will sue French media website Mediapart over the reports.

    Also in more serious but harder to prove allegations, magistrates are probing whether a 2002 Karachi bombing that killed 11 French engineers was revenge for the cancellation of bribes secretly promised to Pakistani officials.

  • AFDB Annual Meeting: Africa & Emerging Global Landscape

    The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) will hold its Annual Meetings this year (28May-1June) in Arusha, Tanzania.

    The theme of the 2012 meetings will be ‘Africa and the emerging global landscape: challenges and opportunities’.The meetings will be a gathering of numerous high-level participants from the AfDB’s member countries.

    Participants will come from both the AfDB’s African regional member countries and its non-regional member countries outside Africa, representing the worlds of finance, banking, government, economics, donors, the media, civil society, development and academia.

    This year’s theme gives the opportunity for delegates to debate Africa’s changing role in the world as its economies continue to grow at faster rates than the rest of the world, and the AfDB’s role in promoting this growth and development through its projects, operations and investments around the continent.

    Delegates will take part in a wide-ranging series of discussions, high-level seminars and workshops on the future of Africa.

    Also, the AfDB will be welcoming contributions towards the formulation of its new ten-year Long Term Strategy for 2013 to 2022.

    The AfDB has already begun consultations both internally and externally on the creation of this Long Term Strategy, which will replace the current five-year Medium Term Strategy for 2008 to 2012.

    The AfDB is Africa’s premier development finance institution, established in 1964 to mobilise resources to the economic and social development of its regional countries by promoting sustainable and inclusive growth as well as poverty reduction.

    The AfDB pursues its goals of growth and cutting poverty through a strategy of concentrating its operational investments in the areas of infrastructure, the private sector, governance and education.

    The 2012 meetings will mark the 47th meeting of the African Development Bank, and the 38th meeting of the African Development Fund, the Group’s concessional or ‘soft loan’ arm.