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  • Man Kills wife For Refusing to Cook

    Cleophas Harerimana is being detained at Gasaka police station Nyamagabe district for killing his wife Euprasie Giraneza.

    The suspect admits that he brutally hit his wife with a pestle used to smash cassava leaves (isombe) because of an argument which rose from her refusal to prepare a meal for the family.

    Witnesses who couldn’t save her on time say that she sustained injuries on her head and hands and severe bleeding on her lower chest ribs. She was rushed to a nearby health center where she died.

    Giraneza has left behind 7 children between ages of 6 and11 years. Her neighbours considered her as the sole bread earner of the family since her husband was a drunkard who often ignored family responsibilities.

    She has been able to keep up the family on her sorghum beer business (Ikigaji) and has used the revenues to buy two modern dairy cattle that produced milk for sale.

    To compliment this she also had a kitchen garden which provided surplus food for the family.

  • 18 Injured in Grenade Attack

    Police report indicates that 18 people have been seriously injured in a hand grenade explosion at Remera’s Nyabisindu shopping center that occurred at 6.40 pm, but eye witnesses say that three are feared dead and the number of injured is above 20.

    According to police spokesman Supt Theos Badege the injured were rushed to both Kibagabaga hospital and CHUK, but no grenade victims have been rushed to Kanombe Military hospital as many alleged.

    “Right now we are not aware of any deaths we’re still waiting for further information from the doctors, but what I can assure you now is that investigations are progressing but we have not arrested any suspect yet,” said Badege.

    By press time the crime scene was sealed off by police as investigations were being carried out in area of 50 meters width and 30 meters length, inside the crime scene there’re stains of blood splashed onto kiosks and on ground.

    Police at the crime scene prevented our reporter from taking photographs saying this could interfere with with the investigation process.

    “Can’t you see we have people from the national forensic laboratory taking photos, please don’t destruct us at the moment,” a police officer told this reporter.

    Evereste Haguma one of the victims who had minor bruises on his hand noted that most people were injured during the stampede.

    “This is a busy center with a lot of movements and immediately after the explosion I was pushed by people who were running for their safety. I’m yet to go to the hospital to for treatment,” narrated Haguma.

    An witness explaining the incident to Christopher Bizimungu the head of Criminal Investigation Department, noted that he suspected a man came with big group of people.

    “At first I saw an unfamiliar group of people, then a man came running towards them and immediately after he mingled with the group the grenade erupted, I think the team was part of the plan to confuse the public after he threw the grenade,” he explained.

  • President Kagame Arrives in United Arab Emirates

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    President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has today arrived in the United Arab Emirates where he has been received by the UAE Vice President Mohammed bin Rashid.

    The UAE Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum received President Kagame today at the Zabeel Palace.

    They held talks on expanding the economic cooperation between UAE and Rwanda.

    The Emirates News Agency reports that Kagame admired Sheikh Mohammed’s vision on development, which has become point of global attention, and expressed his wish that Rwanda will benefit from the UAE experience and its success in various fields.

    A number of ministers and other senior officials attended the meeting.

    In November last year President Kagame visited Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted renewable energy company.

    He toured the Masdar City and Masdar Institute for Science and Technology.

    In his statement Kagame said that: “I was delighted to visit Masdar and experience first-hand the development and progress the company has achieved over the past few years. It is clear that the Masdar’s progress in the renewable and sustainable energy field will benefit the region and entire world.”

    Additional reporting: ENA

  • Two Men Die In Mudslide Accident

    Two men from Muturagara, Gaseke, Kabaya sector in Ngororero district of Western Province were found dead after a mudslide covered them while engaged in illegal mining activities last weekend.

    The dead were identified as Habimana commonly known as Kimboteri 26, and Emmanuel Ngirababyeyi 22. Their bodies were exhumed in the early morning on the new years’ day by area residents.

    Ngororero Vice mayor in charge of Economic Development Emmanuel Mazimpaka urged residents to engage in legal mining so that they can even be advised on how to properly conduct mining.

    Habimana is survived with a wife and 3children while Ngirababyeyi was not married.

  • Recommendations of Previous National Children’s Summit

    In the Previous National Children’s Summit recommendations 23 decisions were taken in the 6th National Children’s Summit held last year. Among them, 19 of them on the percentage of 86.6% were implemented.

    • For the 4 decisions, the concerned authorities are still looking after them to be implemented.

    • The 6th and 7th decisions would be put into practice by the countries of EAC, MINEAC has written to EAC secretariat asking it to inform all the concerned countries.

    • For the 14th decision, there would be a meeting of all the children who attended National Children’s Summits. In collaboration with UNICEF, all the regulations regarding this meeting are now being prepared.

    • For the 19th decision, there has to be the inclusion of a lesson on the child’s best education. This was handed out to MINEDUC so as to implement it.

    Decision no. 1: everybody should contribute to the construction of the school classroom rooms reserved for the 9 Years Basic Education.
    The concerned of this were parents, authorities and the population in general.

    Achievements

    In collaboration with parents and different partners led by MINEDUC, 2,679 school rooms and 5,424 latrines were built in the year 2011.

    8,687 school rooms and 20,311 latrines have been built from the year 2008 to 2011.

    Decision no 2: To strengthen nursery schools for it the basis of all education.

    The concerned were partners, the government and parents.

    Achievements
    ECD policy and its strategic plan have been approved.

    ECD model is to be established in each district on Global fund sponsorship.

    MIGEPROF sponsored 100 nursery schools with materials, training and one cow per school.

    Decision no 3: the transparent selection of children to be assisted.
    The concerned were people, authorities and children representing others.

    Achievements
    From the zone level of authority, MIGEPROF established the rules governing the selection of children to be assisted. The rules have been much explained and submitted to all local authorities.

    They are currently used in the selection of children with many education problems. From the list approved from those rules, partners provide funds to the children.

    Decision no 4
    Parents should work together with teachers to be aware of children’s education.
    The concerned are parents and teachers.

    Achievements
    Parents committees were established at each school and parents’ meeting should be held once a term.

    Decision no 5:
    Preparation of dialogues among teachers so as to discuss on problems they face

    Decision no 6:
    Help children from Burundi to express their idea of free education in the
    Secondary schools and the introduction of laboratories in secondary schools

    Decision no 7:
    All the East African countries have to empower the education (enough schools, materials and teachers) especially countryside girls’ education and help children in going to and coming from schools.

    Decision no 8:
    Provide education promoting Rwandan value to every Rwandan without any segregation especially for people with disabilities.

    Decision no 9:
    Establishing schools of marketable studies (entrepreneurship, vocational and professional training schools, English learning,…)

    Decision no 10:
    To call on every person to feel responsible of every child’s education (why a neighbor’s child did not school, …)

    Decision no 11:
    Avoid any expression underestimating a child especially those with disability.

    Decision 12: Promote hygiene at school.

    Decision no 13: To value, attend and sustain children’s summits.

    Decision no 14: To set meetings of children who attended children’s Summits.

    Decision no 15: To fight against children sex based violence and help children who faced such problems to know how they have to behave.

    Decision no 16: Establishing school buildings caring much for the children with disabilities.

    Decision no 17: Improve English language skills to the teachers.

    Decision no 18: Give children lessons forbidding them to use drugs and make sexual intercourse.

    Decision no 19: The inclusion in the curricula of the lesson on the share of a child in his best education.

    Decision no 20: Talking with their parents, asking them for advice on the problem they face.

    Decision no 21: The invitation of children with disabilities from each district in the next Children’s Summit.

    Decision no 22: Call upon children with disabilities to go to the hospital.

    Decision no 23: Putting power in the implementation of the 5th National Children’s Summit and the results of this 6th one.

  • Anti Pregnancy Drugs Double HIV Risk—Study

    The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the research findings that suggest use of hormonal contraception drugs may double the risk of acquiring HIV and transmitting it to a partner.

    It’s against this development that WHO is convening a Technical Consultation of a multi-disciplinary group of experts from 31 January to 1 February 2012 to examine all evidence related to the potential effects of hormonal contraception on HIV acquisition, transmission, and disease progression.

    WHO said in a statement that it was taking caution against making hasty changes to contraceptive policy or practice and would convene a meeting this year to discuss the study.

    A recent study from the University of Washington in Seattle has revealed that contraceptives such as Depo Provera may double the chances that a woman would contract HIV. The study followed 3 790 couples in which one partner had HIV.

    In couples where the woman used Depo Provera, the woman was nearly twice as likely to acquire HIV infections from their infected partners as those who used no contraception. Those women were also twice as likely to transmit the infections to their partners.

    Depo Provera, is a contraceptive injection used by most women in sub-Saharan Africa for birth control.

    The Rwanda government is currently in an intensified effort to sensitise couples on birth control where the use of Depo povera is dominantly administered.

    The contraceptives provide protection against pregnancy for up to 14 weeks, but the injection must be received once every 12 weeks to remain fully protected.

    WHO said that experts would decide through consensus if modifications were needed to the WHO guidelines for hormonal method use among women with HIV or women at risk of contracting HIV.

    It is estimated that about 12 million women in sub-Saharan Africa use injectables and eight million use oral contraceptive pills, while 11 million women use non-hormonal methods.

    Over the past 15 years, the number of women choosing to use injectables has grown substantially because the method is highly effective and does not require daily action. It can also be used privately.
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  • Rwanda To Send More 56 Police Officers To Darfur

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    56 more Rwanda Police Officers have been briefed for deployment in Sudan’s Darfur region under the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), a Police statement says.

    The officers, who will be deployed on January 5, will reinforce other 185 police officers already on mission in the troubled Sudanese region.

    This brings to a total of 472 of police officers on peace keeping missions in Haiti, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sudan.

    During the pre deployment briefing on Monday, the IGP, Emmanuel K. Gasana urged the officers to exhibit high discipline and professionalism while on the mission.

    He also asked them to uphold the core values of the country and cooperate with other people for effective execution of their mission.

    The UNAMID Chief of staff, Commissioner of Police, Cyprien Gatete, appealed to the officers to be exemplary, work as a team and uphold Rwanda’s image.

    The officers, who will be on a one year mission, will be acting as advisors, especially in community policing, anti gender based violence measures and providing security in internally displaced camps.

  • Rwandan Diaspora Committed Against Genocide Deniers

    A team of leaders from various Rwandan Diaspora committees have requested the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) to visit them in their foreign territories to sensitize diaspora members unaware of genocide history or the country’s progress after the 1994 Tutsi genocide.
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    Jean De Dieu Mucyo the CNLG executive secretary hailed the idea saying it would complement the commission’s efforts of sensitizing the world about the Rwanda’s history.

    He added that they want to cooperate more with the Diaspora particularly during the genocide commemoration period that lasts for 100 days starting from April.

    Activities will include exhibitions and dialogue about the war, its causes and how to avoid similar killings in the future.

    “We want to change the belief that genocide survivors are favoured a fact that makes others afraid to return. This is a common belief by those who have relatives implicated in the genocide cases while some are misinformed about Rwanda’s progress,” he remarked.

    Sylvester Matata the vice president of Rwanda Diaspora Global Network (RDGN) in Canada’s Ontario state noted that Rwandans living abroad have shown the will to fight those trying to defame the ethnic killings.

    “We know that some of the deniers are dangerous people and are connected to militias but be assured we won’t be intimidated, the truth will always be told. We can’t fear forever and we will advocate for formation of laws that prevent genocide ideologies in our respective territories,” he remarked.

    Aimable Ndayambaje a Diaspora leader in Belgium noted that telling about the country’s progress has helped change the mindset of his two friends who fled the country during the genocide.

    “As we speak the two are in Rwanda where they also enjoyed the festive season with their families they hadn’t met for long,” he remarked.

    Mucyo adds that the Diaspora will help spread the truth and weaken genocide deniers. “We not only want the genocide never to happen in Rwanda but also to the rest of the world. That’s why we need to stand up as one and show the effects of the war,” he advised.

  • MTN “Izihize” Tombola closed, 11488 Winners Awarded

    Izihize Tombola that has lasted a period of one month was prepared by MTN Rwanda .It was closed after awarding 11 488 lucky winners in the whole country. The last awards were offered on Friday 30 December 2011.

    In the ceremony held at MTN branch at Remera-Giproso, 72 lucky people worn for different prizes including laptop computers with internet modems, LG telephones, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Torch with one month free internet subscription, ZTE telephones known as Gitego among others.

    Talking to, the assistant director of Remera-Giproso MTN branch told IGIHE.com that the tombola was prepared to share with customers in the festive season of.

    He said, “We have got an opportunity to deliver prizes to the lucky subscribers so that these festive days may be much more wonderful to them.

    Muhawenimana Adrien from Musanze District is one of the lucky people that won a computer (laptop); he thanked MTN for the prize.

    Muhawenimana sells bicycle spare parts. He noted that this laptop will help him in his job. He says, “I will be able to count money I earn in my business and to know all about taxes.”

    Izihize Promotion was started by MTN from the 30th November 2011. Every Friday, 72 customers win different prizes.

    To get involved in the promotion, you have only to use MTN simcard to send sms, calling, buying caller tunes, using internet and sending money using Mobile Money among other MTN services.

  • Gov’t To Unveil Book on Achievements After Genocide

    On 26 February 2012 the Government of Rwanda shall unveil a book highlighting the recovered activities after 1994 Tutsi Genocide.

    The book titled “This is Your Time Rwanda … genocide is over, we have overcome”, written by an international lawyer, Justine Mbabazi is mostly based on the national economic development.
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    Mbabazi says that the book talks about the development of Rwandan population in general especially women.

    “Up to now, Rwanda is one of the counties whose women are represented at all levels of authority including decision making levels”, says Mbabazi.

    She adds that women have stepped forward to places in the national assembly. Rwanda is among countries promoting girls’ education where children are instructed on computers through a program “One Laptop per Child.”

    Mbabazi told local press that her book presents that there is no genocide obscurity; instead different development activities resulting from the sensitization of citizens to build their nation.

    The book illustrates how Rwanda tried its best to sensitize the youths to be creative with vocations to develop themselves.

    Generally, the book is about problems that Rwanda passed through and how it built itself.

    In her book Mbabazi is hopeful for tomorrow that will make country’s population not to care much about the past but looking forward and gain a better welfare.