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  • Man Beats wife Resulting into Misscarriage

    Police in Gicumbi District is holding a man identified as Placide Nibishaka for allegedly assaulting his wife Christine Muragijimana.

    The cruel act against Murangijimana resulted into misscarriage of a one month foetus.

    According to Police, investigations revealed that the suspect went home late in the night drunk. When he knocked on the door the wife refused to open and ordered him to go back to where he had been.

    However, the suspect took a metallic bar in his hands and started beating the wife and kicked her in the stomach, which resulted into a misscarriage.

    Rwanda National police reported that the victim was immediately rushed to Munyinya Health center.

    Supt. Francis Gahima, the Northern Region Police Spokesperson condemned the act describing it as “inhuman.”

  • Kigali Marriott Hotel to Employ 10,000

    Graduates from the Akilah Institute are expected to be employed at the Marriott hotel in Kigali which is due to open in 2013.

    The Hotel is apparently the first largest Marriott hotel in sub-Saharan
    Africa.

    Some young Rwandan women were chosen to undergo a training
    session in Marriott’s hotels in Dubai and Doha.

    Marriott expects to hire 10,000 employees, majority of which will be local residents, in its upcoming hotels on the continent.

  • Kigali Marriott Hotel to Employ 10,000

    Graduates from the Akilah Institute are expected to be employed at the Marriott hotel in Kigali which is due to open in 2013.

    The Hotel is apparently the first largest Marriott hotel in sub-Saharan
    Africa.

    Some young Rwandan women were chosen to undergo a training
    session in Marriott’s hotels in Dubai and Doha.

    Marriott expects to hire 10,000 employees, majority of which will be local residents, in its upcoming hotels on the continent.

  • Farmers School to Start in Eastern Province

    In an effort to increase agricultural productivity, the Eastern province of Rwanda will, soon, launch a new initiative called “Ishuli ry’abahinzi” “School of farmers” to raise awareness among banana farmers to increase productivity.

    The program will start with banana farmers of Muhazi sector in Rwamagana District and Mukarange sector in Kayonza District.

    Myambi Celestin, in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry in Eastern province has said the school of farmers program will help to boosting banana harvests since the province has a large number of people involved in banana plantations.

  • Farmers School to Start in Eastern Province

    In an effort to increase agricultural productivity, the Eastern province of Rwanda will, soon, launch a new initiative called “Ishuli ry’abahinzi” “School of farmers” to raise awareness among banana farmers to increase productivity.

    The program will start with banana farmers of Muhazi sector in Rwamagana District and Mukarange sector in Kayonza District.

    Myambi Celestin, in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry in Eastern province has said the school of farmers program will help to boosting banana harvests since the province has a large number of people involved in banana plantations.

  • Sex Workers Urged on Other Economic Options

    Prostitutes in Rubavu District are being senstised on family planning practices.

    The campaign aims at raising awareness among the sex workers over family planning issues and encouraging them to consider other economic options.

    Residents of Rubavu District pointed out that some of the reasons why the number of sex workers is increasing in Rubavu District is the fact their District is bordering with DRC, where a number of women abused by their husbands leave DRCongo to Rubavu to engage in Prostitution.

    MP Mporanyi Théobard, a Rwandan parliamentarian urged District authorities to find a solution to the problem since it is among the causes that hinder economic progress in the western province.

    Last year, the western province came last in securing family
    planning issues.

    The vice-Mayor in charge of Social Affairs in Ruvu District, Nyirasafari Rusine Rachel said the District has taken tangible measures including eradication of prostitution and sensitisation of citizens on HIV prevention and birth control programs.

    Some women join prostitution due to abject poverty.

  • Sex Workers Urged on Other Economic Options

    Prostitutes in Rubavu District are being senstised on family planning practices.

    The campaign aims at raising awareness among the sex workers over family planning issues and encouraging them to consider other economic options.

    Residents of Rubavu District pointed out that some of the reasons why the number of sex workers is increasing in Rubavu District is the fact their District is bordering with DRC, where a number of women abused by their husbands leave DRCongo to Rubavu to engage in Prostitution.

    MP Mporanyi Théobard, a Rwandan parliamentarian urged District authorities to find a solution to the problem since it is among the causes that hinder economic progress in the western province.

    Last year, the western province came last in securing family
    planning issues.

    The vice-Mayor in charge of Social Affairs in Ruvu District, Nyirasafari Rusine Rachel said the District has taken tangible measures including eradication of prostitution and sensitisation of citizens on HIV prevention and birth control programs.

    Some women join prostitution due to abject poverty.

  • KCB Bank Group Wants New CEO

    KCB bank Group is looking for a dynamic, energetic and experienced strategist to head the bank following the resigniation of its Group chief executive Martin Oduor-Otieno.

    The regional bank has contracted consultancy firm Manpower to help identify the new CEO, which will further deepen the change in the composition of the KCB’s board and executive suite that began last year.

    Oduor-Otieno, 56, is due to retire in April 2013 after the expiry of his second two-year term, which was granted in May 2010 nearly a year before the end of his first four-year tenure in April last year.

    The changes emerge at a time when the bank is in the middle of a major restructuring plan that saw it cut its executive suite by nearly half, leading to the exit of deputy CEOs Sam and Peter Munyiri.

  • KCB Bank Group Wants New CEO

    KCB bank Group is looking for a dynamic, energetic and experienced strategist to head the bank following the resigniation of its Group chief executive Martin Oduor-Otieno.

    The regional bank has contracted consultancy firm Manpower to help identify the new CEO, which will further deepen the change in the composition of the KCB’s board and executive suite that began last year.

    Oduor-Otieno, 56, is due to retire in April 2013 after the expiry of his second two-year term, which was granted in May 2010 nearly a year before the end of his first four-year tenure in April last year.

    The changes emerge at a time when the bank is in the middle of a major restructuring plan that saw it cut its executive suite by nearly half, leading to the exit of deputy CEOs Sam and Peter Munyiri.

  • Malaria Forum Promises Vaccine by 2015

    By 2015, Malaria vaccine will be made available, researchers revealed at a Malaria Forum concluded in Rwanda capital Kigali.

    According to Dr. Bernhards Ogutu, Coordinator, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMR), the first ever vaccine against malaria might be available if recommended by the World Health Organisation.

    “Multiple types of evidence at national level would be required for an informed policy decision; impact would only be achieved through effective implementation and post-implementation planning” he said.

    According to their plan, if the European Medicines Agency (EMA) provides an opinion by2014, and National Regulatory Authorities in individual African countries decide on use in their countries, the vaccine could be available as early as 2015.

    Dr Antoinette Ba-Nguz, in charge of Policy and Access in Malaria Vaccine Initiative, said Malaria vaccines are a potential complementary tool for control & elimination and eradication.

    “Progress has been made in malaria vaccine research, there is hope for a first-generation vaccine, RTS,S,” she added.

    Ba- Nguz added that a timely decision on the vaccine needs early country-level planning, Scale-up current interventions and collect data to inform future decisions.

    She continued to mention that early preparation would identify potential bottlenecks, strengthen current malaria and immunization programmes and enable evidence-based decision.

    Dr Ogutu said that Malaria Vaccine Initiative will coordinate and/or facilitate processes to define the vaccine(s) required to support the goal of eradication and will accelerate their development through a robust prioritization of its investments and activities.

    According to WHO, there are 250 million cases of malaria each year, 86% of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, there are also 800,000 deaths/year, mostly among African children under five years.

    There has been a major scaling-up in distribution of malaria control measures particularly since the advent of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    It is unclear what the future will hold for disease burden trends. If political will and funding is maintained, the disease burden could drop; but if, as in the past, funding lapses or clinically significant resistance develops to the main antimalarial drugs and insecticides used then the disease burden may rise again.

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