A (quincaillerie) hardware shop attendant Nyirabanyiginya Dina 21 has won the MTN sharama car.
She says she works in her elder sisters shop in Kicukiro sector in Kigali city.
The car was handed to her at an event held at Gakinjiro, Gisozi sector within Kigali city.
Other winners walked away with motorcycles, laptop and bicycle.
Nyirabanyiginya was so excited on receiving the car keys which incidentally resulted into tears of Joy.
Residents of Rubavu district have mobilised over Frw521Million in contribution to the Agaciro Development Fund.
The contribution was delivered to the fund on September 5.
They said, “We are greatiful to the Idea of Agaciro Development Fund. It’s a sign of patriotism. It gives us value as citizens.”
One elderly resident Uwimana also a dairy farmer noted that, “I have realized that when my country goes begging it means iam also a beggar.
Since Agaciro Fund was established, I have now changed my mind. I will moblise other residents to contribute to this Fund to build our nation.”
Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Agnes Kalibata has won the 2012 Yara Prize Award for her great leadership in the transformation of food security and agricultural development in Rwanda in a relatively short period.
According to the statement from Yara International in Oslo Norway, Dr. Kalibata was awarded alongside Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the outgoing CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX).
The prize consists of $60,000, which will be split between the laureates, a crystal trophy and a diploma.
The president and chairman of the Yara Prize committee, Jørgen Ole Haslestad, commended the winners for the substantial work they demonstrated in fighting food insecurity, not only in their countries but also on the continent.
“Yara creates impact by addressing global challenges. By awarding the Prize, we salute the champions of sustainable agricultural development. I wish to extend my personal congratulations to the laureates,” Haslestad said.
“This is the exact kind of development needed to promote in the Grow Africa Initiative, co-chaired by Yara alongside NEPAD and the African Union”.
The Yara Prize is based on nominations of candidates who are carefully evaluated by the Yara Prize Committee.
Rwanda and Tanzania National Police have signed a bilateral agreement aimed at boosting ties in various cooperation areas.
According to the pact, Rwanda and Tanzania Police forces will cooperate to enhance border security, exchange timely information and sharing of Interpol tools at the two borders;
Also will Conduct joint training and exercise plays, joint operations, joint acquisitions of equipments, exchange programs and best experience, collaboration in disasters and collaboration in traffic management among others.
The agreement was signed in Zanzibar September 5. Rwanda’s Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana and Tanzania’s IGP Said Ally Mwema, signed the agreement.
In combating crime, both Police forces will exchange information related to the activities of criminal elements through all methods and techniques at various levels.
Rwanda and Tanzania will exchange bilateral expertise and visits in order to develop the training strategies in the fields of preventing and combating crime within the scope of this Memorandum.
The two forces agreed upon the development of curriculum and the rejuvenation of training activities in the fields related to prevention and combating crimes, development of joint training programs, exchange of trainers and students.
Work on the enhancement of co-operation and provision of mutual assistance relating to investigation procedures and seizing criminals according to their national laws will also be implemented.
The Tanzania-Rwanda Joint Permanent Commission shall have the mandate to discuss issues related to combating crime.
Regular meetings will take place alternately in both Rwanda and Tanzania as follows: once a year for Police Chiefs and quarterly for District and Regional Police Commanders on the common border.
The IGP Rwanda in his capacity as Interpol Delegate for Africa also attended the SARPCCO extraordinary meeting which studied issues related to transnational organized crimes.
Rwanda National Police has arrested two suspects in connection with the recent string of mysterious murders of sex workers.
Police says it had since instituted a team of experts to investigate the murder of sex workers and this yielded two suspects.
However, the identity of suspects has not been revealed.
Supt. Theos Badege was quoted by ORINFOR saying a team of special investigators was established to hunt down the murderers.
Some of the sex workers have requested for an improvement in the security because the killers usually find them in their homes.
Rwanda is ranked 63rd among 144 countries assessed in the 2012-2013 Global competitiveness Report.
This proves there has been a great improvement by Rwanda which was ranked 70th in the 2011-2012 similar Rankings.
This year’s Report features a record number of 144 economies is the most comprehensive assessment of its kind.
The report contains a detailed profile for each of the economies included in the study as well as an extensive section of data tables with global rankings covering over 100 indicators.
According to the report, Global growth remains historically low for the second year running with major centers of economic activity—particularly large emerging economies and key advanced economies—expected to slow in 2012–13, confirming the belief that the global economy is troubled by a slow and weak recovery.
As in previous years, growth remains unequally distributed. Emerging and developing countries are growing faster than advanced economies, steadily closing the income gap.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that, in 2012, the euro zone will have contracted by 0.3% , while the United States is experiencing a weak recovery with an uncertain future.
Large emerging economies such as Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa are growing somewhat less than they did in 2011.
At the same time, other emerging markets—such as developing Asia—will continue to show robust growth rates, while the Middle East and North Africa as well as sub-Saharan African countries are gaining momentum.
The best ten economies include; Switizerland(1st), Singapore(2nd),finiland (3rd),Sweden(4th), Netherlands(5th), Germany(6th), USA(7th), UK(8th),Hong Kong(9th), Japan(10th)..
In East Africa,Rwandan emerged top at position 63rd meanwhile Kenya scooped (106th) position,Tanzania(120th),Uganda(123rd) and Burundi also the last on the global rankings list at (144th).
The Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi has instructed that prevailing problems between Kigali Cement Company and Residents in the area of its operation be solved within 30days.
Dr. Habumuremyi made the remarks September 4, while taking a guided tour around the cement factory located at Nyabugogo a Kigali city suburb.
Residents of Nyabugogo claim that machines at the factory have destroyed most of their houses due to the shaking effect while in operation.
Houses and other infrastructure in the area are shaken until they crack in most cases crumbling.
The Prime Minsiter has instructed the factory management to find solutions to the effects the machines have on residents’ infrastructure.
Dr. Habumuremyi instituted a commission to look into the matter and make sure the existing problems are sorted within a period of 30 days.
Mukamusoni Pauline a representative of residents and Jean Damascene Ndayambaje one of the shareholders of the cement factory said they are contented with the Prime Ministers guidance on the matter.
Dear, Editor,
I hope you are well and thank you for taking the time to read my email.I have read your article on the situation with Banamungu Idi and Ngirukeye Sylvestre and CVC.
I see you have published Rusekampunzi Celestine Pierre’s side of the story so I feel that I should speak for Banamungu and Sylvestre because they cannot speak to you,in the hope that you will publish their side also thank you.
You have published all of the good work CVC has done for the vulnerable people of Rwanda so you have evidence of our good will and what we have done for the people of Rwanda.
I have known Banamungu Idi for 2 years and began helping vulnerable Rwandese with Banamungu in 2011 because I found him to be a very honest man.He would account for every money I gave him with a receipt or a record of where it was spent.
He was very serious about telling the truth and he has a good heart to help people.Other people had tricked me to get money but not Banamungu ever.
Since May 2012 Celestine has been messaging me on Facebook asking for money for things for himself for example a leather jacket for his graduation.
I have told him NO this money is for medical insurance,school fees and CVC projects like goat breeding and mushroom farming that some villages already have such as Kicukiro.He also kept asking Banamungu for money and he also explained that the money was for the villagers.
He then began to threaten me and Banamungu saying he would destroy CVC .We had been warned by a man named Gavin from the U.K who had dealt with Celestine when he was in another organisation for street children (I will not name the organisation).
He told us of his lies and angry violent temper and how he stole money from Gavin’s church organisation.
Banamungu and I decided not to let Celestine on the CVC committee for this reason but we did not want to push him away because we knew God would want us to help him.
So we decided if he wanted to help with volunteer work sometimes it might help him get better and find some peace in his heart.But he did not get better he just tricks people.
Celestine says in the article that there was a donation of $16,000 from members in Australia that paid US$30 each and this was sent to Rwanda and is no where to be seen,this is because it never happened!
I receive all monies into a bank account in Australia and never have I seen this amount of money.CVC has about 10 people donating about $150 a month!This is very small money and I have given bank statements to Banamungu’s lawyer to proove this is the truth.
Celestine also tells of a bus that he says CVC has,this is also a lie.The bus he is talking about came from a photo that Mundere Karim found on the internet during the RINA Humanitarian Awards voting that CVC was nominated for.
He joked that if CVC win we should go to the RINA award night in Washington DC in this bus.
There is no such passenger transportation business sending money to Rwanda.This bus in the photo would cost about $300,000 to buy,I think it would take a long time for CVC to get that much money if all we have is about $150 a month!!
This can be proven just by checking the Facebook page of Counselling Volunteers Club and scrolling down to May the 12th 2012,you will see the truth here.
I wrote a book with my Professor,Dr.Patricia Sherwood at Sophia College of Counselling where I teach in Australia called Clay Therapy,Healing Rwandan Genocide based on the Clay Therapy workshops I taught last year to 45 Rwandese,counsellors from FXB,Psychology students from International University of Rwanda and many villagers including Banamungu,Sylvestre and Celestine.
We wrote this book to help severely traumatised people to heal through Clay Therapy because we wittnessed so many people find peace in their hearts from this kind of counselling.
The sale money of this book is with Sophia College of Counselling and will be used in a project CVC had planned for its members that Banamungu and myself wouid make happen.
I have 12 counsellors volunteering to come in the Genocide memorial time in April 2013 to counsel all CVC members.
We planned to do many workshops providing food,water,transport and equipment for all participants of the workshops.This money is to stay in Sophia Colleges bank account until we reach Rwanda in 2013.
None of this money has gone to me or Banamungu or Sylvestre.It is for the villagers only.
I also read that a request to end CVC completely has been made.How sad this would be if the lies of Celestine would be heard and the good work that myself,Banamungu,Sylvestre and the other CVC committee members and volunteers who had put their heart and soul into everything CVC has done would be forgotten.
The 2013 project would not happen and Celestines threat would steal many villager’s chances to heal and make an income for their future through CVC projects.
CVC’s case is being viewed now, it is not settled yet as the Judge waits for my testimony and all the evidence that was asked for so that he/she can make a decision,I have great faith the judge will find the truth.The case is on the 5th September.
I hope that you will let your readers have both sides of the story so they can feel in their hearts what is true.
My wish is for Banamungu to remain President of CVC and for Sylvestre to remain Secretary so that we can continue helping the vulnerable people of Rwanda.I pray to God.
Thank you
Kim O’Meara Adv.Dip. Holistic Counselling.
Honourary President of CVC
Perth, Australia
The crown Miss Rwanda 2012 has announced plans to moblise Rwandan youths in efforts to contribute to the Agaciro Development Fund.
Over Frw7billion has so far been deposited into the Agaciro Fund.
Kayibanda Mutesi Aurore didn’t not give details of her proposed new moblisation plan.
She says,“my first objective is to moblise youths to contribute to Agaciro Development Fund as a way of showing youths how to accord themselves diginity.”
Miss Kayibanda is a student at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).
Due to an armed rebellion in eastern DRC, Opposition parties in DRC have called for the impeachment of President Joseph Kabange Kabila accusing him and members of his government of complicity in the rebellion.
The opposition is pressuring parliament to trigger a mechanism of impeachment of the president for ‘Treason’.
The impeachment demand points to the M23 rebellion that started in North Kivu since last May, the parties consider that “the complicity of those in power with the perpetrators is totally established.”
“The war is going on in the East as a trigger for the famous agreement between the Government of the Republic and the CNDP [the former rebel National Congress for People’s Defence]. And we believe that the misapplication of this agreement will create problems.”
“There were in [under] this agreement, a deliberate and concealed by the institutions, the deployment on the national territory of Rwandan troops officially responsible to track the FDLR and other negative forces, “said honourable member of parliament Lisanga Bonganga and spokesman for opposition group seeking the indictment.
The Congolese government signed in March 2009 a peace agreement with the CNDP. The text provided including the integration of rebels into the army, the allocation to senior civilian CNDP positions within political institutions.
The same year, DRC and Rwanda conducted joint military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan rebels based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The group also says, the rebellion of M23 launched last May is conducted by officers of the army removed from the CNDP. They also say M23 is the rebellion backed by Rwanda, according to the Congolese government, NGOs and the UN.
Last Friday, the Rwandan special forces deployed to Rutshuru in North Kivu since more than two years, began to withdraw from the territory largely occupied by rebels M23. Rwandan forces were officially deployed to hunt down the FDLR.
Opponents say they have carefully followed the Minister of Defence of Rwanda, James Kabarebe, who announced the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the DRC. “We’re not naive,” said Lisanga Bonganga, before denouncing “complicity at the highest level” of the Congolese state.
In the political declaration they made Monday in Kinshasa, the leaders of the opposition parties have stated that “any approach military, diplomatic and political on the sole initiative of the regime is afraid of success” the cessation of hostilities in North Kivu.
They called for a national dialogue involving all political and social forces to “discuss the situation of instability in the East.”
The opposition also rejects the idea of deploying a neutral force along the border between Rwanda and the DRC to fight armed groups, saying it is likely to achieve the Balkanization of the DRC.
“If anyone should be accused of treason, it will certainly not President Joseph Kabila who is fighting for the country’s security, to drive out the enemies of our country.”
“I think it should participate in the work of demoralization of national opinion initiated by the Rwandan Minister of Defense, “said André Alain Atundu Liongo, part of the Presidential Majority and President of the Convention for the Democracy and the Republic (CDR).