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  • Rwanda, Uganda Traders Demand Frw1.6Billion From Kenya

    Rwanda and Uganda business communities are demanding compensation from the Kenyan Government of damage caused following the 2008 Post Election related violence.

    The two landlocked countries are demanding about Frw1.6 Billion as compensation for the destruction of their trucks and goods along the Northern Corridor (Nairobi-Eldoret-Kampala highway).

    They argue that it is four years since Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki promised to compensate them in a meeting held in January at Harambee House.

    The matter is threatening to disrupt harmonious relations between Kenya and the two greatest trade partners of Uganda and Rwanda, according to Kenyan Standard.

    Kampala City Traders Association (Kacita) and Rwanda’s Federation of East African Freight Forwarders Associations (FEAFFA) have raised concern over the issue. Ugandan business community is planning to hold a peaceful demonstration in Kampala if the matter is not resolved by end of this month.

    “We express concern and fear that our people lost properties during the 2008 election violence in Kenya. It is part of this concern that Ugandan traders are now planning to divert their goods through the Dar es Salaam port for fear of election violence next year,” Kacita spokesman Issa Sekitto, said.

    “We want assurance from the Kenyan Government in the form of a compensatory note that the traders will be compensated by end of this month failure to which we shall mobilise our members to demonstrate at the Kenyan High Commission offices in Kampala.”

    In a letter written to President Kibaki and seen by the Standard, Rwanda’s Federation of East African Freight Forwarders Associations (FEAFFA) want the President to intervene and have them compensated before next year’s elections.

    “Your Excellency’s kind attention is drawn to January 29th 2012 at Harambee House where you issued a directive to the Deputy Prime Minister and former minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta and Minister of East Africa Community affairs Musa Sirma to settle the claims of the traders affected by the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya,” Bosco Rusagara, the then president of FEAFFA writes.

    “You are issued a two-week deadline to put closure to the long standing saga. The minutes of that meeting were considered and a resolution to the effect passed.”

    But East African Community Minister Musa Sirma said the matter is being looked into and assured the private sectors of both Uganda and Rwanda of an amicable resolution to the matter.

    “The Government under the then Trade Minister Chirau Mwakwere formed a committee which was later handed over to the Permanent Secretaries. The PS’ in turn are expected to prepare a cabinet memo for discussion and action. The matter is expected to be brought before the cabinet for a solution,” Sirma explained.

  • France issues Euros1 Million to Displaced Congolese

    France has provided funding of one million euros to the World Food Programme (WFP) / DRC to support emergency operations in Eastern countries, plagued by fighting between the Congolese military and armed groups.

    The financing agreement was signed Monday, October 15 between the French Minister for La Francophonie, Yamina Benguigui, and a representative of Pam Kanyaricunya, 10 kilometers from Goma in North Kivu.

    This town is home to about fifteen thousand displaced families including some eleven thousand are assisted by humanitarian.

    These IDPs fled the territory of Rutshuru, theater of war between the military and rebels of the Movement of 23 March (M23) since last May.

    Pam officials said that the contribution of France will allow them to purchase more than one thousand tons of food to carry in the region.

    This assistance will be distributed to nearly one hundred thousand people arrived at Kanyaricunya since last September.

    In total, more than 500,000 IDPs were registered in the provinces of North and South Kivu between January and August 2012.

    They are fed by Pam. The UN agency said it needs about 66.3 million Euros to support all these people.

    After the signing of this agreement, Yamina Benguigui Minister also visited the displaced Kanyaruchinya to which he stated that “France was on their side.”

    “All forces, including the European Union but also the DRC must mobilize to restore peace in Eastern DRC,” said Yamina Benguigui.

  • France issues Euros1 Million to Displaced Congolese

    France has provided funding of one million euros to the World Food Programme (WFP) / DRC to support emergency operations in Eastern countries, plagued by fighting between the Congolese military and armed groups.

    The financing agreement was signed Monday, October 15 between the French Minister for La Francophonie, Yamina Benguigui, and a representative of Pam Kanyaricunya, 10 kilometers from Goma in North Kivu.

    This town is home to about fifteen thousand displaced families including some eleven thousand are assisted by humanitarian.

    These IDPs fled the territory of Rutshuru, theater of war between the military and rebels of the Movement of 23 March (M23) since last May.

    Pam officials said that the contribution of France will allow them to purchase more than one thousand tons of food to carry in the region.

    This assistance will be distributed to nearly one hundred thousand people arrived at Kanyaricunya since last September.

    In total, more than 500,000 IDPs were registered in the provinces of North and South Kivu between January and August 2012.

    They are fed by Pam. The UN agency said it needs about 66.3 million Euros to support all these people.

    After the signing of this agreement, Yamina Benguigui Minister also visited the displaced Kanyaruchinya to which he stated that “France was on their side.”

    “All forces, including the European Union but also the DRC must mobilize to restore peace in Eastern DRC,” said Yamina Benguigui.

  • RPF Party Donates to residents

    As preparations of celebrating 25th Anniversary of Rwanda Patriotic Front- RPF-Inkotanyi continue, Members of the party in Jarama Sector, Ngoma District donated different domestic tools aimed at improving livelihoods of local communities.

    About Frw10 Million were contributed to procure utensils materials, iron sheets and 32 mattresses including 52 cows to vulnerable families, 53 goats, 24 rabbits and 10 pigs given as a way of improving social economic conditions among residents.

    Beneficiaries welcomed the act saying that they will use the gift in a productive way to sustain their families.

    The coordinator of RPF-Inkotanyi in Jarama sector said the gesture is in line with the celebration of 25th Anniversary of RPF Inkotanyi.

    The 25 years of RPF-Inkotanyi existence will be celebrated under the theme “Governance, Prosperity and Dignity for our people.”
    Celebrations are scheduled to take place on December 15

  • RPF Party Donates to residents

    As preparations of celebrating 25th Anniversary of Rwanda Patriotic Front- RPF-Inkotanyi continue, Members of the party in Jarama Sector, Ngoma District donated different domestic tools aimed at improving livelihoods of local communities.

    About Frw10 Million were contributed to procure utensils materials, iron sheets and 32 mattresses including 52 cows to vulnerable families, 53 goats, 24 rabbits and 10 pigs given as a way of improving social economic conditions among residents.

    Beneficiaries welcomed the act saying that they will use the gift in a productive way to sustain their families.

    The coordinator of RPF-Inkotanyi in Jarama sector said the gesture is in line with the celebration of 25th Anniversary of RPF Inkotanyi.

    The 25 years of RPF-Inkotanyi existence will be celebrated under the theme “Governance, Prosperity and Dignity for our people.”
    Celebrations are scheduled to take place on December 15

  • EAC Diaspora in Texas Urged to invest in Rwanda

    The East African Diaspora community from North America has highlighted Rwanda as a main destination for investment with opportunities in hospitality and tourism, agribusiness amongst many others.

    The idea was noted during a 3 day annual Conference in Richardson, Texas; a city known as the “Telecom Corridor of the United States”.

    During the event, Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, James Kimonyo discussed topics on the unique nature of the investment climate in Rwanda.

    According to the statement received by IGIHE, In the midst of large East African and U.S. companies, they were able to showcase the limitless business opportunities that Rwanda has to offer and encouraged the audience to think of Rwanda as their next business venture.

    The vice-chair of the East Africa Chamber of commerce Mr. Frank Kanobana; a Rwandan National said, “he strives to encourage Rwandan Diaspora around Texas to be involved in the initiative as it will be of benefit both to themselves and to Rwanda in turn”.

    Similarly, the embassy officials were also able to meet with the Mayor of Dallas as well as various executives of companies in a private setting, paving the platform to have a one-to-one conversation regarding Rwanda and its array of opportunities.

  • EAC Diaspora in Texas Urged to invest in Rwanda

    The East African Diaspora community from North America has highlighted Rwanda as a main destination for investment with opportunities in hospitality and tourism, agribusiness amongst many others.

    The idea was noted during a 3 day annual Conference in Richardson, Texas; a city known as the “Telecom Corridor of the United States”.

    During the event, Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, James Kimonyo discussed topics on the unique nature of the investment climate in Rwanda.

    According to the statement received by IGIHE, In the midst of large East African and U.S. companies, they were able to showcase the limitless business opportunities that Rwanda has to offer and encouraged the audience to think of Rwanda as their next business venture.

    The vice-chair of the East Africa Chamber of commerce Mr. Frank Kanobana; a Rwandan National said, “he strives to encourage Rwandan Diaspora around Texas to be involved in the initiative as it will be of benefit both to themselves and to Rwanda in turn”.

    Similarly, the embassy officials were also able to meet with the Mayor of Dallas as well as various executives of companies in a private setting, paving the platform to have a one-to-one conversation regarding Rwanda and its array of opportunities.

  • Community Should Model Children

    One evening, I walked from ORINFOR offices to the bus stop named after Kimicanga. As I was approaching, I saw a fourteen-year old Didier wiping silently behind other people who wore selfish faces.

    On my arrival, I asked the sad boy and he answered me shedding more tears that he had waited for the bus for almost two hours.

    The school boy went on saying that some buses had approached with empty seats but whenever he tried to board, he was pushed back. Having told me about the bad story, I thought the best solution is to speak for him and that’s what I did until he left.

    It’s normally known that the one who expects to be paid back is the one who lent. In this context, some parents do the reverse where they need discipline from their children when they didn’t set examples for the young ones.

    Failure to be exemplary to children makes them indiscipline which in turn makes parents complain time after time and even those who take pie as pie would tell you negative stories about the youths if you asked them.

    In this article, Didier’s serves as a general case. I would, therefore, like to remind parents and adults in general of the bad practices that should be abstained from, so as to have children and youths who are well-behaved.

    I would also like to start with home life. A child is like a visitor, the world in which he finds you is like a home and the parent is like a host from whom the visitor expects hospitality.

    Now you can imagine if a visitor is neglected; you fail to welcome him, you don’t show him where to sit, and you show no or little love to him. It’s clear that after some time he can change from good to bad behaviors on the basis of your weaknesses.

    Nowadays, most of the parents (not all) do not do enough to bring up children in the right way. In fact, some of those parents were also never given care in their early days and so they can’t give what they don’t have. Some others lack time in line with hard life they live, and a number of others are just negligent by nature.

    Some questions arise. How can you expect your children to greet you if you don’t greet them when you arrive at home? If at times you use dirty words in presence of your children, don’t you think they are recording your words on their minds?

    If you always go home drunk, is that a good example your children should follow? If frequently you violate the rights of your spouse, don’t you think your children will do the same when they grow up?

    In Rwanda’s culture, a child is expected to respect all elder people as much as he does to his parents. But this is possible by the condition that you treat the other child in the way you treat your own children. This is the reality of life.

    One of exemplary parents gave us an important advice in this statement “Treat every child as your own” but this is always ignored by many parents in different ways.

    The best example to serve this point is the times of evenings where you find many people at bus stops waiting for the buses to take them home. You will see adult people pushing school children carelessly when actually it’s getting dark. Here you can ask yourself the concept the child picks at that moment.

    If you mistreat children in the same way, how do you wait for respect from them? Remember that by the time the child grows to be energetic like you are today, you will have grown weaker. You are pushing him for no reason; he will step on you for that reason.

    I urge the bus drivers and conductors to be considerate to young children before elders as the adult people have many ways of solving their problems.

    contact author at
    [email protected].
    0788402391/0722402391

  • Community Should Model Children

    One evening, I walked from ORINFOR offices to the bus stop named after Kimicanga. As I was approaching, I saw a fourteen-year old Didier wiping silently behind other people who wore selfish faces.

    On my arrival, I asked the sad boy and he answered me shedding more tears that he had waited for the bus for almost two hours.

    The school boy went on saying that some buses had approached with empty seats but whenever he tried to board, he was pushed back. Having told me about the bad story, I thought the best solution is to speak for him and that’s what I did until he left.

    It’s normally known that the one who expects to be paid back is the one who lent. In this context, some parents do the reverse where they need discipline from their children when they didn’t set examples for the young ones.

    Failure to be exemplary to children makes them indiscipline which in turn makes parents complain time after time and even those who take pie as pie would tell you negative stories about the youths if you asked them.

    In this article, Didier’s serves as a general case. I would, therefore, like to remind parents and adults in general of the bad practices that should be abstained from, so as to have children and youths who are well-behaved.

    I would also like to start with home life. A child is like a visitor, the world in which he finds you is like a home and the parent is like a host from whom the visitor expects hospitality.

    Now you can imagine if a visitor is neglected; you fail to welcome him, you don’t show him where to sit, and you show no or little love to him. It’s clear that after some time he can change from good to bad behaviors on the basis of your weaknesses.

    Nowadays, most of the parents (not all) do not do enough to bring up children in the right way. In fact, some of those parents were also never given care in their early days and so they can’t give what they don’t have. Some others lack time in line with hard life they live, and a number of others are just negligent by nature.

    Some questions arise. How can you expect your children to greet you if you don’t greet them when you arrive at home? If at times you use dirty words in presence of your children, don’t you think they are recording your words on their minds?

    If you always go home drunk, is that a good example your children should follow? If frequently you violate the rights of your spouse, don’t you think your children will do the same when they grow up?

    In Rwanda’s culture, a child is expected to respect all elder people as much as he does to his parents. But this is possible by the condition that you treat the other child in the way you treat your own children. This is the reality of life.

    One of exemplary parents gave us an important advice in this statement “Treat every child as your own” but this is always ignored by many parents in different ways.

    The best example to serve this point is the times of evenings where you find many people at bus stops waiting for the buses to take them home. You will see adult people pushing school children carelessly when actually it’s getting dark. Here you can ask yourself the concept the child picks at that moment.

    If you mistreat children in the same way, how do you wait for respect from them? Remember that by the time the child grows to be energetic like you are today, you will have grown weaker. You are pushing him for no reason; he will step on you for that reason.

    I urge the bus drivers and conductors to be considerate to young children before elders as the adult people have many ways of solving their problems.

    contact author at
    [email protected].
    0788402391/0722402391

  • Microsoft launches New Music Service

    Microsoft announced October 15, it was launching a music service which offers free streaming for computers and tablets with the new Windows operating system to be launched this month.

    The Xbox Music service will allow users to stream custom-created playlists for free, along with music subscriptions and downloads, which will be managed in the Internet cloud to enable access on tablets, PCs, phones and television.

    Microsoft said the new service will be “on par with iTunes,” the leading music service from Apple, with a global catalog of more than 30 million songs.

    It will begin rolling out around the world this week on Xbox 360 and later this month on Windows PCs and tablets and on mobile phones.

    “The launch of Xbox Music is a milestone in simplifying digital music on every type of device and on a global scale,” said Don Mattrick, president of interactive entertainment at Microsoft.

    “We’re breaking down the walls that fracture your music experiences today to ensure that music is better and integrated across the screens that you care about most — your tablet, PC, phone and TV.”