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President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame October 5,welcome President Bongo Ondimba and First Lady Sylvia Bongo.

Earlier this week, media reported that President Ali Bongo will visit Rwanda from Friday to Saturday to study at first hand its experience with bilingualism.

Gabon is considering switching to the use of English language following Rwanda’s success.

Bongo’s visit takes place a week before the Francophonie summit in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 12, which French President Francois Hollande will attend.

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo wants to boost the use of English in his country, a former colony of France where French is widely spoken.

Earlier this week Gabon spokesperson Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nzesai told media that “Gabon wants to look closely at Rwanda’s experience with the introduction of bilingualism.”

The vast majority of Gabon’s 1.5 million people speak French.

People living with disabilities in Gicumbi District have warned that they have great walking difficulties due to the mountainous area adding that district should support them to deal with the problem.

Ruremeza Jean Nepomscene who is a representative of disabled people in Rushaki sector said that most of them cannot afford the journey from home to the nearby tarmac roads to access different services.

They prefer to remain home due to the fact that going the upward and downward the mountains are not easy tasks for them.

People living with disabilities added that their cooperatives are not well managed noting that in some areas cooperative funds are embezzled.
However, they have managed to buy a goat for each member of the cooperative.

Mujawamariya Therese, the vice Mayor in charge of social affairs in Gicumbi District has said that with support from other institutions; the district will find solutions to their challenges.

She encouraged disabled to join hands and start their income generation project and show them to the district level for funding.

The London High court in the UK has given a go ahead to Mau Mau’s compensation case against British Government despite a 50 year time lapse. Case now to go to full trial.

The Guardian reported three elderly Kenyans have won an historic legal victory over the British government after the high court gave them permission to claim damages for the grave abuses they suffered when imprisoned during the Mau Mau rebellion.

The three suffered what their lawyers describe as “unspeakable acts of brutality”, including castration, beatings and severe sexual assaults.

The British government’s lawyers have accepted that all three were tortured by the colonial authorities, so even though the case now has to go to a full trial, it is expected to be settled promptly with the payment of damages.

However, an estimated 2,000 other Kenyans – the survivors of more than 70,000 Mau Mau suspects who were imprisoned during the seven-year insurgency in the 1950s — are now expected to come forward to sue the British government.

Judy Cheng-Hopkins the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peace building Support is currently in Rwanda where she has come to personally acquaint herself with the progress made by the Rwanda Defence Forces.

She also wants to see how the RDF has developed into a proffessional force since stopping the 1994 Genocide against the Ethnic Tutsi.

Cheng-Hopkins told IGIHE that she is in Rwanda to see for herself the progress made by RDF in Peace building. She added that RDF’s Achievements can maybe emulated by other countries.

The Son-in-Law to an elusive Rwanda genocide fugitive has been appointed to a senior position in an opposition political pressure group- Rwanda National Congress (RNC) currently operating outside the country.

Dr Paulin Murayi will head the Brussels wing of the troubled RNC.

He is a leading founder member of genocide radio RTLM that encouraged the brutal killings targeting ethnic Tutsi’s before and during the 1994 genocide.

Dr. Paulin Murayi a medical practitioner who has been off the public record until recently, is married to Winnie Kabuga, the daughter of Felicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives on the planet.

In 1993, when the genocide radio RTLM was being established, Murayi was a medical student in Belgium and headed two very crucial bodies: the MRND chapter there, as well as the Rwando-Belgo association, according to witness testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

During the fundraising period, RTLM shareholders, including majority owner Kabuga, tasked Murayi to solicit support for the station among Rwandan extremists in Belgium at the time. He did not fail.

Dr Murayi personally hired Georges Ruggiu, the Belgo-Italian convicted by the ICTR for genocide due to his role at RTLM.

Ruggiu became involved with genocide extremists in the Rwanda community in Belgium a few years before RTLM was created.