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  • Rayon Sport Beats Mukura 1-0

    Rayon Sport thrashed Mukura 1-0 Sunday, to win the inaugural Agaciro Development Fund tournament at Amahoro stadium.

    Papy Kamanzi of Rayon Sport scored in the 60th minute the only goal.

    Frw5.01 million was raised from gate collections which the Ministry of Sports will deposit to the Agaciro Development Fund along with collections from other sporting federations.

    The Rayon Sport Coach Abdul Mbarushimana says he is confident of winning more trophies.

    The Mukura side coach said, “We have a great team but am not happy about referees decision on the Sunday match.”

  • Mugesera In Court Today

    Genocide suspect, Leon Mugesera is appearing before High Court where his case will be heard in substance.

    Prosecution Spokesman Alain Mukurarinda was quoted by NewTimes saying, “Mugesera’s case is expected to begin in substance today and his case will be tried by the High Court though not the special chamber.”

    However, Mugesera had appealed in the Supreme Court challenging his pre-trial procedure.

    He argued that article 162 of the code for civil and administrative procedures on which the Nyarugenge Intermediate Court based its decision contradicts article 18 of the constitution.

    Article 18 of the Rwandan Constitution provides that: “Any person who was a party to the proceedings in the first instance may appeal the judgment if he/she has an interest therein, except when the law provides otherwise.”

    It adds that: “However, the appeal against an interlocutory judgment shall be made only jointly with the final judgment. In this case, the time limit for appealing against the interlocutory judgment starts running from the date on which the final judgment was notified to the party”.

    According to the applicant, if the decision based on article 162 of the procedural code is upheld, it would undermine the constitution and his right to have more time to study his dossier.

    The Supreme Court will on September 28 pronounce its decision on whether to hear or reject Mugesera’s application.

  • Mike Tyson to Start Singing

    Former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson says he wants to “dance and sing” in musicals as his next challenge, after leaving the ring and cleaning up his troubled life.

    “I want to dance and sing. I want to do some dancing and singing musicals,” Tyson told reporters during a visit to Hong Kong when asked what he wanted to do with his life next.

    The 48-year-old Hall of Fame boxer who served time in jail for rape and infamously bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a fight in 1997, said he now just wanted to “hang out and entertain”.

    “I don’t have the desire to be that guy any more,” he said of his previous life as the self-styled “baddest man on the planet” who won 44 of his 58 fights by knockout.

    “I was always the bad guy that wanted to be a good guy, but I didn’t know how to be a good guy. I was always so concentrating on being bad.”

    Tyson is in Hong Kong to address the CLSA Investors’ Forum about how he overcame his troubled upbringing, the end of his brilliant but turbulent sporting career and his addiction to drugs and alcohol, to become a better man.

    He admitted he didn’t have much to offer the high-powered international business audience on the European debt crisis or the direction of Asian markets.

    The Brooklyn native, who squandered millions of dollars on drink and drugs, said the business of boxing was, for him, not about the money.

    “I didn’t care about my business. I only cared about my glory,” he said.

    “You can’t buy that … (I was) the best fighter in the world. Nobody could beat me with money in my prime, you had to be a better fighter and there wasn’t any.”

    But he said he had learned a thing or two about business over the years.

    “You learn to always trust your decision-making skills, you learn to always have your own fiduciary lawyers with you, and you also learn to always trust your partners, which is my wife,” he said.

    Tyson, who has a tattoo of Chairman Mao on his right arm, said he was thrilled to visit Bruce Lee’s home town and paid tribute to the late legend of kung fu cinema.

    “Bruce Lee’s concepts and philosophy is totally off the hook. Bruce Lee’s amazing,” he said.

    “Bruce Lee was a street fighter, he’s got to fight to the death… I’m not going to fight Bruce Lee.”

    Tyson is no stranger to the stage, having appeared in films and television shows. Last year he performed with his wife, Lakiha Spicer, in Argentinian dance show Bailando.

    Earlier this year he made his Broadway debut with his one-man show “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth”, directed by Spike Lee.

    “I’m just so happy to become this guy, to be a responsible adult. For a guy like me this is very courageous,” he said.

    AFP

  • Tsvangirai weds Despite Court Ban

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    Zimbabwean Priminster Morgan Tsvangirai September 15 wedded his wife Elizabeth Macheka during a traditional wedding ceremony in Harare.

    The wedding occurred despite a court ruling that canceled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy.

    Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register.

    A court on Friday declared Tsvangirai already married under tribal law after seeing video footage of traditional bride price being paid last November to the family of another Zimbabwean woman.

    Polygamy is recognized in tribal law but not in Zimbabwe’s national laws.

    Zimbabwe law has no jurisdiction over customary marriages, which are agreed between families.

  • Head of Jewish Genocide Museum visits Rwanda

    Piotor Sevinski the head of Auschwitz Birkenau state Museum in Poland has visited Rwanda where he has been taken around the Murambi genocide memorial site.

    Sevinski who says that although he head a state museum on genocide in Poland, he was shocked by the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.

    He said he had been hearing about the Rwandan genocide from media but it was shocking to see for himself the plight of Rwandans then in 1994.

    Over a million Lives were lost in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide against ethnic Tutsi.

    At the museum he saw weapons, tools and other weaponry used during the genocide. He also saw cloths and victims skulls and other preserved bodies of victims at the memorial site.

    Sevinski said he couldn’t find words to describe what he saw at the Murambi genocide memorial site.

    He said there should be modern ways of preserving the items and bodies at the memorial site so that future generations can find them in better condition.

  • Rwanda to Embrace Low Carbon Development Pathway

    Rwanda Minister of Natural resources, Stanislas Kamanzi has said that developed countries should put more commitment in dealing with impacts of global warming though arrangements under Kyoto protocol are soon expiring.

    However, the Minister said that new arrangements under negotiations also point to that commitment.

    Kamanzi added that developed Nations have to abide by their obligations to cut their emissions as defined for all annex 1 under the Kyoto Protocol.

    Asked about the contribution of Rwanda to curb global warming impacts, Kamanzi said “this is based on government choice to embrace a low carbon development pathway.”

    Earlier this week during the 14th ordinary session of the African Environment Ministerial Conference (AMCEN) Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has challenged African environment ministers to put industrial nations to task for their slow action to reverse degradation of the global environment and the rising global warming.

    Kikwete remarked that these are countries with the necessary financial resources, technology and skills to undertake the task but lack the political will.

    Kikwete said that the people in Africa suffer the most though they contribute the least to global warming, adding that the effects and problems of increased global warming were no longer hypothetical but real in many parts of Africa.

    Turning to African countries, the president said the blame should not be solely directed to developed nations.

    “We too have to put in place environment friendly policies and take action to rehabilitate the areas we have destroyed,” he noted.

    Meanwhile, representatives of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assured the ministers of their institutional support to further the agenda of sustainable development.

    AfDB representative Anthony Nyong said the Bank commended the flagship programmes for sustainable development which the conference agreed, adding that it would release a total of US$ 6.4 billion to support investments in energy, water and transport projects between 2011 and 2015.

  • Ebola Could Spread to DRC Towns–WHO

    Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo risks spreading to major towns if not brought under control soon after the death toll doubled within a week, the World Health Organisation has warned.

    The number of people killed by the contagious virus for which there is no known treatment has now risen to 31, including five health workers.

    Ebola causes massive bleeding and kills up to 90% of its victims.

    “The epidemic is not under control. On the contrary the situation is very, very serious,” Eugene Kabambi, a WHO spokesman in Congo’s capital Kinshasa said.

    “If nothing is done now, the disease will reach other places, and even major towns will be threatened,” he said, adding that an estimated $2 million had to be urgently found to pay for measures to tackle the disease.

    The outbreak, which is believed to have been caused by tainted bushmeat hunted by local villagers, has so far struck in the towns of Isiro and Viadana in the northeastern province of Orientale.

    Some 16 people in neighboring Uganda died of the disease last month, though the WHO said the two epidemics were not connected.

    The latest WHO figures show there are now 65 probable or suspected cases of Ebola in Congo, with 108 people under surveillance.

    Kabambi said one suspected case in Kinshasa had come back negative. Congo’s ramshackle capital is home to at least 9 million people and its health sector is crumbling.

    Congo’s infrastructure has been devastated by decades of corruption, conflict and misrule. The country last year came bottom of a United Nations development index.

    Reuters

  • Corrupt Driving Schools Risk Closure

    Driving schools asking for bribes from students risk being shut down in case there is evidence obtained that they have solicited for bribes from students in processing driving permits.

    The warning was made by the Inspector General of Police Emmanuel Gasana during a meeting with operators of Driving schools which have in the past been accused of soliciting for money from students promising them to quickly process driving permits.

    IGP Gasana said the Police will not be patient with any faulting driving school urging the driving schools to adhere to the national anti corruption policy.

    The inspector General of Police also said most driving schools are providing poor services to students because most of them fail driving permit exams for they are fraudulently enlisted for such exams.

  • Police Cautions Public Against Human Trafficking

    Human trafficking is modern day slavery; victims of trafficking are recruited through deception, force or coercion and then transported to another location, either within the country or abroad.

    According to Police website Traffickers might convince you to move from your home by promising you a better life, better money, and better opportunities. Sometimes they will promise you jobs, education or marriage.

    In some cases victims are abducted or arrangements are made without their knowledge.

    Victims are vulnerable to trafficking due to poverty; the lack of opportunities in the home areas and a lack of knowledge about safe migration procedures.

    Traffickers are involved because this is a lucrative business to them of making enough money at the pain of the victims.

    Demand exits for the services that victims are forced to provide, such as domestic labor, work in factories and farms, and sexual exploitation because it is cheaper than fully paid services.

    Once at their destination, victims of trafficking are held against their will, suffer different types of abuse, and are exploited for the benefit of the trafficker

    If you find yourself in this situation, it can be difficult to get out because traffickers have ways of controlling their victims. Traffickers can be strangers, or friends, relatives, or neighbors.

    They may also pretend to be an employer, a potential marriage partner, or benefactor.

    You may think that human trafficking can’t happen to you, but it happen to men, women and children every day, all over the world.

    Rwanda National Police advises the public that the trafficking happens in every part of the world, even including in Rwanda.

    The trafficking process can start in your own home, school and your community. It can happen in rural or urban areas, and Rwanda National Police urges the public to not fall prey to false promises.

    If you are offered a job in a different country, talk to people you trust and other people who have accepted work from this person, verify information from the potential employer, get the address and phone number of your employer and give it to your family and friends; make sure you have plan for stay in touch with friends and family.

    If you think you are a victim of trafficking, contact Rwanda National Police on 112. If you are abroad, you can also contact the Rwandan embassy or security organs there.

    Don’t be a victim of this criminal business; consult and get as much information as you can on the kind of offer you are being given and the person giving it to you.

  • Rehab For Girls to be Established

    Prime Minister Dr.Pierre Damien Habumuremyi says plans are underway to establish a rehabilitation centre to cater for girls simillar to the Iwawa center for boys.

    The Prime Minister said, government is striving to significantly improve the standards of Iwawa Rehabilitation and Vocational Skills Development Centre (IRVSDC).

    “It’s our obligation to continuously support these young men to completely transform their lives after here,” Dr Habumuremyi said adding; government intends to transform the centre into a well recognised institution teaching vocational skills.

    IRVSDC comprises mainly former street children located at Iwawa Island of Lake Kivu, Rutsiro District in the Western Province of Rwanda.

    Students at IRVSDC are trained in various courses such as bee-keeping, carpentry, commercial farming, masonry and tailoring.

    About 711 students at IRVSDC graduated Friday at the centers third graduation.

    Prime Minister encouraged parents to jointly work with local leaders to closely monitor the graduates after they leave Iwawa.

    He said that the government would strive to ensure all the graduates find employment.

    The president of the Iwawa parents’ body, Charles Kabanda, noted that the sustainability of the program could also be the responsibility of parents because the cost of training the children for a whole year was high.

    “There is need for cost sharing where parents should be able to contribute some money for the welfare of their children,” he said.