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  • Sex Workers Punish Man For Refusing to Pay

    A group of prostitutes have mobbed a man who allegedly refused to pay their colleague after obtaining a service from her.

    The Incident happened at Matimba Street in Indatwa village, Rwezamenyo cell, Rwezamenyo sector in Nyarugenge district in the night of 24th February 2012.

    Zarafan Muteteri, a daughter of the landlord told IGIHE.com that she overheard Quarrels and figths in a closed house during the night around 10:00 pm.

    She alleged that “Nyirandimubanzi a sex worker leased her house to a fellow prostitute to host her client for the night however, the man refused to pay after for a service rendered to him.”

    Muteteri narrated that sex worker sought for help from her colleagues including Nyirandimubanzi who later beatup the man in a closed house.

    “They opened the door when Security agents arrived. Four women and an unconscious man; the security agents demanded the sex worker to take the man to hospital,” Muteteri added.

    Sylvere Barayavuga, a neighbour, said that he found a half naked man in underwear bleeding profusely while seated on the veranda. He suspected the man was assaulted with a razor blade on back. The man is being treated in CHUK room no. 1.

  • Government to Create More 1187 Jobs

    The Rwanda Minister of trade and industry François Kanimba has urged citizens to embrace the job creation Program saying that only 1,125 jobs were created in 2011.

    Minister Kanimba revealed that the government intends to create more 1187 Jobs through the ‘Hanga Umulimo’ program .

    “Hanga Umulimo,” is a national program established to help reduce unemployment among the Youths and supporting small-medium entrepreneurial projects expand.

    Kanimba said in every district over 50 projects have been selected to receive government support. The minister emphasised that the “Hanga Umulimo,” program also considers agro Projects.

  • EAC Conference Seeks Financial Sector Fusion

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    A Conference aimed at integration of financial sectors of EAC member states is concluding today in Arusha Tanzania.The two day conference that opened yesterday was organized by the EAC Secretariat in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund.

    The conference deliberated under the theme “The East African Community after 10 Years: Deepening EAC Integration”.

    Over 100 regional and international experts and policy makers used the conference as a platform to discuss the EAC’s accomplishments to date, the benefits of regional integration, relevant international experience, and the macroeconomic policy challenges going forward.

    EAC Secretary General Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera said yesterday in his opening remarks that the East African Community has as its primary objective to develop a single market and investment area in East Africa that is anchored on the twin pillars of internal free trade and liberal trade with the rest of the world.

    He said that EAC has evolved strong institutions, legal frameworks and operational modalities in the promotion of a viable and vibrant integrated market, a business and investments friendly environment and development of competitive value added industries.

    “We have established a Customs Union and Common Market into which we are currently investing every effort and energy to ensure that these programmes work well for the people in delivering and demonstrating the benefits of regional integration,’ he explained.

    He said the EAC is putting in place comprehensive programme of regional infrastructure to support a viable, vibrant single market and investment area in East Africa.

    “On the whole, we have transformed the East African narrative from that of lethargy, stagnation, dependence and underdevelopment to that of forward looking dynamic progress,” he added.

  • Regional Police Arrive For Command and Staff Course

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    Senior Police officers from the region are in Rwanda for an intermediate Command and Staff Course- the first of its kind in the history of Rwanda National Police training.

    The course will last three months at National Police Academy (NPA) in Musanze district.

    According to Rwanda National Police sources, the Police command and staff course is designed to aid participants with skills and knowledge in police operations and staff duties and international policing.

    Rwanda’s Minister of Internal Security, Sheikh Musa Fazil Harelimana has commended Police leadership for the constructive innovation of developing the new course.

    “As law enforcement agents policemen are required to have necessary skills and trainings are one of the ways through which such skills can be acquired,” Minister Harelimana said.

    Participants include 5 police officers from Burundi, Somalia (5), South Sudan (10) and Rwanda (20).

  • Rwanda Risks Internet Cuts As Ship Faults Fibre Optic Cables

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    Last evening two fiber optic cables were affected after being hit by a ship’s anchor that docked at Mombasa port in Kenya, technicians say that the impact will likely cause internet disruptions in six countries including, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania, Ethiopia and part of South Sudan.

    While waiting for access to a port in Mombasa, a ship dropped a larger anchor in a restricted area off the coast.

    The anchor barreled towards the sea floor, as anchors tried to hold it up and upon contact damaged two of three undersea fiber-optic cables responsible for delivering high-speed Internet access to a large portion of Africa.

    They link the eastern costal region of Africa to the United Arab Emirates and connect countries in the affected region to each other.

    The remaining cable maintains a link between the affected region to Europe, India, and South Africa.

    East African Marine Systems, the owners of one of the cables, have passed a communiqué saying that repairs may take up to 14 days after which the average Internet speed of users in the affected counties is expected to drop by 20%.

    However, Eassy the owners of the second affected cable have diverted some of their clients to their satellite bandwidth but the internet addition wouldn’t be advantageous to the majority yet.

  • Young Rwandan Director’s For Red Carpet Film Screening

    The red carpet film screening for the young Rwandan directors will be held at Ishyo Theatre (today) Tuesday 28th . The films will be screened in front of directors who will individually speak to the crowds about their movies.

    The four films for screening include; “Note bene” by Richard Mugwaneza, “Saa Ipo” by Jean Luc Fils Habyarimana, “Ruhago” by Aime Philbert Mbabazi, and “Mama” by Jean Bosco Nshimiyana.

    Richard Mugwaneza worked for two years with film Production Company Almond Tree Films productions as a permanent cinematographer and film editor, and after working on other filmmakers’ projects, started freelance film directing and screenwriting career.

    “The Idea of “Nota Bene” came to him while he was resting after a long journey of work; he said I switched on my radio and heard that a journalist visited people from the furthest parts of the village in Rwanda.”

    “So my message to them became message” No Better Place than Home” stated Mugwaneza. The real meaning of the film’s title “NOTA BENE” is derived from Latin which simply translated means Pay Attention”.

    “From the youngest to the oldest, the dream was to see what the capital city looks like.”

    Jean Luc Fils Habyarimana the director of “SAA IPO” is a 28 year old gospel singer who Habyarimana worked as first assistant camera operator on Lee Isaac Chung’s film Munyurangabo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

    Habyarimana worked on the crew of Maibobo, a short film by Yves Montand Niyongabo, and as cinematographer on Kinyarwanda, a film by Alrick Brown.

    Jean Bosco Nshimiyana and Aime Philbert Mbabazi are both young upcoming directors who will also be at the screening, where they will be showing their movies for the first time both are very excited and are eager as well as apprehensive about the public’s feedback.

    The directors will be present to introduce their works before the screening, where after all four movies have been shown the directors will be available for questions and discussions. The films will be 6.30 pm, in the Iysho halls, entrance is free.

  • Baby Named Paul Kagame

    Zainab Mpinganzima and Mark Kabwana have named their newly born baby Paul Kagame as an expression for their unwavering support for the President of Rwanda. The couple are residents of Gatsinsino village, Nyanza cell, Busasamana sector in Nyanza district.

    Mpinganzima the mother of baby Kagame said that they have named their son after the president for three reasons.

    She said, “first of all I support the President, secondly, our baby was born on National heroes’ Day, lastly, in 2009 when the President came to Nyanza I didn’t see him due to the big crowd which affected me with my pregnancy and I left without seeing him.”

    She said that she has never seen President Paul Kagame face to face except hearing his voice over the radio,“I wish I could meet him. I want my son to be a hero like him.”

    However, Mpinganzima says, “I am now worried of my action for I did so without Presidents permission.”

    The father had named the baby Paul Manzi and the mother added Kagame and the baby’s full name is Manzi Paul Kagame.

    Kabwana is a soldier in the Rwanda Defence forces in the 14th battalion at Ngororero.

  • Rwanda History Books to be Published

    Izuba editions, an upcoming library that focuses on the deliverance of historical editions on Rwandan History and the Great Lakes region will be bridging the gap of Rwanda’s limited access to literary history.

    Izuba means “the sun” in Kinyarwanda is the name of the library that was first created in Belguim by author Jean Paul Gouteux a co-editor with “l’Espirit magazine“. His essential hope was expanding peoples’ knowledge on what has for the last decade been a rigid history imposed by foreign societies as well as Rwanda a limit on subjects concerning Rwanda history before the genocide.

    At the beginning of colonial invasion, two ethnic tribes in Rwanda have had to live with prejudice and this has proven to be hardest thing they have to live with. But the question is, what was Rwanda like before the colonists came and changed everything..Pops up in conversations.

    Soon these questions will be answered in the books that will be coming across nations near your local bookstores.

    The 1994 tutsi genocide left the world numb with shock that interference in social and cultural affairs can lead up to disaster. In Jean Pierre’s Chretien’s book “Great Lakes history, 2000 year of history.”
    He deconstructs the myths that were so important. The society and the Rwandan culture.

    His book is full of documentation’.It is full of ancient Rwandan cultural and social relation until the colonial ambitions destroyed all that.

    Izuba editions which commenced in 2011 last year teamed up with a group of people that decided to create a place that has the largest possible access to scripts documents and testimonies as well as analysis on the region of the Great lakes.

    Other books in the Izuba editions that will soon be available include “The children of God” written by Jean-Luc Galabert, a non fiction novel that talks about the ancient Rwandan social and cultural history.

    Jacques Moral’s novel “France in the heart of the Genocide of the Tutsi” and Lastly but not least “The Black Night” a 5 volume book originally in French that contains details and testimonies of the implications of the French in the last genocide that occurred in Rwanda, a special report by Rapport Mucyo.

    The books are currently on sale on line or can be bought in bookstores across Belgium for only 20Euro’s, but the Izuba library will be expanding its sales to bookstores across the globe.

  • Six Held over Stolen Home Electronics

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    Police in Kicukiro district last week arrested six men in connection with theft of household electronics including; seven television sets, five DVD players, amplifier, three iron boxes, and two public broadcast speakers valued at Frw 1.5million.

    According to Police sources in Kicukiro district, an unidentified resident notified Police about one of the suspects seen carrying the electronics.

    Police mounted a search operation only to find on 23rd last week four television sets from the house belonging to Herman Manirarora a resident Kanombe sector in Rubirizi cell.

    The witness further informed Police about five more residents whom he believed used to buy those electronics from Herman.

    The arrested suspects are identified as Agustin Ndagijimana 26, Patrick Uwayezu 24, Diogéune Nshimiyumukiza 31, Herman Manirarora 28, Celestin Turimubabisha 44 and Elias Bakundukize 27 years old. They are all detained at Nyamirambo Police Station.

    Herman Manirarora was found in possession of four television sets but denies any wrong doing saying Police found at his home only one TV set.
    He claims the television set belongs to him and that he had no idea why he was arrested.

    Police Spokesperson Superintendent Theos Badege attributed the arrest of the suspects to the good collaboration with citizens.

    “That was a great job done by residents; it shows how much citizens have grasped their need to participate towards state security”, Badege said.

    Superintendent Badege advised youths to opt for honest activities and avoid crime.

  • 50 Police Officers Trained On GBV

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    50 Police Officers preparing to go for the United Nations missions are in undergoing a one week training on Gender Based Violence at Police General Head Quarters in Kacyiru.

    The training aimed on equipping the police officers with necessary skills that will enable them to better address gender based violence cases while on mission areas.

    Apart from GBV, the trainees are set to learn other lessons like, mission experience, Gender promotion and leadership skills.

    The training was organised by Rwanda National Police and funded by UNDP. The 50 police officers are drawn from different areas of the country.

    Officiating at the opening ceremony, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Faustin Kalisa said such training was paramount to Police Officers preparing to go UN missions.

    It is quite important that police officers get skills on GBV as it enables them to better address violence against women and girls.

    “As the world is worried about violence done against women and girls, Rwanda has been ranked as the world leading country that deploys the highest number of female police officers to mission areas”, Kalisa
    said.

    MAXIM Rwendeye an official from UN who is in charge of GBV said UN shall continue to partner with Police to ensure women and girls are protected from all sorts of violence.