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A senior police officer Assistant Commissioner of Police(ACP), John Bosco Kabera, the commissioner for Human Resource and Support Services has reacted against media reports claiming that recruiting female police aimed at increasing their number on peacekeeping mission.

According to information from Ministry of Internal Security website, Rwanda has embarked on a campaign to recruit female police into the force.

The information indicate that the aim of female recruitment into the force is to increase the number of women police officers at least by 30% as provided in the constitution as well as other laws.

“Joining Rwanda National Police is a Nobel Cause, it was not our motive behind this campaign,” ACP Kabera said.

“Yes we are keen to oblige to the United Nations resolution 13/2000 but that is not the only reason we are conducting this campaign. The important aspect here is having the percentage of Rwandan females in Police and to also have them participate in nation building,” Kabera added.

He conceded that more women peace keepers are indeed needed given the change in the nature of conflict where gender based violence cases have increased over the years.

Kabera also noted that it has been discovered that that most victims gender based violence especially female tend to be comfortable discussing their ordeals with female peacekeepers.

Rwanda has been hailed for her performance in the peace keeping missions including having sent a largest number of women peace keepers.

Apparently female police make up 19% of total police force. However Rwanda National Police (RNP) is working towards changing the trend.

“Like any other Rwandans, women should be part of the police force and participate in the nation building,” ACP Kabera said.

There have been skeptics especially among women to join Rwanda National Police. This is particularly underscored by the low recruitment levels of women into the institution.

Kabera however suppressed the doubts saying that joining the National Police is a prestigious and noble cause.

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Following excited Rwandans in the diaspora over different social media for Career Day, at least 200 Rwandan in the Diaspora turned up for the first edition of Career day in Kigali.

Career day was organized by Jobs in Rwanda Ltd in collaboration with Wakening Abilities for the Future (WAF), a Belgian based association of Rwandan Young Professionals.

According to Grace Nyinawumuntu one of the organizers the main objective of career day is to discuss about career perspectives in Rwanda and analyze how professional and knowledge skills of members of Diaspora and others in the country could be exploited in consultancy contracts.

Over 35 companies participated in a one-day event to share their business experience in Rwanda as their representative presented their paper to the attentively listening Rwandans in the diaspora.

This follows a two days National Dialogue where Rwandans in the Diaspora participated in large number and asked to begin investing and taxing back in their country as way of increasing Rwandan economy in order to stop over dependence syndrome.

Rwanda has been one of the fast growing economies in Africa where her President Paul Kagame has been at the fore front to fight dependence.

International community has hailed Rwanda for her effective use of aid hence becoming an example to many developing countries.

In the discussions that attracted over five hundred participants in the career day that took place at Serena Hotel, there is a need to bridge skills and knowledge gap and a number of members of Diaspora presented their CV’s to the prosepective employers that included Telecom firms and banks.

According to Parfait Gahamanyi Director General of the Diaspora Directorate the event is expected to be hosted annually.

“We believe Rwandans in Diaspora can play an important role in development of this nation,” Gahamanyi says.

Gahamanyi says this idea came from Rwandans in the Diaspora themselves and government supported it.

According to Yvette Umutoni, the Human Resource Director at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), the event was fruitful with many showing interest in returning to contribute their skills in Rwanda’s job market.

“We should have had this three or four year ago because it has really brought the Diaspora under one roof in terms of skills and opportunities for both potential employers and potential employees. We think next year it will be much better,” Umutoni said.

In recent presentation of government’s plan to the parliament by Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi, government vowed to create 200,000 jobs annually so as to solve the problem of unemployment in the country.

The unemployment rate in Rwanda was last reported at 30 percent in 2008.

Worldwide 2010 estimates indicated that unemployment was at 8.7% and 30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries or developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment.

This year it has been reported that more than 200 million people globally are out of work, a record high, as almost two-thirds of advanced economies and half of developing countries are experiencing a slowdown in employment growth.

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The First lady Jeannette Kagame on Saturday set off the annual sharing of the Christmas celebrations with different children from different parts of the country.

The main objective of the celebrations is to create awareness to parents to show parental love and care to their children and to others who are orphans while showing them hopes of survival despite the challenges they are going through.

The First Lady delivered the message to over 100 pupils, aged between seven and twelve years old from all over the country.

During the ongoing celebrations there will be different performances and competitions in different games performed by the kids.

Mrs. Kagame together with Santa Clause (Père Noël) will also be giving lots of prizes in order to let pupils end the year with woo moods.

A woman identified as Mukankusi Donatha (above) has abandoned her baby named Kanyana at her cowife’s house claiming that her husband had failed to provide care for the child.

The incident happened at Niboye Sector, Kicukiro district on Sunday
Mukankusi in an interview with igihe.com after abandoning the baby said that she separated with her husband because he could torture her and beat her after returning home while drunk.

“When he is sober, he is the best husband to live with but when he is drunk, he is more of a lion,” she said.

“I am leaving the baby here and let her step mother take care of her because she is the one living with my husband,” added Mukankusi.

She says she separated with Victor Tuyizere (husband) who later married another wife one identified as Murekatete.

According to her, the baby is about one year old but she has no capacity to take care of the baby and that’s why she wants the father to take care of the his child as well.

Mukankusi says she took the case to the local authorities but no help was given to her.

By press time, Kanyana’s father was not available for comment. Only the co-wife ‘Murekatete’ was at home. Efforts were futile to obtain a comment from local authorites.

Murekatete told IGIHE.com that before getting married to Tuyizere she knew that he had another kid from a different woman. She told the husband then that when the child approaches 7 years old, she can take care of her.

Commenting on the matter, Police Spokesperson Supt. Theos Badege said that in such cases, any resident can pick up the kid and reach her to the local officials to rectify the situation and when all fails then police can get involved and find solution.

Rwanda’s First Lady, Jeannette Kagame, this weekend officiated the birth of a new network of women leaders named; Rwanda Women Leaders Network (RWLN).

The network is Aimed at encouraging women leaders in sharing their experiences and ideas maintaining their contribution towards Rwanda’s development.

The event that attracted over 200 women was held at Kigali Serena Hotel on Saturday.

RWLN was an idea of the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and One UN Rwanda with the objective of connecting all women leaders and inspiring younger women.

The First Lady speaking at RWLN launch pointed out that women owe power, wisdom, and ability to contributing positively to Rwanda’s development if given platform.

Mrs. Kagame further challenged women to stand up and make positive decisions that will bring sustainability and development not only to their families but also the country as well.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) has today Placed placed all military units on emergency alert following the news of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death on Saturday.

South Korea’s officials said they may raise the “Defcon,” a five-stage combat alert level, from its current level of four to three, and may also increase the Watchcon, an anti-North Korea surveillance alert, from three to two. Watchcon two signifies a state of emergency with indications of a vital threat from North Korea.

According to the JCS, the Master Control and Report Center (MCRC) at Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, which handles aerial monitoring and analysis, plans to ask for reinforcement by both South Korean and U.S. forces.

Kim Jong-il died on Saturday of a heart attack aged 69. According to hagiographic official accounts, Kim Jong-Il was born on February 16, 1942 at Mount Paekdu, a sacred site to Koreans.

However, independent experts say his birthplace was actually a guerrilla camp in Russia, from where his father was fighting Japanese forces who had colonised the Korean peninsula.

He suffered a stroke in August 2008. Some reports say he also suffered from kidney failure which required dialysis, diabetes and high blood pressure.

Kim defied widespread predictions of regime collapse as the communist state’s command economy wilted under its own contradictions and Soviet aid dried up in the early 1990s.

In the mid- to late-1990s Kim presided over a famine that by some estimates killed one million — but he still found resources to continue a nuclear weapons programme culminating in tests in October 2006 and May 2009.

North Korea regime faces increasing pressure from sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes and the parlous state of the economy. But the late leader’s state of health accelerated a perilous succession.

Kim Jong-Il inherited power from his father Kim Il-Sung, the 100th anniversary of whose birth comes next year in another flashpoint date that has US and South Korean analysts watching on nervously.