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  • Pastor Arrested over Fraud

    {{Police in Nyamasheke District is holding a suspect identified as Ugirashebuja Emmanuel for defrauding the public mascareding as an evangelical pastor promising parents that he would secure scholarships for their children.}}

    Ugirashebuja has been illegally extorting money from parents to register their children to recieve scholarships under the Compassion International Non Governmental Organisation.

    The suspect who said belongs to Goshen Pantecote International church is being held at Ntendezi Police station. He has been allegedly charging each child between Frw2500 and Frw3000 to have them registered for consideration into the Scholarship scheme.

    The Police spokesperson in Eastern Province confirmed the arrest saying the suspect will be brought before court.

  • MTN Rwanda Apologises to Subscribers

    {{MTN Rwanda has apologised to subscribers for the inconviniences that might have resulted from the network failure on July 11 for nearly an entire day.}}

    Subscribers could neither make calls nor navigate internet for a big part of the day a situation that affected several businesses and communication among the general population.

    David Kezio-Musoke, Public Relations officer at MTN Rwanda said, “We had a failure on one of our nodes that affected some customers. Not the whole subscriber base was affected. We sincerely apologise for all inconveniences caused.”

    He added, “We started receiving complaints at about 10am july 11, from some customers through our call centre and on social media. Our engineers started working on the problem as soon as we were notified.”

  • First Lady inaugurates integrated Development Program

    {{The First Lady of Rwanda Mrs. Jeannette Kagame will June 12, officially inaugurate an integrated development program (IDP) in Kayonza district, Nyagatovu and Kitazigurwa sectors. }}

    Included in the integrated program is an Early Childhood development and family center (ECD & F) a community hall and a village. The IDP has been in operation for 4 years.

    In an effort to ensure that children are physically healthy, mentally alert, emotionally secure, socially competent and ready to learn, Imbuto Foundation developed and implemented an integrated community-based Early childhood development model centre addressing cognitive stimulation and school readiness of 0-3 year olds and 4-6.

    The ECD & F center provides space for professionals to reach out to children, families and caregivers. Families and caregivers also learn how to best nurture and care for young children.

    All aspects of child development will be monitored and children and families in need will be taken care either through support at the facility or referral to existing professional services. So far 135 children aged 0-6years benefit from ECD services.

    The village is made up of 69 homes where 130 community members live.They now have access to clean water, electricity and have been trained on smart agricultural practices.

    The multipurpose hall belongs to the community and will be used for various activities.

    The idea behind the integrated program is to provide holistic development to communities, this program was developed and implemented in partnership with MINALOC, ONE UN family, Kayonza and Rwamagana districts.

  • Saudi Princess Charged with Enslaving Kenyan

    {{A Saudi princess was to be released from US jail on bail Thursday after being charged with enslaving a Kenyan woman, forcing her to work in abusive conditions and withholding her passport.}}

    Meshael Alayban, 42, one of six wives of a grandson of the Saudi King Abdullah, paid a $5 million bond and surrendered her passport, the Orange County, California district attorney’s office said in a statement.

    She “is required to wear a GPS tracking device, is prohibited from leaving Orange County without permission from the Court, and is barred from having any contact with the victim,” the statement explained.

    Alayban, who was arrested Wednesday, is accused of forcing the Kenyan woman to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, for a monthly salary of just $220.

    The unnamed victim, 30, who sought overseas work to pay for her young daughter’s medical care, allegedly worked in Alayban’s palace in Saudi Arabia and then in her home in Irvine, California, southeast of Los Angeles.

    Prosecutors said the victim had signed a contract with an employment agency that promised her a salary of $1,600 a month for a 40-hour work week.

    The princess was charged with “human trafficking of a Kenyan woman into the United States and forcing the victim to work as a domestic servant against her will,” the Orange County District Attorney said in a statement.

    The victim, who began working in Saudi Arabia in March 2012 and moved to the US with the Saudi family in May 2013, was “forced to work tending to at least eight people in four apartments” in Irvine, California, prosecutors said.

    She was given no breaks, no days off, and no chance to leave “except for a family outing so the victim could carry the family’s bags.”

    She told authorities Alayban withheld her passport and refused to allow her to return to Kenya.

    Before her move to the US, Alayban told her to lie to authorities about the conditions of her employment during a visa interview, prosecutors said.

    But on Tuesday, the woman managed to escape, flagging down a bus. Noticing her nervousness, one of the passengers helped her contact the police. She carried a pamphlet with her, given during her visa interview, explaining her rights.

    “She’s a smart woman. She saw her opportunity to get freedom and she took it,” the victim’s lawyer, Steve Baric, said.

    When police arrested Alayban, they found four women from the Philippines who could also be victims of human trafficking. Those cases are still being investigated, the prosecutor said.

    But on this count of human trafficking alone, if convicted Alayban could face up to 12 years in jail.

    It was unclear whether the victim wanted to stay in the United States, but prosecutors said that as a victim of human trafficking she would be entitled to a visa.

    wirestory

  • Ending violence against women a moral duty & definition of who we are as a nation

    {{President Paul Kagame has said that in Rwanda, ending violence against women and girls is a moral duty, a legal obligation and a definition of who Rwandans are as a nation. President Kagame stated this July 11, before officially launching the Africa Unite Command Post Exercise at the Rwanda National Police Headquarters.}}

    The Africa Unite excise brings together 172 participants from three different security organs originating from 33 African nations to learn best practices in ending violence against women and girls.

    “Every sector has its role to play and efforts need to be intensified to eradicate violence against women and girls. I am happy to see that Africa’s security organs are at frontline of the battle against gender based violence because it is unacceptable that one in every three women around world has been beaten, sexually assaulted or abused.

    The ramifications of this kind of violence go beyond the individual concerned and therefore, issues of handling violence against women and girls should be an integral part of training of security and law enforcement.”

  • S.Sudan oil Refinery Equipment Stranded in Kenya

    {{The opening of an oil refinery in South Sudan’s Unity state, has been delayed from 9 July as vital equipment is stranded at the Kenyan port of Mombassa.}}

    According to Unity state’s former governor, Taban Deng Gai, the opening was due to coincide with the second anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011.

    The South took with it 75% of Sudan’s oil production but none of the infrastructure needed to export or to refine its oil, for which there is a high demand in the country.

    Since independence South Sudan has been forced to import fuel from neighbouring countries, often at a high cost.

    Unity state’s deputy governor Michael Chiengjiek Geay told media on Thursday that the postponement was due to vital equipment still not reaching the refinery.

    During South Sudan’s second anniversary celebrations in Juba on Tuesday, president Salva Kiir Mayardit said that the country’s oil infrastructure has progressed significantly since separation Sudan.

    {SudanTribune}

  • Africa Urged to Expand Aviation Industry

    {{Despite an expanding global airline industry driven by investment and tourism, Africa’s contribution has been hampered by capacity and infrastructural expansion of its airports, aviation experts have said.}}

    Citing the East African region, key decision makers from leading airlines, airports and tourism sector across Africa, noted during an aviation summit in Kampala that most airports in the region were still undergoing expansion.

    “If you don’t sort out the traffic jams and very long parking, you will not get tourists,” Dr Titus Naikuni, the chief executive officer of Kenya Airways said while citing an example of Entebbe Airport on Monday.

    Uganda’s State minister for Works Stephen Chebrot said, “Each process gives birth to a cost. Until we solve that problem and solve it soon, the cost will continue. It is good to develop routes. However, these positive arrangements must be matched with infrastructural expansion of our airports.”

  • Corruption in Russian Army Rises 450%

    {{Corruption in the armed forces cost the state budget more than 4.4 billion rubles ($135 million) in the first six months of the year, showing a 450% increase, Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky told a meeting of law enforcement officials Thursday.}}

    While the overall number of crimes in the armed forces is declining, the amount of violations involving corruption have soared, showing a 5.5 time increase in the first half of 2013 compared to the same period last year.

    Prosecutors managed to return more than 1.3 billion rubles ($40 million) of the stolen funds to the state budget, however, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.

    In what many will see as a worrying trend, every fifth crime in the military is related to corruption, and the number of incidents involving fraud linked to abuse of authority grew by a half in 2013, the report said.

    Fridinsky offered a vague explanation of the trend, attributing the growth of violations to the “insufficient activity of institutional financial monitoring.”

    A member of the Defense Ministry’s public council said the violations revealed in 2013 were likely a throwback to former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov’s rule between 2010 and 2012, saying they were only discovered in 2013 because “checks take a long time,” he told RIA Novosti.

    Fridinsky was not particularly forthcoming about the measures being taken to fight the trend, saying only that as a result of the meeting, “certain measures aimed at fighting corruption in the army and the improvement of cooperation between state agencies [were decided on].”

    Alexander Kramchikhin, an expert at the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, dismissed Fridinsky’s promises to fight corruption, telling media “there can be no real fight against corruption in a separate sphere when the whole system of state government is based on corruption.”

    Military General Eduard Vorobyov, who served as former first deputy commander of the ground forces in the 1990s and later worked as deputy head of the State Duma’s Defense Committee, said the fight against corruption at the Defense Ministry consisted of “isolated cases” and that “systemic measures are needed.”

    “This [fight against corruption at the army] is done only to support the public opinion that something is being done,” Vorobyov said by telephone.

    However, “there is hope that if the new team undertakes systemic measures, there may be results, but not in the next couple of years,” he said.

    Part of the measures required would be “unheralded control” of military units, publicized results of the checks and mandatory punishment.

    The financial loss of 4.4 billion rubles cited by the Prosecutor General’s Office was incurred by more than 7,000 violations related to corruption, with the majority of them in the sphere of defense procurement.

    Of the people involved in corruption violations in the military in the first half of the year, more than 1,100 were convicted of administrative offenses and received punishment, while 505 people became suspects in criminal cases.

    One category of corruption violations this year were committed by state employees and civilians employed in the army.

    A large number of offenders violated requirements for preparing assignments for state tenders, usually done in order to hire fly-by-night companies and remove competitors on formal grounds.

    Violations related to the use of state real estate were a frequent practice as well, along with violations related to the catering of military officers and supply of heating and electricity to military towns.

    Corruption schemes were uncovered in the construction of military facilities when unperformed work was paid for from the state budget using fake documents.

    The Defense Ministry’s decision to hand the maintenance of military facilities over to specialized organizations led to the state budget losing hundreds of millions of rubles.

    {The Moscow Times }

  • Book Review: Why the 20s Affect Shape of Your Career

    {{Are you in your 20s, fresh from college, already working, or looking for a job? You may want to read The Defining Decade, a book by clinical psychologist Meg Jay.}}

    The author seeks to inspire young people in their 20s into discovering their inner working powers, in ways that even some authors have found intriguing.

    For example, Rachel Nalebuff, the editor of My Little Red Book, confesses: “Before reading The Defining Decade, I didn’t know enough about the importance of our 20s to be concerned that I could mess it all up.

    Now that I do, I could worry myself into paralysis, or, as Meg Jay, suggests, grab life by the helm, even if I still have no idea where I’m going. Without a doubt, The Defining Decade will leave you eager to embark on what I now see can be the most exciting odyssey of one’s life.”

    According to Jay, the things people do and do not do in their twenties will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. That’s how important this age is, in her view.

    She writes, for instance, that, “In the 21st Century, careers and lives don’t roll off an assembly line. We have to put together the pieces ourselves.” She continues: “Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know or didn’t do. You are deciding your life now.”

    Many people in this age are either enrolling into college or just entering the job market. A lot of them can easily get confused and end up lonely when they fail to achieve in life.

    Jay’s additional advice is that at such an age, one needs to be realistic about their skills and goals. She argues that at 20s, people already know their weaknesses and strengths. It is therefore the best time to work on one’s dreams.

    Her book tells people at that age to put together endless possibilities of concrete plans that they nurtured and dreamt of as kids. The 20s is the period to best pursue aspirations.

    That’s why she refers to the age as the “defining decade”. The book suggests that every friend you have in your life during this period should be what you exactly need.

    Kenyan psychologist Pius Mureithi agrees to the definition of the 20s as the defining decade. He explains further that this is the period in which self-identity, vocational identity and independence among other issues occur.

    The book urges people of this age to stop believing that work will always come easy so long as they follow their passion. Mr Mureithi finds the statement very applicable.

    “Jay is very correct when she writes that 20-something should stop thinking of the idea of the perfect job. This is like thinking that once you get married, you will live happily ever after,” Mureithi argues.

    The book further dismisses as careless, the attitude among youths that one should quit the moment they don’t like a job. It comes from the ill-informed assumption that an alternative will easily be found.

    In reality, and Mureithi stresses this, that’s hardly ever the case.

  • UNHCR Proposes Body to Repatriate Somalia Refugees

    {{The global refugee agency has proposed the formation of a body that will handle the repatriation of Somalia refugees from Kenya.}}

    United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) boss António Guterres wants the refugees, most based at the Dadaab Camp, be returned home in phases managed by a special commission.

    The Commission would include members from Kenya and Somalia authorities as well as the agency itself in what Mr Guterres argues would ensure an acceptable return of the Somalis to their homes.

    “If we do these returns properly, they can be a positive factor for development in Somalia,” he said.

    “On the other hand, if huge numbers of refugees go home prematurely, they could contribute to destabilisation.”

    Kenya hosts more than 600,000 Somalia refugees, 400,000 of who stay in Dadaab camp in Garissa County. But the government has been demanding that they be returned home following the achievement of relative peace by AU Forces in Somalia.

    In December last year, Commissioner of Refugees Badu Katelo ordered all refugees in urban centres back to camps. The government suspects some Somali refugees are sympathisers to al-Shabaab.

    NMG