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  • Rwanda Risks Internet Cuts As Ship Faults Fibre Optic Cables

    {{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

    {{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

    {{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.

  • Cyanika Genocide Victims Reburried

    {{The remains of more than 25,000 victims killed at Cyanika Nyamagabe district during the 1994 Tutsi Genocide have been given a decent burial at a newly built memorial site located near Cyanika catholic church.}}

    Only 6 of the victims are known to have been killed at the area including; Joseph Niyomugabo, a priest at Cyanika catholic church who was killed with his congregation there.

    The Minister of Gender and Family Planning Aloysia Inyumba said, “this act of reburial should be a very strong basis to build our value as Rwandans with strength and hope to the brighter future.’’

    Dr. jean Pierre Dusingizimana the head of IBUKA said, “it’s sad to see genocide perpetrators like Bucyibaruta, the former prefect of Gikongoro who participated in the killing of these victims, wandering in Europe without apprehension.”

    Jean de Dieu Mucyo, the executive secretary of CNLG requested anyone having his victim buried at his home to bring them for burrial at the general memorial sites in order to preserve history for future generations.

  • Mayor Warns Male ‘Prostitutes’

    {{Florence Uwayisaba the vice mayor in charge of social affairs in Kicukiro district has advised women who sleep with male prostitutes to do away with the habit since the act is a disgrace to the image of women.}}

    “Women are known to be against several immoral activities yet some of them want to shame us by paying highly male prostitutes for sex instead of concentrating on how to strengthen their relationships,” she recommended.

    Uwayisaba further insisted that cases of spouses cheating on each other is among the major causes of divorce in the district.

    In this regard, she advised women who have issues in their relationships to solve them amicably with their husbands rather than engaging in uncouth behaviors which humiliates them.

    Male prostitutes popularly known as Abapfubuzi in Kinyarwanda language, tend to charge highly their female clients compared to what call-girls price, more so they don’t conduct their business in brothels but rather in their own houses.

    The privacy is alleged to hide the side affairs of most clients who are often high profile women or either married to men who are public figures.

    On the other hand men were also cautioned on promiscuity since it affected the planning of their households at the same time diverted their attention from strengthening their relationships.

  • Colorado University Students Hold Genocide Awareness Week

    {{This Week Colorado State University will host the 16th annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness week to remind students and people about the horrors and injustice that occurred.}}

    Names of people murdered during the recent genocide in Rwanda will be read, a screening of a movie, discussions with professors and speeches from survivors from both the Holocaust and the genocide.

    The week will also involve presentations sponsored by Students for Holocaust and Genocide Awareness and The Associated Students of Colorado State University.

    On Friday, volunteers gathered to plant flags at the ground in a symbolic remembrance of the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust.

    The theme of this memorial is ‘Untold Stories of Genocide’ “because people might be able to see the specific numbers, but they can’t always know about the stories within the numbers,” Rabbi Allison Peiser, director at CSU told reporters via email.

    Peiser said. “I think that sometimes it’s important to put ourselves in that place of sadness because it might bring us to action.”

    Students from different parts of university campus joined together to plan and volunteer at events for this coming week, including freshman engineering major Nick Kennard and senior English major Raqual
    Tarantino.

    Kennard got involved with the planning committee when he heard about the memorial week at the Student Involvement fair. He is involved because he believes that if we end up forgetting to teach people about the events that happened in the past, “they will happen again.”

    Students say this week it is important for people to see different perspectives of the Holocaust and to understand that forgiveness is not easily achieved.

    While the phrase ‘Never again’ is associated with the genocide it is also associated with the Holocaust. The hope these students have is that by acknowledging that genocides continue to happen and by doing this sort of education that maybe someday there can be some kind of prevention.

  • Man Pledges 50Litres of Milk to Children

    {{Jean Mutsinzi, a resident of Urumuri Village, Rwampala Cell, Kigarama sector in Kicukiro district has given 50 litres of milk to his village in order to celebrate Women’s Day. The milk is meant for vulnerable children in the area.}}

    Mutsinzi said, “it’s not my first time to do such action for the public’s interest.”

    The International Women’s Day which is celebrated on 8th March each year. This year’s theme is to “Improve in building women and girls’ ability in order to develop the family.”

    Amon Mbonimpa, the president of the cell council, thanked Jean Mutsinzi for this every day active participation in the government development activities.

    Mutsinzi is involved in the contribution to the construction the area cell offices.