The remark was made Monday during the inauguration ceremony of 31 new classrooms and 36 toilets constructed around different schools across the district.
Nyanza District Mayor, Erasme Ntazinda said that they expect all classrooms to have been completed by 2020 depending on how resources will be available. He said they will start from schools with most critical classrooms.
“In general, 251 classrooms need replacement and 220 need to be renovated. We plan to have them completed in three years. It will depend on availability of resources as Rwanda Education Board, the main partner will provide with us construction materials and people participate through community works,” he said.
Southern Province Governor, Marie Rose Mureshyankwano urged students, parents and teachers to better maintenance of classrooms and reminded parents on children’s rights to education.
“We thank parents’ role in constructing these classrooms we are inaugurating today, I urge you to protect them as they required us many efforts and resources during their construction,” she said.
The exercise also falls within the existing agreement between the force and the Ministry of Forestry signed in November last year to jointly partner to protect, conserve and develop lands and forestry.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Damas Gatare, the commissioner for Community Policing in RNP, said that 45803 hectares will constitute the agro-forestry land while 4960 others will be on hilly and other forestry gazetted areas.
“Afforestation is also a human security factor, which the Police is actively part of to prevent disasters such as drought, landslides and soil erosion in particular, all which pose threat to lives such as poverty and death in case of landslides,” ACP Gatare said.
As of the end of last year, only 704997 hectares of trees had been covered, representing only 29.6 percent of the total land allocated to forests in the country. Of this, majority 68 percent are manmade forests owned by people while national forests account for only 27 percent.
“Under the two-year afforestation programme, 14744 hectares will be planted in the Eastern Province, 8415 hectares in the Northern, 9484 hectares in Western, 26035 hectares in Southern and 2085 in the City of Kigali,” ACP Gatare said.
“This is an exercise we will conduct with our partners including the Ministry of Forestry, Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA), districts, youth volunteers in community policing, and the public in general,” he said.
RNP signed in 2015, an agreement with each of the 30 districts partly to join efforts in environmental protection and promotion programmes, including afforestation activities.
Following the signing of the agreement with the Ministry of Forestry in November last year, Police and youth volunteers planted over 125, 500 trees in different parts of the country.
This is in addition to about 300 hectares the force planted in different parts of the country over the past years.
Meanwhile, the youth volunteers group, which has over 230000 members countrywide, allocated every second Saturday of the month their special communal – Umuganda – exercise part of which they will be involved in environmental protection activities including tree planting.
This reduction in Multi-Dimensional Poverty (MDP) was fairly consistent across the country, though graphically it is clear that areas around the capital, Kigali, and lying closer to or on Rwanda’s borders with other countries have experienced the strongest amount of improvement , with some areas bordering Uganda and most areas bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) along Lake Kivu showing the most visible signs of improvement.
Looking at the reduction in MDP across space, our analysis shows that rapid urbanization has been an important driver. Overall, a 10 percent increase in population density (a proxy for urbanization) at the Umurenge or sector level (a small administrative unit) was associated with a 1.2 percent decrease in MDP.
The effect of urban population density on poverty reduction tapers off quickly, however, as one moves away from the city centers. For secondary cities, prioritized as potential poles of growth in Rwanda’s second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, the effect all but disappears with distance: Places within 5–10 km of secondary cities do not experience the poverty-effect of density any more (in visual terms, the error bar in Figure 1 crosses the vertical zero line).
This is a missed opportunity for poverty reduction, given that fully one-third of Rwanda’s multi-dimensionally poor live within 20km of one of the six secondary cities.
The findings in the study point towards the importance of connecting urban centers in Rwanda better with their surrounding rural areas, with peri-urban areas playing a critical role in terms of transmitting the benefits of urbanization.
He said this while receiving credence letters of ten new ambassadors who were accredited to represent their respective countries in Rwanda.
“We look forward to working closely with our brothers and sisters across the continent to make progress,” Kagame said at a annual luncheon with envoys accredited to Rwanda in Kigali, the capital.
He said this will enable Africans to do business with each other, invest and partner with the rest of the world.
Kagame pointed to Rwanda’s new visa on arrival policy as one of the initiatives to foster integration. Rwanda has opened its border to visitors from every nation in the world who are now eligible for visas on arrival, he said.
Meanwhile, he pointed out that opening up will require the country to be more vigilant and to establish systems that are efficient and effective so that nothing undesirable takes advantage of it.
Kagame, who leads the AU institutional reforms process, also said the institutional and financial reforms of AU is on track.
In 2016, African leaders decided that Institutional Reforms of AU were urgent and necessary given the role the AU is expected to play in driving and achieving Africa’s Agenda 2063 vision of inclusive economic growth and development.
The reforms aim to transform Africa’s continental organization and accelerate, reinforce and ensure service delivery to the African citizenry, with a special emphasis on pan-African values of unity, solidarity, freedom and equality.
“The changes being implemented are critical for Africa’s future. One of the outcomes of the reform will be stronger, more productive partnerships between Africa and other continents,” said the president at the luncheon.
He also wished the diplomats success in their work in Rwanda.
In the event that took place in Village Urugwiro on Tuesday, Kagame received credence letter for Mrs. Julia Pataki, Romanian Ambassador with Residence in Nairobi, Kenya.
Also received is credence letter for Mr. Konstantinos Moatsos, Grecian Ambassador with residence in Nairobi, Kenya. Also the Head of State received Ms. Rakiatou Mayaki, Nigerian Ambassador with residence in Pretoria, South Africa.
Kagame also received credence letter for Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, Iranian Ambassador with residence in Kampala, Uganda. Among presented their credentials is Mr. Nicolla Bellomo, European Union Ambassador with Residence in Kigali.
Also Kagame received credentials for Oumar Daou, Malian Ambassador with residence in Kigali. Also received is Mr. Abdalla Hassan Eisa Bushara, Sudan’s Ambassador with residence in Kigali.
Kagame also received credentials for Ms. Lulit Zewdie Gebremariam, Ethiopia Ambassador with residence in Kigali and Ms. Joanne Lomas, United Kingdom Commissioner with residence in Kigali.
During President Paul Kagame’s last week visit to Tanzania, he agreed with President John Magufuli to construct a 400-kilometer standard gauge railway (SGR) line from Isaka to Kigali.
After talks between both Heads of States, Magufuli told media that the construction of the railway line will be jointly financed by the two countries.
While he was speaking to national broadcaster, RBA yesterday, the Manager of Planning and Research Division at Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA), Fabrice Barisanga said that the 2014 action plan revealed that the whole railway project from Dar es Salaam to Kigali will be 1464 kilometers.
He said that currently, they are looking at 494 kilometer Isaka-Kigali phase where Rwanda has 150kiliometers to construct.
“Action plan shows us that the whole project will take us $2.5 billion. It is a big project that requires enough financial means,” he said.
“It is in line with President Kagame’s visit in Tanzania where he and Tanzanian president agreed to fast-track the project. For us Technicians, we are ready to start implementation based on Head of States’ agreements,” he explained.
The project will pass through Eastern Province’s Districts of Kirehe-Ngoma-Bugera to Kicukiro District in Kigali, Masaka Sector.
Study shows that properties for 2450 people will be affected by the project.
Speaking to IGIHE, the State Minister of Transportation in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye said that both countries should agree on ways to find the financing sources.
“As they have requested us, in two weeks, we will have agreed on the way to go,” he said.
Construction works for Tanzanian part have started and works are being implemented in two phases. The first phase is Dar es Salaam-Morogoro with 330 kilometers and Morogoro- Makutupora with 426 kilometers.
The railway is expected to ease transportation between Rwanda and Tanzania. Currently, 70% of Rwanda’s importations pass through Tanzania.
Speaking to IGIHE, Rushyashya Managing Director, Jean Gaulbert Burasa said that Kayumba had no health complications and that they had talked on phone in the morning a day before had no problem.
“Yesterday he was at home, he didn’t work, I called him at around 11:00am asking him the reason he didn’t attend to work and told me that he would come later,” he said.
“The situation changed at around 3:00pm and they took him at Ndera Health Center which referred him to Kibagabaga Hospital, but died on the way. We are not aware of the cause of his death,” he said.
Since 1991 to 1994, Kayumba worked for Tanzania based media house Business Times. In 1998 he established the defunct ‘Ukuri Newspaper’. From 2003 to 2006, he was a commissioner at Rwanda Media High Council.
The games will take place in Musanze District of Northern Province.
Rwanda was admitted following the monitoring exercise by 40 delegates from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. The monitoring exercise took place on 13th and 14th.
The delegation monitored different infrastructures and pitches which would facilitate the games go smoothly.
FEASSSA President, Justus Mugisha said that Rwanda has majority of requirements, a reason that they were allowed to host the games.
“We are happy to announce that first monitoring exercises revealed that majority of requirements are in place. We also affirm that the competition will go smoothly based on previous competitions that Rwanda hosted,” he said.
He said that more monitoring exercises will be conducted as the preparation of competition continues.
“The second monitoring exercise will be conducted in April to observe how all requirements will be already in place,” he added.
Musanze District Vice-mayor in charge of finance and economic development, Augustin Ndabereye said that hosting the competition in the district is another advantages for local investors.
“It is a big opportunity that we are going to use by putting in place good infrastructures on expected standards, we also call upon investors to offer good services as they will be hosting different people from different places,” he said.
FEASSSA competition will include different games like football, Volleyball, Handball, Tennis and Swimming among others.
For its 3rd time to take place in the country, the competition will attract 4000 competitors from East African Community Countries.
This is a good development of course, but it also means that there are increased chances of falling victim to fraudsters, because believe it or not, there are a lot of them waiting to prey on unsuspecting people.
So with this knowledge, how then do we protect ourselves from such people online? Well, these 4 tips below might be useful.
{{Use your card only on trusted sites}}
While there are millions of websites that allow you do business online, only a few are genuine, and even amongst the genuine few, not many can guarantee you security. So the best thing is to only use sites that belong to major brands, and where it’s explicitly stated that there’s security for your card information. That way, you can hold them liable if anything goes wrong on their part.
{{Do not give anyone your card information}}
There are people who trust others enough to entrust them with their card information. Such things as your Card number, your CVV number, and secret pin should be personal. It doesn’t matter how urgently you need to get cash or do a transaction, it’s unwise to reveal your card information. Sometimes, it’s not even the friends you ask to help you withdraw some money that’s the problem; it’s the people in their life. Also avoid giving your card info to strangers online for any reason.
{{Protect your computer}}
The other way you can secure your card and business transactions you do online is to secure your computer, you should never think of shopping online or use your credit card with a computer that’s riddled with viruses, spyware or malware and key loggers.
{{Consider changing your password after each transaction}}
It’s not an easy option considering that you’ll need to form a new password every time you do business online, but it’s a safe option if you can do it. This option guarantees you safety because it means that anyone who wants to defraud you would have to go through you first. This option isn’t necessary if your bank sends you an OTP each time you want to do a transaction online.
{{Source: elcrema.com}}
