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  • New Nyabihu TVET school due for launch

    The school will provide students with skills to transform agricultural and dairy production especially in transforming Irish Potato and Maize production, train students in leather tanning and shoe making among other products.

    A total of over 300 students will benefit from the school every year.

    Optimism in Nyabihu residents

    Nyabihu residents say they are ready to enroll their children for vocational skills.

    “I thank the government of Rwanda for constructing this school which will help our children acquire vocational skills. During the construction activities, many people got jobs,” said Zachée Kalimba from Mukamira sector.

    The school will have advanced level, but will also train secondary school leavers and university graduates who will wish to acquire vocational skills.

    Nyabihu District Vice-mayor in Charge of Social Affairs, Clarisse Mukansanga urged parents to sensitise children about benefits of vocational skills so that they will grow up with working spirit that will help them in development.

    “We urge parents to grab the opportunity and let their children enroll for the acquisition of vocational skills so that they can contribute to own and national development,” she said.

    New Nyabihu TVET school due for launch

  • Gov’t drive against narcotic drugs goes west

    The outreach programme held in Rubavu District brought together local leaders, elders, teachers, religious leaders and residents, majority the youth.

    The exercise was also characterized by testimonies of drug dealers arrested recently, and reformed drug dealers and addicts, who shared their ordeals.

    One of the suspects is Francine Nikuze, who was arrested recently with a bundle of cannabis strapped at her back as a baby.

    “I have been trafficking drugs into the country for years until I was arrested recently. I would swim through Lake Kivu or use various tricks through porous borders. Life is not good in prison and I don’t wish to see anyone in this situation,” Nikuze told thousands of youth.

    To Omar Umuhoza, a former drug dealer and addict, life has changed since he quit drugs.

    Umuhoza is a pioneer at Iwawa Rehabilitation and Skills Development Centre, where he spent two years. He has since brought together reformed and rehabilitated addicts to form a carpentry cooperative in Rubavu.

    “Drugs stole my chance to acquire education and my time to have a resourceful life. I became a renowned thief in Kigali; a life of arrests and misery. Even when I started a positive life in Kigali, few people trusted me and I had to relocate to Rubavu. I must say that Iwawa was my turning point,” Umuhoza said.

    The Minister of Local Government Francis Kaboneka, while addressing youth at Umuganda stadium, said that “the first enemy of the youth today are illicit drugs.”

    “Winning or success is driven by a healthy and positive mind; the wealth of this country is it’s people especially the young generation but whose lives are threatened by illicit drugs,” Minister Kaboneka said.

    At least 40 per cent of over 2040 drug dealers arrested last year are the youth aged between 18 and 35 years,according to Police statistics.

    He noted that drug abuse is one of the major obstacles to development in different aspects including education and health, citing school drop-outs, spending resources in rehabilitating addicts.

    “We want a healthy and focused generation, and that’s what this campaign is all about,” he said.

    The Minister of Youth, Rosemary Mbabazi to also appealed to the youth to be driven by positive decisions and work with the police to identify and arrest drug dealers.

    The State Minister in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi embarked on side effects of abusing drugs, citing mental illness, liver and heart complications including cancer.

    The Governor of the Western Province, Alphonse Munyenwari said that measures against drugs have been adopted including conducting similar campaigns down to the village level.

    Meanwhile, IGP Gasana said that the force has increased deployments and operations against drug dealers, but “counting in your strengthened community policing spirit through community patrols and timely information sharing with the people on dealers.”

    The separate discussions centered on parental care and guidance, preaching against the vice in churches, campaign in schools and sharing information at all levels with security organs on identified drug dealers.

    The open discussions also included testimonies on how illicit drugs are trafficked into the country, major affected areas and hideouts for either dealers or users, which the police said its a step further towards reversing the trend.

    The campaign against drugs in Rubavu also include public destruction of about 420kgs of cannabis and over 1900 liters of illicit gin, all valued over Rwf47 million.

    The countrywide awareness campaign is aimed at having similar understanding in response to the problem and to break chains of supply, which is seen as an effective way to prevent consumption.

    The campaign included destruction of narcotic drugs.

    {{Source:RNP News}}

  • Mkapa hails Rwanda conservation efforts

    Mkapa was speaking yesterday in Musanze District as the Foundation was donating 27.8 hectares of land to Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for the expansion of gorillas’ habitat in the Volcanoes National Park.

    Mkapa said as a former Head of State and Government, he appreciates the challenges one faces when leading a country, but said some African leaders take decisions that lead to degradation of natural heritage and priceless assets because they lack conservation vision and commitment.

    “President Paul Kagame has demonstrated that the country can support a robust economy and good development of infrastructure while simultaneously protecting the environment. He has shown that communities can thrive as a result of conservation,” he said.

    He said, African continent is facing enormous conservation challenges where in the past decade Africa has experienced the poaching crisis and habitat loss which were high.

    “The climate change continues to cause a great fate to our natural areas. In the face of these challenges, we need more leaders like President Kagame who recognize the enormous value wildlife and wild ranges have for our people, our economies and our continent,” he said.

    “We need more leaders willing to make the right decisions for our continent wild lives and wild ranges,” he noted.

    He said Africans should be proud of their wildlives, vast landscapes and continent uniqueness.

    “I am deeply proud that I come from Tanzania, the country that supports Africa’s largest migration. Like Rwanda, this is ecologically significant and generates enormously turns for local communities and the country’s economy,” he said.

    He said Rwanda has many reasons to be proud of their natural heritage, due being one of three countries in the World beside the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda that are heaven to the mountain Gorillas which are a global treasure.

    He said Rwanda continues to set itself apart as a leader in conservation. He said Kagame’s stewardship and leadership in improving the lives of Rwandans and overseen the recovery of the mountain gorilla population, despite great challenges is remarkable.

    He said the African Wildlife Foundation is proud to stand with Rwanda as a partner, and pledged their support as Rwanda continues to play the vital role of conservation in Africa.

    Recognising the need for additional land, RDB Chief Executive Officer Clare Akamanzi appreciated African Wildlife Foundation for the land donation.

    “Today’s donation to the Volcanoes National Park is a major step in the consolidation of Rwanda’s conservation gains for the benefit of communities today and future generations. Through gorilla conservation and tourism, we are directly benefitting from these wonderful animals. Over the last nine years, revenues from mountain gorilla conservation and the resulting tourism has brought $107 million into the national coffers,” she said.

    Former Tanzanian President, Benjamin Mkapa and the co-chair of African Wildlife Foundation Board

  • Kagame receives Africa Wildlife Foundation officials

    The Head of State received both officials yesterday after the foundation donated 27.8 hectares of land to Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for the expansion of gorillas’ habitat in the Volcanoes National Park in the ceremony that took place in Kinigi area, of Musanze District in the Northern Province.

    The property adds to the 16,000 hectares that had formerly comprised the national park.

    During the ceremony, the Tanzania ex-President Mkapa hailed the commitment by Rwandan Government to conserve biodiversity and urged other African governments to follow the suit.

    President Paul Kagame has received Co-Chair of Africa Wildlife Foundation Board Benjamin Mkapa and President of Africa Wildlife Foundation Kaddu Sebunya.
    Co-Chair of Africa Wildlife Foundation Board Benjamin Mkapa (R) and President of Africa Wildlife Foundation Kaddu Sebunya

  • Your 11 Must-know Rwandan Filmmakers

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    Kantarama Gahigiri, the director who “create experiences for the audience, make them feel something, make them think.”

    Gahigiri makes films that, in her own words, “create experiences for the audience, make them feel something, make them think.” Born and raised in Switzerland, Gahigiri credits her multicultural background for her different perspectives on the world. Before becoming a director, Gahigiri worked on well-known shows and movies such as Men in Black 3, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Suits, and Portlandia. As a director, her recent and well-known projects include Tapis Rouge, ME + U, Pinot in the Grass, The Elevator, Check, and Lost Angel Less. Her critically acclaimed films have been screened worldwide and won many awards, most recently including the Award of Merit from IndieFest Film Awards in Los Angeles (2017), the Best Animated Short Award from Berlin Independent Film Festival (2017), the Festival Award from Festival Effervescence in France (2016), and the Best Directing Award from the Chelsea Film Festival in New York (2015). She is also passionate about making the film industry more accessible. As the godmother of Mashariki African Film Festival in Kigali, she leads writing, directing, and production workshops around the world in order to support and assist young filmmakers. Watch out for her next project, a science-fiction feature film that takes place in East Africa, that she hopes will change the often downtrodden cinematic narrative of the continent.

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    Jean Luc Habyarimana, whose newest and first feature film, Black Belgian, has already screened at ZIFF and Festival du Film Africain de Khouribga in Morocco

    Habyarimana does not shy away from films with complex and, at times, difficult subject material. Raised in Rwanda, he has been making films since 2006. While growing up, he noted that his own Rwandan culture and identity was rarely shown on screen, and his films attempt to change general perceptions and encourage further dialogue about Rwandan and African identities and stories. His film SAA-IPO (2010) was shot in the city of Kigali and funded by the Tribeca Film Institute. It premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and was also screened at the Durban International Film Festival and AfryKamera International Film Festival in Poland. His newest and first feature film, Black Belgian, has already screened at ZIFF and Festival du Film Africain de Khouribga in Morocco. His upcoming project focuses on the African diaspora and immigration.

    {{Marie Clementine Dusabejambo
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    A filmmaker since 2008, Marie Clementine Dusabejambo is quickly becoming a rising star in film

    Kigali-born Dusabejambo is quickly becoming known as a rising star in film. She has been a filmmaker since 2008, working on both documentaries and feature films, and has produced Lyiza, Behind the Word, and A Place for Myself. Lyiza, her first film, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Bronze Tanit in 2012 at the Carthage Film Festival. The film examines stories of genocide, memory, and reconciliation, and was also screened in several other international festivals. Since then, Dusabejambo’s films have picked up many other awards, including the Thomas Sankara Award at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (FESPACO) in 2017, the Golden Dhow award at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) in 2017, and another Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival in 2016. She currently has a couple of projects in the works, one of which will be premiered at ZIFF in 2018.

    {{Shyaka Kagame
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    Popularly known in Geneva’s hip-hop and rap scenes, Shyaka Kagame 's work centers on stories on racial and cultural identity, as well as self-exploration

    Previously known in Geneva’s hip-hop and rap scene and born to Rwandan parents in Switzerland, Kagame works to tell stories centered around the intersection between racial and cultural identity, as well as self-exploration. Kagame’s recent movie Bounty (2017), an interrogation of the identity of first-generation, black Swiss citizens, has been screened throughout Switzerland to great acclaim, and shown at the Cinéma d’Afrique Festival in Lausanne. His documentaries are monumentally expressive, and he is currently working on a project titled Digital Hills, that examines Rwanda today through new technologies.

    {{Eric Kabera
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    Globally considered to be one of Rwanda’s most celebrated filmmakers, Eric Kabera is also known as ‘the father of cinema’ in Rwanda.

    Kabera, known as ‘the father of cinema’ in Rwanda, he is globally considered to be one of Rwanda’s most celebrated filmmakers. His experiences in the Rwandan genocide led to the feature film titled 100 days (2001), created alongside filmmaker Nick Hughes, and a documentary titled Keepers of Memory (2004). Both of these projects explored the nature of the genocide, and closely engaged with victims, survivors, and perpetrators. He is also known for Through My Eyes, Intore, and Africa United, a feature film about three Rwandan youths that journey to the World Cup. Kabera’s films have been shown around the world at many different festivals. He has been recognized by the Director’s Guild of America, and was also the recipient of the Pan African Film Festival’s African Creative Visionary Award in 2012. In Kigali, Kabera founded the Rwanda Cinema Centre, an organization that works to promote and encourage Rwanda’s film industry, he helps manage the Kwetu Film Institute, and is the chairman of the Rwanda Film Festival.

    {{Cynthia Butare
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    Cynthia Butare is moslty renown for her passion and prowess displayed in her documentaries

    Born and raised in Switzerland, Butare is now based in Rwanda after several years of studying digital communication and documentary-making in the United Kingdom. Her first documentary, an award-winning examination of black women’s relationship with hair, titled {KICKIN’ IT WITH THE KINKS}, was shown in Rwanda, the UK, the United States, France, Belgium, Nigeria, and more. She recalls growing up and rarely seeing her reality as a black African woman living in Europe represented on screen, and refers to the standard African narrative as “insufficiently nuanced.” Though her work has recently been focused on short video productions for NGOs and other marketing clients, her passion and prowess for documentaries is one to watch. Recently, Butare completed a five-episode series on Collective Rw, a fashion collective of local designers and creatives in Kigali, and her second documentary, Ishimwa: From Bloodshed to Grace, was shown at the Rwanda Film Festival. Butare is currently working on a documentary series titled Coming (Back) Home, a collection of stories and experiences about the return of the diaspora back to Rwanda.

    {{Kivu Ruhorahoza
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    An established Rwandan director, writer, and producer, Kivu Ruhorahoza's career has skyrocketed since his collaboration with Filmamker Eric Kabera in 2004.

    Ruhorahoza, an established Rwandan director, writer, and producer, got his start working with renowned filmmaker Eric Kabera as a production assistant in 2004. Since then, his career has skyrocketed. He is known for his feature film titled Grey Matter (2011), a difficult piece that follows two siblings dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder after the Rwandan genocide. Ruhorahoza won the Best Director Award at the Tübingen-Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival and the Jury Special Prize at the Khouribga Film Festival in Morocco for the film. It was screened around the world in Australia, Poland, Dubai and more, and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He has also received acclaim for his first film, a short titled Confession, and his second film, Lost in the South. His most recent project is titled Things of the Aimless Wanderer, and it investigates the relationships and perceptions between Rwandans and Westerners. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the new frontier program, and was shown at film festivals in Durban, Sydney, Singapore, and Rotterdam.

    {{Armand Kajangwe
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    Armand Kajangwe, is commonly known for his creation of short documentary films about creative and innovative initiatives and individuals across the country.

    Inspired by the medium of film itself, Kajangwe is known throughout Kigali for his collaborative, creative, and story-telling projects. He has done feature films, short films, and music videos, and is known for his work on The Asylum (2010), Journal.rw, and Dirty Singles. As the executive director of Journal.rw, he creates short documentary films about creative and innovative initiatives and individuals across the country. Noting his Rwandan influence, Kajangwe sees himself as a keen listener and observer, and actually created The Asylum, a short film about a Rwandan woman arriving in Canada, that touched on his own experiences. Kajangwe currently has several projects on the books for next year, and is excited by the small but growing Rwandan film industry.

    {{Samuel Ishimwe Karemangingo
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    Samuel Ishimwe Karemangingo, is often decribed as one of Rwanda’s most youthful and exuberant filmmakers. He adds much to the cinematic industry and community in the country today.

    One of Rwanda’s most youthful and exuberant filmmakers, Karemangingo is adding much to the cinematic industry and community in the country today. As a young cinephile, Karemangingo had always been passionate about film and using it to communicate, inspire, and excite. Noting the challenges that face the growth of Rwandan cinema—like limited cinemas in Kigali and around the country, the lack of funding, and few training opportunities—Karemangingo is still very hopeful about the collective creative energy in the country that will elevate Rwanda’s cinema scene. His recent style has focused on a blend of fiction and documentary, and he likes co-creating with the actors in his films. His films include Crossing Lines (2014), Uruzi (2014), and Imfura (2017). Uruzi was screened during the Luxor African Film Festival, and Crossing Lines was shown at the Durban International Film Festival, the Afrika Filmfestival of Leuven (where he won the Guido Huysmans Young African Film Maker Award), and Africa in Motion in Scotland. It won awards at FESTICAB in Burundi and the Mashariki African Film Festival in Rwanda. He is currently developing a feature film, and is also part of a fellowship program with Amplify to develop online video content.

    {{Philbert Aimé Sharangabo Mbabazi
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    A filmmaker since 2010, Philbert Aimé Sharangabo Mbabazi makes “films about realities I go through, films about my desires and fantasies, hoping that there’s someone out there who could identify himself within.”

    Mbabazi has been a filmmaker since 2010, and recently returned to Kigali after several years of study at the Geneva School of Art and Design in Switzerland. He felt the need to get involved in the industry after watching many films about Rwanda that excluded Rwandans from key artistic positions. According to Mbabazi himself, he makes “films about realities I go through, films about my desires and fantasies, hoping that there’s someone out there who could identify himself within.” He has worked on a number of films, including Ruhago, City Dropout, Things of the Aimless Wanderer, The Liberators, Versus, and Keza Lynn. In 2012, Mbabazi won the Signis Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, and in 2014 won the Silverback Award for Best Short Film at the Rwanda Film Festival. His films have also been screened at several prestigious, international festivals, such as the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Tampere Short Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Festival, and more. He is currently working on a feature film titled Republika, to be set in Geneva, as well as The Random Story of Masud, a feature film set in Kigali.

    {{Amelia Umuhire
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    Amelia Umuhire's work focuses on the intersection of identity, history, and culture within an increasingly hostile global context.

    Umuhire, though Rwandan-born and German-raised, has spent a lot of time transforming her thoughts of identity, history, and culture into film. Her web series, Polyglot, a project about the lives of black creative artists in Berlin, explores these intersections within an increasingly hostile global context. Polyglot has been shown internationally at Film Africa in London, the Tribeca Film Festival, Premiers Plans D’Angers Festival, and the Geneva International Film Festival (where it won Best International Web Series in 2015). Umuhire’s recent film, Mugabo (2016), is a short and experimental film about her experiences and perceptions of genocide survival and the subsequent return home. Mugabo premiered at Film Africa Festival in London in 2016, and won the Best Experimental Film Award in 2017 at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.

  • Amb. Ngarambe elected UN Human Rights Council vice-president

    He was elected to the position following African Countries’ request to be represented by Rwanda to the council committee.

    He was elected yesterday replacing an Egyptian. He will serve a one year mandate.

    Speaking to IGIHE yesterday, Amb. Ngarambe said that the recognition indicates the positioning of Rwanda on the international level.

    “We have always been saying how these so called human rights organisations have other intentions in reporting falsehoods on Rwanda including on Human Rights of which reports have no truth,” he said.

    “So, when they see how a person from the country they have been criticizing is elected to represent other countries on this council, they should note that such a country has a history and achievements that make other Africans believe in us,” Ngarambe explained.

    He reminded that recently, President Paul Kagame was elected the African Person of the year, which coincided with taking over the stewardship of African Union Commission at the end of this January.

    “Human Rights and other organization criticizing Rwanda have no reason to do so, they should rethink their criticism, based on how Rwanda’s leaders are rated by other African leaders, on our history and self-explanatory activities,” he added.

    Amb. Dr. Francois Xavier Ngarambe

  • Beatrice Munyenyezi Working on Appeal in Genocide Against Tutsi Case

    In August, a federal judge denied an appeal bid from Beatrice Munyenyezi , who was convicted and sentenced in 2013 in the same federal courthouse in New Hampshire where she was granted citizenship years earlier. She’s serving a 10-year sentence in Alabama and faces deportation afterward.

    Munyenyezi’s appealing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. She says the judge didn’t review the stripping of her citizenship.

    Beatrice Munyenyezi, 43, was immediately stripped of the US citizenship she had gained a decade earlier in the same courthouse where she was found guilty on Thursday of making false statements to officials in order to cover up how she selected Tutsis to be raped and murdered. She faces up to 10 years in prison and then likely deportation to face a trial in Rwanda for genocide.

    Munyenyezi settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, with three young daughters in 1998 after claiming to have been persecuted in Rwanda.

    She caught the attention of the US authorities several years later after giving false testimony on behalf of her husband and mother-in-law who were later sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other crimes against humanity by an international tribunal.

    Last year, Munyenyezi’s sister, Prudence Kantengwa, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a separate trial and sentenced to 21 months in prison for failing to declare she was also in Butare in 1994 and had political connections to the perpetrators of the genocide.

    Munyenyezi’s mother in law, Nyiramasuhuko, was the first woman convicted by the ICTR where she received a life sentence after being convicted of seven charges including genocide, crimes against humanity and incitement to rape. Her trial heard how she told militiamen “before you kill the women, you need to rape them”. On one occasion she ordered petrol poured over a group of women who were then burned to death after being raped.

    Munyenyezi’s husband, Ntahobali, also received a life sentence.

  • AGAPE Church in Mbarara turns into RNC recruitment base

    Information obtained by this website shows that Agape Church owned by “Pastor” Deo Nyiligira has turned into a centre for RNC covert operations in western Uganda where religious deeds are only used as a cover up for RNC recruitment and mobilization activities.

    This church is one of the dozen RNC cells operating freely in Uganda and engaged in mobilizing for this ragtag terrorist outfit thanks to the support they enjoy from Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) under the command of Brig. Gen. Abel Kandiho.

    Well-placed sources intimated to this website that Deo Nyirigira’s Agape church in Mbarara is not only a recruitment front for RNC but also a planning base for all RNC clandestine operations in western Uganda.

    Eyewitnesses testified to this website that RNC fugitives frequently meet at the church under the guise of prayers and draw up lists of young Rwandans to recruit into rebel activities but also come up with lists of innocent Rwandans deemed ‘hostile’ to RNC agenda.

    According to one member of this church, those Rwandans classified as “hostile” to RNC propaganda are often baptized as Rwandan government spies and subsequently forwarded to CMI for arrest and torture.

    “For the recruitment and mobilization to succeed those that they see as an obstacle to their agenda are simply framed as Rwandan spies and handed to CMI…it’s a strategy that is working well for the group,” the church member that spoke to this website on condition of anonymity said.

    One of the recent victims of those lists is Emmanuel Cyemayire, a Rwandan businessman based in Mbarara who was kidnapped on January 4 by CMI operatives. His whereabouts remain unknown till today.

    The group at church does not only stop at recruiting and plotting kidnaps, they also work with CMI to transport the recruits to their training base as the case was with the 43 recruits that were detained enroute for Minembwe in DRC through Burundi.

    It should be recalled that this very Agape church is where Dr. Ruvuma, a well known RNC mobiliser in Mbarara was arrested from but later released amidst pressure from CMI. Ruvuma has since continued to operate freely for the terrorist group RNC since his release.

    Other top RNC agents who frequent the church are Charles Sande (alias Robert Mugisha) and Felix Mwizerwa (Pastor Nyirigira’son). Mwizerwa and Dr Ruvuma were part of the group that escorted the 43 RNC recruits to Kikagati border post but escaped upon seeing Uganda Police detain the group.

    For the past two months, Nyirigira’s church has been active in framing cases of espionage on innocent Rwandans and hence leading to their arrest. This website has detailed information on seven Rwandan businessmen and women who were kidnapped and taken to Kampala CMI after their names were drawn up by a group working from this church.

    Pastor Deo Nyirigira fled justice in Rwanda in 2000 after members of his AGAPE Church in Kigali reported him to the authorities that he was extorting money from them and that he was using the church for personal gains at the expense of the interests of the members. Even members of his AGAPE Church in Mbarara have leveled similar charges against him his close links to CMI have helped to provide cover for these corrupt tendencies, according to sources with close links to the Church.

    RNC operations in Uganda are coordinated by Rugema Kayumba, a cousin to RNC’s political head, Kayumba Nyamwasa and the CMI’s CPL Mulindwa aka Mukombozi and the duo work closely with chief of CMI, Brigadier Abel Kandiho.

    The RNC-CMI harassment and torture of Rwandans has since been joined by the Uganda’s Minister of Security Lt Gen. Henry Tumukunde who is inspired by his anti-Rwanda stance.

  • Minisante closes Kigali pharmacy with unqualified employee

    The facility was found employing an unauthorised employee and was immediately closed on Tuesday.

    Speaking to IGIHE, Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba said that the ministry’s monitoring exercise revealed that RAVI Pharmacy was employing a non-authorised employee in drugs delivery.

    “Our directives clearly state that only a pharmacist shall do the job. When our audit reveals that they employ a person who did not study pharmacy, they face sanctions,” she explained.

    Dr Gashumba emphasised that owners of pharmacies are aware of the directives though some of them are still defaulting the regulations. She said that the watchdog body is set to be introduced to detect people who are defaulting the regulations.

    She advises pharmacy owners to respect the sector and value lives of the population.

    “My message to owners of pharmacies is to respect the profession and value the lives of Rwandans because drugs provider should be skilled in that field,” she noted.

    Health Minister, Dr. Diane Gashumba

  • DRC man in court over murder of Dr. Dusabe in South Africa

    Raymond Dusabe‚ 40‚ a gynaecological oncologist who worked at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali‚ was found dead in a flat in Beach Road‚ Sea Point‚ on Monday. He had reportedly been struck over the head with a blunt object and his body was only discovered days later.

    According to Timeslive, the Swahili-speaking, Junior Kamono from the Democratic Republic of Congo – dressed in red skinny jeans‚ a hoodie and basketball sneakers – told acting magistrate Joe Magele that he would conduct his defence in English.

    He was arrested after a police flying squad unit traced the doctor’s car.

    The ambassador of Rwanda in South Africa‚ Vincent Karega‚ said he had no idea about a possible motive for the murder.

    The doctor and his alleged attacker reportedly met in Sea Point in the hours leading up to the attack.

    The Stellenbosch University website said that Dusabe was Rwanda’s first gynaecological oncologist.

    He grew up as a refugee in Burundi after some of his family were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He returned to Rwanda in 1998 after completing high school and studied medicine at former National University of Rwanda before specialising in gynaecology at Stellenbosch.

    He graduated with his Master of Medicine degree in 2014 before continuing his studies by specialising in gynaecology oncology.

    King Faisal Hospital tweeted that it was “saddened to announce the death of Dr Raymond Dusabe. The administration wishes to express its most sincere sympathies to his family during this difficult time. His work here will not soon be forgotten. He will be greatly missed. May He Rest In Peace.”

    Dr. Raymond Dusabe