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  • Kagame named African person of the Year 2017

    According to the magazine, Kagame won as an African whose activities, policies and actions have contributed to ‘creating jobs and wealth creation; promotion, defense and delivering of democratic values; and the promotion of Africa’s image globally.

    The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Awards committee was unveiling the winners for different categories in the just concluded polls.

    The winners who will be decorated on the 24th February 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa, were unveiled by the Publisher of the Magazine Dr. Ken Giami, at the UK Head Office of the group, after the awards committee working with the editorial team concluded the collation of both online and offline votes and submissions from over one million subscribers and followership base of the publication.

    {{Below are the winners:}}

    {{African of the Year 2017:}}

    H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda – Winner

    {{African Female Leader of the Year 2017:}}

    1. Bethlehem Tilahum Alemu, Founder soleRebels, Ethiopia – Co-Winner

    2. Ms. Suzan Mashibe, Executive Director, Tanjet Aviation, Tanzania – Co-Winner

    {{ALM Person of the Year 2017-Educational Development}}

    {Strive Masayiwa, Founder Econet, Zimbabwe – Winner}

    {{ALM Person of the Year 2017 – Employment Generation}}

    {Kwame Nana Bediako, President, Founder & CEO, Petronia Ghana – Winner
    }

    {{ALM Person of the Year 2017 – Political Leadership}}

    {Marc Ravalomanana, Former President of Madagascar – Winner}

    {{ALM Person of the Year 2017 – Philanthropy & Charitable Contributions to Society}}

    {Manu Chandaria, Chairman, Comcraft Group, Kenya – Winner}

    {{ALM Young Person of the Year 2017}}

    {Joel Macharia, Founder / CEO, Abacus Kenya- Winner}

    According to the magazine, the total online votes cast by Africans from all around the world jumped to 288,958 from 85,000 the previous year and offline submissions increased by over 400%.

    In addition to the winners, a special commendation citation shall be presented to the most distinguished runners up which includes Linah Mohohlo, Governor, Bank of Botwana; Fred Swaniker, Founder, African Leadership Academy, South Africa & African Leadership University, Mauritius; and Tony Elumelu, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Nigeria.

    The Publisher of the Magazine, Ken Giami, reiterated the group’s position that all nominees in the various categories are all winners, given their individual contributions to the continent’s development.

    In his words, “to be chosen out of the over 1.2 billion people on the continent, speaks volumes.” He further stated that “the nominees have elevated and redefined benchmarks of service to the humanity on the continent. They are all true lovers of Africa, contributing passionately, sometimes imperfectly, but all determined to impacting society, making Africa a better place for its people.”

    The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year which is in its 6th run, is an annual award reserved for distinguished Africans, who are considered to have blazed the trail in the year under review.

    A shortlist of nominees are selected from results gathered via a call for nomination – traditionally promoted via a paid online and offline campaigns across the continent, Europe, and the Americas. The call for nomination is the first step in a multi-phased process.

    Remarkably this year, the selection committee considered, among others, three key themes – Africans whose activities, policies and actions have contributed to ‘creating jobs and wealth creation; promotion, defense and delivering of democratic values; and the promotion of Africa’s image globally’; in arriving at their decisions.

    Kagame named African person of the Year 2017

  • Gicumbi mayor, Mudaheranwa tasks grassroots leaders on community policing

    The efforts are geared towards strengthening the philosophy of community policing.

    The security meeting held Friday was chaired by the mayor of Gicumbi, Juvenal Mudaheranwa and attended by the District Police Commander, Supt. Gaston Karagire as well as grassroots leaders.

    Although the meeting observed that there is overall safety and security in Gicumbi, it also observed that there are still loopholes that are utilised by criminals like drug dealers to roam and conduct their unlawful acts, which should be closed.

    Mayor Mudaheranwa urged sector and cell executive secretaries to go down to the people and sensitize them on community policing to fight violence against women, girls and children and illicit drugs, among others, which are still common in the district.

    “We need to build on the existing strong partnership between the people, local leaders and security organs, strengthen the spirit of real time information sharing to make community policing an effective tool for sustainable security,” the mayor said.

    The DPC, Supt. Karagire, also reiterated the need to work in unison to curb lawlessness, such as drug abuse which is largely responsible for some criminal tendencies.

    The DPC further asked the business community including saving and credit cooperatives schemes (SACCOs) to install security gadgets such as CCTV cameras to facilitate investigations in times of theft or break-in.

  • Man held over bribery in Nyagatare

    The District Police Commander of Nyagatare, Chief Supt. Johnson Sesonga, confirmed that Bigirimana was arrested on Saturday after he tried to seduce the officer with Rwf72, 000 to have his impounded motorcycle released.

    “Bigirimana’s motorcycle was impounded two months ago in Rwempasha Sector; it was at the time intercepted being used to traffic 16 cartons of Zebra Waragi,” Chief Supt. Sesonga said.

    Zebra waragi is one of the different contrabands packed in plastic bags and banned in Rwanda.

    “Bigirimana is also the same suspect, who was riding the impounded motorcycle at the time, but managed to flee after spotting police officers, abandoning the motorcycle,” he added.

    The 45-year-old suspect, a resident in Kabirizi Village, Mbale Cell in Karangazi Sector, admitted to the two alleged crimes of trafficking contrabands and attempting to bribe the officer to release his motorcycle.

    Meanwhile, Chief Supt. Sesonga warned that operations are continuous to arrest drug dealers.

    “Attempting to bribe officers will be an added serious criminal offence,” he warned.

    Bribery is defined under section D of article 633 of the penal code, as giving or agreeing to give a gift in cash or any other illegal benefit, for the provision of a service or an act in unlawful way, or to reward the provider of the service or act rendered by a recipient or an intermediary.

    Penalties for anyone convicted of corruption range between two and seven years and a fine of up to ten times the value of illegal benefit demanded as stipulated under articles 634 to 651 of the Rwanda penal code.

  • Rwemalika appeals FERWAFA presidential election decision

    In the elections last month, the candidate Rwemalika run alone as incumbent Vincent de Gaulle Nzamwita had pulled out at the last minute of the elections.

    After the withdrawal of Nzamwita, Rwemalika failed to secure majority votes.

    Rwemalika got 13 out of 52 votes while FERWAFA election code requires a minimum of 27 votes to win. Election results revealed 39 votes were invalid.

    The Electoral Committee’s president Adolphe Kalisa announced that Rwemalika did not secure enough votes and according to Article 28 of Electoral Code, the Executive Committee will continue to work until the next FERWAFA Elective General Assembly is held.

    After talking to her lawyers, Rwemalika said that invalid votes would not have been considered, according to article 24 of electoral code.

    She says they had to consider 13 valid votes and announce her as FERWAFA presidency winner.

    Speaking to IGIHE on Saturday, Rwemalika said that she did not want to appeal the decision immediately because she wanted to consult with her lawyers.

    She has submitted her appeal to the International Governing Body of Football (FIFA) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

    “We have seen that the decision was taken contrary to the law but we hadn’t to appeal immediately as we had some days to prepare our appeal dossier. We are optimistic that we will be given justice,” she said.

    She said that she is not ready to give up until she sees changes in the association.

    The elections took place in the presence of FIFA observer, Constant Omari Selemani who is also the Democratic Republic of Congo’s football administrator and a member of the FIFA Council

    Laws state that the Appeal Committee would sit within three days and decide on the appeal.

    Félicité Rwemalika

  • Artiste Mbonyi constructs house for needy family in Gasabo

    The act was named after his newly launched album ‘Intashyo.’

    During Intashyo Album launching concert recently, Mbonyi and his ‘Israel Mbonyi Foundation’ shared with revelers the story of how Eustache Mucyo’s family was living in bad conditions. Mbonyi decided to uplift the family with the money from the concert.

    Speaking to IGIHE while starting the house renovation activities on Saturday, Mbonyi said the activity is part of his Intashyo wide project.

    “When I was working on the album after which the project was named, I thought about disadvantaged people and committed to give them greetings (Intashyo) with a message of comfort,” he said.

    Mbonyi said Mucyo family’s house renovation will cost Rwf5 million and take one month.

    Mbonyi said his foundation targets to embark on other activities including paying school fees for children from poor families and hygiene sensitisation campaign in rural areas, among others.

  • Rwanda denies deal with Israel to receive asylum seekers

    According to Reuters, Israel said on Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to go home or to “third countries” and threatened them with jail if they are caught after the end of March.

    Rights groups including Hotline for Refugees and Migrants have said Uganda and Rwanda had agreed to take in migrants from Israel in the past.

    However, both Rwanda and Uganda rejected the deal saying that it is fake news.

    Speaking to IGIHE on Saturday, Nduhungirehe said that Rwanda has no agreement with Israel to receive any asylum seeker.

    He said that the two governments did not sign the deal but speculations were developed by media which said the news was confirmed by Israel’s politicians.

    “No agreements have been there, they base on 2014 talks which were not validated. We have not signed any agreements,” he said.

    He said that no talks between Rwanda and Israel that are taking place but affirmed that ongoing talks are those to receive migrants from Libya.

    According to Reuters, Uganda’s Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem also rejected the news.

    “There is no written agreement or any form of agreement between the government of Uganda and Israeli government to accept refugees from Israel,” Oryem said.

    “Any suggestion to the contrary was “fake news … absolute rubbish,” he added.

    The majority of migrants in Israel came from Eritrea and Sudan and many say they fled war and persecution as well as economic hardship but Israel treats them as economic migrants.

  • Lawmakers set for countrywide outreach to assess citizens welfare

    The lawmakers will visit the Northern Province from 8th to 12th January, Western Province from 15th to 20th January and City of Kigali from 3rd to 5th February.

    During the exercise, legislators will also assess the implementation of good settlement master plan.

    According to the Parliament’s press release, MPs will mainly assess the implementation of key projects in the 2017/2018 fiscal year and citizen participation in their development programmes.

    “They will also assess hygiene, fight against malnutrition programmes and the progress on “bye bye umwanda (poor hygiene)” programme,” it reads.

    “During the tours, people will have the opportunity to discuss with legislators about their development and other government programmes. MPs will get to know in deep daily lives of the population, understand their problems and give orientation on how they can be addressed,” reads the statement.

    MPs’ outreach exercise has become a yearly routine since it was launched in 2015.

    Members of Parliament will start a month-long outreach on Monday to assess Rwandans' welfare

  • Over 65,000 senior six leavers start civic education

    Locally known as Itorero, the programme intends to equip the youth with Rwandan culture and good values.

    Speaking to IGIHE on Saturday, the National Itorero Commission (NIC) Chairperson, Edouard Bamporiki said they expect 65,000 people to attend though the number can reduce due to different reasons like sickness and negligence.

    He said the week-long programme will take place at 115 sites across the country.

    He said during this year’s civic education and National Service locally known as Urugerero, the youth will participate in different hygiene and sanitation activities.

    “We shall focus on hygiene. We wish to end the problem of toilets shortage as statistics show that there are Rwandans who do not have toilets. Participants will be sensitised about the value of hygiene, and when they start National Service, they will implement what they will have acquired,” said Bamporiki adding that they will teach the youth how to fight against drugs and avoid unwanted pregnancies.

    Bamporiki said the programme will benefit poor households by developing vegetable gardens for them. It will also help conserve the environment by planting trees.

    He said the programme will introduce ‘camped national service’ this year, contrary to the previous sessions when the youth used to do the service while staying at home.

    {{Camped national service }}

    This year’s Camping National Services will take one month at the District level. It is expected that 15,000 and 416 people will participate in the camps at district and national levels respectively.

    Participants will be selected based on their performance during the civic education programme and national service at the village level.

    Bamporiki said that they will receive a small number due to resource constraints but there are plans for all senior six graduates to attend the camps.

    “Our current resources do not allow us to take a big number of students but in the future, we wish that every senior six leaver participates in this programme,” he said.

    {{Plans to drop civic education}}

    Bamporiki said that there are plans to drop civic education and replace it with National Service.

    According to Bamporiki, skills that students acquire during a one-week civic education programme will be offered in schools.

    “Things they learn throughout this week will be introduced in primary and secondary schools and school leavers will go straight to national service that contribute in the country’s development,” he said.

    Bamporiki emphasized that basing on how the programme will have been implemented in the schools, the changes may start next year, “but I assure you that in 2020, no civic education programme will take place at the sites,” he said.

    NIC chairperson, Edouard Bamporiki

  • Kagame, Ugandan foreign affairs minister discuss bilateral relations

    Through her twitter account, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo announced that Kutesa also imparted President Yoweri Museveni’s message to his Rwandan counterpart.

    “President Kagame today received my Ugandan counterpart, Sam Kutesa, with a message from President Museveni, a good discussion mainly on integration,” reads her tweet.

    During the discussion, Kagame stressed that for integration to be successful, there has to be something for everybody where all partners must win.

    They also talked about recent fatal arrests faced by different Rwandans in Uganda, things which caused fears among Rwandan citizens working or travelling in Uganda.

    “Also discussed, and linked to regional integration, was the state of bilateral relations, including continuing arrests and disappearances of Rwandan citizens in Uganda causing tension and many Rwandan families to petition their government to intervene for their loved ones,” Mushikiwabo tweeted.

    Speaking to IGIHE recently, the Ambassador of Rwanda in Uganda, Maj. Gen. Frank Mugambage confirmed the crisis in diplomatic relations between the two countries saying that Rwanda was seeking the solution.

    He said that they wrote to Ugandan government asking clarification about illegal detention that Rwandans were facing.

  • UN to investigate DR Congo attack that killed 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers

    The December 7 attack in the Beni territory of North Kivu province was one of the worst to target UN peacekeepers in recent history in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Dmitry Titov, a Russian national who has worked in UN peacekeeping to lead the special investigation that will also look into other attacks against peacekeepers in that area, a UN statement said.

    “This special investigation will include a focus on the 7 December attack in Semuliki, in which 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers were killed, 43 wounded and one remains missing,” it said.

    The United Nations has said the ambush of the peacekeeping base was carried out by suspected ADF rebels, a shadowy group dominated by hardline Ugandan Muslims that is one of several armed groups active in the North Kivu region.

    UN investigators will examine the circumstances surrounding the attacks, evaluate the response of the UN peacekeepers and make recommendations on how to prevent such violence, the UN said.

    Two military officers from Tanzania will take part in the investigation that will travel to the DR Congo later this month and to countries in the region.

    The attack was the bloodiest against MONUSCO, the UN force deployed in the DR Congo since 1999, and the worst against a UN force since the death of 24 Pakistani peacekeepers in Somalia in June 1993.

    DR Congo’s huge eastern region has long been wracked by violence, but fighting between government soldiers and militia groups, as well as inter-ethnic clashes, has increased in 2017.

    North Kivu province, which borders Uganda and Rwanda, has seen a particular uptick in killings and kidnappings between rival ethnic groups.

    Since October 2014, the hardline ADF — or Allied Democratic Forces — has been accused by Kinshasa and the UN of killing more than 700 people in the Beni region, where last week’s attack also took place.

    Uganda’s defense ministry said in late December that it had launched air and artillery strikes against the ADF in DR Congo, killing over 100 of its fighters in a joint operation with the DR Congo’s army.
    {{Source:The Citizen}}