The call follows several complaints lodged to Police in Kamonyi by residents, where in some cases the roaming dogs attack people and livestock.
Last week, dogs bitten four goats belonging to a resident of Buramba Cell in Kabacuzi Sector, which prompted an operation to either kill or seize stray dogs including those identified to have killed the goats.
The Police spokesperson for the Southern region, Inspector of Police (IP) Emmanuel Kayigi, emphasised that “no dog should roam freely in the community without a leash and held by a responsible person.”
The Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) report indicates that at least 669 people were attacked and bitten by stray dogs last year, up from 383 recorded in 2015.
Available statistics from RAB indicate that as of last year, there were 18,117 dogs in the country.
“Roaming dogs can chase, frighten and bite people as we have witnessed, and owners will be prosecuted because when you decide to own a dog, you have also decided to follow legal standards and to face justice when you act contrary,” IP Kayigi said.
Aside from the legal aspect, allowing a dog to stray can also put the animal itself in danger by allowing it to be exposed to parasites, disease and poison, he said.
In addition, the spokesperson said, they are more likely to be hit by vehicles and cause road accidents.
The traders, who are currently in Tanzania to familiarise themselves with services offered by TPA, including keeping abreast with the improvements being made by the authority, praised President John Magufuli for his efforts to ensure Dar es Salaam Port and other terminals were modernised to offer world-class services.
Speaking on behalf of the delegation, the President of Rwanda Private Sector Federation (PSF) Chief Executive Officer, Stephan Ruzibiza, said Rwanda was satisfied with the quality of service delivered by TPA through Dar es Salaam Port and other terminals.
“We have basically come here to see how the Dar es Salaam Port is performing and also see for ourselves the improvements being made. But, based on the experience and the observation we have so far made, we are happy with the services,” Ruzibiza said.
According to Ruzibiza, the performance of Dar es Salaam Port has significantly changed compared to its quality of service delivery about five years ago. “From here, we will visit Ruvu and Isaka dry ports to see how the two terminals will play a role in improving cargo clearance and shipment.”
He said, as a result of improvement of service delivery at Dar es Salaam Port, cargo handling, including clearance was simplified; adding that time taken to clear cargo and shipping it from the terminal to Rwanda was also reduced.
A member of the delegation, Fred Seka, praised President Magufuli for taking an affirmative action to improve Dar es Salaam Port and other terminals.
“We sincerely thank President Magufuli and all other officials in the government for the good work,” he said.
“As you might have heard, Dar es Salaam Port handles between 80 and 90 per cent of Rwanda cargo. With these improvements, we expect the terminal, in the near future, to handle the whole cargo destined for Rwanda,” Seka said.
Seka expressed his gratitude for the decision by TPA to construct a dry port at Ruvu in the Coast Region and upgrade Isaka dry port in Shinyanga Region, saying the measures would reduce cost that Rwandese businesspersons have been incurring in cargo shipment.
The acting TPA Director of Marketing, Lydia Mallya, said that to bring TPA closer to Rwandese business community, the authority has opened an office in Kigali and a bank account with Eco Bank to facilitate business transactions.
Speaking about the use of Isaka dry port, Mallya said it would significantly reduce cost and time spent in shipping cargo.
“We expect the cargo destined for Rwanda to be transported from Dar es Salaam to Isaka dry port in Shinyanga where Rwandese businesspersons will now collect it. This will help them reduce time they spend and costs they incur in shipping it because the distance from Isaka to Rusumo border is only 300 kilometres,” she said.
{{Source: Daily News}}
Kabarebe was summoned to appear before the Paris judge on December 14th and confront James Munyandinda who says that he witnessed the involvement of RPA in the attack on 6th April, 1994.
Contesting the credibility of this witness, Kabarebe’s lawyers drastically declined the summons.
”It is impossible to consider the Minister of Defense in office to go to France to face such a problematic person. Kabarebe’s lawyers declared on Monday December 11th in the office of Judge Jean-Marc Herbaut.
The judge assigned the judicial investigation on the attack of the plane of former President Juvénal Habyarimana. Judge Herbaut and his colleague Nathalie Poux demanded Kabarebe to face a witness identified as James Munyandinda.
{{A slow breakdown in diplomatic relations}}
On Monday, Maingain and Forster sent two French magistrates an eight-page letter outlining Rwanda’s grievances over an investigation which, since 2006, has provoked the irritation of the authorities and the Rwandan population. Since then, the two countries encountered a crack in their diplomatic relations. If the lawyers do not wish to speak on the file, one of their clients, however, agreed to deliver to Jeune Afrique the content of the mail (read below).
The lawyers’ argument is divided into five points. “Our clients have already cooperated with the courts and answered all questions regarding this case,” they said. At the end of 2010, Gen Kabarebe, Franck Nziza and five other Rwandans suspected by the French courts attended a hearing in Burundi by Judge Trévidique who was in charge of the investigation.
The main point developed in the courier was the reliability of the witness’s statements dating back to 1994, that relate to the subject of the attack, or the conditions in which he claims to have left Rwanda in 2008.
On the first point, the defense provides an attestation before notary of Sam Nkusi. In his statement, Munyandinda affirms that back in December 1993, he delivered Motorola phones to Gen Kabarebe. He claims that the phones were used to plan the bombing out of prying ears.
But according to Sam Nkusi, these allegations are impossible: first, because he (Munyandinda) himself was living in Canada at the time and did not set foot in Rwanda between September 1993 and July 1994; plus, at that time, Rwanda did not have the infrastructure needed to use such devices.
As for his departure, Munyandinda signed a report on October 1, 2008 by Emmanuel Ndahiro, who was at the time, the personal physician of President Paul Kagame and head of the secret services.
“He told me that one of my old comrades, Richard Kabano, was a refugee in Uganda and that he threatened the national security by spreading information on the massacres perpetrated in Rwanda. He explained to me that he had chosen me because he knew how close I was to Richard Kabano.
Munyandinda pretended to accept the mission, he entered Uganda with an official passport that was given to him the day before, then he disappeared to avoid any retaliation.
“Since then I have been hiding in Uganda,” he says. I know myself that I’m wanted by the Rwandan Security Services which seek to eliminate me. ”
As hectic as it is, the version delivered by this miracle witness is actually stretched and the two Rwandans convened in mid-December delivered to the French justice a wheelbarrow of documents (some of which are published by JeuneAfrique here below, with the agreement of one of the interested parties) which clearly testifies this version as untrue. This includes a certificate from his own wife who still lives in Rwanda.
James Munyandinda actually left the country very formally, at his request, to go for a master’s degree in finance in Britain. Tuition fees were even partially paid by the Rwandan army which also provided a service passport specifically for this purpose.
For the defense of the seven Rwandans, Munyandinda would be only the umpteenth puppet to date which Rwanda National Congress (RNC) pulls the strings. This movement of opposition in exile, adept of a reversal of the regime by force, has indeed provided on a plateau to the French judges, since 2011, several miracle witnesses accusing the RPF of being at the origin of the attack.
Paradoxically, the lawyers of the indicted persons seem the most eager to finish, convinced that the charges against their clients have crumbled over the handling recorded in the instruction. “We confirm the request already formulated to close this instruction and we formally renew this request,” they write at the end of their missive.
Kagame welcomed new cabinet members and ensured them his support and partnership in country’s course to development.
“You are welcome new ministers who have sworn-in now. We are all ready to support and cooperate with you to keep developing our country,” he said.
Kagame also commended everyone’s good deeds to the country.
At the same occasion, Kagame inaugurated the ‘Campaign Against Genocide Museum’ at the Parliament buildings.
Prior to the appointment last week, Mutimura had been the coordinator of African Centers of Excellence Project. He replaced Dr. Papias Musafiri Malimba who had been on the post since June 2015.
On the other hand, Rurangirwa had been the Integrated Financial Management Information and System (IFMIS) Project Coordinator at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. He replaced Jean Philbert Nsengimana who had headed the ministry since 2011.
Opened on Tuesday, participants will discuss ways the council can improve operation for quick intervention in war-torn areas as well as contributing in peace restoration.
The Chairperson of the Committee, Gouende Blaise Edouard said that Africans should learn from Rwanda’s dark past and managed to attain development founded on peace and security.
“Rwanda is a model country in peace and security and has an impact to the continent. We chose to learn from Rwanda as we witnessed that everything is possible,” said Edouard.
The First Counselor at Rwanda’s Embassy in Ethiopia, Fillipe Karenzi said they will assess implementation of resolutions from the committee and recommend countries to fast-track their implementation.
“We are looking at the implementation of committee’s resolutions where our priority is peace-keepers’ intervention in war areas,” he said.
The Committee of Experts of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council brings together 15 countries which are Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Algeria, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo and Uganda.
At least 17 delegates from 13 countries are participating in the retreat, while Algeria and Zambia have not attended.
The yearly report dubbed ‘Rwanda Bribery Index’ in a survey carried among 2,385 people between 18 and 60 shows that bribe has generally been reduced.
According to the report, bribery increased in Traffic Police to 11.67%, energy services to 9.19%, private sector 9.06% and 8.22% in Universities.
The Executive Secretary of TI Rwanda, Apollinaire Mupiganyi said that corruption has reduced in Rwanda as it is ranked 3rd in Africa and 50th globally among less corrupt countries.
He said though much has been done, they should not tolerate some institutions where corruption still appears.
“Currently corruption stands at 24% from 24.5% in 2016, nothing big has changed. What has been changed is the amount of money one should provide to get a service. The average is Rwf36,000,” he said
The Deputy Commissioner General of Police, Juvenal Marizamunda said that in Police, they have put in place particular measures to fight corruption.
“We have taken tough measures, whoever is caught involving in corruption cases is expelled from Police Services and prosecuted. We have also established Police Special Force for fighting corruption and we hope that in partnership with other institutions, corruption will be routed out,” he said.
Rwandan government published a report on Wednesday that it had commissioned from a ‘US Law Firm’ alleging France to help army and protect the perpetrators of genocide before, during and after genocide period in which many Tutsis were killed.
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo said that some French officials had “got away with murder, literally”.
The report by Washington law firm Cunningham Levy Muse, which was handed to the French government by Rwanda’s ambassador to Paris on Tuesday, urges Paris to release classified documents relating to the period.
The “Muse Report”, which Rwanda says is the most complete account of French complicity to date, accuses French officials of continuing “to conceal their own role in the genocide and to undermine attempts to prosecute genocide suspects”, many of whom live in France.
Although Rwanda was a Belgian colony, France gained significant influence in the central African country from the 1970s and was a backer of the government of Juvenal Habyarimana.
There was a systematic cover-up and fabrication of a narrative to hide the traces of French military and political collaboration in the genocide.
According to the report, the French government of François Mitterrand trained the police and army who took part in the genocide and may have helped create the lists of Tutsi citizens marked out for killing. It also claims senior French officials “joined in the elaboration of genocide ideology” by participating in “anti-Tutsi vitriol”.
The report casts French support for the interim Rwandan government that carried out the genocide as an attempt to shore up France’s influence in central Africa against a perceived attempt by Britain and the US to bring Rwanda into the Anglo sphere of influence.
It quotes General Christian Quesnot, the chief military adviser of the then president, as telling Mitterrand that an invasion from neighbouring Uganda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front was an attempt to create a “Tutsiland with Anglo-Saxon help”.
In 1998, a French parliamentary commission found no evidence of French collaboration in the genocide. It defended an intervention in June 1994, known as Opération Turquoise, as a genuine attempt to provide safe harbour for refugees.
President Paul Kagame, led RPF invasion in 1990 that put an end to the genocide and took over the country in 1994. Under Kagame leadership, Rwanda changed its main language to English and broke diplomatic relations with France between 2006 and 2009. Currently, there is no French ambassador to Rwanda after Kigali refused to give accreditation.
“There had been a systematic cover-up and fabrication of a narrative to hide the traces of French military and political collaboration in the genocide,” Mushikiwabo has said.
Will Jones, a Rwanda expert at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Kigali was justified in pursuing French complicity, the evidence of which “was extremely well documented and non-controversial”.
The argument that France was defending its sphere of influence and backing a government against an invading force could never “justify genocide”, Mushikiwabo said, adding that Mitterrand had dismissed genocide in Africa as “no big deal”.
According to Mushikiwabo, talk of a “double genocide” perpetrated by both Tutsis and Hutus was part of an attempt by some in France to cover up the country’s role.
French journalists, academics and civil society groups have continued to investigate France’s alleged role in the genocide. In September, France’s public prosecutor opened an investigation into allegations that BNP Paribas transferred more than $1.3 Million of funds that were ultimately used to finance the purchase of 80 tonnes of weapons used in the genocide.
The French government did not respond to requests for comment.
There are a lot of criminals and evil minded people out there who are looking for a way to scam or destroy you. The slightest mistake on your part can grant them the power to.
If you use social media in any way, you must be very wary of the following…
{{Syncing all your social media account}}s
There was a time I tried this, because it looked cool, however, I soon came to realise that these social media platforms differ. What works for platform A may not work with another, so it’s better to operate them individually. For example some platforms have language and characters that are unique to them. Imagine how awful it’d be if you used them on another platform as a result of synchronization.
{{Avoid using a single password for all your accounts}}
It’s easier to use one password for all your social media accounts and email because it saves you the stress of writing all of them down for recollection purposes, however it’s unsafe and exposes your accounts to easier hacking. If a hacker gets a hold of one of your passwords, he’ll try it on other accounts, and he’d be having a field day if it works on all of them. The same goes for your email too. It’s always better to use at least, 3 or 4 different passwords for all your accounts. Make sure your passwords aren’t easy to guess. If possible, combine letters with numbers for the best security.
{{Disclosure/being careless with login information}}
Some of us have no problems with sharing our social media accounts and passwords with the people close to us. It does seem harmless because you trust them, and they ‘wouldn’t hurt you’, but even if they didn’t, they could be careless with it, and if it gets into the wrong hands, that is trouble. If you ever have to use a public computer, don’t forget to logout afterwards to avoid it getting into bad hands.
{{Avoid links}}
Some links are harmless, but there are countless others that are dangerous, and should be ignored. Clicking on a hacker-link would only expose your account to malware or dangerous people. If you notice a link in a Private Message or email you never solicited for, ignore it; likewise attachments, as these can ruin your account.
Source:elcrema.com
The conference that brought together party members, scholars and different leaders from across the continent and beyond took place under the theme ‘Liberation and Transformation: Realising a dignified and prosperous Africa’.
The conference targeted to boost solidarity around the common fate that Africans share, and RPF’s commitment to contributing to Africa’s transformation.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, the RPF Vice-Chairperson, Christophe Bazivamo said that from the liberation struggle until now, RPF’s message has been consistent.
“The leadership of the country today was mooted in the aftermath of the Genocide during the national conference that was convened at Village Urugwiro where consensus was agreed upon as the best way to lead our country,” he said.
The conference featured panel discussions, with one under the theme; ‘Driving National Transformation and Realizing Africa’s full potential’ where panelists discussed key features of national transformation and what is required to maintain ideological clarity.
Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa and the former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer participated in the conference.
Mkapa congratulated President Paul Kagame for great nationalism and pan-Africanisim saying that it has earned him the respect of his people and the entire African continent.
He reiterated the need for continued integration of Africa saying that it is rooted in the very foundation of the former Organisation of African Unity, which is now the African Union.
“Next year, Africa must do what it takes to ensure the African youth change their aspirations of going to Europe for greener pasture by ensuring they find those opportunities in Africa so they stay,” Mkapa urged.
Founded by Rwandan entrepreneur Abdul Ishimwe, Aisance Enterprise started in 2016 offering consultation services to businessmen and women going to Turkey from all over the word but later expanded business to trade construction materials, pharmaceutical products, hospital materials and more.
Ishimwe, 21, moved to Turkey in January 2016 to pursue his university course in civil Aviation Management at Istanbul Aydin University and the environment over there inspired him to start an exporting company. Ishimwe has partners among Turkish giant companies but Aisance Enterprises has representatives in different countries including Rwanda.
Speaking to IGIHE, Ishimwe said the company has so far made most of its deliveries to Middle-East countries, Oman, Nigeria, Kuwait and Qatar.
Aisance Enterprise has so far made several deliveries to Burundi and Rwanda including hardware materials to a prominent importer, Kavukire Hardware in Kiigali.
“Our major target is to help clients who come to us, easing the way of buying and transporting goods from Istanbul to their countries. We are here to do everything for our customers and deliver products to their destinations. They can place an order via email or short messages and our employees are 24/7 available to offer any guidance and help,” said Ishimwe.
Some of the products that Aisance Enterprise trades are prefabricated construction materials in steel and wood, tiles, iron bars, electric bars, green houses, poultry systems, baking systems, tractors, Ultrasound, X-ray machines, MRI machines and more.
In partnership with one of the best hospitals in Turkey, Guven Hospital, the company also provides hospital tourism services to ensure that customers’ health is in good hands while in Turkey.
“On those prefabricated construction, we do sell the materials and send our civil engineers to do the construction. About hospital tourism, we do help our clients by giving them invitation papers, helping them to reach the hospital and we keep in touch until they have recovered well,” Ishimwe added.
With Aisance Enterprise, the delivery period takes two to three days on air shipments and a maximum of one month on sea shipments.
Ishimwe said the company aims to sell Rwandan products to the world in the near future as they add more products on list.
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