The departing officers are Jean Baptiste Mugunga of Nyamabuye sector and Hubert Ruzindana of Kibangu sector.
Cells executive secretaries are those of Remera, Gahogo and Gitarama.
All executive secretaries submitted their resignation letters in the District extra-ordinary meeting that discussed different performance issues in Muhanga.
All cells are in Nyamabuye, a Muhanga town-based sector.
Among reasons behind their resignation are land related issues, city master plan implementation queries and poor hygiene.
The deputy commissioner for custom services at Rwanda Revenue Authority, William Musoni said that when selecting AEOs, they consider integrity among traders with imports threshold of above Rwf200 million.
Under this memorandum, commodities pass the border without customs clearance and get cleared afterwards.
“It eases movement of goods and their clearance is done after the goods have entered the country” he said.
Speaking at the event, the minister for trade and industry, Vincent Munyeshyaka said that the move will not only facilitate traders, but also impact the Rwandan economy
“As many imported products are used in industries, it supports the economy by reducing the cost of transportation. It also affects EAC countries’ economy in general” he said.
He said that 46 traders enjoy the same opportunity in Rwanda and East African Community
Speaking to IGIHE, the chairperson of Gisagara District Advisory Council Innocent Uwimana said that they received the resignation letter Thursday afternoon.
“We received his letter mentioning personal reasons” he said.
He said that the district council will meet very soon to review his resignation before accepting it.
Mvukiyehe has been Gisagara Executive Secretary since 2011.
In order to continue advancing the important work of this subsidiary organ of the UNWTO General Assembly, the mandate of the outgoing members of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics was renewed until 2021, with Pascal Lamy continuing to chair the Committee.
Joining the four Members whose mandate was set to end in 2019 – Yoshiaki Hompo (Japan), Fiona Jeffery (UK), Tanja Mihalic (Slovenia) and Eugenio Yunis (Chile) – will be Gede Ardika (Indonesia), Jean Marc Mignon (International Social Tourism Organization) and Ron Oswald (The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations) as Committee Members, and Hiran Cooray (Sri Lanka), Suzy Hatough (Jordan) and Günnur Diker (Turkey) as Alternates.
The only new member joining the World Committee on Tourism Ethics for a four-year term starting 17th of September this year is Rosette Chantal Rugamba, Founder and Managing Director of Songa Africa and Amakoro Lodge in Rwanda.
By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome
The Smart Village, located in Tumba Sector Rulindo District, Northern Province, has a population of 21,000 and an estimated 5,000 households.
The Smart Village Initiative aims to bridge the digital divide in rural Rwanda by bringing technological solutions and innovations to residents in order to enhance their daily lives, increase socio-economic opportunities and create jobs by increasing their access to ICT and services.
The pillars of the Smart Village are Digital Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Education, Connectivity/Electricity, Healthcare, Agriculture, Governance and Smart Markets.
Tigo Rwanda supports the Smart Village Initiative through the three pillars of Connectivity, Digital Literacy and Financial Inclusion.
“In order to support the three pillars, Tigo Rwanda invested in providing 3G and 4G connectivity to the 21, 000 Tumba Sector residents. Today, they are able to enjoy the fastest and most affordable Internet in the country”said Tigo Rwanda Deputy Chief Operating Executive, Chantal UmutoniKagame on the launch of the Tumba Smart Village
Working with suppliers, Tigoprovide subsidized handsets to residents. The feature phones and smart phones Tigo provides are the most affordable in Rwanda at the cost of Rrw6,000 and Rrw36,000 respectively.
“This shall ensure that as many people in this community are able to access handsets” she said.
Alongside our partners, our VAS (Value Addded Services) trainers are teaching residents how to utilize the Internet, thereby opening the digital world to them. Using our various Mobile Financial Services, residents can now enjoy Tigo Cash services such as Push and Pull, which allow them to move money to and from their bank accounts using their handsets,Umutoni reiterated
With Tigo’s Digital Saving Groups platform, they created a platform that allows unbanked local savings groups (Ibimina) to digitize.
“Now youth and women’s groups as well as cooperatives can enjoy the convenience of our MFS tools” she added.
Vuba led a group named after former leader Kuryama. He is a son of the late, legendary silverback Titus and a well-known female named Tuck was his mother. He spent many years with Titus, and inherited the gentle facial expressions of his father as well as his kind behavior toward all of the group members. When his brother, Kuryama, formed his own group in 2007, Vuba went with him, keeping a subordinate position but always well accepted by the group. He became dominant after the death of former leader Kirahure in August 2015. Kirahure had taken over following the death of Kuryama.
Starting soon after taking over leadership, Vuba led his group across the border of Rwanda into the Democratic Republic of Congo, beyond the ranging area of our trackers. This was repeated again in 2016, until they re-stabilized in their original range in Rwanda last September.
Vuba had the support of two younger silverbacks in the group – 14-year-old Igihozo and 13-year-old Tetero – who will now have the task of leading the group. Their presence is a great advantage for the group and may help it stay cohesive. With the loss of Vuba, the group contains only seven members. It is an unusual group in that there is only one adult female member.
Vuba is one of the many gorillas who have been followed throughout their entire lives by the Fossey Fund, so his loss is deeply felt by the staff. “We are extremely saddened by Vuba’s death,” says Felix Ndagijimana, the Fossey Fund’s director of the Karisoke Research Center and all of our Rwanda programs. “He was a great leader and played a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and cohesiveness of the group during the different dominance changes it went through.”
“He was one of the most gentle male gorillas I’ve ever met,” says Veronica Vecellio, Fossey Fund gorilla program manager. “We rarely saw Vuba engaging in or initiating a fight. His personality was suited to so many roles and phases of his life, from supporter of prior group leaders to peaceful leader in his own right.”
All five EAC countries’ prosecutor generals are in Kigali for a yearly meeting where
Mutangana reminded them that Rwanda still has a problem of Genocide suspects still at large, many of who are in the EAC countries.
“They are many suspects especially in Uganda and Kenya. These countries differ from European countries that have every individual’s identity on their land, it is easy to be tracked and arrested from there. But in our region, a person moves from one country to another without travel documents,” he said.
According to Mutangana, the meeting is an opportunity to remind and request the top justice officials in EAC to extradite genocide suspects and face justice.
“We remind them to extradite the suspects t o Rwanda or prosecute them in the host countries. After this meeting, we hope that something will be done, it might be not done today or tomorrow, but something will have to be done,” he said.
The vice-prosecutor general in Tanzania, Ayub Mwenda said that his country is ready to arrest any suspected perpetrator.
“We usually extradite suspects to face justice in their countries or we take them to our courts,” he said.
The Rwanda’s prosecution has sent 600 arrest warrants for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi suspects in 32 countries from Africa, Europe, North-America, Canada and New Zealand.
Twelve Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been awarded with a grant of Rwf300 million, Rwf25 million each, to continue with the implementation of programmes that are intended to transform people’s livelihoods.
In line with the seven years government programme, the government of Rwanda through Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), jointly with the One UN via UNDP initiated the joint programme on strengthening CSOs for responsive and accountable governance in Rwanda to contribute to the overall implementation of the Second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS2)
The benefitting CSOs had earlier submitted their project proposals in four areas; family cohesion, agriculture, environment protection and legal aid.
Speaking at the awarding ceremony, RGB chief executive officer, Professor Anastase Shyaka said that different ministries and institutions supported the exercise as it complements their programmes.
Speaking during the conference, the REMA Director General, Eng. Collette Ruhamya said that poor waste management causes pollution in all environmental spheres including solid contamination and pollution in water bodies among others.
“If we continue with improper management of wastes, how shall we have cities that support human settlement?” she challenged engineers.
“If we continue to burn our waste in open air, how are we going to combat climate change?” she said adding that countries need to manage wastes in an integrated manner and adopt the practices of reduce, reuse, recycle and recover practices.
“Engineers must advise their clients on green designing because they understand the benefits of going for sustainable and green designs” she said.
“In Rwanda, we have encouraged the recycling of different wastes. For example we have metal,plastic and e-waste recycling plants” she said.
She said that Rwanda’s e-waste recycling company is funded by Rwanda Green Fund and that the government is in the process of establishing a waste-to-charcoal plant.
Ruhamya appreciated Kenya’move to ban the use of plastic bags and called upon other countries to follow suit.
“Rwanda banned plastic bags use. I thank Kenya for picking the same practice and pray that other countries also borrow the same lesson.” she said.
Mutangana was elected yesterday during the 6th annual general meeting of EAAP members.
The four-day meeting brought together top prosecutors from Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Rwanda
In the meeting, Biswalo Mganga from Tanzania was elected the vice-president and Mike Chibita from Uganda the Secretary General.
Also Rwandan Claudine Dushimimana has been elected on the executive committee of EAAP.
Mutangana has 18 years of experience in prosecution. He had been a prosecutor in former Cyangugu, Umutara and City of Kigali Prefectures. He holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminology from Groningen University in Netherlands.
