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  • Rwf 84.4 million raised for Masaka cardio therapy facility

    {Over Rwf 84.4m has been so far raised for the construction of a cardio therapy facility to be built next year at Masaka, Kicukiro district. The facility will carry out the major functions of medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology.}

    The idea of constructing the hospital was conceived way back in 2014, when heart disease experts from the USA, Team Heart, witnessed the inconveniences regarding the follow up of patients, where over 5000 were examined, but only 150 received the treatment.

    By then Team Heart proposed to the Ministry of Health to build the facility but delayed by insufficient resources. It will be built at a cost of US$5.6m.

    Apparently, the government of Rwanda secured a plot where the hospital would be built in Masaka, Kicukiro District.

    Team Heart has raised the required funds, and the follow up on the construction will commence in 2018.

    In May 2016, The First Lady Jeannette Kagame attended one of the fundraising functions in Boston, USA.

    The representative of Team Heart in Rwanda, Jeanne Umuhire, has told IGIHE that so far US$ 100,000 (Rwf 84,409,000m) has been raised.

    Muhire says that, other than the amount required for construction, US$10m is also required to buy medical equipment to be used in the hospital.

  • Niger President to attend President Paul Kagame’s swearing in

    {Although the date for President Kagame’ s Oath is not yet officially established, the Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou has confirmed his attendance for the swearing in Ceremony of Presidential Elect- Paul Kagame. }

    National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced the final results at 98% of the electoral vote. Since the announcement, different leaders have written to President Kagame, congratulating him on his re-election.

    Through his twitter handle, towards the end of this week, Niger’s President Issoufou congratulated him for the victory, confirming his presence during the presidential Oath.

    He said, “As well I am happy about Brother Paul Kagame’s good victory, thereby confirming my presence during his next Oath.”

    President Kagame thanked Issouffou, and welcomed him, saying “Thank you Brother Issoufou Mahamadou. You are welcome to Kigali.”

    A 66-year-old Issoufou last visited Rwanda in May for the Transform Africa Summit.
    Rwanda’s constitution stipulates that the President elect must be sworn not later than 30 days after his election, and the oath must be administered by the President of the Supreme Court.

    When President Kagame was taking an oath of office in 2010, over 10 Heads of State attended including; Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Joseph Kabila of DR Congo, the former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaore, Ali Ben Gabon Francois Bozize, the former president of Central Africa, Thomas YayiBoni Benin, Good Luck Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria, the former president of Kenya Mwai Kibaki, Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, the late Bingu wa Mutharika Malawi, Late Rupiah Banda Zambia, IdrissDeby of Chad and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia the late MelesZenawi and Ellen –Sirleaf of Sierra Leone.

  • Egyptian President to visit Rwanda

    {The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi is expected in Kigali as part on a two day working visit to Rwanda according to the country’s Ambassador to Rwanda, Namira Negm.}

    While in Rwanda, Al Sissi will meet with Rwandan President Paul Kagame for bilateral talks, before continuing his journey to other African countries, including Tanzania, Gabon, and Chad. As per the announcement aired on Nile Television, Sissi’s visit is intended to enhance Egypt’s stature in black inhabited Africa, politically, economically and other interests which are beneficial to those countries.

    President Sissi first visited Rwanda during the 27th African Union General Assembly which convened in Kigali in July 2016.

    During his visit, Sissi explained to President Kagame about the urgency of his country’s wish to cement sustainable cooperation with African countries, which is hinged onto respect and free from interfering within other countries internal affairs.

    President Sissi will be the first President to be hosted by President Kagame after re-election during the recently concluded Presidential elections.

    Between 13-14 March 2015, President Sissi invited President Paul Kagame for Egypt’s Economic Development Forum that was attended by over 3000 international investors.
    In March 2015, the government signed an agreement Metito company to develop bulk water supply plant to serve the country’s potable water requirements with over 40,000cubic meters of water daily which will solve water scarcity problems in Kigali City and Bugesera.

  • Museveni congratulates Kagame

    {Ugandan Head of State Yoweri Museveni has congratulated President Paul Kagame after his re-election in a special message dated on August 8th.}

    Museveni expressed his delight and that of his country, that Kagame who he enjoys a cordial relationship with had been re-elected to a third term in office.

    “It gives me a great pleasure on this occasion of your victory to extend to you, on my own behalf our very warm congratulations on your re-election as President of the Republic of Rwanda. I had already congratulated you by phone on the 6th August 2017.”

    Museveni wrote in an official letter that; “Excellence, your re-election for a third term and landslide victory reflects the voice and will of the people of Rwanda. It is a clear testimony of the trust, confidence and hope they have in you and your leadership.

    “By you winning 99% of the votes counted, the people of Rwanda have spoken! I also congratulate them on their active participation in the electoral process and the peaceful conclusion of the elections.”

    Museveni further thanked his counterpart for the hard work done in the last two decades to rebuild Rwanda into a stable nation and how it has continued to register strong economic growth and development.

  • Woman arrested with USD3000 counterfeit bills

    {Police in Huye District have arrested a Ugandan business woman in connection with possession and circulating counterfeit currencies.}

    The suspect identified by Police as Justine Nalwoga, was arrested at Akanyaru border on August 10 as she attempted to exchange the dollars to Burundian francs.

    “She claimed she was traveling from Kenya to Burundi for work but before she could enter Burundi she wanted to exchange the dollars to Burundian francs but the money changers at the border who identified the fake bills immediately alerted the police,” said the Southern Region Police Spokesperson, Inspector of Police (IP) Emmanuel Kayigi.

    He added that Nalwoga had several currencies but the 3,150 dollars were fake.
    Nalwoga is currently held at Nyagisozi police station as police investigations proceed.

    A few days ago Police in Ngororero arrested a 46-year-old man over the same charge. The suspect, Aphrodis Serihamye, was caught red-handed in possession of Rwf14, 000, in the denomination of Rwf2, 000, all counterfeit.

    Article 604 of the Rwandan penal code states that using or circulating, by any means, items misrepresented as money or negotiable instruments shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to five years and a fine of two to ten times the value of the counterfeit money.

  • Uhuru Kenyatta defeats Raila Odinga

    {The IEBC in Kenya has declared Uhuru Kenyata the duly elected president of the country. lUhuru Kenyatta, in office since 2013, took 54.3% of votes, ahead of his rival Raila Odinga, with 44.7%.}

    After the announcement, Mr Kenyatta called for unity, telling opposition supporters: “I reach out to you… We are all citizens of the same republic”.

    But the opposition rejected the results even before they were declared, calling the process a “charade”.

    However, it has been endorsed by international observers. Mr Kenyatta said they had ensured a “free, fair and credible election”.

    Angry protests have started in the city of Kisumu – an opposition stronghold – and in various slums of the capital Nairobi, including Kibera, where businesses are said to have been attacked.

    Police, who were deployed in anticipation of the results, have fired tear gas in several locations.

    Fires have been lit by protesters on a road in the heart of Kisumu, a BBC reporter at the scene says. Gunshots have also been heard.

    Earlier, Mr Odinga’s supporters said he had won, and published their own figures. The electoral commission said this was “illegal and premature”, and said basic mathematical errors had been made.

    Many observers fear a repeat of the violence after the disputed election 10 years ago, when more than 1,100 Kenyans died and 600,000 were displaced.a

    According to reports from Kenya, Mr Kenyatta has urged peace. “We have seen the results of political violence. And I am certain that there is no single Kenyan who would wish for us to go back to this,” he said.

    Ahead of the results, Mr Odinga had called on his supporters to remain calm, but added that he did not control anyone, and that “people want to see justice”.

  • Business woman Uwamwezi grieves over son’s mysterious death

    {Kigali Business woman, Josephine Uwamwezi nicknamed ‘Nyiragasazi’ has deeply been afflicted by mysterious death of her 25-year-old son, Fabrice Felice Ranghella, after 11 years of being denied access to him.}

    Ranghella is the last born among three children that Uwamwezi produced with her former Italian husband, Joseph Ranghella. The two were legally married but divorced in 2006.

    Uwamwezi tells IGIHE that after divorce in 2006, she left home in Kacyiru with two sons, Fabrice Ranghella and Charles Ranghella because their sister was at school in England. At the time, Fabrice Ranghella was 14 while his elder brother was 18 years old.

    Uwamwezi felt missing her son Fabrice and went to visit him at Green Hills Academy towards end of 2006 but the son got scared by seeing her, refused to greet her and phoned the father to inform him that his mother was at school. She left the school so afflicted considering that the father had instilled hatred into the son against the mother.
    Shedding tears with a lot of sorrow, Uwamwezi says she had never seen the son since he refused to greet her in 2006 until she was informed of his death in Italy on July 6, 2017.

    She says that, as a worker in road construction, her former husband kept moving from place to place where she tried several times to visit him and children but the husband’s lawyer and gatekeepers always chased her away without meeting any of her children.

    When she heard of her son’s death, Uwamwezi rushed to Italy but hesitated to go to her former husband’s residence because she knew he was not going to welcome her. She went straight to husband’s younger brother but, unfortunately, her former husband was there to open door when she knocked.

    The man roughly told her to find the son’s body at police station without, even, clarifying which police station among many in Rome city, Italy. Uwamwezi left that residence without knowing where she could find her son’s body but later learned her son Fabrice had committed suicide.

    She wished to see her son’s face at least the last but she kept learning of his death’s circumstances from her daughter, Barbara Ranghella who was able to talk with her father and share information with the mother.

    “All the days before the burial on July 11, I kept pleading with doctors to show me my son’s body but they refused, telling me it was no use showing me the body which was torn apart because of autopsy. I got to know that the father had told hospital workers to not let me look at my son’s body,” says Uwamwezi.

    She adds that after her insistence for several times, the worker in charge of mortuary had pity on her and showed her the son’s face before wrapping the body in coffin.

    “When I saw his face, I felt soothed because I had not believed that my Fabrice was really dead,” she says.

    As a mother, Uwamwezi is still afflicted by the death of the son but especially because the death was not announced to inform the deceased’s friends like former classmates at Green Hills Academy and others in Kampala, Uganda where Fabrice also attended school.

    She says, “With great sorrow, I would inform friends of my son that he is no more so that they stop looking for him via social media. He has passed away.”

    Though Uwamwezi was told her son died of suicide, the father refused to show her doctor’s proof by allegedly lying to her that autopsy results are yet to be availed yet Uwamwezi is sure it never delays in Europe.

    “I am still afflicted because I think he died of something else other than suicide because his father is not showing me results. He says he has not got them yet but I know the autopsy results are released quickly in Europe but I am waiting,” she says.

    The afflicted mother considers seeking international justice to get her former husband tell her exactly about their son’s death.

    Fabrice Ranghella was born on May 27, 1992, studied at Green Hills Academy, Kigali and in Kampala. He died when he was about to start university.

    Late Fabrice Felice Ranghella
    Joseph Ranghella, father of Fabrice Ranghella and Ex-husband of Josephine Uwamwezi

  • Amavubi Stars upbeat ahead of Uganda Cranes clash

    {CHAN 2018 Qualifiers
    1st Leg, Final Round
    Saturday, 12th August 2017}

    The Rwanda Amavubi Stars arrived in Uganda on Thursday ahead of the CHAN 2018 final round the first leg at St Mary’s Stadium, Kitende.

    It was a delegation of 19 players and 10 officials that touched down at Entebbe International Airport from Kigali.

    They were received by FUFA protocol team led by Richard Nandigobe, ManisoorKimumwe and Uganda Cranes Ex-international Lawrence Kizito.

    Led by their head coach, Antonie Hey, the team players are reported to have looked relaxed as they checked in through the immigration department.

    We are here for a mission and we know we are facing CECAFA’s best.
    They will train at Kisubi Technical playground later on Thursday evening.

    Remarkably missing on the team is Innocent Nshuti, who has gradually come of age in the recent times. We shall get the positive result that we came for.
    According to FERWAFA, the visiting delegation is accommodated at the lavish lake side Imperial Resort Hotel in Entebbe.

    The mandatory last training will be conducted on Friday at the St Mary’s Stadium, Kitende the match day venue.

    The return leg will take place next week in Kigali with the aggregate winner over the two legs qualifying for the final tournament in Kenya.

    {{Rwanda Team in Uganda}}

    Goal Keepers: Eric Ndayishimye – Rayon Sports (Suspended), Marcel Nzarora (Police FC), Yves Kimenyi (APR FC)

    Defenders: AimableNsabimana (APR FC), AimableRucogoza (Bugesera FC), Thierry Manzi (Rayon Sports), SoterKayumba (AS Kigali), Latif Bishira (AS Kigali)
    Midfielders: Olivier Niyonzima (Rayon Sports), YannickMukunzi (APR FC) DjihadBizimana (APR FC), Kevin Muhire (Rayon Sports), Emmanuel Imanishimwe (APR FC), Jean Marie VianneyMuvandimwe (Police FC), Eric Iradukunda (AS Kigali), Dominique SavioNshuti (AS Kigali)

    Strikers: BarnabeMubumbyi (AS Kigali), AmranNshimiyimana (APR FC), AbeddyBiramahire (Police FC)

  • Sri Lankan army lauds RDF performance

    {A delegation of 16 officers from the Sri Lankan army has applauded the activities of the Rwanda Defense Forces in rebuilding the country and uniting Rwandans and vowed to emulate the same lessons in their own country. }

    The delegation arrived in Kigali on August 9 and expects to leave on August 22 after ending their tour of different districts where the RDF has projects.

    Today the officers visited Kigali Genocide Memorial located on the Gisozi hillside and the Ministry of Defense in Kimihurura where they were received by the Army Chief of Staff Brig.Gen Charles Karamba. They were briefed on the mandate of the RDF by Brig.Gen Chris Murari in charge of training.

    Col. GMCKB Ekanayake the leader of the delegation said that RDF activities are showing a role played in the rebuilding the country which had been devastated by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

    “The Rwandan army is doing a good job contributing to rebuilding the country. It is good for us to learn from this country because we are a country also rebuilding and reconciling. We have hope that the lessons we learn from here will be useful to our country; it’s unique experience to us.”

    Rwanda and Sri Lanka share cordial military relations because the two countries have almost a similar history.

    “Rwanda and Sri Lanka share a past defined by conflicts and we can see that the country is fast in rebuilding itself. We, therefore, wish to learn from that because you are eradicating for that past fast.”

    Brig.Gen Safari Ferdinand, head of planning in Mod noted that the two countries’ relations are good and apart from the delegation, there are other 20 Sri Lankan learning those lessons and engineering in Rwanda.

    “They came to learn from our experience to train their own military, “he said.

  • Rwanda Amavubi slips in latest FIFA Rankings

    {{Rwanda Amavubi has slipped by eight places in the latest FIFA World Rankings released on Thursday.}}

    Rwanda, who is Uganda’s opponents in the CHAN 2018 qualifiers climbs from 111 to 119 on 260 points globally.

    The Central and East Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) giants now improved from 74th to 73rd with 464 points.

    During the past month, Rwanda qualified for the final round of the CHAN 2018 Qualifiers where they face Uganda this Saturday away at St. Mary’s Stadium Kitende. This followed a 1-1 aggregate result against Tanzania over the two legs.

    Meanwhile, Uganda Cranes has climbed by one slot in the latest FIFA World Rankings. The Central and East Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) giants now improve from 74th to 73rd with 464 points.

    Uganda Cranes opponents in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Egypt have dropped by one slot from. Other CECAFA countries: Tanzania slips by 6 places to 120th, the same position as Ethiopia who climbed a massive 16 places.

    Burundi drops 11 places to 132nd. Sudan improves by 12 places to 152nd. After losing 5-1 to Uganda Cranes in the return of the CHAN 2018 qualifiers, South Sudan falls by 5 places to 148th. Djibouti drops by 7 places to 192nd. Horn of Africa nations, Eritrea and Somalia are joint 206th.

    In the meantime, Brazil returns to the summit as the best footballing country on the globe, replacing Germany. The next ranking will be released in at the onset of September.