{Bralirwa is excited to inform you about the launch of a Limited Edition bottle called ‘’The Cities’’. The launch will be accompanied by a communication campaign which aims to show the link between Heineken and Cities across the world. Through this campaign we intend to encourage our Man of the World, the Rwandan Heineken consumer, to go out, discover, experience and enjoy what Kigali City has to offer, all while enjoying Heineken responsibly.}
The Limited edition will be in the market from September till October, the Cities Bottle will replace all our regular Heineken 33cl bottles. The price of the Cities bottle will remain the same as the regular Heineken 33cl.
The limited edition shows once again how Heineken manages to combine quality with innovation.
The Cities bottle comes with 6 different labels of 6 cities; Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, Rio de Janerio or Shangai. Each one a world capital and each one as iconic as the Heineken premium beer it contains. Also making them must-have collectables for many consumers.
The Cities Campaign is proudly brought to you by Heineken, enjoy responsibly.
{Microsoft Corporation has taken up platinum sponsorship for this year’s edition of DEMO Africa that will be held later in the month, in Lagos, Nigeria. }
According to DEMO Africa Project and Communications Manager Evelyene Wangui, the company will participate in the event for the third time under the Microsoft 4Afrika initiative.
The sponsorship will see Microsoft offer financial support for the event where 40 tech based start-ups from across Africa are expected to pitch to potential investors.
Wangui told the Kenyan media Tuesday that DEMO Africa recently released the names of the final 40 start-ups that will launch on the DEMO Africa stage where Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Egypt will have the highest representation.
Commenting on the collaboration, Fernando de Sousa, GM Africa Initiatives at Microsoft, underscored the importance of innovations to the growing African economy.
“DEMO Africa has given a platform for investors to realize the enormous potential amongst African youth showcased through startups,’ he said.
‘As an organization that has operated in the continent for over 20 years, Microsoft believes Africa’s economic take-off to long-term growth prospects will be determined by the investment decisions we make today in support of youth initiatives,” he added.
Welcoming the support, DEMO Africa’s Executive Producer, Harry Hare commented that investor’s confidence plays a very critical role in motivating start-up entrepreneurs.
‘We acknowledge the support of Microsoft and their efforts in uplifting young entrepreneurs in Africa. It’s this kind of support that assures us that the future is indeed bright for Africa and at DEMO Africa we are keen to make our contribution to this success.
As has been witnessed in the past, the September event is expected to attract top investors, tech acquisition specialists, IT buyers and media from across the region and around the globe.
A human being is one of tritons of living organisms that inhabit the earth. As a senior living organism which governs and takes control over the nature, human being is associated with most of physical and biological changes that appear on the earth.
Normally, all living organisms need food to grow, reproduce, move, and perform different metabolic activities that enable it to stay healthy. A living organism gets food from the nature. Once the nature is stressed, the life on earth is stressed too. Sometimes, a human being as an umbrella and reasonable organism doesn’t remember that he is responsible for the protection of the nature against different kinds of stress. Yet, some of his activities are the main source of this stress.
The main stress the nature is facing today is the climate change. Such situation results in developing countries to become highly vulnerable. To illustrate, changing rainfall patterns contribute to frequent and severe flooding in Rwanda to a higher extent. Elsewhere, there is a theoretical link between climate change and rainfall even though it’s hard to find clear evidence as the record of measurements is short and doesn’t cover all parts of the country.
The field of agriculture is severely compromised due to loss of land, shorter growing seasons, and more uncertainty about what and when to plant. For example, in Northern Province of Rwanda, in Musanze district, closer to the road ahead to Rubavu near Byangabo center, there is a severe flooding in a valley which was formerly a very productive soil for the neighboring population in terms of food crops.
When you reach that area, you can realize that it is a dry valley which is now becoming a swamp, as the local people revealed that this water appears there since three years. This may be supported by rainfall data collected by the national center of meteorology in areas covered by Busogo station, which shows that there has been an increase of the annual precipitation five years ago compared to the years before 2008. The water covers the land after each heavy rainfall because of much water running from slopes of the surrounding hills. This flood destroys all agricultural activities in the valley, because the water level can reach 50 cm above the soil.
Would you mind taking responsibility to fight against climate change? Is it worth acting? How do you expect the nature to be for example in the next 50 years? Government officers, business owners, people from finance institution and civil society will be gathered at the UN head office on this September 23 to the Climate Summit to share their commitments and fought that can slow down the rate of climate change. What would be your message if you selected to be on the panel to this summit? What do you think your leaders should emphasize on, on behalf of their people?
I think it is a concern of all of us to work hand in hand, both public and private institutions, business owners and non-governmental organizations to adapt to and mitigate the climate change so that we can continue to develop and lift ourselves out of poverty and ensure the food security. It is important to advocate for fight against climate change and any of its factors. It is therefore imperative to advocate for the reduction of green house gases emission, removal or reduction of human activities that exert any kind of stress to the nature (like deforestation, illegal mining, etc), forestation and reforestation by promoting the spirit of “cut one and plant three”, etc. Family planning is something we cannot forget as we are talking about climate change mitigation, only that the more the population increases, the more the nature degrade the reason being that they need too much from the nature to survive; hence the climate change is inevitable.
We should transmit our intact nature to the next generation if we are unable to make it better.
Let us act locally, and impact globally.
{Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday 9th September at State House in Dar received credentials of Ambassador of Rwanda to Tanzania, Eugene Segore Kayihura.}
Last Month Kikwete appointed Ali Idi Siwa to stand for the interests of his country in Rwanda.
Kikwete also received credentials of Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania Hanne Maria Kaarstad.
{President Kagame has yesterday visited residents of Gasabo District, where he addressed and interacted with thousands of residents in Gikomero Sector, who gathered to meet him from different sectors of the District.}
In his address, President Kagame said what has been achieved in the District shows they voted for their leaders wisely.
“What happened in the past is behind us, we should look forward and work to ensure that the generations to come live a better life than us. We are on the right track, but the journey is still long, and we can only achieve what we want if we work together in unity.”
President Kagame urged the residents of Gasabo to form and join cooperatives so that progress can be achieved quickly.
“Our country is small and we cannot afford disunity, we have to put our resources together for our common good and self reliance. We cannot be people who expect to depend on others without an end. Assistance has no guarantee; the one offering assistance can decide to stop without warning.”
President Kagame pointed out that if Rwandans want to achieve self reliance, they should work hard so that they can stop needing assistance soon.
“This is the reason we go out every month to perform Umuganda. We aim to achieve our goals by using our own efforts. We should not allow any distractions aimed at stalling us, we should focus on working to improve our lives and not pay attention to what does not benefit us.”
President Kagame also availed time to interact with residents of Gasabo District, who had an opportunity to ask questions, present outstanding issues, give recommendations for development and thank the President and the Government for delivering services that have helped them ameliorate their lives.
The Mayor of Gasabo District, Willy Ndizeye said Gikomero was one of the poorest sectors in Gasabo District, but thanks to Government programs like VUP, this is no longer the case, and the sector now has electricity, water and a good transport network due to a good road, and residents have are involved in income generating activities.
{USAID Officials have organized an Education Press Tour which focused on different projects which include Akazi Kanoze, a 7-Year, $12.5 million project implemented by Education Development Center and a Visit to Ngenda Primary School where a Literacy, Language, and Learning (L3) project is being implemented.}
Note: Akazi Kanoze Project Provides Youth with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to succeed as job seekers or Job creators through relevant connection to life and work readiness training. It also build capacity of local institution to better prepare Youth for work and better connect them to personal development, employment and self-employment opportunities.
And L3 Project aims to strengthen the quality of teaching at the Primary Level through the development of teacher and student performance standards and the implantation of a video/audio supported literacy and numeracy in services and pre-service teacher training program.
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{Uganda together with Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have joined efforts to strengthen security around Virunga Forest Park.}
The three countries are holding a two-day Greater Virunga Trans boundary Collaboration (GVTC) meeting in Kampala, to come up with joint measures to strengthen the security around the protected area across borders.
While opening the meeting at Mosa Courts, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) boss, Andrew Seguya said the issue of security is paramount to safe guard the Wildlife in the forest park.
“The issue of insecurity in DRC led to death of many elephants but on the Ugandan side poaching has greatly reduced. We are working with communities around the park and providing other alternative livelihoods to fight poaching,” he noted.
He said the strategy has yielded a lot of benefits and boosted tourism.
Seguya noted that the end of war in DRC has reduced the problem of poaching.
Investigations by UWA show that a total of 800 ivory tusks that were intercepted at Entebbe Airport were not from DRC, but were from Tanzania.
Seguya said investigations also indicate that the Rhino horns were also coming from South African.
The Executive Secretary, GVTC, Wilson Kajwengye said there is need to strengthen on the current governing laws to punish poachers when arrested.
“As the region we should strengthen the legislation to curb those who kill the animals and cutting down the forest park,” he said.
The meeting is also discussing sharing of revenue especially on Gorilla families
{In order to execute the recent decision of the cabinet meeting, the Rural Settlement Task Force which was based in the Ministry of Local Government has been transferred to Rwanda Housing Authority overseen by the Ministry of Infrastructure.}
The handover ceremony took place on Tuesday September 9th, 2014 between the Permanent Secretary of MINALOC, Mr Vincent Munyeshyaka and Permanent Secretary of MININFRA, Mr Rwakunda Christian.
The chairman of Rural Settlement Task Force, Mr Kampayana Augustin, who presented the achievement since 2009, declared that their mandate is to insure improved human facilities and sustainable economic growth through integrated viable planned settlements.
Mr Kampayana said: “In EDPRS 1&2, Imidugudu were redesigned in a sector-wide approach and in 2008 it was on 22% but in August 2014, households living in grouped settlements had increased to 81%.”
Mr Munyeshyaka who handed over the employees and materials to MININFRA said: “As MINALOC, we will continue to ensure our partnership and raise it whenever necessary.”
The Permanent Secretary of MININFRA, Mr Rwakunda Christian who received Rural Settlement Task Force as new team, welcomed them and congratulated their hard achievements.
He said: “After Genocide Against Tutsi, we have an evidently achieved something remarkable in housing and infrastructures, but there are still some gaps scientifically. I hope with this new team within Rwanda Housing Authority which has a hard mission, we will be able to effectively handle both urban and rural issues.”
The report indicates that under the main mission of supporting accelerated rural transformation by increasing number of households settling in selected Imidugudu sites, since 2010 through Nyakatsi Eradication, 124,671 households countrywide were relocated from grass thatched houses and resettled in Imidugudu settlement sites by RSTF.
In 2012 Rural Settlement Task Force contributed to conducting awareness and mobilization for households to relocate from high risk zones and resettle in Imidugudu settlement sites. In August, 2014 a total of 39,856 out of 47,474 households have been relocated from the high risk zones representing 83% progress, while 7,618 Households remain to be resettled.
The ceremony was also attended by the Director General of RHA, Mrs Esther Mutamba.
{The Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin has sent a telegram of condolences on behalf of the Pope Francis to Archbishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura, Burundi, following the killing of three Italian Xaverian Missionary sisters on Sunday, 7th September, in their convent in Kamenge, North of the capital, Bujumbura.}
The three were found gruesomely murdered in their convent in Kamenge after what is suspected to have been an armed robbery.
Chimpreports says Two Suspects have been held for questioning by the Burundian Police.
Cardinal Parolin wrote, “His Holiness Pope Francis has learned with great sadness of the murder of three nuns, Sister Bernadetta Bogiann, Sister Lucia Pulici and Sister Olga Raschietti, who were in the pastoral service of the parish of Saint Guido Maria Conforti in Bujumbura.”
{Crown Industries Ltd, East Africa’s leading paint manufacturer, is eyeing to pump $2.2million in Rwanda in an ambitious bid to expand its regional market. It also targets the DR Congo market. The company that set its foot print in Rwanda in March this year, opened a distribution channel in Kigali and hopes to invest the money in the next five years with plans to set up a hi-tech industry in the next three years.}
“We have finished setting our footprint, we are opening our showroom, the first in Rwanda before the year ends,” said Vipul Kapur, the marketing manager for Crown Paints Rwanda, in an interview with the Independent in Kigali. T
he company now joins Uganda’s Sadolin Paints and local manufacturers Ameki Color, something market observers say may increase competition and thus lower prices for consumers as they (manufacturers) fight for market share.
