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{Three men have been arrested over the death of 53-year old Niringiyimana Venant who had been demobilized as a soldier in the Rwanda defense force (RDF).}

It’s said that the victim was killed on 12th January 2014 after his head was cut off and left beside the corpse.

His body was found near tea plantations in Rugono village in Mata sector by farmers who work at the tea plantations.

Speaking to IGIHE, the police spokesperson of the Eastern province CSP Hubert Gashagaza based on investigations by the police so far, 3 people are under police arrest for questioning following the death of Niringiyimana venant.

According to the source on the ground, this area has been characterized by continuous brutal killings of several innocent people since last year.

Gashagaza added that through coordination between the public and the Rwanda national police, solutions for this problem have been studied and will be put forward very soon.

Nirigiyimana has been currently working as a local security officer, after he was demobilized from the Rwanda defence force (RDF)

{President Paul Kagame has arrived in Luanda capital of Angola to attend ICGLR Heads of State Summit.
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The fifth Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) will be held at the Talatona Conference Center in Luanda on 15 January 2014.

The theme of the summit is: “Let’s promote peace, security, stability and development in the Great Lakes Region.”

The ICGLR includes twelve states, namely Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR ) , Congo , Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ), Kenya, Uganda , Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia signatories of the Pact on peace, security, stability and development in the Great Lakes Region.

{{Kigali, January 14, 2013}}– {Today, the U.S. government-sponsored Cracking the Nut: Improving Rural Livelihoods and Food Security conference began at Serena Hotel in Kigali. The global conference, which runs through tomorrow, brings together experts from the private sector, NGOs, government, and academia to tackle the challenges of food security, nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods for Africa’s rural poor. }

The conference has been held in the United States and Europe in recent years, and this marks the first time the conference has been held on the continent. The conference was organized by Global Communities’ USAID Ejo Heza project, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Rwanda Development Board and AZMJ, a global international development consulting firm.

USAID Rwanda Mission Director, Peter Malnak; the Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza; and Guest of Honor, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Agnes Kalibata officially opened the conference, stressing the importance of agriculture and food security to Rwanda and Africa at-large. The conference offers a unique opportunity to discuss how governments, donors, investors and development organizations can support progress in rural and agricultural market development.

“USAID sees the Cracking the Nut conference as an invaluable opportunity to spark collaboration and innovation amongst diverse stakeholders to address food security, nutrition, and the financial well-being of those in Africa’s rural areas” said Mr. Malnak. “These issues demand immediate and meaningful attention as they have the power to greatly affect the continent’s development trajectory. We’re incredibly excited that the next stages of thinking and planning are happening this week here in Kigali.”

The formal portion of the conference includes a wide variety of plenary and small group sessions surrounding three main themes: reducing costs and risks of serving rural clients; preparing for sustainability of future livelihoods; and enticing investors to key agricultural value chains. The sessions will be led by local and international experts from organizations including: KCB Bank Rwanda, UK Department for International Development, ACDI/VOCA, Land O’Lakes, and Starbucks.

In addition, many participants began the week by travelling around the country on site visits and activities highlighting the work of some of the sponsoring organizations. These visits included Global Communities’ integrated development approach under its USAID Ejo Heza project; Catholic Relief Service’s group lending programs; sustainable coffee production “from farm to cup” with Bourbon Coffee and coffee trader KZ Noir; and investor match-making sponsored by RDB.

The conference will close Jan. 15 with remarks by Rwanda’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. François Kanimba.

{ Residents of Rugando village in Kimihurura sector are seeking for support over dust pollution that is caused by Lorries working on the Kigali convention center building which is still under construction.}

These residents claim the dust is causing continuous diseases to people particularly children who reside near the road.

“We don’t sleep because of the dust that has conquered our area and it is caused by Lorries that passby while at work on the Kigali city convention center. Said Hakizimana Evode

Speaking to IGIHE the executive secretary of Rugando sector Mrs Muhongayire Angelique confirmed the issue was addressed to the areas responsible and very soon it will be settled.

{In form of celebrating a new-year 2014 in Seoul, the leading telecommunication company in South Korea, KT, (Korea telecom) hosted Rwandan students to celebrate the beginning of the year 2014 with some of KT company officials.}

Among the main aims of hosting the Rwandan students was to share ideas, as so far TK has invested over 140 million dollars in broad band around the whole country.

While addressing students the president of Global and Enterprise Group in Korea, Hongjin Kim reminded them about the relationship the two countries share interms of historical background e.g. wars, genocide.

He also reminded students to concentrate on their studies in order to exploit knowledge from acquired to the development of their country (Rwanda)

According to the representative the Rwanda students association in Korea, he thanked the Korea telecommunication company (KT) for bringing them together to discuss and share ideas about development.

Apart from discussions that took place, Rwandan students and KT officials gathered together by sharing drinks and some of the group that appeared at OLLEH SQUARE included Rock band.

Lastly, the CEO of Korea Telecommunication Company accepted a paid internship to Rwandan students with Korea Telecommunication Company.

South Korea is a country developed in-terms of technology through high speed broad band and mobile telecommunication which will support Rwanda to improve on employees knowledge of Rwandans through technology.

After rumors of death that Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was shot down, across the border in the Eastern Congo, a time-stamped photograph was tweeted of a UN truck full of people on the back, captioned “MONUSCO in Goma celebrating the death of H.E President Paul Kagame.”

It seemed worth asking the UN mission Chief Martin Kobler to comment on or explain about the photograph, therefore Inner City Press decided to send this, to Kobler and other three MONUSCO spokespeople:
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“Can you please comment on or explain this time-stamped photo, which is being described as a UN truck participating in “celebrations” of the rumor of the Rwandan president’s death. Do you dispute that the photo was taken on January 10? To whom is the UN giving a ride in this truck and in what context?”

{{ After sometime, UN envoy Kobler replied:}}

The question became, now what does Kobler, or those above him in New York, do?
Inner City Press on January 10 went to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, at 11 am in New York, to ask this question:

“in the DRC this morning, after false rumors of Paul Kagame being dead, a MONUSCO truck was photographed in what some call celebrations and Martin Kobler told me is “unacceptable.

“What do you think your UN should do about this, in terms of the perception of impartiality or bias by the UN?”

In reality, the truck was taken over by demonstrators while on a regular mission. The driver was alone and unarmed when the incident happened. MONUSCO condemns this agressivity against its assets.

MONUSCO has launched a full investigation to ascertain the circumstances and the context surrounding the incident.

On January 13, Inner City Press asked Kobler about the two vehicles. He said that both had been taken over, which now seems to mean that the UN drivers remained in the vehicles, carrying the protesters, on the single road from Sake to Munigi, through
Goma.

Kobler said the drivers were unarmed, but even if they were armed, they would not have tried to get the demonstrators off, at least not by using force.

He also said the protesters got off or disappeared out by the Uruguayan peacekeepers’ base by the air port. There is more than a little skepticism. But that is what Kobler said: