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{President Paul Kagame will, in this week, head to Pretoria to pay respect to late Nelson Mandela who died on 5 Dec, 2013.
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The Office of the President via its Twitter account revealed that President Kagame will pay respect to the late Mandela in Pretoria this week before the burial.

Yesterday Tens of thousands of South Africans and scores of world leaders gathered in Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela at a memorial service.

Rwanda was represented by the Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi together with RPF’s Secretary General.

{Police has awarded Thirteen Rwandan police women who came back from a peace mission in Ivory Coast. }

According to information from the Rwanda police website Chief Inspector of police Marie José Zaninka these police women acquired much experience from the Mission and are going to exploit it to others.

She also thanked the Rwanda police force which managed to send them on a peace mission in Ivory Coast.

The inspector general of police (IGP) Emmanuel Gasana also thanked their performance while representing the country on a peace mission.

He also asked them to exploit the experience they gained from the peace mission in their daily work.

The Rwandan police women have been on a UN peace mission in Ivory Coast for a period of one year.

Currently 484 Rwanda police officers are on a UN peace mission in different countries around the world including Haiti, Sudan, South Sudan, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast and Abyei the region located between Sudan and South Sudan.

{{Gasabo-Kinyinya}}: {A woman identified as Mukandoli Consolée poured boiled on her husband, Claude Mutabazi, after an argument that arose between them.}

The incidence took place on 9 December 2013 in Kagugu Cell, Kinyinya Sector in Gasabo District.

Feeling upset, the woman took his pot of boiled water to over 100 degrees and poured on her husband.

Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary of Kagugu Cell told this site that there is an entire household education program against the conflicts that is being conducted across the cell.

The woman was immediately arrested by the police while the man was rushed to the hospital of Kibagabaga.

{United Nations peacekeeping troops in Democratic Republic of Congo have launched operations against a Rwandan Hutu rebel militia operating along Congo’s border with Rwanda, the U.N. commander said on Tuesday.
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Defeating Rwandan FDLR insurgents, who have long been used as a pretext for intervention in Congo by neighboring Rwanda, is seen as the next step in ending decades of conflict along the veteran foes’ shared border, weeks after the Congolese Tutsi-led M23 rebels were defeated.

General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz said on U.N.-backed Radio Okapi on Tuesday that his troops would attack the FDLR rebel forces in a bid to secure a road between the eastern Congolese towns of Kitchanga and Pinga.

“Everyone knows that the presence of armed groups along the border creates problems with the neighboring states,” he said.

In November, U.N. soldiers in a newly formed intervention brigade with a robust mandate supported the Congolese army with artillery and attack helicopters in defeating the M23 rebellion, the most serious in Congo in the last decade.

The brigade, made up of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, will also lead operations against the FDLR, which has launched sporadic attacks in Rwanda in an attempt to destabilize Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s government.

“We have already intensified patrols and observation along the border and we are planning operations against all rebel positions along the frontier,” Dos Santos Cruz added.

At the start of December, the U.N. also unveiled surveillance drones that it will use to monitor the volatile border between Congo and its neighbors Rwanda and Uganda.

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{{Kigali, December 9, 2013}} – {Tigo Rwanda the most innovative telecommunications company in Rwanda last week, marked the international day of persons with disabilities by supporting Gatagara School. This a Centre for children with disabilities based in Huye district.
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Through a partnership with the National Council for Person with Disabilities (NCPD), Tigo donated digital equipment; Internet connectivity and healthcare plans for over 150 children.

Gatagara School, located in the Southern province of Rwanda, was founded in 1960 with the aim to ensure the rights to education and healthcare for children with disabilities are respected.

Tigo’s donation to Gatagara includes five computers with a one-year Internet connectivity, healthcare plans for a period of one year to fully cover over one hundred and fifty children, twenty cartons of text and story books, twenty boxes of chalks, fifteen blackboards plus lots of playthings.

Speaking at the event held in Huye Town, Manager, Corporate Responsibilities at Tigo Rwanda, Christine Mukundwa said Tigo was participating in the day as part of its commitment to improving the lives of Rwandans, especially those with special needs. “Tigo is a responsible company and we are happy to partner with organizations sharing a similar philosophy in this noble cause.” she said.

“At Tigo we believe that Introducing children with disabilities to the digital lifestyle and ensuring their rights to decent healthcare will go a long way to reduce the level of discrimination these kids face on a daily basis.” She added.

The event gathered over two thousand people from all over the country.