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  • President Kagame Receives Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs

    President Kagame Receives Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs

    {{President Paul Kagame today received the Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georges Rebelo Chikoti, who is in Kigali to sign several bilateral agreements with his Rwandan counterpart.}}

    After meeting President Kagame, the Angolan Minister said:

    “I came here as an Envoy of President Dos Santos who is President of the Great Lakes Region. Our two countries share very good relations; my counterpart and I will today sign several agreements between our two countries.

    During this meeting I transmitted greetings from President Dos Santos to President Kagame and expressed the will of President Dos Santos to cooperate with Rwanda, which we are going to define with time.

    We also talked about our region and the importance of stability and the contributions that all our countries can make.

    President Kagame is a committed man to peace in this region and we believe that we can only build a strong region if only all our Heads of State work in the direction of peace.”

    The Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo said:

    “We will be signing with my colleague from Angola three agreements on bilateral cooperation on political consultations. We have already had discussions both in Luanda and Kigali about moving fast on a number of bilateral cooperation deals and in addition to that, Rwanda will be opening an Embassy in Luanda in a couple of months.

    We are following the instructions of our Presidents who have decided that our countries should pick up the good relations and take it up to a level of practical cooperation.

    Rwanda and Angola are collaborating on regional stability and our countries are going to work together to fend off conflict.”

  • Pursue Your Dreams, Singer Teta Tells Rwandan Girls

    Pursue Your Dreams, Singer Teta Tells Rwandan Girls

    {{Teta Diana 22, is an upcoming Rwandan singer, she encourages other Rwandan girls to pursue their dreams but also work hard in order to achieve.

    The talented singer shared her life in an exclusive conversation with Benigne Ishimwe Mugwaneza, a Ni Nyampinga journalist.}}

    {{ Give an insight into your singing career}}

    I started singing when I was only five years and I always listened to Kamaliza and Whitney Houston. My mother used to write poems and theatre plays, and I too followed in the same footsteps. I always sang in the bathroom and listened to the radio as often as I could.

    I began my professional career in 2012, at the Tusker Project Fame competition, before that when I was in high school; I participated in several talent shows. After the Tusker Project Fame completion, I then officially began my music.

    {{How do you manage to stay creative in a male dominated industry?}}

    I believe music is an expression of yourself and what boys and men can do; we girls can do the same. There are many talented and famous female Rwandan musicians, such as Cécile Kayirebwa who are inspiring and still making music, it is indeed true that there are still fewer female musicians in Rwanda compared to men.

    I have always been inspired by Kamaliza, and she was a very talented artist. I encourage as many young Rwandan girls to build their music talents.

    {{Many young girls in Rwanda look up to you, who are your role models and why?}}

    My biggest inspiration is Kamaliza, when we were in exile I used to listen to her cassettes as a child. I am also greatly inspired by Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley. I love how these artists inspire people and the positive messages they spread worldwide.

    {{You sing beautifully, how do you feel when you sing “Ndaje”? }}

    I wrote and sang “Ndaje” with the purpose of healing for all the survivors of the. I was inspired to compose and sing this song as a message of hope to my fellow Rwandans, as a nation we experienced very bad and difficult situations during and after the Genocide.

    “Ndaje” is a message of hope and healing to the Rwandan society at large. I am young but also very aware of the atrocities that happened in Rwanda; however the history of my country concerns me and more so building Rwanda with dignity and self-reliance is my goal. “Ndaje” is one of my contributions to building my country with a message of hope.

    {{What plans do you have for the future (where do you see yourself in the next five years)?}}

    My plans are to work even harder that I am at the moment. I am currently a contestant in the Primus Guma Guma Super Star competition and would in the near future I would like to do collaborations with fellow musicians in the East Africa region, Uganda, Kenya and beyond.

    I would love to one day be able to grow and become a worldwide superstar and one day share a stage with international artists like Lira, Keko and many more divas.

    {{What message do you have for fellow Rwandan girls?}}

    I encourage Rwandan girls to dream big and to work hard at whatever they would like to achieve. Nothing comes easily, and no one will hand you a great or simple life except yourself.

    We should always have dignity, work hard, think about our respective long-term goals and build a bright and rewarding future. I always encourage fellow Rwandan girls to always remember our culture and to respect themselves.

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  • AU Says Conflicts Threaten Food Security

    AU Says Conflicts Threaten Food Security

    {{African countries have been asked to stop conflicts because they affect production resulting into food insecurity on the continent.}}

    The call was made by the commissioner for rural economy and agriculture at the African Union, Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, at a joint meeting of fisheries and agriculture ministers at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.

    “These conflicts should stop. Member countries must stop engaging in useless conflicts. These cannot help us achieve the food security agenda of making sure that Africa is able to produce enough food for its people by 2025,” said Tumusiime.

    Tumusiime was responding to a question raised by a member in the meeting on whether Africa was in position to produce enough food for itself despite the fact that some countries are engaged in war at a time when the rest of the continent is experiencing good rains for crop production.

    “In Somalia for example, a force has been set up to try and reduce conflict. We have a zero tolerance on conflict. The onus is on the leadership in individual countries to ensure that conflict is reduced.

    Since the rest of the continent is peaceful, we want to see them maximize their potential and produce more food that can feed their people and members countries when conflicts come to an end,” added Tumusiime.

    Countries that have consistently provided food to troubled member countries include Uganda that has been sending food to S.Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo among others.

    The joint ministerial conference under the theme “Transforming Africa’s Agriculture for shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods through Harnessing Opportunities for Inclusive, Growth and Sustainable Development” was aimed at discussing and examining the progress of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) implementation.

    NV

  • World’s Oldest Sperm Found in Australia

    World’s Oldest Sperm Found in Australia

    {{The world’s oldest and best-preserved sperm, dating back 17 million years, has been unearthed in Australia, scientists said Wednesday.}}

    The sperm from an ancient species of tiny shrimp was discovered at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site, an area in the far north of the state of Queensland where many extraordinary prehistoric Australian animals have previously been found.

    They include giant, toothed platypuses and flesh-eating kangaroos.

    Mike Archer, from the University of New South Wales School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, who has been excavating at Riversleigh for 35 years, said the sperm was an exciting find.

    “These are the oldest fossilised sperm ever found in the geological record,” he said.

    The sperm are thought to have been longer than the male’s entire body, but were tightly coiled up inside the sexual organs of the fossilised freshwater crustaceans, known as ostracods.

    “We have become used to delightfully unexpected surprises in what turns up there,” he added of Riversleigh.

    “But the discovery of fossil sperm, complete with sperm nuclei, was totally unexpected. It now makes us wonder what other types of extraordinary preservation await discovery in these deposits.”

    A research team led by Archer collected the fossils in 1988 and sent them to John Neil, a specialist ostracod researcher at La Trobe University in Melbourne, who realised they contained fossilised soft tissues.

    He drew this to the attention of several European specialists, including Renate Matzke-Karasz from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and Paul Tafforeau from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

    A microscopic study revealed the fossils contained the preserved internal organs of the ostracods, including their sexual organs.

    Within these were the almost perfectly preserved giant sperm cells, and within them, the nuclei that once contained the animals’ chromosomes and DNA.

    The researchers, whose findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, estimate the sperm are about 1.3 millimetres long, slightly longer than the shrimp.

    Archer said that about 17 million years ago the site where the fossils were found was a cave in the middle of a vast, biologically diverse rainforest.

    “Tiny ostracods thrived in a pool of water in the cave that was continually enriched by the droppings of thousands of bats,” he said.

    His UNSW colleague Suzanne Hand, a specialist in extinct bats and their ecological role in Riversleigh’s ancient environments, said the steady rain of droppings would have led to high levels of phosphorous in the water.

    This could have aided mineralisation of the soft tissues.

    “This amazing discovery at Riversleigh is echoed by a few examples of soft-tissue preservation in fossil bat-rich deposits in France,” she said.

    “So the key to eternal preservation of soft tissues may indeed be some magic ingredient in bat droppings.”

    AFP

  • Suspected Fraudster Arrested

    Suspected Fraudster Arrested

    {{Residents of Nyakabanda cell, Niboyi sector in Kicukiro district apprehended and handed over to Police a man suspected of camouflaging as a district employee and conning traders. }}

    Aimé Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, a resident of Rusororo sector in Gasabo District was arrested on May 12 trying to solicit bribes from Emerta Dusabimana and Pierre Ndayisenga, whom he threatened to penalize for using polythene bags.

    Use of plastic bags is illegal and punishable by the law in Rwanda.

    He is currently detained at Kicukiro Police station as investigations continue.
    The would-be victims own shops in the area.

    It is alleged that the suspect first went to Dusabimana’s shop and introduced himself as a district employee conducting an inspection on the use of plastic bags and demanded Rwf50, 000 to drop the likely penalties, which she promised to pay later.

    Nsengiyumva also continued to Ndayisenga’s shop where he made same threats. On suspicion that he could be fraudster, people who were in the shop apprehended him after he failed to produce his identifications as they had demanded.

    They then handed him over to Community Policing Committee (CPC) in the area, who in turn handed him over to Police.

    The suspect, who confesses to the act, argued that he used the illegal move to get money to cater for his mother’s medical bills.

    The District Police Commander, Chief Inspector of Police Anasthase Karango thanked the residents for the “brave act to ask for identifications.”

    He appealed to the public and the business community in particular to always demand identifications from people they don’t know, who claims to be working for certain institutions and on an official duty, to avoid falling prey of the likely fraudsters.

    RNP

  • Senior One School Girl Reported Missing

    Senior One School Girl Reported Missing

    {{After a week-long search for their missing daughter, Niyogushimwa Diane a senior one student at G.S Gihogwe Catholic school, her parents are worried of the safety of their child.}}

    Niyogushimwa Diane born in 1997, has been living with her parents at Nyakanunga in Nyamabuye cell located din Gatsata Sector within Gasabo district.

    On May 8, Niyogushimwa woke up at 5:30AM, showered and dressed in her school uniform and walked out of her home to school. Her siblings say she only carried her books as had been the routine.

    However, in the evening of the fateful day, her mother Mukanyirigira Mediatrice noticed her daughter had not returned home by 3PM yet other students in the neighbourhood had reached home.

    On noticing that her daughter had up to 5PM not reached home, Mukanyirigira telephoned the girls father Mr. Dusabumuremyi Jean Bosco informing him that their daughter hadn’t reached home.

    Mr. Dusabumuremyi quickly arrived home and reached out to his daughters schoolmates in the neighbourhood and he was told Niyogushimwa didn’t not attend school that day.

    On learning that his daughter had not reached school that day and hadn’t returned home, Mr. Dusabumuremyi alerted Police and the following day went to his daughter’s school to inquire about her whereabouts.

    Mr. Dusabumuremyi told IGIHE that he has not had any domestic problems with his wife and that their daughter has been well disciplined both at home and school.

    Interestingly when Mr Dusabumuremyi contacted Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (Radio Rwanda) Announcements department, he was told that the national broadcaster doesn’t announce missing people aged above 12.

    He was told that the national broadcaster would have helped him if his daughter was aged 12 and below or was an elderly person.

    Dusabumuremyi decided to take his announcement to a private radio and his church where there has been no success until today.

    He says anyone that finds his daughter should contact him on 0783257946 and 0722557946.

    {{Mr. Dusabumuremyi Jean Bosco, the father of Missing Niyogushimwa Diane. }}

  • 84-year-old Zimbabwean Rapes 2 Minors

    84-year-old Zimbabwean Rapes 2 Minors

    {{In Zimbabwe, an 84-year-old Chitungwiza man allegedly inserted his fingers into the private parts of two minor girls aged eight and 10 before raping them and giving them $1 as a token of “appreciation”.

    Peter Sikireta was not asked to plead to two counts of aggravated indecent assault and rape charges}}

    He appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Mr Lazarus Murendo and was remanded in custody to May 23.

    Prosecutor Mr Tendai Mukariri alleged that Sikireta, during the period between April 8 and 9 this year, was at a tuck shop near Zanu-PF offices in Unit O in the same location.

    The court heard that Sikireta allegedly called the two minors to where he was and offered them the money.

    He allegedly inserted his fingers into their genitalia one after the other. Further allegations are that, Sikireta raped the two on several occasions and the matter was later reported to the police leading to his arrest.

    {herald}

  • Kenya Coffee Prices Drop

    Kenya Coffee Prices Drop

    Kenyan coffee prices fell at an auction Tuesday as buyers have enough stockpiles.
    The average price fell 5.2 per cent to $178.08 for a 50-kilogram (110-pound) bag from $187.80 a week earlier, the Nairobi Coffee Exchange said.

    The country’s benchmark AA grade fell 12 per cent to an average of $268.61 a bag, it said.

    “There wasn’t much demand as people already have stocks,” Mansukh Shah, a coffee trader at Alanwood Ltd. said by phone from Nairobi. “The quality was quite good.”

    Sales fell 59 per cent to 1,740 bags worth $378,901, the exchange said. Supplies at the auction rose 0.9 per cent to 22,941 bags from 22,731 bags, it said.

  • Tanzania-Zambia Railway Suspends Operations

    Tanzania-Zambia Railway Suspends Operations

    {{Tanzania Zambia Railways Authority (Tazara) Tuesday announced the suspension of freight and passenger operations between Dar es Salaam and Tunduma due to a strike, a company statement said.}}

    Tazara workers in the Tanzanian stations and some in the Zambia’s Kasama station have withdrawn gone on strike demanding their unpaid salaries from February.

    “As a consequence of the on-going illegal strike, which started on May 12, 2014, Tazara regrets to announce the suspension of both freight and passenger operations between Dar es Salaam and Tunduma, until further notice,” Tazara spokesman Conrad Simuchile said.

    “However, normal operations will continue between Nakonde and New Kapiri-Mposhi on the Zambian side,” he said.

    Tazara, built by the Chinese over three decades ago, has been struggling to improve operations and standards due financial difficulties.

    NMG

  • West African Mining and Power Exhibition For May

    West African Mining and Power Exhibition For May

    {{KSB Pumps will exhibit at the West African Mining and Power Exhibition (WAMPEX) which will take place between 28-30 May at the Accra Convention Centre in Accra, Ghana}}

    KSB Pumps specialises in developing the West African market by offering sales, technical and commercial support for pump and valve customers, the company said.

    “Our main objective this year is to get access to all the mining companies in West Africa,” said Outare Kokobissi, the area manager for KSB Pumps in Western Africa.

    “That’s why we come to WAMPEX; the high industry profile of visitors to the show, and most of these with mining as their main focus,” added Kokobissi.

    KSB South Africa has a modern manufacturing and sales facility in Johannesburg, as well as eight sales branches within Cape Town, Durban and Nelspruit.

    “Our Mill discharge pumps are performing exceptionally well at Bissa Gold in Burkina Faso,” continued Kokobissi.

    “These are heavy duty slurry pumps used to feed the cyclone at the mine.”

    The US$250mn Bissa Gold mine was launched 2013 and is expected to operate for around 10 years, Kokobissi said.