{{A motorcyclist was instantly killed when two Trucks collided this afternoon in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province.
A fuso truck and a Tanzanian registered Cargo truck collided trapping a motorcyclist in between. The incident happened at a place called Kabuga along the Kigali-Rwamagana highway.}}
{ {{Gatsibo District Mayor (L) and Kayumba Charles during a District Crisis Meeting Recently}} }
{{Reports from Gatisbo District indicate that Kayumba Charles the Executive Secretary of Manishya Cell in Nyagihanga Sector has been missing since Monday.}}
Family members of Kayumba say, their relative had gone to Gatsibo District offices where he had been summoned by the District Human Resource officer.
However, Other Reports indicate that Kayumba had been summoned to the district headquarters to pickup documents that would enable him acquire Credit from Banks.
The Source told IGIHE that other district employees had secured similar documents but Kayumba had been denied acess to the documents.
On Sunday,its alleged that Kayumba received a text message from the District Human Resource Officer asking him to report to the office and pickup the bank credit documents.
On Monday, Kayumba arrived at the District offices and has not since not been seen. Sources say he was whisked away by Police on arrival at the district offices.
However, the District Police Commander Superintendent Pierre Tebuka denied that Kayumba had been detained by Police.
{{This afternoon, a Man was gunned down after he attempted to disarm a Policeman near BK-Bank Headquarters.
Eye witnesses at the scene told IGIHE that the man identified as K-Swiss was apprehended by a nearby policeman when he was found snatching phones from passersby.
K-Swiss as he is commonly known, was shot in the stomach while he attempted to disarm the Policeman that had intervened to refrain him from snatching peoples phones around the area.
The injured suspect was rushed to CHUK hospital on-board a Police Pick-up truck.
Those who know K-Swiss say he has been terrorising pedestrians snatching their items including phones, money and other items.}}
{{Thailand’s prime minister has appeared before the Constitutional Court in Bangkok to defend herself against allegations of abuse of power.}}
The complaint was filed by senators who said Yingluck Shinawatra’s party benefited from improperly transferring her national security chief in 2011.
Ms Yingluck could be removed from office and banned from politics for five years if found guilty.
The decision is expected on Wednesday, the court said after the hearing.
The prime minister’s supporters believe the top courts are biased against her and the case is an attempt by the elite to force her from office.
Reporters in Bangkok says if the Constitutional Court also bans enough of her cabinet to disable her caretaker administration, her ministers have warned there will be chaos, with large-scale protests by pro-government red-shirts a certainty.
{{In 2001, Australia set a world record for the largest ever victory in an international football match, netting 31 goals without a single breach of their own defence.}}
The game’s top scorer, Archie Thompson, broke the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by claiming 13 goals.
While Thompson is now the tricky answer to particularly tough pub quiz question, the team Australia beat, American Samoa, is stamped on the memory of any football fan who heard the brutal score line.
The defeat sent the team spinning to the bottom of Fifa’s world rankings – an unenviable slot they would occupy for the next 10 years. No wins, just two goals scored.
So, in 2011, when the qualifying rounds for the approaching World Cup in Rio brought a maverick new football coach to the tiny South Pacific island, British documentary makers Kristian Brodie, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison decided to chart the team’s progress.
The result is Next Goal Wins, which has already been enthusiastically received at film festivals across the world.
“We’ve been in a dark room editing this movie and have felt an incredible connection with American Samoa and the journey we went on was incredibly emotional,” says Brett. “But to start to share that with audiences is an amazing experience.”
Producer Brodie adds: “Everybody in football is familiar with American Samoa because of that defeat and I think it sparked something in all of us that there was something behind the result which said something about the sprit of the game.”
“If you are a team that loses all the time – and that’s what American Samoa was – it says something about your spirit that you’re still playing.”
{{ The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the Asia-Pacific region in a show of strength and to gather intelligence.
General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle said the activity had included Russian flights to the coast of California, and around the U.S. Pacific island of Guam.
Carlisle said the number of long-range Russian patrols around the Japanese islands and Korea had increased “drastically.” He said there had also been “a lot more ship activity as well.”}}
Speaking at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, Carlisle showed a slide of a U.S. F-15 fighter jet intercepting a Russian “Bear” aircraft over Guam. He used the Cold War NATO name for Russia’s Tupolov Tu-95 strategic bomber.
“Certainly what’s going on in Ukraine and Crimea is a challenge for us and it’s a challenge for us in Asia Pacific as well as Europe,” Carlisle said.
He said there had been “a significant” increase in Russian activity in the Asia Pacific “and we relate a lot of that to what’s going on in the Ukraine.”
“They’ve come with their long-range aviation out to the coast of California, they’ve circumnavigated Guam,” he said.
“That’s to demonstrate their capability to do it, it’s to gather intel,” Carlisle said, adding that the surveillance had included observation of military exercises involving U.S. forces in South Korea and Japan.
{{U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon flew into South Sudan on Tuesday to urge government troops and rebels to end more than four months of fighting – the second peace mission there by a major global figure in less than a week.}}
Ban was expected to meet South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, part of a mounting international push to stop the increasingly ethnic violence that Washington and regional powers fear could descend into genocide.
U.S. and other diplomatic sources told Reuters on Monday Washington would back up the diplomacy with sanctions on figures from both sides of the conflict in coming days.
Showing the message had hit home, a South Sudanese official said there was no need to sanctions on the government side, as the president had already responded to international pressure and agreed to hold talks with the main rebel leader.
“(The government is) doing precisely what has been asked,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Mawien Makol Arik told Reuters.
Thousands of civilians have been killed and more than a million have fled since fighting started in mid December between troops loyal to Kiir and fighters backing his sacked deputy Riek Machar.
Fighting quickly spread, often along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir’s Dinka people against Machar’s Nuer.
Government and rebel negotiators in Ethiopia agreed on Monday to consider a “month of tranquility”, but as they did, rebel fighters and the army battled for control of a northern oil town.
Aid workers in Bentiu reported no fighting on Tuesday. Both sides claimed control of the town, capital of oil producing Unity state and scene of an ethnic massacre last month that fuelled fears of a genocide.
Kiir agreed to hold face-to-face talks with Machar after meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the South Sudanese capital Juba on Friday.
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On May 3rd 2014, Africa Innovation Prize (AIP) held its award ceremony for the business idea challenge it carried out in March.
Nine winners emerged from University of Rwanda across all its colleges and the event was hosted by the University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economics.
“The competition was opened to all students in University of Rwanda where students were expected to write their viable business ideas in 250 words,” said Herve Kubwimana, the Country Director for AIP in Rwanda as he opened the ceremony.
“We received more than 300 applications from which our judges worked tirelessly to sift through and select the 9 winners for the phase one of the competition.
The participation across colleges shows College of Business and Economics (CBE) leading with 34% followed by College of Science and Technology (CST) with 24% and College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (CAVM) with 17%.
Agriculture and Food processing was a leading industry in the business ideas presented followed by ICT and Manufacturing.
“It is the mission of AIP to inspire and support university entrepreneurship and through this competition it holds every year, more students are given the opportunity to be self-employed,” said Mr. Apollo Munanura, Head of the Human Capital & Institutional Development department at Rwanda Development Board.
“We at RDB support initiatives inclined to youth employment, entrepreneurship as is this case and youth skill development.”
The guest of honour, Dr. Marie Christine Gasingirwa, Director of Science and Technology at the Ministry of Education, applauded the students who applied and won the challenge noting an increase in interest in business ideas in projects around Agriculture, ICT and healthcare.
“If we can have students drawing ideas in their skills and combining across colleges as is the vision of University of Rwanda, students will not only be able to suffice their livelihoods but uplift those around them and foster in building Rwanda’s economy.”
“Students should take up these opportunities that give them real life experience on what they are learning in business courses we provide and I would like to congratulate the winners of the first round of the competition,” said Dr. Papias Malimba, Principal of the College of Business and Economics.
The winners of the competition are: Eric Mutabazi, Vestine Dukeshimana, Mariam Muganga, Rogers Kimuli, Theodomir Sebazungu, Fabrice Niyibizi, Dioscore Shikama, Carine Ndacyayisenga, and Aimable Nzabakurana and each got an award of Rwf 200,000 for their business idea in a bid to further them in developing their business idea to a business plan and enter the next phase of the competition.
The ceremony ended up with a networking event where students interacted with the guests as well as their entrepreneurial peers.
The African Innovation Prize’s work and programme in Rwanda are sponsored by DeLaRue and the Segal Family Foundation.
{Winners of the Business idea challenge with the guests}
{From left to right, Dr. Christine Gasingirwa, Vestine (one of the winners) and Dr. Papias}
{{Participants of the award ceremony}}
{{ {The African Innovation Prize’s work and programme in Rwanda are sponsored by DeLaRue and the Segal Family Foundation.} }}
{{The UN Department of peacekeeping operations(UNDPKO) Military Advisor Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed visited Rwandan Contingent serving in United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) at Tomping Base camps and UN House .}}
He was accompanied by the UNMISS Force Commander Maj Gen Delali Johnson Saky, the Deputy Force Commander Brig Gen Ramesh Pun and the Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of operations Col Tom Byabagamba among dignitaries.
Gen Maqsood was briefed by the Rwanda Contingent (Rwanbatt3) commander Col Mutara Nkangura on the security situation in the Area of Responsibility.
Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed thanked Rwanbatt3 Forces for commitment and hard work in a challenging environment.
He requested Rwanbatt to cope with the challenges of IDPs settled in inappropriate location as UNMISS looks to relocate them.
On 29th April Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed also visited UN peacekeepers in Darfur(UNAMID). Accompanied by UNAMID Military officials, Force commander Lt Gen Paul Ignace Mella and Deputy Force Commander Maj Gen Balla Keita, he visited the Rwanda Battalion (Rwanbatt41) at El- Fasher Super Camp.
Gen Maqsood Ahmed commended the RDF peacekeepers “you are the best peacekeepers worldwide and you should uphold this rank’’, he said. He was received by Contingent Commander Col Sam Baguma.
{{Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH) has launched a two week long Army Week Medical Outreach activities for youth undergoing Vocational Training and Civic Education at Iwawa Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Center. }}
The RMH is working in collaboration with Society for Family Health (SFH). Maj Dr King Kayondo from Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH) said that within two weeks, 1350 youth will benefit from free circumcision, HIV/AIDs counselling, Malaria, and hygiene.
While launching the Army Week at Iwawa on 2nd May 2014, Col Ben Karenzi, the Commandant of RMH told the youth that research has revealed that circumcision can reduce HIV risk in men by up to 60% and urged the youth to avoid sexual relations that can expose their lives.
The Director of Iwawa Rehabilitation and Vocation Training Center, Niyongabo Nicolas, said the Center runs a one year program aimed at rehabilitating youth involved in drug abuse and other forms of delinquency.
“They are taught discipline and benefit vocational training in construction, carpentry and tailoring”, he said.
SHF Director, Gihana Manasse told the youth that they are the force of the nation and urged them to adopt good attitude in the community.
