Category: News

{{Rwandans living and working in Arusha, Tanzania have contributed US$65,000 to Agaciro Development Fund (AgDF).}}

Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ben Rugangazi while at the fundraising event said that Rwanda’s foreign policy highly recognizes the role Rwandans living outside their country can play in national development.

The Principal Judge at the East African Court of Justice said, “Agaciro has become a word that we can not afford to ignore. The worst form of slavery is thinking that somebody else is more worthy than oneself.”

{{Rwanda will try the case of Pheneas Munyarugarama a genocide suspect after the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals refered the case to Rwanda.}}

John Bosco Siboyintore, the Head of Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit said, “It is the seventh case sent to Rwanda by the International Residual Mechanism. We will receive his file in the next 30 days.”

Munyarugarama who remains at large, was charged before the ICTR with genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, as well as extermination, murder, persecution, and rape as crimes against humanity.

He was the commander of Gako military camp and the highest ranking military officer in the Bugesera region, formerly Kigali-Rural prefecture.

The Rwanda National Police has cautioned the public on prevention of road accidents that are continously costing many lives.

Police says most accidents are caused by careless driving, over speeding, violation of road signage, faulty vehicles and the refusal to abide with road safety rules and traffic regulations are playing a hazardous blow in hindering lives of innocent Rwandans.

Many road accidents were reported over the weekend with two people losing their lives while others suffered major injuries.

One accident was reported in Kigali City, Southern Province, Northern Province, Eastern province and Western province respectively.

An accident in both Musanze and Kayonza Districts respectively claimed lives of Serushago Marc, 55 years who was hit by a speeding Fuso truck and a 57-year old Munyemana David was knocked by a motor cyclist.

{{Members of Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) joined residents of Jari sector in Gasabo District in a community work that was held to prepare a building site for 27 Historically Marginalized families.}}

Honourable Zeno Mutimura who represented Gasabo District said these activities are in line with the preparation of celebration of RPF’s 25th anniversary on December 15, 2012.

He added that RPF has different development programs aiming to making Rwandans to live in a better country which deserves dignity.

One of the vulnerable residents Mvurirwenande Eugene told IGIHE, this is his first time to own a house commending RPF’s productive work.

Most of participants in the community work were youth.

Last month, Youth leaders from Rwanda Patriotic Front, in Gasabo District, have pledged to rally fellow youth to be patriotic and innovative in order to create jobs as a way of consolidating and sustaining party achievements in the last 25 years.

{{A woman in Rutsiro district has been rescued after she was found attempting to terminate her life by suicide. }}

Ntibankundiye Jacqueline 20, tried to commit suicide in Lake Kivu After a long dispute with her family.

Her family had demanded her to take her newborn baby to the man responsible for impregnating her.

However, “the alleged father of the child denied responsibility of the pregnancy saying he had no romantic relationship with Ntibankundiye.

Ntibankundiye said she had been abused by her family since she got pregnant and the decision to commit suicide came as a result of anxiety.

She added that lack of family care; health insurance and torture against her were among the causes of attempting to commit suicide.

Officials urged her to return home and they will help her to handle that case fairly.

{{Rwamagana School of Nursing and Midwifery celebrated its 50th anniversary October 6 at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Dr.Pierre Damien Habumremyi and Ministers of Education and Health.}}

Dr. Habumremyi urged nurses to observe professional ethics and promote education in the country.

The School of Nursing and Midwifery was established in 1962.

The Principle of the school, Sister Epiphanie Mukabaranga, requested the government to improve the school’s infrastructure, adding that it would allow it to accommodate more students.

She also requested for the upgrading of the school to offer degrees in nursing. The school currently offers only a Diploma in Nursing (A1).

Reacting to the demands from school authorities to go to the level of offering degrees in nursing, the PM said that the decision will be taken by the unified University of Rwanda that is in the pipeline.

The PM also advised nurses to join International Nursing Association.

{{President Paul Kagame is in Kampala, Uganda where he is attending celebrations to mark Uganda’s 50th anniversary of Independence which began with the inauguration of the Bujagali Hydropower Plant in Jinja district.}}

Also present at the Independence celebrations include: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe,President of Benin (who is the current African Union chairman), Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, South Sudan’s Salva Kiir, the Ethiopian Prime minister, DRC’s Joseph Kabila.

Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent has described Ugandans as warm and friendly people.

The Duke also observed, “There is no doubt Uganda has enormous potential for growth.”

Before noon, at least 39 babies were born on Tuesday, in three hospitals in Kampala as Ugandans celebrated fifty years of Uganda’s independence.

{{Many of the 12,000 miners sacked by Anglo American Platinum in South Africa were expected to gather to protest their dismissal and mourn a colleague killed in clashes with police.}}

Striking miners were to meet in a stadium in the northern town of Rustenburg, to discuss how to respond to the mass dismissal by the world’s largest platinum producer.

Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Marikana a union branch leader at a different mine was shot dead Friday evening, his union said.

“A branch secretary of the union at Western Platinum was shot and killed at his house in Marikana this (Friday) evening,” said National Union of Mineworkers spokesman Lesiba Seshoka in a statement.

Unions have come under fire as workers reject the traditional negotiation structures and accuse their guilds of conniving with mine managers.

Around 28,000 Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) workers have been on a wildcat strike for three weeks at the firm’s sprawling facilities in Rustenburg, which account for around a quarter of world platinum production.

Amplats on Friday said the miners failed to appear before disciplinary hearings “and have therefore been dismissed in their absence.”

It is the latest crisis to hit South Africa’s vital minerals sector, which has been crippled by a wave of violent disputes over miners’ pay since August.

The company said the strike had so far cost 700 million rand ($80 million, 60 million euros) in lost revenue.

“Despite the company’s repeated calls for employees to return to work, we have continued to experience attendance levels of less than 20 percent,” Amplats said in a statement.

Workers, some of whom received text messages from Amplats informing them of the news, reacted with a mixture of shock and defiance.

“If they fired us, no problem,” said Claudio, aged 37, from Mozambique. “We are going to market ourselves somewhere else.”

Others were more circumspect. “Now what is going to happen?” asked a worried 21-year-old miner from the eastern province of Mpumalanga, who had not gone to work because of the threat of violence from colleagues.

{{Uganda is making its last minute preparations for Golden Jubilee celebrations to be held next Tuesday, October 9.}}

Several visitors have begun flying into Uganda from different parts of the world ahead of the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations.

Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent arrived in the country on the morning of Friday, October 5.

The Duke is a cousin to the Queen of England, Elizabeth the Second, who he will represent at the ceremony. Prince Edward was also born on October 9 in 1935.

{{Community Policing Committees (CPCs) in Muganza and Mugomba sectors in Gisagara District on October 4 started a one-week capacity building seminar aimed at improving enhanced collaboration with their administrative levels especially security organs.}}

The executive secretary of Southern Province Jane Izabiriza was also the guest of honour, alongside with the RPC in Southern Region,Chief Supt Emmanuel Mwesigye the Director of Community Policing, CIP Cecilia Umuhire and District authorities graced the event and visited CPCs activities which included seven houses built for genocide survivals and other helpless people .

Mwesigye explained diverse types of crimes, their actors, the areas of crimes and reminded participants of their responsibilities.

Among the responsibilities, he said that they should detect areas of crimes and criminals, report timely issues to the nearest security organs and leaders who have been offered mobile phones to facilitate them in communication and reporting.

Mwesigye called for an effective implementation of instructions received at each level of communication.