{{A (quincaillerie) hardware shop attendant Nyirabanyiginya Dina 21 has won the MTN sharama car.
She says she works in her elder sisters shop in Kicukiro sector in Kigali city.
The car was handed to her at an event held at Gakinjiro, Gisozi sector within Kigali city.
Other winners walked away with motorcycles, laptop and bicycle.
Nyirabanyiginya was so excited on receiving the car keys which incidentally resulted into tears of Joy.}}
{{Residents of Rubavu district have mobilised over Frw521Million in contribution to the Agaciro Development Fund.
The contribution was delivered to the fund on September 5.}}
They said, “We are greatiful to the Idea of Agaciro Development Fund. It’s a sign of patriotism. It gives us value as citizens.”
One elderly resident Uwimana also a dairy farmer noted that, “I have realized that when my country goes begging it means iam also a beggar.
Since Agaciro Fund was established, I have now changed my mind. I will moblise other residents to contribute to this Fund to build our nation.”
{{Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Agnes Kalibata has won the 2012 Yara Prize Award for her great leadership in the transformation of food security and agricultural development in Rwanda in a relatively short period.}}
According to the statement from Yara International in Oslo Norway, Dr. Kalibata was awarded alongside Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the outgoing CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX).
The prize consists of $60,000, which will be split between the laureates, a crystal trophy and a diploma.
The president and chairman of the Yara Prize committee, Jørgen Ole Haslestad, commended the winners for the substantial work they demonstrated in fighting food insecurity, not only in their countries but also on the continent.
“Yara creates impact by addressing global challenges. By awarding the Prize, we salute the champions of sustainable agricultural development. I wish to extend my personal congratulations to the laureates,” Haslestad said.
“This is the exact kind of development needed to promote in the Grow Africa Initiative, co-chaired by Yara alongside NEPAD and the African Union”.
The Yara Prize is based on nominations of candidates who are carefully evaluated by the Yara Prize Committee.
{{Rwanda and Tanzania National Police have signed a bilateral agreement aimed at boosting ties in various cooperation areas.}}
According to the pact, Rwanda and Tanzania Police forces will cooperate to enhance border security, exchange timely information and sharing of Interpol tools at the two borders;
Also will Conduct joint training and exercise plays, joint operations, joint acquisitions of equipments, exchange programs and best experience, collaboration in disasters and collaboration in traffic management among others.
The agreement was signed in Zanzibar September 5. Rwanda’s Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana and Tanzania’s IGP Said Ally Mwema, signed the agreement.
In combating crime, both Police forces will exchange information related to the activities of criminal elements through all methods and techniques at various levels.
Rwanda and Tanzania will exchange bilateral expertise and visits in order to develop the training strategies in the fields of preventing and combating crime within the scope of this Memorandum.
The two forces agreed upon the development of curriculum and the rejuvenation of training activities in the fields related to prevention and combating crimes, development of joint training programs, exchange of trainers and students.
Work on the enhancement of co-operation and provision of mutual assistance relating to investigation procedures and seizing criminals according to their national laws will also be implemented.
The Tanzania-Rwanda Joint Permanent Commission shall have the mandate to discuss issues related to combating crime.
Regular meetings will take place alternately in both Rwanda and Tanzania as follows: once a year for Police Chiefs and quarterly for District and Regional Police Commanders on the common border.
The IGP Rwanda in his capacity as Interpol Delegate for Africa also attended the SARPCCO extraordinary meeting which studied issues related to transnational organized crimes.
{{Rwanda National Police has arrested two suspects in connection with the recent string of mysterious murders of sex workers.
Police says it had since instituted a team of experts to investigate the murder of sex workers and this yielded two suspects.}}
However, the identity of suspects has not been revealed.
Supt. Theos Badege was quoted by ORINFOR saying a team of special investigators was established to hunt down the murderers.
Some of the sex workers have requested for an improvement in the security because the killers usually find them in their homes.
{{The Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi has instructed that prevailing problems between Kigali Cement Company and Residents in the area of its operation be solved within 30days.}}
Dr. Habumuremyi made the remarks September 4, while taking a guided tour around the cement factory located at Nyabugogo a Kigali city suburb.
Residents of Nyabugogo claim that machines at the factory have destroyed most of their houses due to the shaking effect while in operation.
Houses and other infrastructure in the area are shaken until they crack in most cases crumbling.
The Prime Minsiter has instructed the factory management to find solutions to the effects the machines have on residents’ infrastructure.
Dr. Habumuremyi instituted a commission to look into the matter and make sure the existing problems are sorted within a period of 30 days.
Mukamusoni Pauline a representative of residents and Jean Damascene Ndayambaje one of the shareholders of the cement factory said they are contented with the Prime Ministers guidance on the matter.
{{Due to an armed rebellion in eastern DRC, Opposition parties in DRC have called for the impeachment of President Joseph Kabange Kabila accusing him and members of his government of complicity in the rebellion.}}
The opposition is pressuring parliament to trigger a mechanism of impeachment of the president for ‘Treason’.
The impeachment demand points to the M23 rebellion that started in North Kivu since last May, the parties consider that “the complicity of those in power with the perpetrators is totally established.”
“The war is going on in the East as a trigger for the famous agreement between the Government of the Republic and the CNDP [the former rebel National Congress for People’s Defence]. And we believe that the misapplication of this agreement will create problems.”
“There were in [under] this agreement, a deliberate and concealed by the institutions, the deployment on the national territory of Rwandan troops officially responsible to track the FDLR and other negative forces, “said honourable member of parliament Lisanga Bonganga and spokesman for opposition group seeking the indictment.
The Congolese government signed in March 2009 a peace agreement with the CNDP. The text provided including the integration of rebels into the army, the allocation to senior civilian CNDP positions within political institutions.
The same year, DRC and Rwanda conducted joint military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan rebels based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The group also says, the rebellion of M23 launched last May is conducted by officers of the army removed from the CNDP. They also say M23 is the rebellion backed by Rwanda, according to the Congolese government, NGOs and the UN.
Last Friday, the Rwandan special forces deployed to Rutshuru in North Kivu since more than two years, began to withdraw from the territory largely occupied by rebels M23. Rwandan forces were officially deployed to hunt down the FDLR.
Opponents say they have carefully followed the Minister of Defence of Rwanda, James Kabarebe, who announced the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the DRC. “We’re not naive,” said Lisanga Bonganga, before denouncing “complicity at the highest level” of the Congolese state.
In the political declaration they made Monday in Kinshasa, the leaders of the opposition parties have stated that “any approach military, diplomatic and political on the sole initiative of the regime is afraid of success” the cessation of hostilities in North Kivu.
They called for a national dialogue involving all political and social forces to “discuss the situation of instability in the East.”
The opposition also rejects the idea of deploying a neutral force along the border between Rwanda and the DRC to fight armed groups, saying it is likely to achieve the Balkanization of the DRC.
“If anyone should be accused of treason, it will certainly not President Joseph Kabila who is fighting for the country’s security, to drive out the enemies of our country.”
“I think it should participate in the work of demoralization of national opinion initiated by the Rwandan Minister of Defense, “said André Alain Atundu Liongo, part of the Presidential Majority and President of the Convention for the Democracy and the Republic (CDR).
{{Members of a Congolese political party “Mouvement de Libération du Congo” (MLC) founded by Jean Pierre Bemba are confident that the outcome of their jailed party leader will be positive.}}
Local radio Okapi quoted Jean-Lucien Busa, the MLC deptuy general-secretary saying, “MLC leaders are confident that Jean-Pierre Bemba will be freed and rejoin us as soon as possible.”
Bemba, the leader of MLC and former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is charged with crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and war crimes (murder, rape and pillaging) allegedly committed in the Central African Republic in 2002-2003.
Busa explained that MLC is one of the main opposition parties in DRC.
“Congolese all know that MLC troops went to the CAR because they had been invited to do so by a government democratically elected”, he explained.
According to the Lusaka agreement, the MLC had the powers of a legitimate government on the portion of territory it controlled at the time, Busa said.
Bemba was thus entitled to sign a deal with Ange-Félix Patassé, the then President of CAR.
Busa also was quoted saying that MLC militants were visiting Bemba in jail almost daily and that the party was 100% behind its leader.
Bemba has been granted eight months to present his defense.
A woman has been arrested found in possession with 41 rolls of cannabis.
Julienne Kamashara 42, is being detained at Muhima Police station. Her arrest followed a tip-off from area residents who notified police of her acts.
Kamashara, a resident of Kabahazi Cell, Gitega Sector in Nyarugenge District, was arrested on September, 3, and is reported to be part of the group that deals in narcotics in Kigali.
Her arrest comes at a time when the anti-drug campaign is said to be paying off as the public have joined the campaign by reporting drug dealers.
Residents described Kamashara’s acts as ‘regrettable’ noting that woman should not, in any circumstance, be involved in such shameful acts.
Rwanda National Police is still conducting anti-drug campaigns among the population, highlighting the negative effects of drugs such as loss of lives, school dropouts and a source to criminal activities.
A total of 1, 663 people, among them 163 females, were apprehended countrywide between January and May this year for narcotics related crimes, according to a police report.
{{Congolese M23 rebel movement has reportedly occupied positions earlier occupied by Special forces of Rwanda and DRC.}}
The newly occupied territories include Kiseguro about 20 miles north East of Rutshuru in North Kivu.
Sources told Local Congolese media that M23 rebels are based in the main town of Rutshuru and control Kiseguro.
It is said FDLR rebels controls the northern part of Kiseguro from Katwiguru Buramba up, then north Nyamilima to Ishasha. Mai Mai militias still occupy Nyamilima.
Deployed from February 2011 to Rutshuru to hunt down the FDLR, the Rwandan special forces withdrew last Friday from villages of Katwiguru Kiseguro and Kaunga in Rutshuru territory.
After the departure of Rwandan special forces, the FDLR held Saturday, September 1 Kiseguro an abandoned position.
M23 later on Monday ousted FDLR from the area on September 3, apparently without fighting, specify the sources of local civil society.
However, a few shots were heard in the area for at least ten minutes, add the sources.
According to them, the civilian population on the axis Kiseguro Buramba are concerned about this situation and are reportedly fearing clashes between the rebels of the FDLR and M23.