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{{Rwanda has received Arrest warrant papers for Charles Sikubwabo for his role in the 1994 Genocide against ethnic Tutsi.}}

This was revealed by the Martin Ngoga the National prosecutor General who presented Sikubwabo arrest warrant papers to the Media.

The arrest warrant papers were handed to Rwanda by the representative of the International criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Sikubwabo is a former Mayor of the Gishyita commune in the Kibuye prefecture. He is wanted for taking part in the Rwandan Genocide in the early 1990s.

While serving as Mayor, Sikubwabo directed communal and national police in hunting down refugees who had fled there.

He is said to have taken part personally in an attack on a church where refugees had sought sanctuary and more than 2,000 people were killed.

For these and other crimes the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the ICTR, indicted Sikubwabo on charges of genocide and war crimes and issued a warrant for his arrest.

Sikubwabo fled Rwanda in July 1994 and is believed to be living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

He(pictured below) is currently believed to be living in Norway.

{{Greetings to you all people of Ruhango and others from different districts. How are you all? I am delighted to meet you and to thank you for all you are doing aimed at developing yourselves and our country.

Thank you for coming in large numbers to meet and discuss issues that build our country.}}

A lot has been said but allow me repeat some in details in a manner that would allow us to continue developing.

Foremost, we must understand the strength of our capacity if we all gather our will, strength and knowledge; we have the capacity to change our lives into better lives.

We have the ability to achieve the kind of development attained in other developed countries. Such developed nations have more wealth and have surplus from which they donate to take care of Rwandans.

Rwandans are not supposed to be taken care of by surplus wealth from other countries. Do you hear me? Do you want to live like this? No, you cannot go to the dining table and wait to be given the leftovers. This is not proper. You ought to serve yourselves what you have put onto the dining table by yourselves. There are a lot of examples that prove its possible to serve ourselves. Isn’t it?

Before we achieve capacity to serve ourselves, there must be a change in your attitude. The change in attitude makes it easier to transform your lives for the better.

Have you heard what Madam Mukarugambwa has told us? She is like anyone of you. What she can do, you also have the capacity to do it.

She remembers to go to the bank; she remembers to buy a hoe and later uses the hoe to cultivate her land. Why would you buy a hoe if you won’t cultivate?
We had agreed on many things, some have been done while others are underway. We must fulfill all we agreed because it’s in the best of our interests.

The government will provide you with the Vision, means and partnership but the rest is for the citizens to put in action. If the government gave you a cow it won’t also graze it for you. It’s you to graze it. Isn’t it? You must put your effort and graze it well and make it productive and be able to solve your problems.

If the government gives you a hoe, it will not come and use it to cultivate for you. It’s you to use the hoe. Isn’t it? We must share work and everyone must benefit from this to transform lives. When your lives change, the lives of the nation also change.

In the past fifteen years, Rwanda was not where it is today. We have progressed substantially. In the next ten years we must progress further. This is how people live and this is how they accord themselves value. We shouldn’t just talk about it as a parable.

What we have achieved is visible among the citizens. Everyone can see that even on your faces. You are looking good and healthy-that’s how people should be. And always finding solutions of their existing challenges by themselves.

We are gradually leaving behind a lot of problems and heading towards solutions only. Even after here we shall be discussing solutions not problems. Do not bring problems here; come with solutions and this should become your culture. Even the songs you sang have good words. It would also be good if we base on those good words to do better work.

Do not allow anyone to destroy. Always condemn such people. Don’t be lenient with such people. People focused on solutions do not destroy. We left behind such people who only aim at destruction. We don’t want to find such people ahead. They are problematic.

Do not allow anybody to destabilize your security, culture, roads and lives. Lives are not for playing around with or to destroy. Life is for those that have value and it’s in your capacity to accord value to yourselves.

This is all in line with what has brought us here. I have seen a new hospital built here better than other hospitals in the city. It should not only stop at the building alone, you need to handle it well.

The hospital should help save and maintain citizens’ lives. And sensitize citizens on how to prevent diseases and other health issues…. the hospital should provide better services. I will return and inquire from you about the quality of service the hospital will provide to you.

There is also a cassava processing plant. In the past years, Cassava used to be consumed in its raw form. In some cases, they would consume it roasted. And would also boil it. That was the value of cassava at home level.

The cassava factory will add more value to cassava and will be able to export to Europe. This will add value to cassava farmers in Rwanda. You should now grow more cassava and supply to the factory to add value and increase our income.

You requested to acquire shares in the cassava factory. It’s very easy. First form a cooperative and its possible you can secure a stake in the factory. This would improve your lives and promote the factory.

In the past we lost a lot of time, we don’t want to lose anymore. We need to work hard and achieve quick progress without wasting time.

I have also seen a swamp near the factory and wondered why the swamp is just full of water…Why should it be a problem rather than a solution? It should be reclaimed so that it can become productive. Those concerned should make a follow-up on that swamp.

Residents of Ruhango that was the message I had for you and as I promised, I will return. Work hard and develop.

Thank you very much.

{(The Original speech was delivered in Kinyarwanda)}

{{Sixteen people have been seriously injured in an accident involving a saloon car and a pickup truck.}}

The accident occurred on Monday evening at Gihinga in Kamonyi District. The injured were rushed to hospitals.

Police rushed 13-injured to Kabgayi hospital and 3 to CHUK.

The accident was allegedly caused by over speeding coupled with slippery road due to rain.

{{Rwanda’s Senate President Dr. Ntawukuriryayo Jean Damascene received 9 members of Zambian parliament.}}

The legislators are in the country on a study tour aimed at acquainting themselves with the Rwanda’s progress and to learn how Rwanda has managed to deal with challenges of Youths and use this knowledge to handle Zambian Youths challenges especially unemployment.

Zambia is currently among hosts to Rwandan refugees that participated in the 1994 Genocide against the Ethnic Tutsi.

Levi Ngoma the head of the Zambian delegation of legislators said, he found that Rwanda is different from what he has heard about while in Zambia.

He promised to sensitise the government of Zambia to repatriate Rwandan refugees and especially those suspected of involvement in the 1994 Tutsi Genocide to be brought to book.

The delegation noted that post-genocide Rwanda has a good vision and development programs.

{{Rwanda National Police has announced promotions within the force in which several Non-Commissioned Police Officers and Police Constables have been promoted.}}

Subject to the provisions of the constitution of the Republic of Rwanda articles 120,121 and 201, the Minister of Internal Security on 16th April 2012, issued the Ministerial instruction No 001/12 of 01/04 2012 effecting promotions of both Non- Commissioned officers and Police constables of Rwanda National Police.

The Promotions include;

17 have been promoted from the rank of Sergeant to Chief Sergeant.

305 have been promoted from Corporal to Sergeant.

861 have been promoted from Police Constable to Corporal.

{{Rwandan National Police is holding six suspects in connection with human trafficking.

The suspects allegedly hoodwink their victims promising them well paying jobs abroad but actually take them to indulge in illegal activities, especially prostitution.}}

Rukimbira Valentine 27 and his counterpart were arrested by police while trying to take four girls to the Peoples republic of China.

Rukimbira claims that his relative living in China had requested him to find Rwandans to work in a Bar and Supermarket in China. Its thus he embarked on search for those interested in the job offer.

Other four suspects were arrested saying their victims were destined for South Korea.

“There is no other purpose for this. I didn’t know it was wrong, even now I believe I have committed no crime. Police just told me that these people are actually taken for different purpose”, Rukimbira said.

Umulisa Aline and three other victims were destined for China. She told IGIHE that due to unemployment, she could not turn down any job offered to her.

“I didn’t know Rukimbira, I got to know about him through a Friend working at UTC Mall who also told me that she was going to China to work at a supermarket and that all travel documents would be processed for me…then I agreed.”

{{The World Bank Executive Directors met today to select a new President of the World Bank Group.}}

The Board expressed its deep gratitude for Mr. Robert B. Zoellick’s outstanding leadership and his dedication to reducing poverty in its member countries, the core mandate of the World Bank Group.

The Executive Directors followed the new selection process agreed in 2011 which, for the first time in the Bank’s history, yielded multiple nominees.
This process included an open nomination where any national of the Bank’s membership could be proposed by any Executive Director or Governor, publication of the names of the candidates, interviews of the candidates by the Executive Directors, and final selection of the President.

The Executive Directors selected Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2012. The President is Chair of the Boards of Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

The President is also ex officio Chair of the Boards of Directors of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the Administrative Council of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

We, the Executive Directors, wish to express our deep appreciation to all the nominees, Jim Yong Kim, José Antonio Ocampo and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Their candidacies enriched the discussion of the role of the President and of the World Bank Group’s future direction. The final nominees received support from different member countries, which reflected the high caliber of the candidates. We all look forward to working with Dr. Kim when he assumes his responsibilities.

Dr. Jim Yong Kim is currently President of Dartmouth College. A U.S. national, Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Kim was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by US News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006).

He was elected in 2004 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences—one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine—for his professional achievements and commitment to service.

He has published widely over the past two decades, authoring or co-authoring articles for leading academic and scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Science.

Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa.

Dr. Kim graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned a medical doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.

He is married to Dr. Younsook Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.

{{Dr. Jim Yong Kim has released a statement in response to his selection by the World Bank’s Executive Directors as 12th President of the World Bank.}}

Dr. Yong Kim replaces Robert Zoellick as the World Bank president.

“I am honored to accept the Executive Directors’ decision to select me as the next President of the World Bank Group. I am delighted to succeed Robert Zoellick, who has served with excellence and distinction during the last five years, and I am grateful to the Bank’s member countries for the broad support I have received.

I have spoken with Minister Okonjo-Iweala and Professor Ocampo. They have both made important contributions to economic development, and I look forward to drawing on their expertise in the years to come.

It is befitting that I conclude my global listening tour in Peru. It was here in the shantytowns of Lima that I learned how injustice and indignity may conspire to destroy the lives and hopes of the poor.

It was here that I saw how communities struggle to prosper because of a lack of infrastructure and basic services. It was here that I learned that we must raise our sights to match the aspirations of those most excluded.

And it was here that I learned that we can triumph over adversity by empowering the poor and focusing on results.

As President, I will seek a new alignment of the World Bank Group with a rapidly changing world. Together, with partners old and new, we will foster an institution that responds effectively to the needs of its diverse clients and donors; delivers more powerful results to support sustained growth; prioritizes evidence-based solutions over ideology; amplifies the voices of developing countries; and draws on the expertise and experience of the people we serve.

My discussions with the Board and member countries point to a global consensus around the importance of inclusive growth. We are closer than ever to achieving the mission inscribed at the entrance of the World Bank – “Our Dream is a World Free of Poverty.”

The power of this mission is matched by the talent of the World Bank Group staff. May this shared mission embolden our efforts to end the disparities which too often diminish our shared humanity. Let us work together to provide every woman and man with the opportunity to determine their own future.”

{{During his one day visit in Ruhango District, Southern Province, President Paul Kagame urged local population to work hard and become self sustainable.}}

He noted that people have to work hard and they can change positively their lives.

Kagame officially inaugurated a new Cassava Milling Factory in Kinazi Sector built at a cost estimated at US $10M and the District Hospital.

The Governor of Southern Province, Alphonse Munyantwali said that the new plant will help other farmers from different districts in Southern Province include Nyanza, Gisagara and Ruhango.

A cassava farmer Euralia Mukarugambwa said that she is able to support her family from cassava farming,“Now I have two children in University. I hope that all my five children will study in the university.”

President Kagame said that citizens can attain development that other countries have achieved, “There are countries that are very rich and then they use their wealth to feed us. Kagame said, “We all have to play our roles in the development of our country; government gives direction and people follow”.

Local residents said that they have hope that it will be easy to achieve benefits because they have a plant near them.

The modern Kinazi Cassava Milling Factory has production capacity of 40 tons of flour per day.

Equipment at the Cassava Milling Factory has been installed and tested. The flour will be available in markets by end April.

{{The First Lady Jeannette Kagame has begun today a two-day visit to Uganda at the invitation of her Ugandan counterpart Janet Museveni IGIHE has learnt.}}

Sources told Ugandan press that Mrs. Kagame will participate in a community service event, similar to Rwanda’s monthly Umuganda (community service), geared towards building a primary school at Itojo in Ruhama, Ntungamo district.

While in Uganda, Mrs. Kagame and her host are scheduled to preside over the commissioning of a model school at Rwekiniro built by Mrs Museveni.

Uganda’s ambassador to Rwanda, Richard Kabonero was quoted saying, “We welcome the First Lady of Rwanda’s visit which is a further sign of the existing deep relations between the two countries and builds on the momentum of our two heads of State,” Kabonero commented.

When she visited in July 2011, Mrs Kagame and her counterpart Mrs Museveni opened Igongo cultural center in Mbarara where the former donated $10,000 (sh23m) to promote Uganda-Rwanda culture.