He is was among 38 students who received Master’s degree in eEconomics during a the ceremony held yesterday at the headquarters of the College in Massachusetts in which other 511 students were conferred upon Bbachelor’s degrees.
The President of Williams College, Maud S. Mandel said that it was the 230th intake and lauded different guests including friends and relatives of graduates from different corners for attending the ceremony.
The graduates are from 61 countries.
One of the guests Joseph Wilson said that it is of great value to reach the milestone successfully after graduates spent days and nights studying to succeed exams and being away from their homes.
Graduates were asked to use acquired knowledge to transform their communities and play a role in seeking solutions to address existing problems.
Ange Kagame who also obtained Master’s degree last month at the School of International and Public Affairs, SIPA in Columbia has via twitter account congratulated his brother Ian Kagame who was a player of the Williams College in football and Track & Field.
“Two Sport College Athlete (Track & Field Captain & Soccer). To the sibling that makes the rest of us feel like we’re underachieving. Congrats on another milestone-Economics Degree. Sooo proud of you,” she said.
Minimally invasive surgery is a medical operation which is done on patients.
It is done without opening the body, but with the use of a camera which projects the suffering part and the operation is done through a small hole on the affected area.
Hence the patient gets little pain, few complications and a shorter hospital stay and fewer complications.
Dr. Bukara Emmanuel, an orthopedic surgeon at King Faisal Hospital lauded the new addition to the medical services the hospital offers, noting that it was rarely performed in East Africa. Currently few surgeries of the same nature are being done in Nairobi.
With the help of a team led by Dr. Nyiko Chauke from South Africa, last week, ensured 13 minimally invasive shoulder surgeries at King Faisal Hospital.
These surgeries are performed on soft injuries like frozen shoulder, capsulitis, rotator cuff tears, labral tears and acromial clavicular joint arthritis.
“We no longer have to open the body, you only look into it with a camera, make a small pinhole and start operating. It can be done in orthopedics surgery, general surgery, gynecology, and even neurosurgery”, Dr. Bukara said.
He further said that in King Faisal Hospital, previously orthopedic surgeons used to conduct surgeries with minimally invasive technique on knee injuries only.
“With minimally invasive surgery, you go straight to what you need to do, and reduce a massive work with an eye of a camera”, he added
Dr. Nyiko Chauke says minimally invasive surgery has other advantages like minimal tissue damage and minimal scars.
Shema Michel, a patient whose shoulder was operated last week, told IGIHE that he didn’t experience as much pain as he had been expecting.
Shema, who had been suffering a frozen shoulder for a year, said he is sure he will be discharged from hospital soon.
“The surgery was done yesterday but now I feel well. There are some directions in which my right arm was not able to move but it is possible now. There is also no much pain as it was before”, he said
In Rwanda; minimally invasive shoulder surgery is now available in King Faisal Hospital only.
This will help those used to travel abroad to look for such service or those who would stay home for failing to afford to go abroad.
The Presidential Order determining modalities for consolidation of memorial sites of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi for better preservation was issued on 27th May 2019.
The order stipulates that memorial sites for the Genocide against the Tutsi are permanent and shall not be moved. However, if deemed necessary and for their better maintenance, memorial sites for the Genocide against the Tutsi may be merged.
Under the said Presidential Order, when memorial sites for the Genocide against the Tutsi are consolidated, depending on specific history of a site from which a memorial has been moved, a sign reminiscent of that history must remain at the site.
The Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), Dr Bizimana Jean Damascène has told IGIHE that the intention is to keep well-preserved memorials holding history and having enough space that can facilitate students to learn easily.
“There are some memorials built by individuals yet genocide memorials normally belong to the Government which preserves them. The Government wants to keep memorials that can be well-maintained forever within available means to preserve such history,” he said.
Bimenyimana who was arrested on Saturday is said to have been forging motor-vehicle inspection certificates, which he has been selling to other drivers or vehicle owners.
According to Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Alexis Rugigana, the Police spokesperson for the Northern region, Bimenyimana has been arrested in the past over similar crimes.
“At the moment we have identified three vehicles with forged inspection certificates issued by Bimenyimana. In February, he issued a forged certificate for the vehicle RAB 249P and another to RAA 634I driven by one Theogene Nsanzimana, last month,” CIP Rugigana said.
After his arrest Police also found that the vehicle Bimenyimana was driving had an expired mechanical certificate, which was also forged because it does not appear in the system.
The motor-vehicle inspection system stores data for all automobiles inspected.
“Some people became suspicious that Bimenyimana could be involved in criminal activities and forging mechanical certificates; he had issued some of them and was promising many other drivers to get them the certificates, so they decided to report him to Police,” CIP Rugigana said.
He thanked those, who inform the police on such criminal acts and urged the general public to give no room for such wrongdoers.
Mechanical certificate can only be obtained from the MIC in Remera, Gasabo District or where the mobile inspection lane is stationed.
“The arrest of Bimenyimana is part of the Rwanda National Police ongoing crackdown on people involved in forging or unlawfully issuing traffic related documents,” CIP Rugigana said.
The arrest comes barely one day after Police in Kigali apprehended three people masquerading as Police officers and defrauding people of their money promising to give them driver’s license.
They had already conned about five people of over Rwf1 million.
RNP advises the public that it has no brokers and calls for sharing information on anyone alleging to be working on its behalf.
The dead have been idified; Joseph Habumugisha, 53, the driver from Kicukiro, Niyomwungeri Theogene, 37, Nyarugenge, Kanyandekwe Michael, 31, Nyarugenge, Mukarubuga Erida, 54, from Huye, Dushimimana Therese and the sixth whose identities have not yet been established by press time.
It is said that the incident took place yesterday when the driver steered to the wrong way crossing the bridge along the road under construction located in Gafunzo village hence slipping in the river and washed away. The river was flooded.
Residents in the area said the automobile carried three men and three women. It is said that three people on board were going to visit friends while three others were given a free drive.
The mayor of Ruhango district, Valens Habarurema has told IGIHE that the bridge where the incident happened had been completed and is used by passengers and other vehicles.
“Police has started investigation but the bridge was already completed and operational. The driver used the wrong way as he crossed the bridge leading the vehicle to slip in the river. Their bodies have been recovered from the river and taken to Gitwe Hospital. We condole with bereaved families,” he said.
The representative of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) at Murambi memorial, Stanley Mugabarigira explained that victims killed in Murambi had come from different commune of the then including Karama, Mudasomwa, Kinyamakara and Rukondo.
He explained Tutsi started fleeing between 9th and 11th April 1994 after genocide perpetrators started setting their properties on fire.
Some fled to churches while others were taken in a bus to Murambi School believing it was a safe place. They were however attacked in the night of 21st April 1994 by soldiers with grenades and later killed the rest with traditional weapons.
The place turned into Murambi Memorial which is home to over 50,000 victims killed at the school and neighboring areas.
After visiting five sections of Murambi memorial and receiving explanations on genocide history, the management of BUFMAR donated food stuff including rice, beans, sanitary equipment among others to Seraphine Mukamazimpaka, a vulnerable genocide survivor in Gasaka sector.
The Chairman of the Board of BUFMAR, Dr Albert Nzayisenga said that commemoration of genocide enables Rwandans to reflect on the country’s history to learn consequences of bad leadership and draw measures to prevent re-occurrence of genocide.
Ten employees of BUFMAR were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The Managing Director of BUFMAR, Ernest Rwagasana said that they draw strength from remembering fallen staff to strive for a peaceful country.
Rwagasana explained that visiting Murambi memorial was meant to learn from cruel killings of Tutsi in different places to be passed to their children.
“We want to learn more about how genocide was committed with extreme cruelty and draw measures against genocide,” he said.
The spokesperson of Anglican Church of Rwanda (EAR) in Kigeme diocese, Bishop Asiel Musabyimana said commemorating the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi is a good opportunity of joining Rwandans to look back and adopt anti-genocide measures.
BUFMAR was founded in Rwanda in 1975 on the initiative of the Christian Churches. It comprises of 22 members including 9 Catholic Church dioceses, Anglican Church, ADEPR, Eglise Methodiste du Rwanda, Association des Eglise Baptiste au Rwanda (AEBR), Union des Eglises Baptiste au Rwanda (UEBR) and Eglise Presbyterienne au Rwanda (EPR).
The event held on Friday was preceded by a walk to remember from IPRC Kicukiro to the memorial.
After laying wreaths and honoring genocide victims laid at the memorial, they received explanations on history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) who was the guest of honor took them through sufferings Tutsi endured during the preparation of genocide since 1559 until it was executed in 1994 taking lives of more than one million Tutsi.
He said the battle of bullets ended and the remaining one is telling the truth of what happened to pacify those who still undermine the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Talking to IGIHE, the Deputy Governor of Rotary Club District 9150, Jeannette Rugera said that the visit is part of their annual agenda to join the rest of Rwandans during commemoration period.
“We have come to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi for the 25th time which Rotary does annually. We have visited Nyanza memorial because it holds unique history though we have been previously visiting Kigali Genocide Memorial,” she noted.
Present were the youth aged between 18 and 30 from Rotaract in secondary schools and universities along with young people aged between 12 and 18 known as Interact to learn more about history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Rotary International is a global service organization whose purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
Rotary members strive for a shared responsibility to take action on the world’s most persistent issues. It has over 35,000 clubs that work together to, promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, save mothers and children, support education, and grow local economies.
President Kagame and João Lourenço of Angola are among heads of states attending the national mourning in DRC to pay respects to late Etienne Tshisekedi.
They held talks yesterday, one day before his burial scheduled today in Nsele commune.
The body of longtime Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi arrived Thursday evening in Kinshasa as his son Felix, now the nation’s president waited at the airport.
The younger Tshisekedi then accompanied the body during a formal procession that stopped at his home and at the headquarters of Tshisekedi’s political party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), where party supporters waited to pay their respects.
The slow journey through the streets marked the end of a long battle to repatriate the remains of Tshisekedi, who was 84 when he died in Brussels, Belgium, in February 2017.
His death came at the height of tensions between former president Joseph Kabila and the Congolese opposition, particularly the UDPS; the first attempt to bring his body home was in March 2017 but each time the plans were frustrated by conflicts over the details of his repatriation, funeral, and burial.
That changed after Felix Tshisekedi was inaugurated earlier this year, and the family was greeted with a hero’s welcome from the Congolese people.
Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba (14 December 1932 – 1 February 2017) was a Congolese politician and the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the main opposing political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A long-time opposition leader, he served as Prime Minister of the country (then called Zaire) on three brief occasions: in 1991, 1992–1993, and 1997.
Tshisekedi was the main Congolese opposition leader for decades. Although he served in the government of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in various positions, he also led the campaign against Mobutu and was one of few politicians who challenged the dictator.
Tshisekedi and his UDPS party boycotted the 2006 elections organized in Congo on claims that elections were fraudulent and were systematically rigged in advance.
He was a candidate for President of Congo in the 2011 elections that many national and international observers, notably the Carter Center, have said lacked credibility and transparency.
Having officially lost to incumbent Joseph Kabila, Tshisekedi nevertheless declared himself the “elected president” of Congo.
Policemen and Kabila’s presidential guards were subsequently stationed at every corner that gives entrance to Tshisekedi’s residence, placing him under unofficial house arrest
The agreements were held yesterday as President Tshisekedi hosted President Kagame and President João Lourenço of Angola Tshisekedi who were in DRC for national mourning ceremony of his father.
According to a communiqué released by DRC presidency at the end of the three leaders’ meeting discussions revolved around strengthening cooperation between the three countries.
The communiqué also stressed the importance of inviting other regional heads of state to the tripartite axis in order to find ways to eradicate the phenomenon of Congolese and foreign armed groups and other questions related to security of the states.
They also agreed to revive efforts to promote peace and security through the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), an inter-governmental organisation made up of twelve countries in the Africa Great Lakes region.
ICGLR member states include Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The three presidents also agreed to further promote efforts to expand economic exchanges and trade in line with the need for regional cooperation and development.
Prior to the tripartite meeting, President Kagame was welcomed to the Presidential Palace in N’Sele by President Tshisekedi and First Lady Denise Tshisekedi.
DRC forests are home to Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) for over 20 years.
Within five year tenure, Tshisekedi is expected to revive DRC, Rwanda relations especially disarming armed groups.
Towards the end of 2018, Rwanda’s prosecution issued arrest warrant for Kayumba Nyamwasa and other ring leaders of rebel groups known as P5 or RNC organizing their activities in DRC forests to threaten Rwanda’s security.
The threat of non-state armed groups in the Great Lakes region remains active, with DRC’s forests still hosting both Congolese and foreign terrorist groups that threaten state and regional security.
The groups include Rwandan terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is comprised of remnants of the genocidal forces that killed more than a million Rwandans during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Through collaboration with FARDC, the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo, some FDLR commanders including Laforge Fils Bazeye, FDLR spokesperson and chief spy Lieutenant-Colonel Abega have been arrested and sent back to Rwanda to face justice.
They were arrested last year returning from Uganda in a meeting intended to threaten Rwanda’s security.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Hamdun Twizeyimana said the man identified as Peter Habumugisha was arrested on Thursday trying to deposit the fake notes at a local commercial bank branch in Kigabiro Sector.
“Police was called by the bank management after they detected that the Euro notes Habumugisha was trying to deposit were all counterfeit,” CIP Twizeyimana said.
“He had 43 currency notes in the denominations of £50, and all bearing the same serial number,” he added.
The suspect is detained at the station of Rwanda Investigation Bureau in Kigabiro.
In most cases, the foreign currencies especially dollars and Euros seized bear the same serial numbers.
CIP Twizeyimana called for vigilance especially in financial institutions, forex bureaus and advised those who want to exchange money to go to recognized forex bureaus to avoid being defrauded in black markets.
The National Bank of Rwanda says that the threat of counterfeiting of Rwandan currency remains as low as 0.001% of currency in circulation.
However, if counterfeit money is not controlled it may lead to expansion of the underground illegal activities, which are not always part of the tax base.
According to the central bank, key security features to recognise a genuine Rwandan banknote include a 3mm security thread, a coat of arms of Rwanda that can be seen when a note is exposed to light. The Rwf2, 000 and Rwf5, 000 notes also bear anti-copy
