He was elected to the position following African Countries’ request to be represented by Rwanda to the council committee.
He was elected yesterday replacing an Egyptian. He will serve a one year mandate.
Speaking to IGIHE yesterday, Amb. Ngarambe said that the recognition indicates the positioning of Rwanda on the international level.
“We have always been saying how these so called human rights organisations have other intentions in reporting falsehoods on Rwanda including on Human Rights of which reports have no truth,” he said.
“So, when they see how a person from the country they have been criticizing is elected to represent other countries on this council, they should note that such a country has a history and achievements that make other Africans believe in us,” Ngarambe explained.
He reminded that recently, President Paul Kagame was elected the African Person of the year, which coincided with taking over the stewardship of African Union Commission at the end of this January.
“Human Rights and other organization criticizing Rwanda have no reason to do so, they should rethink their criticism, based on how Rwanda’s leaders are rated by other African leaders, on our history and self-explanatory activities,” he added.
In August, a federal judge denied an appeal bid from Beatrice Munyenyezi , who was convicted and sentenced in 2013 in the same federal courthouse in New Hampshire where she was granted citizenship years earlier. She’s serving a 10-year sentence in Alabama and faces deportation afterward.
Munyenyezi’s appealing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. She says the judge didn’t review the stripping of her citizenship.
Beatrice Munyenyezi, 43, was immediately stripped of the US citizenship she had gained a decade earlier in the same courthouse where she was found guilty on Thursday of making false statements to officials in order to cover up how she selected Tutsis to be raped and murdered. She faces up to 10 years in prison and then likely deportation to face a trial in Rwanda for genocide.
Munyenyezi settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, with three young daughters in 1998 after claiming to have been persecuted in Rwanda.
She caught the attention of the US authorities several years later after giving false testimony on behalf of her husband and mother-in-law who were later sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other crimes against humanity by an international tribunal.
Last year, Munyenyezi’s sister, Prudence Kantengwa, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a separate trial and sentenced to 21 months in prison for failing to declare she was also in Butare in 1994 and had political connections to the perpetrators of the genocide.
Munyenyezi’s mother in law, Nyiramasuhuko, was the first woman convicted by the ICTR where she received a life sentence after being convicted of seven charges including genocide, crimes against humanity and incitement to rape. Her trial heard how she told militiamen “before you kill the women, you need to rape them”. On one occasion she ordered petrol poured over a group of women who were then burned to death after being raped.
Munyenyezi’s husband, Ntahobali, also received a life sentence.
Information obtained by this website shows that Agape Church owned by “Pastor” Deo Nyiligira has turned into a centre for RNC covert operations in western Uganda where religious deeds are only used as a cover up for RNC recruitment and mobilization activities.
This church is one of the dozen RNC cells operating freely in Uganda and engaged in mobilizing for this ragtag terrorist outfit thanks to the support they enjoy from Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) under the command of Brig. Gen. Abel Kandiho.
Well-placed sources intimated to this website that Deo Nyirigira’s Agape church in Mbarara is not only a recruitment front for RNC but also a planning base for all RNC clandestine operations in western Uganda.
Eyewitnesses testified to this website that RNC fugitives frequently meet at the church under the guise of prayers and draw up lists of young Rwandans to recruit into rebel activities but also come up with lists of innocent Rwandans deemed ‘hostile’ to RNC agenda.
According to one member of this church, those Rwandans classified as “hostile” to RNC propaganda are often baptized as Rwandan government spies and subsequently forwarded to CMI for arrest and torture.
“For the recruitment and mobilization to succeed those that they see as an obstacle to their agenda are simply framed as Rwandan spies and handed to CMI…it’s a strategy that is working well for the group,” the church member that spoke to this website on condition of anonymity said.
One of the recent victims of those lists is Emmanuel Cyemayire, a Rwandan businessman based in Mbarara who was kidnapped on January 4 by CMI operatives. His whereabouts remain unknown till today.
The group at church does not only stop at recruiting and plotting kidnaps, they also work with CMI to transport the recruits to their training base as the case was with the 43 recruits that were detained enroute for Minembwe in DRC through Burundi.
It should be recalled that this very Agape church is where Dr. Ruvuma, a well known RNC mobiliser in Mbarara was arrested from but later released amidst pressure from CMI. Ruvuma has since continued to operate freely for the terrorist group RNC since his release.
Other top RNC agents who frequent the church are Charles Sande (alias Robert Mugisha) and Felix Mwizerwa (Pastor Nyirigira’son). Mwizerwa and Dr Ruvuma were part of the group that escorted the 43 RNC recruits to Kikagati border post but escaped upon seeing Uganda Police detain the group.
For the past two months, Nyirigira’s church has been active in framing cases of espionage on innocent Rwandans and hence leading to their arrest. This website has detailed information on seven Rwandan businessmen and women who were kidnapped and taken to Kampala CMI after their names were drawn up by a group working from this church.
Pastor Deo Nyirigira fled justice in Rwanda in 2000 after members of his AGAPE Church in Kigali reported him to the authorities that he was extorting money from them and that he was using the church for personal gains at the expense of the interests of the members. Even members of his AGAPE Church in Mbarara have leveled similar charges against him his close links to CMI have helped to provide cover for these corrupt tendencies, according to sources with close links to the Church.
RNC operations in Uganda are coordinated by Rugema Kayumba, a cousin to RNC’s political head, Kayumba Nyamwasa and the CMI’s CPL Mulindwa aka Mukombozi and the duo work closely with chief of CMI, Brigadier Abel Kandiho.
The RNC-CMI harassment and torture of Rwandans has since been joined by the Uganda’s Minister of Security Lt Gen. Henry Tumukunde who is inspired by his anti-Rwanda stance.
The facility was found employing an unauthorised employee and was immediately closed on Tuesday.
Speaking to IGIHE, Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba said that the ministry’s monitoring exercise revealed that RAVI Pharmacy was employing a non-authorised employee in drugs delivery.
“Our directives clearly state that only a pharmacist shall do the job. When our audit reveals that they employ a person who did not study pharmacy, they face sanctions,” she explained.
Dr Gashumba emphasised that owners of pharmacies are aware of the directives though some of them are still defaulting the regulations. She said that the watchdog body is set to be introduced to detect people who are defaulting the regulations.
She advises pharmacy owners to respect the sector and value lives of the population.
“My message to owners of pharmacies is to respect the profession and value the lives of Rwandans because drugs provider should be skilled in that field,” she noted.
Raymond Dusabe‚ 40‚ a gynaecological oncologist who worked at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali‚ was found dead in a flat in Beach Road‚ Sea Point‚ on Monday. He had reportedly been struck over the head with a blunt object and his body was only discovered days later.
According to Timeslive, the Swahili-speaking, Junior Kamono from the Democratic Republic of Congo – dressed in red skinny jeans‚ a hoodie and basketball sneakers – told acting magistrate Joe Magele that he would conduct his defence in English.
He was arrested after a police flying squad unit traced the doctor’s car.
The ambassador of Rwanda in South Africa‚ Vincent Karega‚ said he had no idea about a possible motive for the murder.
The doctor and his alleged attacker reportedly met in Sea Point in the hours leading up to the attack.
The Stellenbosch University website said that Dusabe was Rwanda’s first gynaecological oncologist.
He grew up as a refugee in Burundi after some of his family were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He returned to Rwanda in 1998 after completing high school and studied medicine at former National University of Rwanda before specialising in gynaecology at Stellenbosch.
He graduated with his Master of Medicine degree in 2014 before continuing his studies by specialising in gynaecology oncology.
King Faisal Hospital tweeted that it was “saddened to announce the death of Dr Raymond Dusabe. The administration wishes to express its most sincere sympathies to his family during this difficult time. His work here will not soon be forgotten. He will be greatly missed. May He Rest In Peace.”
Israel said last Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March.
The vast majority come from Eritrea and Sudan and many say they fled war and persecution as well as economic hardship. Israel treats them mostly as economic migrants.
The plan offers African migrants a $3,500 payment from the Israeli government and a free air ticket to return home or go to “third countries”, which rights groups identified as Rwanda and Uganda.
“We are again appealing to Israel to halt its policy of relocating Eritreans and Sudanese to sub-Saharan Africa,” William Spindler of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told a Geneva briefing.
“Official statements that the plans may eventually target families and those with pending asylum claims, or that asylum seekers might be taken to the airport in handcuffs, are particularly alarming,” he said.
Some 27,000 Eritreans and 7,700 Sudanese live in Israel, but authorities there have only granted refugee status to 11 since 2009, Spindler said.
In Europe, Eritreans have a very high rate of recognition as refugees fleeing war or persecution, he said. ”So we would expect that among them, many would qualify for refugee status.
“What we would like to see in Israel – and we are willing to help in that respect – is to find legal alternatives for these people, through resettlement in other countries.”
Rwanda and Uganda both said last Friday they had not struck any deal to take in African migrants from Israel under a scheme condemned by rights groups.
Over the past two years, UNHCR has interviewed 80 Eritrean refugees or asylum seekers in Rome who arrived in Italy after a hazardous journey across Africa following their departure from Israel to Rwanda, Spindler said.
“Along the way, they suffered abuse, torture and extortion before risking their lives once again by crossing the Mediterranean to Italy,” he said.
Some migrants had reportedly died en route to Libya, he said, noting that U.N. agencies are carrying out emergency evacuations of migrants from Libya, where slave-like conditions have been reported in detention centers.
The handover ceremony took place in Kinigi area of the Northern Province on Tuesday.
The property adds to the 16,000 hectares that had formerly comprised the national park.
Volcanoes National Park is home of the critically endangered mountain gorillas but the space has decreased by 54% since its establishment in 1925. Due to conservation efforts by the Government of Rwanda and its conservation partners, mountain gorilla numbers are recovering.
Gorilla population has increased from 285 in 1978 to 480 in 2010. Between 2003 and 2010, the population increased by 26.3%. This represents an annual growth rate of 3.7%. The increase in the mountain gorilla population has led to a major challenge for an adequate habitat.
Recognising the need for additional land, RDB Chief Executive Officer Clare Akamanzi appreciated African Wildlife Foundation for the land donation.
“Today’s donation to the Volcanoes National Park is a major step in the consolidation of Rwanda’s conservation gains for the benefit of communities today and future generations. Through gorilla conservation and tourism, we are directly benefitting from these wonderful animals. Over the last nine years, revenues from mountain gorilla conservation and the resulting tourism has brought $107 million into the national coffers,” she said.
Over Rwf531,466, 921 was last year distributed by RDB to more than 158 community-based projects through the tourism revenue sharing programme. The support will increase this year following the government’s decision in 2017 to increase the revenue sharing programme from 5% to 10% of all tourism revenues.
“In addition, in partnership with fellow conservationists, over 700 community-based projects providing housing, schools, health clinics, water tanks have been provided for the communities living in 12 sectors from four districts surrounding the Volcanoes National Park”, she said.
Over 298,000 tourists have visited the Volcanoes National Park since 2006. An average number of 29,000 tourists visited the Park annually between 2011 and 2016.
AWF President Kaddu Sebunya said Rwanda had distinguished itself as a leader in conservation following the most remarkable great ape recovery.
“I am excited by the great strides Rwanda is taking to develop its natural heritage sustainably and guarantee long-term socio-economic stability for its people. Through proactive government policies, community involvement and open governance, Rwanda is demonstrating that development and conservation are inseparable. Such a win-win approach to conservation suggests that there is nothing inevitable about conservation challenges in Africa today,” Kaddu said.
He said Rwanda and RDB had provided a template for sustainable development.
“With support from the Annenburg Foundation, AWF bought 27.8 hectares of land directly adjacent to the Park to donate to the Government of Rwanda to be incorporated into the Volcanoes National Park. AWF recognises that if mountain gorillas are going to survive in the long-term, this park must be strategically protected and we are committed to supporting RDB in this endeavour,” he said.
Among them, 51 students are from O’Level and 102 from primary school.
Speaking to IGIHE shortly after the results’ release on Tuesday, the Head of Examinations and Accreditation Department at REB, Dr. Michel Rwibasira Tusiime said that some students exhibited bad behaviours and resulted into temporary reservation of results for 153 students. He said results for two more students were completely withheld.
“Withholding results is temporal except those two students who entered examination rooms with cheating materials. Other cases are to be investigated and the results can be released based on the nature of each one’s case. There is no tolerance for these students who were caught with cheating materials,” said Rwibasira.
He said the students committed similar faults including the same answers to multiple choice questions, deletions and writing similar new answers while others unacceptably wrote their identifications on examination sheets.
He said that through different measures against malpractices, withheld results were reduced by 50% compared to the previous year.
While unveiling the results, the State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education at the Ministry of Education, Dr. Isaac Munyakazi said that some teachers are in prison over their bad behaviours in 2016 national examinations, adding that investigations are also underway about those involved in malpractices in 2017.
“We have some cases that are being investigated like where answers for students from the same examination room show that there was an irresponsible invigilator or allowed them to cheat. We cannot judge but institutions in charge are investigating the cases and all involved will face sanctions,” he explained.
According to REB, if students find that their results were reserved, they should go to the board to seek explanations. The students may provide necessary information which can help the board assess their cases and will probably release their results.
REB issued directives in 2017 stating that any teacher found involving in cheating cases shall be denied access to national examinations exercise and face legal sanctions.
According to Xinhua, the Minister will also visit Angola, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe
“Over the past 20-plus years, Chinese foreign ministers have always chosen Africa as their first trip in the new year. Wang’s continuation of this tradition shows that China consistently pays great attention to China-Africa ties,” spokesperson Lu Kang said at a daily press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.
Lu said that Wang’s visit will promote political mutual trust, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, and prepare for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit, which will be hosted by China this year.
Stocked in MAGERWA warehouses, the RMC’s Qurans and 1,444 cartons of ‘grapevine fruits’ locally known as intende, will go to auction on 28th this month.
According to the announcement from RRA, the auction is set on 28th this month at Magerwa in Gikondo, Kigali city.
Both the Qurans and grapevine fruits were from foreign donors to RMC.
RMC was reportedly informed too late about the arrival of goods, making them fail to clear taxes on time.
IGIHE heard that RMC is unable to pay the required Rwf30 million as taxes to acquire the goods.
RMC officials did not want to comment on the issue by press time.
Among other goods to be auctioned are mattresses, generators and machines, glasses and water dispensers and more commodities stocked at Magerwa and Ballore Logistics warehouses.
According to RRA, failing to clear taxes for goods in public warehouses before six months results in auction to avoid accumulating taxes and to leave space for incoming goods
