The announcement released on Wednesday states that MINEDUC in collaboration with different Rwandan embassies around the world would like to establish and maintain an updated database of Rwandan students mainly those living abroad in order to continuously support and enhance education for all Rwandan students.
In order to ensure a successful education and to mitigate challenges that students may face such as high repetition rates, use of drugs and excessive use of alcohol, expulsion from universities and deportation, students are required to provide their contact details by registering themselves at Rwandan embassies.
“Prior to their departure, students should provide a medical certificate from a recognised hospital providing that students are drug-free,” the announcement reads in part.
Students were also required to attend a one-day induction programme to learn more about potential issues that may face them.
“This announcement concerns all Rwandan students studying or who intend to study abroad on Government sponsorship, Co-operation scholarship and private sponsorship,” MINEDUC notes.
While speaking at the National Dialogue Council (Umushyikirano) recently, President Paul Kagame called on all institutions to stand against drugs among the youth saying that it has become a worrisome matter worldwide.
The 25-year-old, who has scored 17 Premier League goals this season, helped Egypt reach the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations final in 2017.
He finished ahead of Liverpool team-mate and Senegal winger Sadio Mane.
Mane and Salah attended the ceremony in Ghana’s capital Accra, 24 hours before Friday’s FA Cup game against Everton, the latter ruled out with injury.
Borussia Dortmund and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came third.
“Winning this award is a dream come true, 2017 was an unbelievable year for me,” Salah said after receiving the trophy.
“I would like to dedicate it to all the kids in Africa and Egypt, I want to tell them to never stop dreaming, never stop believing.”
Salah, who was voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year in December, has enjoyed a stellar year for both club and country.
In early 2017, the forward was the central figure for Egypt as they finished runners-up at the Africa Cup of Nations.
He also had a hand in all seven of the goals that took the Pharaohs to their first World Cup since 1990 – assisting two and scoring five, including the stoppage-time penalty against Congo that saw them qualify them for Russia.
Salah’s form at club level has been every bit as impressive as it has in internationals.
In Italy, he scored 15 goals and made 11 others as he helped Roma finish second in Serie A, before joining Liverpool, where he has scored 23 goals in 29 games so far for Jurgen Klopp’s side this season.
Speaking about his Liverpool team-mate Mane, Salah suggested the Senegalese is on course to win the Player of the Year award himself in the future.
“I am very happy and very proud to share this moment with my friend, and I am sure he is going to win it very soon,” he said.
The Women’s Player of the Year award was won yet again by the former Liverpool and Arsenal star, Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria, who now plays for Dalian Quanjian in China.
She faced some criticism for her move, but said her success in winning the title for the third time proved she made the right decision.
The 38-year-old woman had relocated to Bugesera from Nyamagabe District of the Southern Province over domestic disputes.
The incident took place Tuesday around 6:00am in Ntarama Sector of Bugesera District.
The family had previously been living in Mushubi Sector of Nyamagabe District and separated due to domestic disputes. They have five children together.
After killing his wife, the husband attempted to stab and kill himself but did not succeed.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Police Spokesperson in Eastern Region, CIP Théobald Kanamugire confirmed the incident saying that the man was sent to Kanombe Military Hospital for medical care.
“The man killed her wife using knives and attempted to cut his own neck but did not die. He is in Kanombe Hospital. The family had domestic violence and they had separated. The woman was living in Nyamata and the man in Gisenyi,” he said.
Kanamugire said justice awaits the man after recovering from his wounds.
The Governor was speaking on December 3 in Ngoma Sector during the event to support the disadvantaged families.
At least 100 people were given health insurance premium – mutuelle de sante – while three households were given a cow each.
She observed that such support is meant to improve their good wellbeing and to prevent insecurities brought by poverty.
“Where there is poverty, criminality in the name of looking for survival is inevitable. You have to utilize such support and all available avenues to improve your standards of living,” Governor Mureshyankwano said.
“Protect your children, don’t let them go on streets, send them to school because education is their future; protect them engaging or abusing drugs,” she added.
“The best possible approach to fight all sorts of criminality is to work hard to develop, give basic needs to your children and own community policing programmes to report wrongdoers,” she said.
She further urged them to ensure sanitation and hygiene to prevent diseases.
The District Police Commander of Nyaruguru, Supt. Boniface Kagenza, also reminded the residents on dangers of narcotic drugs including driving children out of school and turning them into criminals, and fueling family conflicts.
He urged them to report drugs dealers in their communities, and protect children from all sorts of abuses by reporting those who violate children rights.
Hundreds of conflict-ridden families have so far been reconciled across the country through the traditional social cohesion designed to create and promote a sense of belonging, trust, and fighting exclusion and marginalization.
In Kirehe, Manasseh Ruhinda and his wife Margarithe Nacyanzi prior to their reconciliation on Wednesday, had lived a conflict and misery life for at least two years, but this was different to Thomas Bizimana and his spouse Jacqueline Nakure, whose domestic disputes date back 14-years ago.
Bizimana left the house two years abandoning his fatherly responsibility, and their conflicts had also separated and divided their children.
Like most other reconciled couples across the country, the two couples’ domestic wrangles were mainly based on male chauvinism, misuse of family income and property as well as drunkenness and drug abuse.
“I am sorry; I want us to get back together as husband and wife, take care of our children and develop as a family,” that’s all Bizimana could tell his wife Nakure after they were counseled.
Inspector of Police (IP) Gahigi Harerimana reminded them that family development thrives where both couples respect each other and value each others’ ideas, and work together.
“Individual egos and undermining your partner is not good for the wellbeing of the family; in fact, both the husband and wife have equal rights before the law… property belongs to both and proper upbringing of children is a shared responsibility,” IP Harerimana told the couples.
He also took them through their legal rights and urged them never to take the law in their own hands, which is criminal in nature.
Emmanuel Nsegiyumva, the executive secretary of Nyakabungo Cell urged them to spread the message and report other families that could be experiencing similar so as to help them as well to prevent violence.
In Boma, one of the worst-hit towns, residents told Al Jazeera they watched in despair as their loved ones were swept away by surging waters.
Makiadi Mvubu, who lost one of his daughters to the floods, told Al Jazeera: “I was trying to get into the house but just before I could it collapsed.
“We saved everyone but our daughter. We found her body four kilometres away.”
Torrential rains caused the Kalamu river, which flows through Boma, some 470km southwest of the capital, Kinshasa, to overflow last month, causing waters to hit a peak of two metres above their average level.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller, reporting from Boma, said some family members were still searching for bodies that may be buried in the mud.
“The force of the floodwater washed away a bridge,” she said. “It was so strong that some bodies were swept 35km into neighbouring Angola.”
So far, 50 people have been confirmed dead.
Anger has surged in the past few days at the government’s alleged slow response to the disaster.
“I am very disappointed because there is no help,” Vundula Mwaka, a Boma resident who has lost his home twice in one year to flooding, told Al Jazeera.
“We have lost everything. I got injured and I still haven’t been treated until now, not even a painkiller.”
Emergency services have been accused of being poorly equipped to deal with natural disasters, especially with towns and cities typically built up in a haphazard fashion.
Despite its vast mineral wealth, the DRC is classed among the world’s poorest countries and two thirds of its 70 million inhabitants get by on less than $1.25 a day.
Organised BK TecHouse, the three-week training intends to encourage youth to think about technology-based solutions.
The training is offered by Nigerian Obinna J. Ukwuani who is the founder of Makers Academy, a secondary school and learning centre in Nigeria and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students.
BK TecHouse is a subsidiary of Bank of Kigali Group Plc, Rwanda’s long-time leading financial institution.
Dubbed “Robotics Academy Rwanda 2018,” the training is taking place at Lycée de Kigali in Nyarugenge District and brought together 40 students aged between 14-17 years who are doing science subjects in secondary schools.
The training aims at raising their skills as well as preparing them for different jobs in the future.
Chief Executive Officer of BK TecHouse, Regis Rugemanshuro said that the training is part of their responsibilities to promote ICT and help youth understand it thoroughly.
He said that as Bank of Kigali celebrates 50 years of operations and plan for 50 years ahead, they thought about what they can do to help different companies and the country be well positioned in the future.
“After observing how robots do many things in a short period of time and through our partnership with MIT, we requested for their students to come and spend three weeks here training Rwandan children,” he said.
Beyond acquiring skills through the training, students will make robots that will perform different activities like cultivation as a way to solve problems using technology.
“We need to create confidence among Rwandans by showing them how things that are being done away are also possible in Rwanda and tell them that they are able to make them,” he said.
He added that they target to take the training to provincial level so that students will turn it into profitable business.
Director General of ICT at the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, Claudette Irere said that robotics technologyin Rwanda is timely alongside drones. She said that they need to prepare students to operate them.
“In teaching methodology, such things help to broaden mindsets of students and think big as well as creating new innovations,” she said.
Junior Gashumba, a student in Lycée de Kigali was excited to participate in the training saying the skills can bring positive impact among the population.
“This technology is good as it can help in societal lifestyle like using them in agriculture. I wish to learn much until I am able to make drones that can help in other services,” he said.
The amendments of the Law n° 47/2008 of 09 /09/2008 on prevention and penalising the crime of money laundering and financing terrorism, that is under review, state that suspects of terrorism should face 15-day pre-trial detention up from five for other cases.
Assessing the law amendments on Wednesday, the Vice-chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Athanasie Nyiragwaneza criticized the amendments saying that 15 days are so many.
“On pre-trial detention, five days were enough. These days were set following claims of people who were being detained and spending days without case files and investigations used to take longer. And now why 15 days for terror suspects and five days for suspects on other crimes?” questioned MP Nyiragwaneza.
The State Minister in charge of Constitution and other Laws at the Ministry of Justice, Evode Uwizeyimana said that terror cases should be handled particularly because terrorists use particular means.
“First of all, no person can commit terrorism alone. We can’t convince justice systems with testimonies gathered in five days; terrorism is a big connection of many people,” he said.
He said that terrorists use many tricks which require investigators to use many efforts and particular means to detect the suspects.
Gacinya who is also the vice-president for Rayon Sports, a local football team, is accused of poor tender execution in Rusizi District.
The prosecution accuses Gacinya’s company of breaching a tender contract of supplying 830 electricity pylons worth Rwf636 million.
Gacinya was not in the court room but some members of his family were present as the presiding judge read the decisions from a pre-trial hearing on Thursday afternoon.
The presiding judge said that there are tangible reasons to suspect Gacinya, adding that convicts of such crimes face two year imprisonment.
Gacinya is accused of forgery and using forged documents as well as deceiving the contracting party to a work agreement.
“It is now one year since we started working with EAC for sending equipments overseas and ordering some from there without us flying there. And now (Wednesday), I have sent a faulty transmitter to Italy for a replacement. I do not need to do any follow up on the movement of my cargo. EAC will deliver it to the wholesaler and bring me a replacement to my workplace as always,” said Nzamurambaho, the Country Manager of ERTEC Rwanda Ltd.
Nzamurambaho told IGIHE he is saving time and over 50% of costs that ERTEC previously used to spend on staff flight, freight and all travel facilitation since the company started in 2010.
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Bruce Rukundo, Operations and Sales Officer at East African Cargo, says the company is a partner of giant air freight forwarder, Brucargo Air Freight, which is based in Belgium but operates globally.
“We often carry cargo above 50 kgs to five tonnes but we can still carry a smaller quantity even to one kilogramme and bigger up to 15 tonnes. We often send cargo to US, Belgium, England, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, etc. With Brussels Airlines, the delivery is ensured as an experienced carrier with a lot of destinations of operation around the world and in collaboration with other airline companies,” he said.
Being a member of Lufthansa Group and Star Alliance, Brussels Airlines has partnership with other giant carriers including American Airlines and Swiss International Airlines to reach out to all corners of the world.
Rukundo said that they have reduced cargo prices by at least 20% depending on their types and the fee is charged depending on cargo weight, volume and type of products.
“We have extensive knowledge of this business, we advise clients on certification depending on types of products. There are some products like telephones, cars, biological samples, pyrethrum… that might contain products that are considered as dangerous goods such as batteries or other chemicals that must meet some regulations and wrapped in particular ways,” says Rukundo.
“Some clients come to us saying that they used a certain company to send cargo but the cargo was returned or blocked because they did not know about the regulations to ship those specific products.”
“We have a refrigerated vehicle that also keeps the products at the required temperature from airport to final destinations like from Kigali to Goma in DRC. We deliver cargo to Brussels in Belgium within one day and a maximum of three days to other cities in Europe and JFK Airport in New York, USA. We also have a system that helps a client track the movement of their cargo.”
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