Nzamwita announced the move while addressing the association’s elective General Assembly Saturday Morning. The Assembly preceded the election of the president.
Through FERWAFA’s twitter handle, they announced that Nzamwita pulled out due to personal and family reasons.
“Due to personal and family reasons, Nzamwita pulled out of the contest. He has thanked everyone who backed his reign in the past 4 years and promised to continue supporting Rwandan football and the next president who will be elected by the General Assembly,” twit reads.
Nzamwita was in the race to head the association with Félicité Rwemalika who immediately remained the only candidate.
The new young women and men also demonstrated to the RDF leadership their newly acquired professional skills at arms and drills before being welcomed to the Force.
The enrolment ceremony was presided over by the RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Patrick Nyamvumba on behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of RDF and the President of the Republic of Rwanda. The new RDF soldiers were urged to join hands with their brothers and sisters in the Force to protect the national sovereignty and contribute to the national transformation process.
“You are joining the RDF, a Defence Force with good and well-earned history and reputation. Those you are joining today have stopped Genocide against the Tutsi and liberated Rwanda. They continue today to contribute to the country’s development and transformation. I urge you to join them in this journey they started. They laid a strong foundation for you and it is up to you to build on it and do even better as one united force”, the RDF Chief of Defence Staff advised the new soldiers.
The CDS further underscored the importance for them to maintain discipline and commitment.
“I also want you to maintain discipline you have acquired through training; be it individual or collective. Discipline and commitment are core values in the RDF that are never compromised,” Gen Nyamvumba said.
The RDF spokesperson, Lt Col Innocent Munyengango revealed that recruitment and integration of new soldiers, same as retirement, are recurring processes that are in line with the RDF’s professionalization to better accomplish its mandate.
During recruitment and integration, young Rwandan men and women are selected and undergo a rigorous basic training at the end of which those who pass successfully are enrolled in RDF. The new members of this intake started their training back in November 2016 and were enrolled after one year of basic military training.
“The new members that joined us today in RDF bring new blood that will help us continue performing our constitutional roles”, the Spokesperson said.
The overall best new soldier among intake 09/2017, Private Nkurunziza Patrick told the media that he was proud of joining the RDF and serving his nation.
“I am proud to having been able to join the RDF and I am ready to give the best I can to serve my country”, he said, adding that his best performance can be attributed to hard work and discipline throughout the training.
It has always been anticipated though that, while students get immensely involved in merrymaking activities around this period, their behaviours could easily get influenced and spoiled by bad people who may lure the teenagers into malpractices including mainly abusing drugs which might hamper their dreams to become useful and competent citizens.
To fight the vice, Rwanda National Police, in Kirehe District earlier this week, sensitized about 100 youth majority students, on the dangers of drug abuse and to refrain from all sorts of criminal and immoral acts.
Inspector of Police (IP) Gahigi Harerimana, the District Community Liaison Officer (DCLO) of Kirehe, took the youngsters through all types of narcotic drugs, dangers associated with abusing drugs and challenged them to courageously step up against them by reporting those who either attempt to lure them into abusing or selling them and drug dealers.
IP Gahigi appealed to the youths to rebuff all kind of influences, support their parents and avoid behaviours that can take them into malpractices like abusing drugs.
“Drug abuse is not only a potential threat to one’s health… seriously damages brain capacity, but also a criminal act,” IP Gahigi told the youth.
He also urged them to abstain from sexual immorality acts, which result into unwanted pregnancies, contracting and transmitting HIV/AIDS among other sexual infectious diseases.
Each of the 40 fully furnished houses installed with water and electricity is worth Rwf11 million and were constructed by the district.
The modern homes built from the model of Four in One have around a public market square, health centre, nursery school and a cultural centre.
Beneficiary households were formerly living in cramped rented rooms while others had crumbling homes.
“We are seriously considering ways to strengthen their capacity by offering them capital to initiate their business and make this market place active,” said Vice-mayor for Social Affairs in Kicukiro District, Baingana Emmanuel.
He said the district will also construct a modern henhouse for the village residents to do poultry and urged them to get together into a cooperative.
Most of the largess beneficiaries are older persons.
Beneficiaries asked the district to consider providing them with a public transport line and playgrounds for their children.
During the reading of the verdict on Friday, the court announced that Mbarushimana is convicted of complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as the crime against humanity.
He committed crimes in former Muganza Commune in Butare Prefecture, currently in the Southern Province.
He is accused of instigating the establishment of two road blocks in the area where many people were killed. He is also said to have been among the leaders of the attack on Kabuye Hill where thousands of Tutsi were killed between April 21 and 25, 1994.
Mbarushimana, who was in the court as the presiding judge read the judgment, announced that he was going to appeal the decision.
Mbarushimana was extradited from Denmark in July 2014 after exhausting all avenues to block extradition efforts including petitioning the European Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights which ruled that there were all conditions necessary for him to get fair trial in Rwanda once extradited.
According to CNN’s list of best destinations worth visiting in 2018, Rwanda has been surfing a tide of good news stories in recent years as it distances itself from a troubled past with glowing accounts of its amazing volcanic landscape, clean streets, stable government and efforts to preserve endangered mountain gorillas.
May 2017 saw Rwanda gamble on doubling the price of gorilla trekking permits to $1,500, making it up to three times the price of some permits in neighboring Uganda. The plan is clearly to corner a more upscale market, catered for with the opening of new premium lodges, including One&Only’s Nyungwe House, and help supercharge the country’s tourism economy.
As Africa escapes go, it does look attractive if you can afford it. Verdant national parks such as Akagera, Volcanoes and Nyungwe Forest are home to safari favorites including lions, hippos, crocs and rare primates.
In 2017, Akagera completed its Big Five list with the triumphant reintroduction of eastern black rhinos after they vanished 10 years ago.
Throw in pleasant year-round temperatures of about 27 Celsius and direct flights from London and Rwanda could become one of the most tempting luxury year-round escapes on offer.
“Don’t miss Suspended a knee-wobbling 50-meters above the floor of the Nyungwe Forest, the Canopy Walk takes visitors across a narrow 200-meter bridge through treetops teeming with life,” reads CNN article.
Best destinations on the list are Cape Verde Islands; Botum Sakor National Park-Cambodia; Malta; Serbia; Nevis; Banff- Canada; Nagano-Japan; Puebla-Mexico; Essaouira- Morocco; Perth-Australia; Rwanda; Crete; PyeongChang-South Korea; Lisbon-Portugal, Cajamarca- Peru; Yunnan- China; Asheville-North Carolina and New Orleans.
During the party, children received clothes, meals, drinks and sanitation materials.
Their Parents hailed the gesture as a sign of how the government doesn’t forget inmates in the programmes intended to benefit the population.
“Offering us Christmas tips comforts us and our children. We are happy and have realised that we have access to programmes in the country. It restores our hope,” said Léonie Nyirampirwa, one of the parents of beneficiaries.
Patricie Dusabemariya said “after committing crimes, we thought that we were rejected, but this action shows us that the government considers us and our children.”
François Bisengimana, the Director of Adoption Protection and Promotion of Child Rights at the National Children Commission, said the act is part of reminding Rwandans about their societal responsibilities as it is in the government programmes.
“The government always offers facilitation to these particular categories of people; we shall continue to partner and improve facilitations as well as solving some problems they have raised like lack of ‘Daycare facilities’ for these children,” he said.
RCS Deputy Commissioner General of Prison (DCGP) Jeanne Chantal Ujeneza urged the inmates to instil good values into their children so that they grow up with positive minds.
“You should teach good values to these children so that they can live in harmony with their families and the community when they return home,” she said.
As news of Mr Weah’s victory emerged, his supporters began celebrating in the capital Monrovia.
He will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female president, in Liberia’s first democratic handover in decades.
“My fellow Liberians, I deeply feel the emotion of all the nation,” Mr Weah wrote on Twitter after the results were announced.
“I measure the importance and the responsibility of the immense task which I embrace today. Change is on.”
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Mr Weah, who was raised in a slum in Liberia’s capital Monrovia, starred at top-flight European football clubs Paris St-Germain (PSG) and AC Milan, before ending his career in England with brief stays at Chelsea and Manchester City.
He is the only African footballer to have won both Fifa World Player of the Year and the prestigious Ballon D’Or.
He entered politics after his retirement from the game in 2002 and is currently a senator in Liberia’s parliament.
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Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Director of Bank Supervision and Forex Bureaus at BNR, Françoise Kagoyire said that all banks were informed about the directives warning them against charging clients who may want to close their accounts.
“There are directives that were issued in 2016 with immediate effect. We have recently conducted a monitoring exercise on how the directives are being implemented and found out that some banks are complying. We have also sent them a message reminding them about the directives,” she said.
Kagoyire said that banks are not allowed to charge monthly fees on bankrupt accounts.
Banks were also urged to transfer to the Central Bank money from accounts that exceed five years without any transactions in order to ensure the funds security.
Central Bank Governor, John Rwangombwa urged clients to declare bank accounts that are no longer operational so that they don’t confuse planners during the national budget planning.
“Directives state that when you don’t want to use the account, you ask for its closure. Banks used to consider these accounts as operational and charge them monthly fees until they fall into debts,” he said.
Different banks had been charging between Rwf5,000 and Rwf10,000 for closing a bank account.
BNR observed in February 2017 that closing bank accounts exercise was being done contrary to the directives and the regulator was seeking to introduce new directives that would harmonize the exercise in all banks.
