The yearly report dubbed ‘Rwanda Bribery Index’ in a survey carried among 2,385 people between 18 and 60 shows that bribe has generally been reduced.
According to the report, bribery increased in Traffic Police to 11.67%, energy services to 9.19%, private sector 9.06% and 8.22% in Universities.
The Executive Secretary of TI Rwanda, Apollinaire Mupiganyi said that corruption has reduced in Rwanda as it is ranked 3rd in Africa and 50th globally among less corrupt countries.
He said though much has been done, they should not tolerate some institutions where corruption still appears.
“Currently corruption stands at 24% from 24.5% in 2016, nothing big has changed. What has been changed is the amount of money one should provide to get a service. The average is Rwf36,000,” he said
The Deputy Commissioner General of Police, Juvenal Marizamunda said that in Police, they have put in place particular measures to fight corruption.
“We have taken tough measures, whoever is caught involving in corruption cases is expelled from Police Services and prosecuted. We have also established Police Special Force for fighting corruption and we hope that in partnership with other institutions, corruption will be routed out,” he said.
Rwandan government published a report on Wednesday that it had commissioned from a ‘US Law Firm’ alleging France to help army and protect the perpetrators of genocide before, during and after genocide period in which many Tutsis were killed.
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo said that some French officials had “got away with murder, literally”.
The report by Washington law firm Cunningham Levy Muse, which was handed to the French government by Rwanda’s ambassador to Paris on Tuesday, urges Paris to release classified documents relating to the period.
The “Muse Report”, which Rwanda says is the most complete account of French complicity to date, accuses French officials of continuing “to conceal their own role in the genocide and to undermine attempts to prosecute genocide suspects”, many of whom live in France.
Although Rwanda was a Belgian colony, France gained significant influence in the central African country from the 1970s and was a backer of the government of Juvenal Habyarimana.
There was a systematic cover-up and fabrication of a narrative to hide the traces of French military and political collaboration in the genocide.
According to the report, the French government of François Mitterrand trained the police and army who took part in the genocide and may have helped create the lists of Tutsi citizens marked out for killing. It also claims senior French officials “joined in the elaboration of genocide ideology” by participating in “anti-Tutsi vitriol”.
The report casts French support for the interim Rwandan government that carried out the genocide as an attempt to shore up France’s influence in central Africa against a perceived attempt by Britain and the US to bring Rwanda into the Anglo sphere of influence.
It quotes General Christian Quesnot, the chief military adviser of the then president, as telling Mitterrand that an invasion from neighbouring Uganda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front was an attempt to create a “Tutsiland with Anglo-Saxon help”.
In 1998, a French parliamentary commission found no evidence of French collaboration in the genocide. It defended an intervention in June 1994, known as Opération Turquoise, as a genuine attempt to provide safe harbour for refugees.
President Paul Kagame, led RPF invasion in 1990 that put an end to the genocide and took over the country in 1994. Under Kagame leadership, Rwanda changed its main language to English and broke diplomatic relations with France between 2006 and 2009. Currently, there is no French ambassador to Rwanda after Kigali refused to give accreditation.
“There had been a systematic cover-up and fabrication of a narrative to hide the traces of French military and political collaboration in the genocide,” Mushikiwabo has said.
Will Jones, a Rwanda expert at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Kigali was justified in pursuing French complicity, the evidence of which “was extremely well documented and non-controversial”.
The argument that France was defending its sphere of influence and backing a government against an invading force could never “justify genocide”, Mushikiwabo said, adding that Mitterrand had dismissed genocide in Africa as “no big deal”.
According to Mushikiwabo, talk of a “double genocide” perpetrated by both Tutsis and Hutus was part of an attempt by some in France to cover up the country’s role.
French journalists, academics and civil society groups have continued to investigate France’s alleged role in the genocide. In September, France’s public prosecutor opened an investigation into allegations that BNP Paribas transferred more than $1.3 Million of funds that were ultimately used to finance the purchase of 80 tonnes of weapons used in the genocide.
The French government did not respond to requests for comment.
There are a lot of criminals and evil minded people out there who are looking for a way to scam or destroy you. The slightest mistake on your part can grant them the power to.
If you use social media in any way, you must be very wary of the following…
{{Syncing all your social media account}}s
There was a time I tried this, because it looked cool, however, I soon came to realise that these social media platforms differ. What works for platform A may not work with another, so it’s better to operate them individually. For example some platforms have language and characters that are unique to them. Imagine how awful it’d be if you used them on another platform as a result of synchronization.
{{Avoid using a single password for all your accounts}}
It’s easier to use one password for all your social media accounts and email because it saves you the stress of writing all of them down for recollection purposes, however it’s unsafe and exposes your accounts to easier hacking. If a hacker gets a hold of one of your passwords, he’ll try it on other accounts, and he’d be having a field day if it works on all of them. The same goes for your email too. It’s always better to use at least, 3 or 4 different passwords for all your accounts. Make sure your passwords aren’t easy to guess. If possible, combine letters with numbers for the best security.
{{Disclosure/being careless with login information}}
Some of us have no problems with sharing our social media accounts and passwords with the people close to us. It does seem harmless because you trust them, and they ‘wouldn’t hurt you’, but even if they didn’t, they could be careless with it, and if it gets into the wrong hands, that is trouble. If you ever have to use a public computer, don’t forget to logout afterwards to avoid it getting into bad hands.
{{Avoid links}}
Some links are harmless, but there are countless others that are dangerous, and should be ignored. Clicking on a hacker-link would only expose your account to malware or dangerous people. If you notice a link in a Private Message or email you never solicited for, ignore it; likewise attachments, as these can ruin your account.
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The conference that brought together party members, scholars and different leaders from across the continent and beyond took place under the theme ‘Liberation and Transformation: Realising a dignified and prosperous Africa’.
The conference targeted to boost solidarity around the common fate that Africans share, and RPF’s commitment to contributing to Africa’s transformation.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, the RPF Vice-Chairperson, Christophe Bazivamo said that from the liberation struggle until now, RPF’s message has been consistent.
“The leadership of the country today was mooted in the aftermath of the Genocide during the national conference that was convened at Village Urugwiro where consensus was agreed upon as the best way to lead our country,” he said.
The conference featured panel discussions, with one under the theme; ‘Driving National Transformation and Realizing Africa’s full potential’ where panelists discussed key features of national transformation and what is required to maintain ideological clarity.
Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa and the former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer participated in the conference.
Mkapa congratulated President Paul Kagame for great nationalism and pan-Africanisim saying that it has earned him the respect of his people and the entire African continent.
He reiterated the need for continued integration of Africa saying that it is rooted in the very foundation of the former Organisation of African Unity, which is now the African Union.
“Next year, Africa must do what it takes to ensure the African youth change their aspirations of going to Europe for greener pasture by ensuring they find those opportunities in Africa so they stay,” Mkapa urged.
Founded by Rwandan entrepreneur Abdul Ishimwe, Aisance Enterprise started in 2016 offering consultation services to businessmen and women going to Turkey from all over the word but later expanded business to trade construction materials, pharmaceutical products, hospital materials and more.
Ishimwe, 21, moved to Turkey in January 2016 to pursue his university course in civil Aviation Management at Istanbul Aydin University and the environment over there inspired him to start an exporting company. Ishimwe has partners among Turkish giant companies but Aisance Enterprises has representatives in different countries including Rwanda.
Speaking to IGIHE, Ishimwe said the company has so far made most of its deliveries to Middle-East countries, Oman, Nigeria, Kuwait and Qatar.
Aisance Enterprise has so far made several deliveries to Burundi and Rwanda including hardware materials to a prominent importer, Kavukire Hardware in Kiigali.
“Our major target is to help clients who come to us, easing the way of buying and transporting goods from Istanbul to their countries. We are here to do everything for our customers and deliver products to their destinations. They can place an order via email or short messages and our employees are 24/7 available to offer any guidance and help,” said Ishimwe.
Some of the products that Aisance Enterprise trades are prefabricated construction materials in steel and wood, tiles, iron bars, electric bars, green houses, poultry systems, baking systems, tractors, Ultrasound, X-ray machines, MRI machines and more.
In partnership with one of the best hospitals in Turkey, Guven Hospital, the company also provides hospital tourism services to ensure that customers’ health is in good hands while in Turkey.
“On those prefabricated construction, we do sell the materials and send our civil engineers to do the construction. About hospital tourism, we do help our clients by giving them invitation papers, helping them to reach the hospital and we keep in touch until they have recovered well,” Ishimwe added.
With Aisance Enterprise, the delivery period takes two to three days on air shipments and a maximum of one month on sea shipments.
Ishimwe said the company aims to sell Rwandan products to the world in the near future as they add more products on list.
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The 9th edition started yesterday is attended by Imbuto Foundation’s ‘Edified Generation’ scholarship programme from which 228 being enrolled for the first time while 192 are in their last year of secondary education.
The annual camp is implemented under the Youth Empowerment and Mentorship Programme, established by Imbuto Foundation in 2007, to engage, empower and educate Rwandan youth.
Speaking at the opening of the camp, Imbuto Foundation Director General, Sandrine Umutoni urged students to follow lectures so that they will learn much from them.
“I also call upon you to be on top in schools where you belong in, you should read books, conduct research beyond what your teachers give you,” she urged students.
“You should have enthusiasm in using opportunities that surround you and work hard for your development, families, community and the country in general. You should have your role models and we as Imbuto Foundation are there to support you,” she said.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Emmanuel Bigenimana thanked Imbuto Foundation as the main partner in supporting the youth in Rwanda, andhe pledgedthem continued support from the Ministry.
He urged youth to use the opportunity and learn much enough.
“Concerning youth here, you are benefiting from the current policy that supports youth, which was not the case for your parents,” he said.
In 2017 Academic Year, Imbuto Foundation supported 720 students from 110 schools from around the country.
In the camp, the students engage with speakers by using different methods of creative interactions such as group discussions and educative games. The topics of discussion include discipline, Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health, human trafficking, importance of saving culture as well as drug and alcohol abuse among others.
Mutangana was speaking yesterday to the Senatorial Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Security while exchanging ideas on prosecuting runaway genocide suspects from outside the country.
He said that they still encounter challenges of countries which do not want to change their mindsets towards help in extradition of suspects.
“Actually, there is a political will challenge for some countries; the more genocide suspects are not arrested, the more genocide ideology continues to rise; so we have discussed this issue because during past 23 years, countries did not do enough to bring suspects to justice,” he told the media.
The National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) says that they issued over 800 arrest warrants in 32 countries around the World. They say that they conducted investigations on other 500 people which they are planning to issue their arrest warrants. Also, 17,000 escapees were convicted on their role in the genocide by Gacaca courts while in absence.
According to NPPA, countries that drug feet in arresting genocide escapees include France, Germany, United Kingdom and other African countries.
Though many countries continue to exhibit reluctance, Mutangana said that there is optimism as the discussions and extradition treaties signing with different countries continue.
These countries include Zambia, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Malawi among others.
The State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Community Affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe said that they will continue diplomatic discussions so that genocide escapees at large will face justice.
“This is a case that we will collaborate with the Ministry of Justice and discuss with host countries so that they send them in Rwanda or they take them to justice from these countries as laws state. Discussions are ongoing as well as signing treaties,” he said.
The two-day gathering is hosted by President Akufo-Addo, who co-chairs the Eminent Group of Advocates, along with Norway Premier Erna Solberg.
Below is President Kagame’s speech at the roundtable:
Good morning.
It’s a great pleasure for me to join you, Mr. President for this event, here in Accra. I would like to start by thanking you, for the invitation to participate in this important discussion, and the warm hospitality accorded to us.
I also wish to commend you, Mr President, and co-chair, Prime Minister Erna Solberg, for your service leading the UN Secretary General’s Eminent Group of Advocates.
There are two main aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals, that i will talk about, that constitute an improvement from our experience with the Millennium Development Goals.
We can take better advantage of these, as we work to reach the new targets, and transform the lives of our people.
First, is the strong emphasis on the private sector as an engine to eliminate poverty and create wealth, objectives that are at the heart of most of our national plans.
Integrating the SDGs into these plans, and ensuring their implementation, cannot be successfully achieved, by government alone.
This is why strong collaboration with the private sector, throughout the process, is critical, for reaching a win-win situation.
For example, the financing gaps for major projects, can be filled by private sector investment, through appropriate de-risking mechanisms, provided by the public sector and other partners.
Secondly, we now have an ambitious development framework to engage all countries, rather than just developing ones, especially knowing that there are cross cutting issues that affect everyone and every country.
This provides new scope for productive global partnerships and learning. This could include reaching consensus on how to measure progress, and support implementation, in ways that are most relevant, for our respective national contexts.
Rwanda will continue to collaborate with partner states, particularly through the SDG Centre for Africa, which we are happy to host in Kigali. And Mr President, I wanted to thank you for your support on that as well.
The centre was established to facilitate coordination and advocacy, and help us all build capacity to implement the SDGs. I invite you all to use and support it, as we support our continent.
Mr. President, distinguished audience, I would like to once again thank you for your kind attention, and I look forward to further discussion today.
Highly placed sources said the group, comprising only young men, were travelling on forged Ugandan temporary travel documents that were given to them by Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) to enable the group cross into Tanzania, then Burundi, and to eventually reach their final destination in Minebwe, South Kivu, DRC.
The recruits were travelling in a Ugandan bus with yellow and green colors registration number UAQ374B and lied that they were going to Burundi for a religious crusade.
However, when the group initially reached Kikagati border post, Uganda’s immigration department blocked them suspecting the authenticity of their travel documents. Immigration officials were also suspicious why such a big number of young Rwandan men would be travelling with Ugandan documents in one single group.
In the process of questioning the young men, sources at the Uganda’s Kikagati border post say, the immigration officials came under immense pressure from “above” instructing them to immediately release the group and allow it to proceed with their journey. The border post officials readily obliged.
However after the immigration officials alerted Police of this big group crossing with forged documents, Uganda Police immediately alerted their counterparts in Tanzania to block and return the group to Uganda.
Upon their return to the border, sources say, the immigration officials were again instructed to release the recruits and facilitate their travel into Tanzania with immediate effect.
It is at that moment that Uganda’s Police intervened once again, and with help from their Tanzanian counterparts intercepted the group and arrested all the 40. They are now being held in Isingiro Police station.
“It was total drama this morning–the scuffle lasted almost three hours,” the immigration official who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity told this website.
“When we released them the second time, we were shocked to see the Tanzanians working with Uganda Police return them.”
In a desperate attempt to cover up the scandal, a Ugandan website that is linked to the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (www.softpower.ug) immediately put out a story claiming the arrested Rwandan young men were “refugees on a missionary journey to Tanzania.”
Instead of explaining why a large group of Rwandan young men were given Ugandan travel documents, the story chose to castigate Uganda Police for arresting them, alleging they fear the group could be taken to Rwanda.
Nonetheless, credible security sources confirmed that the group was part of RNC recruitment drive happening in different refugee camps across Uganda and firmly supported by the Brig Gen Abel Kandiho of Uganda’s Military intelligence, CMI.
As recently exposed, a parallel scheme exists of covering up this recruitment drive for RNC by claiming that Rwandans who go missing in these camps are instead kidnapped by Kigali. The scheme is run from Kampala by renegades Rugema Kayumba, Cpl Mulindwa aka Mukombozi and Sande Mugisha coordinated by Kayumba Nyamwasa from South Africa with facilitation from Uganda’s CMI.
“This incident in Kikagati today should raise serious questions,” a security source in Kampala told this website. “It is shameful that this recruitment is happening in broad day light and instead of questioning the culprits behind it, they are instead rewarded with promotion.”
Observers expect immense pressure on the Uganda Police to release the RNC recruits because those who helped to recruit them fear the young men represent damning evidence CMI’s sponsored recruitment for the terrorist group RNC.
Moreover, these developments come a day after news reports exposed the on-going illegal detention of Rwandans visiting Kampala.
Over the weekend, plain clothed security operatives suspected to be CMI – RNC agents arrested a Rwandan named Fidele Gatsinzi in Kampala as he went to visit his son in school in Mukono Christian University.
Since September, dozens of Rwandans have been illegally detained by CMI under unclear circumstances and subjected to torture to induce false confessions that they are Rwanda spies. These innocent Rwandans are usually pointed out by Kayumba Nyamwasa’s agents operating in Kampala.
As these arrests increase, a general fear of safety for Rwandans travelling to Uganda is growing by the day. Many of them now tend to alert family members, friends, and officials, whenever they travel to Uganda, asking them to keep keen ‘eye’ out just incase they suddenly disappear.
Most of the young men intercepted on Monday by Uganda Police were taken from Refugee camps of Nyakivala, Kibale, and Mubende where RNC fugitives, Maj. (rtd) Habib Mudathir and Capt (rtd) Sibo Charles undertake most of the recruitment.
It is hoped that with the arrest of this group, the truth about RNC recruitment activities in Uganda as this website has always pointed out, will be exposed and all those involved punished according to law especially when they are involved in recruiting an armed group whose intent is to terrorise Rwanda.
I’m yet to see the person who hopes for something terrible; we all long for perfection, and whether or not we get what we want perfectly is another discussion for another day.
The point I’m trying to make is, as we seek that perfect partner in our lives, we also ought to build ourselves to perfection as much as possible, irrespective of whether we get there or not.
And these are some of the things the almost perfect but still imperfect man does for his woman:
{{He believes in her}}
The heaven-sent man believes in the woman in his life. He believes she’d make a good wife, he believes she’s right for him, he believes she’s the best, he believes in her dreams and not try to squash it and he trusts her and her sense of judgment.
{{He values her}}
The heaven-sent man values his woman and treats her like a queen. He values his relationship with her and makes her know that she’s the only one in his life.
{{He protects her}}
While other men hurt their women physically and emotionally, a heaven-sent man protects her. He protects her image, her body, her emotions and everything that concerns her. He’s interested in her, so he protects her.
{{He loves her}}
He loves her sincerely and wouldn’t do anything on purpose to hurt her. He’s genuine in how he feels about his lady and he shows it to her as well.
{{He prays for her}}
A heaven-sent man wants the best for his woman; he wishes her well and thus prays for her. He’s interested in her wellbeing and wants what’s best for her.
The heaven-sent man is the kind of man every woman should yearn for.
{{Source:elcrema.com}}
