Nshimyumuremyi who was appointed in December 2020 was arrested on Friday 25th February 2022. He was arrested along with co-accused Mugisha Alexis Emile in Kigali City.
IGIHE has learnt that the duo is accused of receiving US$15,000 (over Rwf15 million) out of US$200,000 they had solicited from an investor. The solicited amount is equivalent to 3% of the tender worth Rwf8 billion won by these investors.
The two suspects are detained at Kimihurura and Kicukiro RIB Post.
Their arrest follows the detention of three more leaders over the same crime three weeks ago. These include Karake Afrique an employee in the Supreme Court; Nsengimana Silas heading Kibeho Primary Court and Turikumwenimana Applollinaire, the executive secretary of Rubavu cell.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Spokesperson of Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Dr. Murangira B. Thierry has warned people against such vice.
He said that people dragging themselves into such crimes should always be mindful that the judiciary is standby. Dr. Murangira also advised the general public against corruption noting that whoever tends to do so will face justice for the imprescriptible crime.
Nshimiyimana was appointed by the cabinet meeting on 15th December 2020 and assumed office on 29th December 2020.
The camp is under the protection of Rwandan Police peacekeepers.
At least 2880 exercise books and pens as well as 1150 pieces of sanitary towels were donated to support over 1400 vulnerable pupils of Good Foundation primary school in Malakal POC.
The event also included the handover of organic gardens to women in the POC, which were constructed by the Rwandan peacekeepers as well as training the women on how to construct the kitchen garden, nutritious vegetables to plant and how to prepare a nutritious meal.
The donation is a contribution for each of the 240 officers of the Rwanda FPU-1 contingent.
Rwandan women peacekeepers also engaged girls on hygiene, child and early marriage, unwanted pregnancy as well as the importance of education for their better future.
Early or forced marriage is a common practice in South Sudan.
Rwanda FPU-1 contingent commander, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Faustin Kalimba, while addressing hundreds of students, parents and POC leaders during the handover of the donations, called for unity and supporting each other in times of need.
He embarked on ill-effects of drug abuse, one of the challenges affecting the young people in Malakal and South Sudan in general.
“Regardless of the challenges you are going through, you should have hope in education. Parents, endeavour to encourage and support your children to go to school, protect girls from forced marriage, which is a human rights violation and prevents them from having a better future,” CSP Kalimba said.
He thanked them for their support in peacekeeping duties adding that the donation is a Rwandan gesture to encourage the children to go to school, ensure hygiene especially for girls, effective land use for a healthy diet.
The briefing session held on 24th February 2022 and led by the Head IMC, Brig Gen Patrick Karuretwa featured presentations by the chief of personnel(J1) Defence Intelligence (DI) and Chief of Operations and Training (J3) Departments.
The briefing was followed by a Field Tour to the Western and Northern Provinces.
The course covered a period of 11 months. The newly trained group demonstrated skills at arms and tactical drills required to be integrated into the RDF.
The recruitment and training of new soldiers is part of a recurring process that is in line with RDF’s required operational readiness as provided by the strategic guidance of the Commander in Chief of the RDF, President Paul Kagame.
The ceremony held on 25th February 2022, was presided over by the RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Jean Bosco Kazura.
The CDS welcomed the graduands and urged them to observe RDF values and code of conduct. “You are joining a good family, that is RDF known for its core values including patriotism, discipline and commitment. Love and work for your country and protect your nation and its people. I urge you to always be the best in all tasks given to you” he said.
The CDS also reminded the graduands to get ready to maintain peace even beyond the nations border on the African continent and beyond.
The overall best student among females, Pte Umuhoza Yvette said that her success was due to dedication of her instructors. “I look forward to use what I learnt during the course to do my duties of defending my country and also continue improving my career.”
The new soldiers are now enrolled into the Force after close to one year period of basic military training.
The International Telecommunication Union, through its Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), organizes a World Telecommunication Development Conference every four years in the period between two Plenipotentiary Conferences to consider topics, projects and programmes relevant to telecommunication development.
WTDCs set the strategies and objectives for the development of telecommunication/ICT, providing future direction and guidance to the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D).
Under the theme “Connecting the unconnected to achieve sustainable development” WTDC is a unique opportunity to develop innovative approaches and new models of collaboration for connectivity and digital solutions in this final Decade of Action to achieve the SDGs.
The ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference WTDC will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 6th to 16th June 2022.
The development follow the recent incident where motorcyclists in Kigali staged protests on 13th January 2022 requesting authorities to hear their concerns and solve issues affecting their business.
These include poor cooperatives’ management and irrelevant contributions that do not generate returns, hiked insurance premium, difficulties in motorcycle ownership transfer and losses incurred by fare meter tariffs among others.
The Minister of Infrastructure, Dr. Erneste Nsabimana has said that the resolutions made public on Friday 25th February 2022 were reached after assessing raised concerns.
Among others, motorcyclists’ cooperatives in Kigali have been reduced from 41 to 5 and will operate differently from the previous ones. Else, some services that motorcyclists would receive from cooperatives have been transferred to Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA).
Motorcyclists’ contributions to cooperatives have been annulled, operators paying tax in four months have been exempted from late payment charges and penalties while fees paid to RURA have been reduced.
Minister Nsabimana revealed that the issue of hiked insurance premium is being reviewed.
“Another concern you have been raising is about insurance. The Government oversees interests of all citizens. It has understood the concern which is being reviewed with resolutions to be announced without delays,” he said.
It has been agreed that motorcyclists without driving license will be helped to do driving tests to operate in transparency. Among others, Rwanda Cooperative Agency (RCA) has been tasked to facilitate the transfer of motorcycles ownership.
Minister Nsabimana has also revealed that using fare meters is mandatory with the revised tariffs where the first two kilometers attract Rwf400 as per motorcyclists request instead of the previous Rwf300.
“The world is going digital. Technology goes hand in hand with security. As the Government has been facilitating you, it counts on your collaboration to roll out the technology helping us to guarantee our security. No commercial motorcyclist will be allowed to operate in Kigali without fare meter,” he affirmed.
Theogene Minani, a commercial motorcyclist operating in Nyarugenge district has welcomed the resolutions noting that they will help them run their business smoothly.
Anatoliy made a breakaway in the last kilometer and arrived at the finishing line first clocking 3 hours 35 minutes and 21 seconds followed by Natnael Tesfazion.
The first two riders arrived 5 seconds ahead of Rwandan Eric Manizabayo riding for Benediction Ignite who took the 3rd place.
Eritrean Tesfazion riding for Drone Hopper took the yellow jersey leading the race with 17 hours 33 minutes and 19 seconds. He is six seconds ahead of Budiak Anatoli who took the second place on general classification.
Eric Manizabayo is the top performing Rwanda emerging 10th on the general classification with 2 minutes and 15 seconds behind the yellow jersey holder.
Samuel Mugisha of ProTouch and Axel Laurance of B&B Hotels KTM did not complete the race due to sickness.
Tour du Rwanda 2022 will continue to Saturday 26th February 2022 with the seventh stage where cyclists will follow the track from Nyamirambo in Kigali through Gicumbi to cross the finishing line in Kigali covering 152.6 kilometers.
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Both leaders have exchanged on bilateral relations and cooperation in justice matters between the two sister countries.
Rwanda and Burundi enjoy existing cooperation agreements in the areas of justice and exchange of criminals.
Minister Banyankimbona has told her Rwandan counterpart that both countries’ ties are being normalized after a period of spoiled relations.
Minister Ugirashebuja revealed that Rwanda has so far handed over 19 criminals to Burundi while Burundi sent 11 individuals since both countries signed related agreements.
Rwanda also helped Burundi to repatriate its nationals that had fled to the country in 2015.
Figures show that 72,000 Burundian refugees have already returned home.
Burundian Minister of Justice has commended Rwanda for the support highlighting that repatriated Burundians arrived home safely.
“They are carrying out their activities continue working with others to build our nation,” she said.
Some participants of the event which took place on 22nd February 2022 revealed that nutraceuticals from the company have helped them in no small part to improve health conditions.
Marie Rose Uwimana is among customers who used weight management nutraceuticals. She weighed 101 kilograms which have reduced by 16 in six months.
“I weighed 101 kilograms and hardly turned over in bed as I had to sit first. They gave me nutraceuticals that helped me reduce weight to a desired extent,” she said.
Hortance Ujeneza is another customer whose family got relief after using the company’s products.
As she revealed, Ujeneza had a sibling with constipation and another suffering from Diabetes whose health conditions improved after using nutraceuticals.
During the ceremony held recently, Bold Regain International unveiled 12 types of nutraceuticals including family wellness, anti-aging and weight management among others designed to strengthen body’s immunity.
The CEO of Bold Regain International, Dr. Francis Habumugisha has said that the company decided to introduce nutraceuticals to help people solve health issues.
“People suffer from different diseases. They have despondency and other health conditions that these nutraceuticals can tackle,” he said.
He reassured the general public that these nutraceuticals meet standard and are approved by Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda- FDA) before entering Rwanda’s market.
Dr. Olivier Kamana, the Head of Applied Research, Development and Foresight incubation at the National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA) expressed optimism that they will be efficient to solve health conditions.
“Nutraceuticals play the role of preventing or boosting immunity against some diseases. They complement existing dietary intake. These nutraceuticals meet standards and are promising to help Rwandans with various health issues,” he noted.
Dr. Kamana reminded Rwandans that these nutraceuticals are not a replacement of medical treatment urging them to always remember to rush for medical attention at health facilities when they are sick.
Nutraceuticals are believed have many health benefits through strengthening immunity against non-communicable diseases.
Bold Regain International in partnership with Life Care Phyto Labs-India are set to launch a herbal medicines plant in Rwanda for local production of nutraceuticals.
In line with the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion’s priority of gender equality and women economic empowerment, Connect Women in Business aims to enable women in their respective projects, growing them to cooperative level so that they can contributing to sustaining their livelihoods.
This year, the program, which is funded by MTN Foundation, was launched in Karenge Sector, Rwamagana District. Twenty women-led saving groups have been pre- selected from all over the country with five saving groups per category: Agriculture, Art, Women in Digital and Women with disabilities.
These twenty saving groups were chosen based on the performance of their ongoing projects. This phase of identifying the twenty savings groups was supported by our partners Africa Evangelistic Enterprise Rwanda (AEE Rwanda), a local Christian NGO dedicated to working with families to eradicate poverty and the National Union of Disability Organizations in Rwanda (NUDOR), the umbrella organization that exists to strengthen the voice of the disability movement in Rwanda.
Commenting on the development, Jackline Kamanzi, National Women’s Council Executive Secretary said: “We are pleased to support this great annual initiative by MTN Rwanda. Connect Women in Business has, for the past two years, contributed to our mission to build women’s capacity and ensure their participation in the national development through their diverse projects. Furthermore, this initiative also offers the much-needed encouragement to women-led saving groups to keep the momentum of hard work, discipline and perseverance because they yield results.”
The next round of this program will consist of interviews with judges from MTN Rwanda, National Women’s Council and NUDOR that will result in the selection of the top three winners who will travel to Kigali for the final round and stand a chance to win the grand prize of Two Million Rwandan Francs.
Zulfat Mukarubega, MTN Rwanda Foundation Board of Directors Chairperson expressed delight for the launch of 3rd edition ‘of this empowering initiative’ and thanked partners for their support to make the program a success.
“This wouldn’t be possible without the continued support of the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion through the National Women’s Council. We would also like to extend our gratitude to our other partners, AEE Rwanda and NUDOR, who have been instrumental in selecting the women savings groups and following up with their respective projects. We understand the value that women add to the community and are confident the saving groups selected will contribute to the overall growth of the economy,” she said.
The Top three winners from the second round will undergo a Master Class in the areas of Taxes, Legal, Digital Marketing, Saving schemes, Conflict Resolution and Gender equality & Human Rights, which will aid in growing their businesses with the aim of creating wealth.
Mitwa Ng’ambi, MTN Rwanda Chief Executive Officer, underscored during the ceremony in Rwamagana District that anyone who supports a woman is supporting an entire community.
“We have seen this countless times in our societies and it’s no different for these women saving groups. Each saving group was selected from a critical category that represents much of our economy today: agriculture, arts, women in digital and women with disability. We encourage more women to join saving groups to eradicate poverty, sustain their families and grow their nation,” she said.
MTN Connect Women in Business continues to create shared value in the community, resulting in sustainable living for all by supporting cooperatives of vulnerable groups such as teen mothers and women and girls in single-parent households.
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The National Women’s Council mission is to build women’s capacity and ensure their participation in national development through advocacy and social mobilization. The National Women’s Council is an organ responsible for advocacy, capacity building, and social mobilization under the guidance and supervision of the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion.
{{About MTN Rwandacell }}
MTN Rwandacell Plc (MTN Rwanda) is the market leader in mobile telecommunications in Rwanda. Since 1998, we have continuously invested in expanding and modernising our network and are the country’s No 1 network. MTN Rwanda offers various services to subscribers, including innovative propositions such as personalised voice and data offers with MTN Irekure. The company is also the front runner in mobile financial services in Rwanda with Mobile Money, MoMoPay and MoKash Loans and Savings.
{{About MTN Foundation}}
MTN Foundation is the vehicle through which MTN implements its Corporate Social Responsibility Programs. MTN Foundation was established in February 2010 and MTN has committed 1% of Profit After Tax (PAT) annually to support the Foundation activities. The Foundation’s focus areas include Education, Youth and Women Empowerment and Environment initiatives. It was created with a focus of giving back to society and “Impacting the quality of lives in our communities in a meaningful way.
