Speaking to IGIHE, the chairperson of Gisagara District Advisory Council Innocent Uwimana said that they received the resignation letter Thursday afternoon.
“We received his letter mentioning personal reasons” he said.
He said that the district council will meet very soon to review his resignation before accepting it.
Mvukiyehe has been Gisagara Executive Secretary since 2011.
The Smart Village, located in Tumba Sector Rulindo District, Northern Province, has a population of 21,000 and an estimated 5,000 households.
The Smart Village Initiative aims to bridge the digital divide in rural Rwanda by bringing technological solutions and innovations to residents in order to enhance their daily lives, increase socio-economic opportunities and create jobs by increasing their access to ICT and services.
The pillars of the Smart Village are Digital Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Education, Connectivity/Electricity, Healthcare, Agriculture, Governance and Smart Markets.
Tigo Rwanda supports the Smart Village Initiative through the three pillars of Connectivity, Digital Literacy and Financial Inclusion.
“In order to support the three pillars, Tigo Rwanda invested in providing 3G and 4G connectivity to the 21, 000 Tumba Sector residents. Today, they are able to enjoy the fastest and most affordable Internet in the country”said Tigo Rwanda Deputy Chief Operating Executive, Chantal UmutoniKagame on the launch of the Tumba Smart Village
Working with suppliers, Tigoprovide subsidized handsets to residents. The feature phones and smart phones Tigo provides are the most affordable in Rwanda at the cost of Rrw6,000 and Rrw36,000 respectively.
“This shall ensure that as many people in this community are able to access handsets” she said.
Alongside our partners, our VAS (Value Addded Services) trainers are teaching residents how to utilize the Internet, thereby opening the digital world to them. Using our various Mobile Financial Services, residents can now enjoy Tigo Cash services such as Push and Pull, which allow them to move money to and from their bank accounts using their handsets,Umutoni reiterated
With Tigo’s Digital Saving Groups platform, they created a platform that allows unbanked local savings groups (Ibimina) to digitize.
“Now youth and women’s groups as well as cooperatives can enjoy the convenience of our MFS tools” she added.
Vuba led a group named after former leader Kuryama. He is a son of the late, legendary silverback Titus and a well-known female named Tuck was his mother. He spent many years with Titus, and inherited the gentle facial expressions of his father as well as his kind behavior toward all of the group members. When his brother, Kuryama, formed his own group in 2007, Vuba went with him, keeping a subordinate position but always well accepted by the group. He became dominant after the death of former leader Kirahure in August 2015. Kirahure had taken over following the death of Kuryama.
Starting soon after taking over leadership, Vuba led his group across the border of Rwanda into the Democratic Republic of Congo, beyond the ranging area of our trackers. This was repeated again in 2016, until they re-stabilized in their original range in Rwanda last September.
Vuba had the support of two younger silverbacks in the group – 14-year-old Igihozo and 13-year-old Tetero – who will now have the task of leading the group. Their presence is a great advantage for the group and may help it stay cohesive. With the loss of Vuba, the group contains only seven members. It is an unusual group in that there is only one adult female member.
Vuba is one of the many gorillas who have been followed throughout their entire lives by the Fossey Fund, so his loss is deeply felt by the staff. “We are extremely saddened by Vuba’s death,” says Felix Ndagijimana, the Fossey Fund’s director of the Karisoke Research Center and all of our Rwanda programs. “He was a great leader and played a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and cohesiveness of the group during the different dominance changes it went through.”
“He was one of the most gentle male gorillas I’ve ever met,” says Veronica Vecellio, Fossey Fund gorilla program manager. “We rarely saw Vuba engaging in or initiating a fight. His personality was suited to so many roles and phases of his life, from supporter of prior group leaders to peaceful leader in his own right.”
Source: www.gorillafund.org
All five EAC countries’ prosecutor generals are in Kigali for a yearly meeting where
Mutangana reminded them that Rwanda still has a problem of Genocide suspects still at large, many of who are in the EAC countries.
“They are many suspects especially in Uganda and Kenya. These countries differ from European countries that have every individual’s identity on their land, it is easy to be tracked and arrested from there. But in our region, a person moves from one country to another without travel documents,” he said.
According to Mutangana, the meeting is an opportunity to remind and request the top justice officials in EAC to extradite genocide suspects and face justice.
“We remind them to extradite the suspects t o Rwanda or prosecute them in the host countries. After this meeting, we hope that something will be done, it might be not done today or tomorrow, but something will have to be done,” he said.
The vice-prosecutor general in Tanzania, Ayub Mwenda said that his country is ready to arrest any suspected perpetrator.
“We usually extradite suspects to face justice in their countries or we take them to our courts,” he said.
The Rwanda’s prosecution has sent 600 arrest warrants for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi suspects in 32 countries from Africa, Europe, North-America, Canada and New Zealand.
Twelve Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been awarded with a grant of Rwf300 million, Rwf25 million each, to continue with the implementation of programmes that are intended to transform people’s livelihoods.
In line with the seven years government programme, the government of Rwanda through Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), jointly with the One UN via UNDP initiated the joint programme on strengthening CSOs for responsive and accountable governance in Rwanda to contribute to the overall implementation of the Second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS2)
The benefitting CSOs had earlier submitted their project proposals in four areas; family cohesion, agriculture, environment protection and legal aid.
Speaking at the awarding ceremony, RGB chief executive officer, Professor Anastase Shyaka said that different ministries and institutions supported the exercise as it complements their programmes.
The hand-over ceremony took place yesterday during the close-out of the 2.5-year programme in Kigali.
Dubbed ‘Mentorship Community of Practice’, the project has created an online forum for teachers to share best practices in the classroom and to complete online courses that strengthen teaching skills
In the event, the Acting Mission Director of USAID/Rwanda, Adriana Hayes handed over key online components of the project to the Ministry of Education, Rwanda Education Board, and University of Rwanda College of Education.
These components include online community portal, a digital library and an accredited online certification course to teachers to improve their Kinyarwanda-language reading instruction for students in P1 to P3.
“USAID is extremely proud to be able to turn over these online tools to the Rwandan people. We are confident that these tools, in your very capable hands, will continue to connect, motivate and prepare many excellent teachers,” Adriana Hayes said
According to USAID, over 1,000 teachers in 1,000 schools and over 400 Sector Education Offices in every district in Rwanda are connected to the online portal. Members of this online community of practice have made nearly 50,000 posts in discussions on over 15,000 topics
Commenting on the program, the Rwanda Education Board Director General (REB), Janvier Gasana congratulated the teachers graduating from the seven month course, and encouraged development partners to continue supporting Rwanda’s development priorities.
“As the government, we are committed to transforming education in Rwanda by prioritizing early grade literacy, teacher training and access to educational resources,” he said
Radiant Insurance Company will facilitate community policing patrols agents have access to medical services in case they get involved in job-related accidents.
Ovia Tuhairwe Kamanzi, the sales officer in Radiant said that they chose to insure community policing agents to facilitate them perform their job peacefully.
“Launching this service as an insurance company is because we do all that is possible to help Rwandans develop in whatever they do,” Kamanzi said.
Kamanzi said that the insurance cover will last one year and will provide Rwf1,000,000 to whoever experiences an occupational hazard while on duty. The insurance will also provide Rwf100,000 to every beneficiary who will suffer any job-related sicknesses.
The executive secretary for Kimisagara sector, Serge Ruziga said that they chose to seek insurance for night patrol agents because their job involves many risks that sometimes cause deaths.
“One of our personnel was killed by gangs and two more were hit by motorbikes and got disabilities when they were on duty. So we thought of insurance as a response to this problem” he said.
PatrickRuzindana one of the community policing patrol agents welcomed the initiative saying victims of occupational hazards have been suffering without getting any external support.
