During the visit held on Tuesday 20th September 2022, Nyusi also addressed the population who returned to their homes after many years in IDP camps.
In a message conveyed to the Rwandan Security Forces, he congratulated them for the great work done in fighting terrorism since they arrived in July 2021 and commended their commitment, dedication and discipline throughout this period.
While meeting the population of Mocimboa da Praia, President Nyusi assured the public of government support in maintaining the situation and returning everything to normal.
Rwanda started the deployment of 1000 troops of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and the Rwanda National Police (RNP) to Mozambique on 9th July 2021, to fight terrorist groups, honoring the request of Mozambique. The troops had increased to nearly 2000 by the end of the year 2021.
The situation in the country had worsened since October 2017 when armed extremists launched an insurgency in the Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique.
Mozambique Defence Armed Forces battled the extremists but many civilians were killed and displaced by the fighting.
Before Rwandan troops’ intervention, terrorists had killed 3000 civilians while more than 800,000 were displaced. The insecurity had also put to halt all development projects in the area controlled by insurgents.
The joint operations between Rwandan and Mozambican troops yielded big where different regions were seized from rebels.
Rwanda and Mozambique have been enjoying vibrant relations for many years.
On Monday 12th September 2022, President Paul Kagame and his counterpart of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi met in Kenya ahead of the inauguration of newly elected president, Dr. William Ruto.
Both leaders discussed ways to further strengthen the ongoing bilateral collaboration between Rwanda and Mozambique.
In February this year, Kagame received Nyusi with whom they discussed the good progress that has been made between Rwanda and Mozambique in the ongoing cooperation towards securing Cabo Delgado as well as other areas of bilateral collaboration.
Rwanda and Mozambique have cooperation agreements in different areas including security, trade and investment among others.
Marcel Mfitumukiza, 55, was arrested Monday, September 19, at a forex bureau in Nyarugenge District, Nyarugenge Sector in Kiyovu Cell, Inyarurembo Village.
The counterfeits were in the denominations of $100 (10 bills) and other 10 bills in the denominations of US$50.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Sylvestre Twajamahoro, the Police spokesperson for the City of Kigali said that Mfitumukiza was reported by the forex bureau management after they noticed that all the dollar bills he was trying to exchange, were fake.
“When a teller at the forex bureau realized that the bills were counterfeit, they called the Police, Mfitumukiza was taken into custody and handed over to RIB,” CIP Twajamahoro said.
Meanwhile, Mfitumukiza disclosed that he got the fake notes from a woman, who hails from Bugesera District, whom he only identified as Chantal.
Mfitumukiza further told the Police that he met the said Chantal in Gahanga Sector, Kicukiro District after they were connected by another person, whose names he did not mention.
According to Mfitumukiza, the said Chantal was supposed to pay him Rwf500,000 after completing the mission.
“Investigations are still underway to bring to justice everyone connected to this economic crime, which brings loses to business and economy in general,” CIP Twajamahoro said.
He urged the business community and the public in general to always be vigilant against such fraudulent individuals and groups.
He further called upon the public to share information on anyone they suspect to be circulating fake currencies or counterfeiting them.
Article 269 of law No 68/2018 determining offenses and penalties in general, states that any person, who fraudulently counterfeits, falsifies or alters coins or bank notes which are legal tender in Rwanda or abroad, notes issued by the Treasury with its stamp or brand, either banknotes or alike that have legal tender in Rwanda or abroad, or one who introduces or issues in Rwanda such effects or notes with knowledge that they are forged or falsified, commits an offence.
Upon conviction, he/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than five years and not more than seven years.
Sources indicate that the 33-year-old man seriously beat his mother who later escaped him.
The mother alerted security officials, including the Police and the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) which inte3rvened to arrest the young man for the crime.
Rubagumya who is reported to be a drug addict, tried to resist the security forces, prompting the police officer to shot his thigh and injured him.
Rwanda National Police spokesperson, CP John Bosco Kabera, admitted to IGIHE that this young man was indeed shot and wounded.
“First, it is not acceptable to fight against the security forces, no matter what. Second, even if it happens, we will investigate to see if the police officer did not use protective force,” he noted.
The man is being treated at the Military Hospital in Kanombe.
The news about the arrest of this artist, Dr. Munangira B. Thierry Spokesman of the National Office of Criminal Investigation RIB confirmed this to IGIHE. He said,
His arrest has been confirmed by the Spokesperson of Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Dr. Munangira B. Thierry. “He suspected of assaulting and intentionally injuring a 30-year-old woman,” he said.
IGIHE has learnt that the woman Danny Nanone is accused of beating and injuring is the one they sired a child together. In 2016, the artiste was also arrested under similar circumstances.
Danny Nanone was arrested in the night of September 19, 2022. He is detained at the RIB Kicukiro Station while the investigation continues for his file to be submitted to the Prosecutor’s office.
If convicted by the Court for this crime he is being convicted of, Danny Nanone will be punished by law number 68/2018 of August 30, 2018 which determines offenses and penalties in general.
This law states that whoever is convicted of this crime by the Court shall be sentenced to imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than five years and a fine of not less than five million but not more than rwf10 million.
Dr. Murangira Thierry has urged the general public to be flexible noting that RIB won’t tolerate anyone who commits such a crime.
The incident occurred on September 19, 2022, when the old man went to a toilet where he fainted and died immediately.
The Executive Secretary of Kimisagara Sector, Kalisa Jean Sauveur, told IGIHE that the news of the old man’s death came to light in the early hours of Monday.
He said that the man who was in his 70s was experiencing estranged relations with his wife but they still lived in the same house.
“It happened in early morning but he was a vulnerable person who also had a heart disease. He might have died of it,” he said.
Kalisa went on to say that as soon as this old man died, RIB and Police immediately arrived at the scene for investigation and granted his family the right to bury him.
Under this program, a total of 11 students from Japan joined their colleagues in Rwanda since August, 15 this year for an exchange program that was initiated through the support of NPO Think About Education in Rwanda.
The latter is a non-government organization founded in Japan, by a Rwandese lady who was committed to improve child education and health in Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Throughout this month-long program which came to an end during a ceremony held recently on 16th September, the students visited different district and referral hospitals, health centers and community health workers to learn about health systems in Rwanda and other institutions to know more about Rwanda.
Dr. Olive Bazirete, the Dean of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at UR, said that the main reason behind this program is to develop a global partnership in healthcare systems.
“We are grateful to this partnership and we are looking forward to continued collaboration and development of more projects. This should not only be considered in the context of having this student exchange program, but also we can have the faculty of Josai coming to Rwanda and UR going to Japan,” she said.
“We have learnt a lot of things. What impressed us most is the medical system which is different from Japan including the small number of hospitalization days and the use of drones to transport blood from the transfusion centers,” said Ms. Megumi Uchida, one of students from JIU.
“I also got to know a lot from some initiatives that I would like to see introduced in Japan such as enabling hospitals to provide counseling and provide protection to victims of domestic violence,” she added.
The summer exchange provided the opportunity to interact not only with students but also with people of all ages and to deepen their ideas about lifestyles, societies and education.
It has been an opportunity for JIU and UR students to deepen their understanding of the health sector, culture and to reflect and share as future leaders.
JIU nursing students also visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn about Rwanda history.
Innocent Twizerimana, a UR student said that such summer exchange is very important, however much expensive it is.
“For it to be a full exchange, people should come to Rwanda and vice versa,” he noted.
Twizerimana said that UR students also learnt a lot about the Japanese health system.
“The Japanese government encourages people to get fully vaccinated to develop resistance against pandemics. We found that it could help our country to improve the current vaccination system. Another thing we learned is the way Josai University puts a lot of effort in research to develop resilience against shocks in the health sector,” he revealed.
The president and founder of NPO Think About Education in Rwanda, Mrs. Towari Marie Louise, urged the participants of the summer exchange platform to build on the connection they have created.
“Don’t leave the connection here, please bring them back and you Rwandese, please keep them. If you don’t keep the connection, it’s going to disappear but if you continue connecting, I believe something good will happen,” she said.
“As you have visited many places, remember that you met someone, remember to connect and keep the telephone number in your mind. It’s not by accident, it’s for a purpose we meet. See the millions and millions of people living in the world but we are here together. This is a miracle. Let’s build on it and provide another good future for a new generation coming after us,” added Towari.
{{About JIU}}
JIU was founded in 1992 by the Josai University Corporation in the city of Togane, Chiba Prefecture, about 90 minutes from downtown Tokyo. Josai University Corporation was established in 1965 by Mikio Mizuta who was Minister of Finance for a total of twelve years starting in 1960. The university offers a four-year undergraduate program as well as a graduate program. There are undergraduate schools or faculties: Faculty of Management and Information Sciences; Faculty of International Humanities; Faculty of Media Studies; Faculty of Social Work Studies; Faculty of Tourism;Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Faculty of Nursing.
There are four graduate schools; Graduate School of Humanities; Graduate School of Management and Information Sciences; Graduate School of Social Studies; and Graduate School of Business Design. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Graduate School of International Administration.At present, the university has over 6,000 students, including the undergraduate student body and the graduate program. Many of the students come from various foreign countries.
{{About UR}}
The University of Rwanda is Rwanda’s largest higher education institution. The University of Rwanda was formed in 2013 through the merger of previously independent public institutions of higher education, the largest of which was the National University of Rwanda.
Initial work to establish the institution was undertaken by Professor Paul Davenport, a member of Paul Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council, who now acts as chair of the university’s board of governors. The University of Rwanda was established in September 2013 by a law that repealed the laws establishing the National University of Rwanda and the country’s other public higher education institutes, creating the UR in their place.
At the time of its creation, education officials reported that they “hoped that the university will improve the quality of education and effectively respond to current national and global needs”
The goal of the deal is to drive affordability and accessibility to quality health care in Rwanda. This will allow individuals all over the country to book medical consultations and speak to clinicians over the phone from the comfort of their homes or offices.
The deal will also allow Britam customers to get medical consultations, receive prescriptions for drugs and book laboratory tests where necessary, making it easy and convenient for users to access healthcare.
The launch of this partnership follows the successful implementation of a 12-month long pilot phase where Britam Health Insurance clients were introduced to the digital health service and sensitized on the benefits of digital healthcare.
Britam subscribers will now dial *811# and receive prompt instructions to access Babyl services and use their insurance to pay for a Babyl consultation. The price point entry for the service is Rwf5,000 and the patients will be charged according to the different co-pay categories.
Commenting on the development; the CEO of Britam, Andrew Kulayige revealed that Britam is making intentional and concentrated efforts to improve the experience of its customers by easing access to services.
“This partnership is a step in the right direction towards not only achieving the goals of our 2021-2025 strategy, one centered on customer centric transformation, but also supporting Rwandans access to quality Health Care and accessing it quickly. Insurance will be a key enabler of this and we are glad to be pioneering the solution with Babyl,” he said.
Dr. Shivon Byamukama, the Managing Director of Baby Rwanda said that the company aims to give patients the most convenient experience while seeking healthcare services.
“The adoption of digital healthcare in Rwanda has been remarkable. Babyl clinicians now handle over 3,500 consultations per day. So far, we have been partnering with RAMA and Mutuelle de Santé and now we are extending the partnership to private insurance. That is where Britam comes in,” he noted.
“This partnership and the pilot with Britam is a significant milestone for its members. We look forward to onboarding more insurance companies and ensuring all Rwandans have access to a doctor from wherever they are for early engagement, preventative care and quick access to medical practitioners,’’ added Dr. Byamukama.
The popularity and quick adoption of digital healthcare in Rwanda is also a key factor in reducing self-diagnosis and self-medication in society.
Babyl has a helpline service (8111) that is open from Monday to Saturday, 7a.m. to 7p.m. that handles any inquiries and assists customers in issues ranging from subscription, payment and information on partner pharmacies and laboratories.
{{About Britam}}
Britam is a leading diversified financial services group and is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The group has presence in seven Africa countries, including Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Mozambique and Malawi. The company offers a wide range of financial products and services in Insurance, Asset management, Banking and Property.
{{About Babyl}}
Babyl Rwanda is a subsidiary of Babylon, and is the largest digital medical consultation service provider in Rwanda. Babyl has signed a 10-year partnership with the Government of Rwanda in early 2020 to develop a new healthcare delivery model of ‘Digital-First Integrated Care’, where all Rwandans are able to gain access to qualified doctors and nurses through their mobile phone.
It serves RSSB and Mutuelle de Santé subscribers. To date, Babyl has over 2.5 million registered users and carries out up to 3,500 consultations a day.
Babyl has supported the Government of Rwanda on home-care follow up for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients, where patients were followed up on a daily basis, reporting other symptoms that may occur and ensuring the patients were out of the high-risk population and isolated at home until they test negative for the virus.
Ujiri, 52, is a close friend of Rwanda who contributed to the establishment of Kigali Arena currently branded as BK Arena following discussions with President Paul Kagame as they watched NBA All-Star Game in Toronto, Canada in 2016.
GOA is a basketball camp founded by Masai Ujiri as a platform to explore and nurture basketball talent among African youth.
It started in 2003 in Nigeria but in 2014 Ujiri took it outside of the country.
The renovation of the basketball court at Club Rafiki, Nyamirambo, launched on August 8, 2017 and camps to promote youth’s basketball talent since 2015 are among fruits of Ujiri’s contribution to the development of basketball in Rwanda and the African continent.
In February 2020, Kagame and Ujiri announced the Giants of Africa festival that was expected to take place in Kigali, August 2020, bringing together 11 countries.
At the time, Kagame thanked Ujiri for his work with Giants of Africa and said that the camp is crucial in developing the talents of African youth.
Ujiri also thanked the president for his role in the development of Africa and the way he puts into action everything he pledges, including the establishment of Kigali Arena.
This time around, Ujiri has owns land in Kigali City. In July last year, he was granted freehold land title for 2.4 hectares located in Remera at the former premises of Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) along the road to Amahoro Stadium by the Government of Rwanda.
Freehold land title refers to a property title by which the owner of the land owns it for perpetuity. In other words, freehold land title ownership has no limit in time for the landowner and its beneficiaries.
The land will be developed for infrastructures to help people in need of sports related services.
The area allocated for infrastructures to be set up by Ujiri is located in Kigali Sports Hub.
Infrastructures in the area are being developed in phases where BK Arena was inaugurated in 2019. Amahoro Stadium is also being upgraded to host football and Ruby games. There is also a small stadium that can host different volleyball games simultaneously as well as other facilities for Paralympic games.
The Amahoro Stadium being upgraded is expected to be completed in 2024. If everything goes well, another sports facility dubbed ‘Ujiri Court’ is also expected to be completed in the same year.
So far, the study plan for Ujiri’s project is underway.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Acting Director General of Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA), Noel Nsanzineza has shed light on outcomes of the project.
“Normally, people going to watch games and entertainment activities need access to other recreational facilities. This is what Ujiri Court will solve. It will feature a Tennis and Basketball courts, and a space dedicated for lodges or hotel. It will also have a supermarket, all aligned with ambitions to promote sports,” he said.
Ujiri was born on 7th July 1970. His net worth is estimated to be around US$20 million. He earned the money from positions he assumed as the president of different teams.
The modern supermarket to be set up in Remera will be designated for sales of different sports items including clothes and balls among others.
“Ujiri Court is among projects set to commence. The investor has been given the land for such infrastructures complementing others being developed,” said Nsanzineza.
Apart from Ujiri Court, it is said that the project will also be comprised of a pool for contestants in international competition and other facilities.
With the first projects expected in 2023, IFFEd will support education and skills development investments in lower-middle-income countries. With an initial funding of 2 billion U.S. dollars, the facility is expected to expand to 10 billion dollars by 2030.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, two-thirds of countries have cut their education budgets, but education is the building block of peaceful, prosperous, stable societies, said Guterres at a joint press conference with Brown. “Reducing investment virtually guarantees more serious crises further down the line. We need to get more, not less, money into education systems.”
Wealthy countries can increase funding from domestic sources, but many developing countries are being hit by the cost-of-living crisis, and urgently need support for education, Guterres said, adding that this is exactly the role of the IFFEd.
This facility is aimed at getting financing to lower-middle-income countries — home to half of the world’s children and youth — and to the majority of the world’s displaced and refugee children, he noted.
IFFEd is not a new fund, but a mechanism to increase the resources available to multilateral banks to provide low-cost education finance. It will complement and work alongside existing tools that provide grants and other assistance, said Guterres, urging all international donors and philanthropic organizations to back IFFEd.
Brown said IFFEd is to deal with a crisis when 260 million school-age children do not go to school, 400 million children at the age of 11 are not able to read or write and leave education for good, and 840 million children and young people, by the time they leave education in their teens, have no qualifications for the workplace of the future.
“Over time, we expect the fund to grow from the two billion (dollars) that it will be initially, to five billion and then to 10 billion. This means that today we’re announcing the biggest-ever single investment in global education that the world has seen, and we believe it can transform the prospects of millions of children,” he said.
Addressing the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Lu Kun voiced hope the scholarships will help Ghanaian students at all levels excel in their study of the Chinese language.
“As China became the second largest economy in the world, learning Chinese helps you not only better understand China but also share China’s development dividends and realize your dreams,” he said.
Lu assured the students that the Chinese embassy is ready to provide assistance to Ghanaians who wish to study in China.
Johnson Nyarko Boampong, the UCC Vice Chancellor, said the significance of the Chinese language has been growing.
“Chinese language provides the keys to unlock the door to a world of opportunities. There are numerous employment opportunities in the growing number of Chinese enterprises in Ghana,” he said, urging the awardees and other students to take the Chinese courses seriously in order to be globally competitive.
Hamed Dizatu, a UCC student and awardee, told Xinhua that she has overcome lots of difficulties in her pursuit of language proficiency.
“This award means a lot to me and it was motivating to know that I am not studying in vain,” she said.
