Cogebanque has gone an extra mile to please esteemed clients as well as Tour du Rwanda enthusiasts, by organizing festivities at every completed stage of the competition.
On Thursday, after players set off from Karongi District of Western Province to Rubavu District, the dynamic Duo of TMC and Platini under the auspices of Cogebanque entertained crowds with popular songs such as Mumutashye, Ruracyariho, Bucece and other masterpieces.
Izabayo Claire, a reveler at the event told IGIHE; “I was happy to see the riders, as cycling is a sport that I enjoy, but most especially I was able to see my favorite singers! They are not infrequent here in Rubavu, but still I wouldn’t miss their performance for anything.”
Speaking to IGIHE, the Business Development and Commercial Director at Cogebanque, Louis de Montfort Mujyambere, revealed that they came up with the idea of bringing Dream Boys to Rubavu as it was one of the places that host Rwandans that are on the look-out for fun.
“Rubavu is a popular entertainment Hub; we wished to celebrate with them in the spirit of the Tour du Rwanda. We brought Dream Boys and several Tombolas that include bicycles as prizes, etc…All this is done with the aim to show that Cogebanque as a bank, cares.”
For stage five, players set off from Karongi District of Western Province to Rubavu District at the distance of 95 kilometers.
It is the second stage the Germany national playing for Team Embrace The World won as he also won the stage four from Huye District to Musanze District at the distance of 199.7 kilometers.
At this stage Hellmann used 2 hours 27 minutes and 34 seconds with only three seconds ahead of Mugisha who finished the 7th.
Mugisha continues to lead the general classification with 21 seconds ahead of the second, Rwandan Jean Claude Uwizeye.
Tomorrow the competition continues with players setting off from Rubavu District to Kinigi in Musanze District.
{{Stage five top ten }}
1. HELLMANN Julian for Team Embrace the World: 02h27’34’’
2. JULIUS Jayde for South Africa: 02h27’34’’
3. LOZANO RIBA David for Team Novo Nordisk ESP: 02h27’36’’
4. MUNYANEZA Didier for Team Rwanda: 02h27’37’’
5. UWIZEYE Jean Claude for POC Cote de Lumière: 02h27’37’’
6. FAVRE TEYLAZ Benjamin for Haute Savoie Auvergne Rhône: 02h27’37’’
7. MUGISHA Samuel for Team Rwanda: 02h27’37’’
8. VOSS Arnaud for POC Cote de Lumière: 02h27’40’’
9. DORING Jonas for Team Descartes Romandie: 02h27’40’’
10. HAILEMICHAEL Mulu for Ethiopia: 02h27’40’’
{{General classification top ten}}
1. MUGISHA Samuel for Team Rwanda: 16h35’30’’
2. UWIZEYE Jean Claude for POC Cote de Lumière: 16h35’51’’
3. HAILEMICHAEL Mulu for Ethiopia: 16h35’54’’
4. LOZANO RIBA David for Team Novo Nordisk: 16h37’20’’
5. DORING Jonas for Team Descartes Romandie: 16h37’43’’
6. NDAYISENGA Valens for POC Cote de Lumière: 16h37’46’’
7. HELLMANN Julian for Team Embrace the World: 16h38’01’’
8. MUNYANEZA Didier for Team Rwanda: 16h38’32’’
9. LAGAB Azzedine for Groupement Sportif Des Petroliers: 16h38’34’’
10. TEMALEW Bereket Desalegn for Ethiopia: 16h40’08’’
This was announced Thursday in Kigali at the presentation of outcomes from the 2017/2018 and signing the 2018/2019 performance contracts.
At the ceremony in Parliament, President Paul Kagame dissolved the parliament to pave way for the forthcoming elections of new Members of Parliament due next month.
Last year, Rwamagana also emerged the leading district in good performance.
Statistics indicate that last year, Rwamagana had 82.2% and this year has 84.5%.
Speaking while presenting the outcomes, Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente said that evaluation process considered assessing whether the contracts contributed in fast-tracking the development of the country.
He said that evaluation process was facilitated by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda.
The Minister of Local Governance, Francis Kaboneka said that last year was challenged by disasters which affected production in different districts.
“The institutions which properly implemented their targets considered corresponding their performance contracts with development activities. All concerned individuals were aware of their role in performance contracts implementation as well as understanding and monitoring implementation process of planned activities,” he explained.
On way forward, Ngirente said that they want to harmonize performance contracts planning with national priorities, collaboration among different institutions in implementation of performance contracts as well as good planning of projects before embarking on implementation process.
Chaired by President Paul Kagame who is also the Commandant-in-Chief of RDF, the cabinet approved the Presidential Order promoting all the officers as well as a Presidential Order dismissing ten officers from Rwanda Defence Force.
Speaking in an interview with IGIHE, RDF Spokesperson Lt Col Innocent Munyengango said that promotion in ranks is a routine in professional army as well dismissal among other sanctions when officers have defied the code of conduct.
“Those promoted are all officers from second-Lieutenant to Lieutenant, those commissioned recently and others who have been on the rank before. For those who were dismissed, they defied the rules,” he explained.
Yesterday, Cabinet meeting also approved the presidential order promoting Lt. Col. Andrew Nyamvumba to the rank of Colonel. Recently, Nyamvumba was appointed the Head of Defence Intelligence Department.
The cabinet also approved the presidential order determining the organization and responsibilities of the military services of Rwanda Defence Force.
The cabinet approved the ministerial order dismissing 57 non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel from Rwanda Defence Force.
Chaired by President Paul Kagame, the cabinet decision takes immediate effect.
“The Cabinet meeting removed from duties, with immediate effect, the following staff for gross misconduct; Mr. Théogène Namahungu who was Director of Health Technology and Infrastructure Planning Unit in Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and Mr. Baligira Hamad who was Director of Human Resource and Administration Unit in the Ministry of Health,” the cabinet meeting decision reads.
Cabinet also suspended all the staff from the Medical Technology and Infrastructure Division due to inefficiencies affecting the performance of the health sector.
The Cabinet meeting also approved Presidential Order dismissing ten Officers from Rwanda Defence Force and Ministerial Order dismissing 57 Non-Commissioned Officers and enlisted personnel from Rwanda Defence Force.
Among others, the Cabinet appointed Mr. Guy M. Baron, the Chief Investment Officer in the Rwanda Development Board (RDB).
The cabinet also appointed officials in the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission. Those are, Bishop John Rucyahana, Chairman; Ms Xavérine Uwimana, Vice Chairperson; Father Consolateur Innocent, Commissioner; Bishop Déo Gashagaza, Commissioner; Ms Umubyeyi M. Médiatrice, Commissioner; Mr. Innocent Rukinda, Commissioner; Mr. Gérard Ruvunabagabo, Commissioner and Ms Théopista Mukabizoza.
In the Ministry of Lands and Forestry (MINILAF), Mr. Benon Kaka Rutaro was appointed the Director of Planning Unit.
In the Ministry of Sports and Culture (MINISPOC) Ms. Rose Musanabera was appointed the Director of Finance and Administration Unit.
In the Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA), Mr. Emmanuel Tumusiime was appointed the Director of Human Resource and Administration Unit and Mr. Prosper Kamurase, Director of Finance Unit.
Cabinet also appointed Mr. Servillien Bizimana, the Director of Training and Programs Unit in the National Rehabilitation Services (NRS).
The stage from Musanze District in Northern Province to Karongi District in Western Province was 135.8 kilometers.
Timothy advanced the 70 players at an early solo breakaway that made him win the stage using 3 hours 31 minutes and 25 seconds with a record of 2 minutes and 10 seconds ahead of the second.
The 32-year-old Timothy was followed by Samuel Hakiruwizeye, Didier Munyaneza, Lozano Riba David and Jean Claude Uwizeye.
However, the stage did not affect the top five on general list as Rwandan Samuel Mugisha retained the yellow jersey.
{{Stage four top five }}
1. Timothy Rugg : 03h31’24”
2. Samuel Hakiruwizeye: 03h33’35”
3. Didier Munyaneza: 03h33’49”
4. Lozano Riba: 03h33’49”
5. Jean Claude Uwizeye:03h33’53”
{{General Classification top five}}
1. Samuel Mugisha: 14h07’53”
2. Jean Claude Uwizeye: 14h08’14”
3. Hailemichael Mulu: 14h08’14”
4. Lozano Riba David: 14h09’44”
5. Doring Jonas: 14h10’03”
The appeal was made Wednesday in Kigali in a three-day Gender Data Workshop that brought together participants from ten African countries.
The workshop was organized by UN for Women in partnership with the Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa.
According to UN Women Africa, only 13% of countries allocate a budget to gender statistics and only 15% of countries have legislation that mandates specialized gender-based surveys.
The UN Women Regional Director for East Africa and Southern, Africa Dr. Izeduwa Derex-Briggs said that the greater percentage of women live in rural areas and their activities are not nationally captured.
“The works that women do are not captured by National Statistics offices. National Statistics offices capture national data, data on health surveys, house surveys and census, but they don’t capture data of Community Based organization do at community level,” she said.
She said that the data are not captured because they are not reliable, a fact that they are pushing for change.
“So, we are saying how we can make the data reliable so that the contribution of women and girls to the development of every country is also captured, so that is one of the challenges that we want to address through looking at the alternative data in addition to official data,” she explained.
Izeduwa said that data collection require resources and countries leave behind gender data.
“To collect data is very expensive and whoever makes choices on which data to collect have to understand that there is a need to collect gender data, and if you don’t have gender data, you can’t plan effectively for men different from women,” she emphasized.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Caleb Rwamuganza said that Rwanda is among few countries that capture women data in all sectors of the countries.
However, Rwamuganza said that the exercise require extra means.
“Among the statistics by National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, we are among countries that capture statistics of women to the grassroots level. Sustainable Development Goals require reliable data, a reason why there is need for capacity building in people accumulating the data,” he explained.
He said that in the budget allocated in different sectors like education, health, agriculture among others, they also consider women activities as men.
The Teacher Guidebook and Model Lesson Plans book will help instructors teach Peace, Values and History most specifically the genocide against the Tutsi history in Rwanda.
The books were developed by the Aegis Trust under the Memorandum of Understanding with REB. The MoU was signed following the integration of Peace and Values Education in the newly revised Competence Based Curriculum.
Under the new curriculum, teachers are requested to train students on embracing peace, harmony, love and history of Rwanda as well as preventing the genocide from recurrence anywhere in the World.
AEGIS Trust Director of Programmes, Anita Kayirangwa said that the books will help teachers implement new curriculum that requires them to teach peace and values in all subjects.
“Peace and Values have been integrated in the curriculum, but, were not given particular hours on the schedule, it was difficult to teachers to integrate them in subjects like Mathematics. So, those materials were developed to help them integrated those lessons in all subjects,” Kayirangwa said.
REB Director General, Dr. Irénée Ndayambaje said that the organization has been facilitating them to teach peace, love and values and has become a channel through which the country would become abundantly secure.
“Those books will help us teach history of Rwanda, lessons which seek to promote culture of peace and genocide prevention from anywhere in the World,” he said.
Teachers who spoke to IGIHE said that the books will help them integrate Peace and Values studies in unrelated subjects.
“Those materials are well-prepared to enable us teach Peace and Values studies in all subjects, which we were not knowledgeable about before. The books will guide us on how to merge the disciplines,” said Rachel Umutesi, a teacher at Gisozi II in Gasabo District.
Claver Gatabazi, the Director of Education and Fight Against the Genocide in the National Commission for the Fight Against the Genocide (CNLG) said that the books are in line with the commission’s curriculum to fight against genocide ideology in schools.
The environment has made some of them decide to settle their businesses in Rwanda with five foreign participants having already registered their companies with Rwanda Development Board (RDB).
Ronald Athanase Rutagengwa, exhibitor for Fubisun Company from Malaysia, told IGIHE he has participated in many countries’ exhibitions particularly all regional countries but Rwanda stands out in terms of exhibition organisation and security for the exhibitors and their goods.
He also rated Rwanda as the second most paying country in exhibitions in the region behind Kenya which has a larger market and a stronger currency.
“About the organisation of exhibitions, Rwanda is the best. Every document for exhibitors are issued on time, the security is tight with no single threat day or night, nobody abuses me, nobody tries to steal from us,” said the seller of home equipment such as blenders, juice mixers, sophisticated mops, dry cleaners, irons and massage equipment among others.
Rutagengwa said that, while a few people are shopping while many usually do window shopping in the first days of the fair, his expectations are too high to have sold much by the end of the expo as it has always happened in the previous exhibitions.
Robert Dossou, the Director General for Centre de Pharmacopée Bénin Tisane which is in Rwanda’s expo for the first time, said he has liked the environment and considers opening a local shop for his Bénin-based centre which is present in Cameroun, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Guinea Equatorial, Gabon, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and DRC.
“I have brought to Rwanda natural medicine that is made from herbs, trees leaves, roots, clay… by a group of 42 specialists who bring together their skills to produce effective medicine for either treatment or prevention of infections. We treat haemorrhoid, remedy for fat belly, we have liver remedy to decongest it from fats, purify blood, uric acid, skin buttons, we have remedy for swollen prostate and more,” said Dossou who started natural medicine practices in 1983.
Bénin is one of eight countries that are participating in this expo for the first time.
Dossou said people are visiting his stall in big numbers to buy the remedies, adding that he wants to let all Africans know that natural medicine is so important and break the misconception that likens natural medicine to fetishism, myth or sorcery.
Evas of the Yvonne Exclusive Design from Ghana said the expo environment is good but sales are still poor.
“We are designers of ladies and gents wear. Security is very good here, promptness, everything is alright but sales remain the challenge. People think our products are expensive but as a designer, I use the best fabrics to make my attires and accessories. This is my first time to come here but my mother participated in the previous three exhibitions here,” said Evas, adding that he considers reopening the shop in Kigali if the sales improve in the remaining days of Expo 2018.
He said they had a shop in Kigali City Tower but were forced to close it down because they had few customers while most perceived his products as expensive. Each wear’s price is between Rwf25,000 and Rwf90,000 but Evas says he is offering discount at the Expo.
“All depends on this expo, if it goes well, I will open a shop again in Kigali but if it doesn’t go well, I will be forced to go back home. We have shops in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. We manufacture everything from scratch. We usually sell online and we are in expo to create customer relationship.”
Richard Kayibanda, the Registrar General at RDB, said they had registered five foreign companies participating in Expo 2018 as of last Thursday. By then, a total of 40 companies had registered from the RDB’s stand at the fair which is running at Gikondo Expo Ground in Kigali from July 26 to August 15. The fair attracted 500 companies from 23 countries. Among the exhibitors, 300 are Rwandans while 200 are foreigners.
