Ngoma District Stadium is President Paul Kagame’s pledge in the district during presidential campaigns last year where he promised Eastern Province three stadiums of Ngoma, Bugesera and Nyagatare.
According to Ngoma District Head of Infrastructure, Célestin Mutabazi, the stadium will be constructed on a surface area of 4.5 hectares.
“This stadium being constructed in Kibungo Sector, had basic activities like plot preparation started in June. It is being constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and will seat on 4.5 hectares and will have seating capacity of 3500 spectators,” he said in an interview with IGIHE.
The stadium will have football, tennis, volleyball, basketball and handball pitches.
Ngoma District Mayor, Aphrodis Nambaje told IGIHE that the stadium iwill as well be hosting different entertainment events.
“I believe that when Rwanda hosts international competitions like CAN or CHAN, this stadium can also host some games and other events,” Nambaje said.
Different people who spoke to IGIHE said the stadium will facilitate them in talent promotion among the youth.
“It will be a great facility for our local team Etoile de l ‘Est, which, with proper usage may propel it into first division,” said Ngoma resident, James Ngaboyisonga.
Azzedine used 2 hours 12 minutes and 21 seconds and won the stage with 12 seconds ahead of Rwandan, Valens Ndayisenga who gained the fifth place.
The competition has attracted 79 players from across the World. In Rwamagana, the players toured Rwamagana city 15 laps.
At the beginning, Rwandan players had showcased themselves, but, at 13th lap, a group including Azzedine attacked and dominated them.
Rwandan players were led by Valens Ndayisenga playing for Pays Olonne Cycliste Côte de Lumière (POCCL) in France and René Jean Paul Ukiniwabo for Rubavu based Les Amis Sportifs.
Other Rwandans in top ten are Moïse Mugisha, 7th; Janvier Rugamba, 8th.
The 32-year-old Azzedine plays for Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers d’Algérie, it is the 4th time he participates in Tour du Rwanda.
Taking place at its 10th edition, the competition which started yesterday will round up on August 12th. It attracted 16 teams and players will go around the country on the distance of 946.6 kilometers.
Monday (Today), players depart from Kicukiro to Huye District in Southern Province on the distance of 120.5 kilometers.
Payne who retired as a Minister Counselor after 23 years serving as a diplomat at U.S. Embassies in Rwanda, Iraq, Israel and Senegal; contributed greatly in the making of Rwanda’s Public Library.
While in Rwanda, she was a member of the Rotary Club Kigali-Virunga from 1999 and was first Chairperson of the Kigali Public Library, where she organized the first two major fundraising held at Residence of USA Ambassador; both graced by the presence of President Kagame.
In collaboration with different sponsors and the GoR, the first ever public Library in Rwanda was completed after 12 years, costing over Rwf4.1 billion.
The library, which is located in Kacyiru sector, Gasabo District, has several sections including children and teenagers and adult sections which all have shelves and reading areas, and a digital library, dubbed ‘Soma’, which enables students, readers, and other library users to access digital books.
Up to now, over 20,000 books are already available at the library, excluding e-resources.
Although she greatly contributed in bringing up the Public library project, Payne was not able to stay in Rwanda and see how the library upon completion.
On this Friday, after a short visit to the public Library, Payne told IGIHE “I am very proud of what has been achieved as this library shows how Rwanda became an example for all in Africa; how you look far and that whatever you set your heart upon, you reach it. It was not an easy task, but we never lost hope and we kept on trying because we knew we had to reach it.”
“My message is that they never lose hope and that they continue to work together in unity because nobody can achieve something of this extent, alone.” Payne remarked.
The President of Rotary Club Kigali-Virunga, Saudah Nalule, explained that Payne left Rwanda while the public library was still being built, meaning that she had no idea of how it had turned out to be.
“Payne only knew that the library had opened its doors but she had no idea how it looked like. It is our pride because children, students and academia from all over Rwanda come to use it. She originally came up with the idea, and now that she is here 17 years later, to find that her idea was successfully implemented, we are very happy. ” Saudah said
Saudah noted that before, members of the club were unsure of achieving a project of that extent, but with the big support of President Kagame, they were able to achieve it.
She expressed her gratitude, in the name of Rotary Club and noted that the Public Library project served as a lesson, that they could achieve a lot when united.
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Saudah remarked that the club was currently engaged in a project that focused on helping people living with cancer; as it is a disease that affects a great number of Rwandans.
She said that the club had learnt from one of the neighboring countries’ hospital where they set up a centre focused on Cancer, and raised funds so that each year, doctors could receive training on modern ways of treating cancer.
“It is a big project that we too, wish to realize. It cannot happen overnight, and will take probably up to five years to be completed, but we gave ourselves an objective to start this year.” She said
She further remarked that the club had talks with Kanombe Military Hospital, so that the project could also be implemented in Rwanda, in coming days.
A certain Phillip Rwakibibi, who is a loader at Trinity Bus Terminal in the Ugandan capital, was on Tuesday evening picked by armed men who described themselves as security officers.
An eyewitness told ChimpReports that Rwakibibi, who has lived in Uganda for the last four years, tried to put up resistance to no avail as he was overwhelmed by those men carrying pistols.
An official at the bus terminal who preferred anonymity so as to speak freely expressed his shock at seeing men jumping out of a Rav 4 brand car and ordering Phillip to give in.
“The men said they were from security and pulled out pistols; threatening to shoot Phillip. He had to surrender. They led him to their car and drove off.” he said.
Rwakibibi’s wife, Jeanette, who is expecting to give birth to twins, confirmed that her husband was taken by security officers.
“He received a call from a customer and left me at the hospital in Kabowa where I am expecting to give birth to twins,” Jeannette told ChimpReports on Friday morning.
“I was later told that people from security took him. I don’t know where he is and I am so traumatized,” she added.
She said efforts by the family to locate Rwakibibi at different police stations in the capital were yet to bear fruit.
A case of a missing person has since been recorded at Old Kampala Police Station to facilitate investigations into the incident.
When questioned on the issue, Uganda’s Defence Spokesperson Brig Richard Karemire said he had “no idea” about the matter.
As for the Chief of Military Intelligence Brig Abel Kandiho, he said he was “out of the country”.
The Rwandan High Commissioner to Uganda Rtd Maj Gen Frank Mugambage on July 5 described as “unjustified” the arrest of her citizens in Uganda but emphasised that Kigali was committed to strengthening bilateral ties with Kampala.
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Presiding over the graduation, Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) Secretary General, Col. Jeannot Ruhunga urged the graduates to use the skills acquired and to uphold professionalism, transparency and discipline in their day-to-day duties.
“The current trends require well trained investigators equipped with adequate skills to investigate emerging crimes such cyber-crimes, drug trafficking among others,; you have been trained to deliver professionally, efficiently and effectively,” he urged.
Ildephonse Ndaguze one of the graduates said that they learnt good investigation practices which will help them deliver in their job.
“Based on the skills acquired from here, there are many things which I believe will be changed in our job; those include, fast-trucking dossiers, good investigation practices and evidence keeping which lead to providing fair justice,” he said.
Currently, RIB has 900 professional investigators with a target to increase to 1300 in the recentnear future.
RICA is an undergraduate institution of excellence in practical agriculture set to open in July 2019.
The tertiary institution is being constructed by the Government of Rwanda with support from Howard Buffet Foundation.
The institute will combine research, education, extension services and will enroll 84 students yearly.
Speaking at the event, Mukeshimana said that the practical and experiential learning institution is a unique and innovative dedicated to preparing the next generation of agriculturalists of Rwanda and East Africa.
RICA students will learn the principles of conservation agriculture and One Health while emphasizing written communication, leadership and entrepreneurship. They will engage with communities to ensure research insights are informed by local needs and RICA’s innovations benefit local communities.
“The agriculture practical institute is going to be set up with a core mission to prepare socially responsible, innovative, and entrepreneurial leaders with practical skills to contribute to modernized and sustainable agriculture for sustainable rural development,” Mukeshimana said.
Students at RICA will be exposed to six different enterprises including Beef Cattle and Small Ruminants, Dairy, Poultry and Swine, Row and Forage Crops, Vegetable and Tree Crops, Irrigation and Mechanization.
It is expected that all RICA graduates will be innovative problem solvers able to operate farms and ranches, start agribusinesses, assume management roles in cooperatives and other agriculture enterprises, serve their communities as extension agents, technical and policy experts.
The first phase of campus construction will be completed in July 2019. A second phase of campus construction will be completed in July 2020
The incident took place yesterday when a gang with rudimentary weapons dug a water pipe in Gikombe Village, Sove Cell of Huye Sector.
According to Police they started digging the pipe at around 2:00pm and locals informed the Police.
At the arrival, around 6:00pm, the gang resisted by fighting back police officers, according to the Police Spokesperson in Southern Region, CIP Emmanuel Kayigi.
“They fought back police and officers shot and killed two, seized one and others run away,” he explained.
Last week, Police in Huye also shot dead two suspected thieves attempting to steal materials and machinery at camping site of Chinese Company constructing Huye-Nyamagabe road.
Speaking to IGIHE, RCS spokesperson, SSP Hillary Sengabo said that the project feasibility study has been completed and are still waiting to enter agreement with a telecommunication company that will effectively implement the project.
“We are still discussing with telecommunication companies, examining ways the project can be implemented without disturbing security of the country. The project is there, and no financing constraints, the remaining step is getting credible contractor,” he explained.
He said that inmates will top up airtime using money given by their families in official procedures.
According to Sengabo, inmates will access the phones through the inmates’ welfare department.
Currently there is one cellphone per prison which inmates can access but, according to Sengabo, it was not fully accessible like it will be done once public phones are introduced.
According to RCS, inmates can make calls in prisons only when they justify with reasonable concerns especially in cases of family and social affairs. RCS says that the prison director can authorize the call to be done under supervision.
Egypt’s National Day commemorates the establishment of Egypt as an independent Republic on July 23, 1952.
Speaking at the event, the Egyptian Ambassador to Rwanda, Ahmed El-Ansary elaborated Egypt’s development journey and its contribution to Africa’s development.
“Today’s celebration marks the 66th anniversary of the 23rd of July revolution, a turning point in Egypt’s history, and arguably the trigger for similar national movements in Africa, pioneered by iconic leaders such as Nasser, Mandela, Benbela, Nkrumah, Kenyatta and Nyerere to mention but a few, ” said the Egyptian envoy, Ahmed El-Ansary.
He further stressed on how Egypt has been put to test over the past few years, gone through troubles and tribulations, and stretched to the limit in a very unique double transition exercise.
“As you are all aware, the challenges were huge, let alone menacing to the very existence of the nation, in an attempt to alter the fabric, and the very foundations with which our culture withstood the test of times for more than 7000 years,” Ahmed said.
About the existing bilateral ties between Rwanda and Egypt, Ahmed El-Ansary remarked that the relations have been strengthened over time in several areas such as education, health, capacity building, support programs, trade and investment.
“Over the past three years, the relations between Egypt and Rwanda took a different turn, three presidential visits, alternating between Egypt and Rwanda, were instrumental in giving our bilateral relations a much needed impetus,” he remarked.
The Egyptian Envoy further hailed President Kagame’s efforts in promoting Inter-African Trade and Investment, especially in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which would bring Africa into the global trade space, as one continent and not as many countries, if ratified by all 54 members of the African Union.
“Egypt fully understands that the reform is an ongoing process and remains committed, in her capacity as the incoming chair of the African Union, to closely work with others, so to see this exercise through till the very end,” Ahmed noted.
Also speaking during the event, Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi, Rwandan State Minister in charge of public and primary healthcare, expressed his appreciation for the partnership between Egypt and Rwanda, which reflects the deep relations between the two countries.
The celebrations were graced by the presence of representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Rwanda, the Egyptian community in Rwanda and friends.
The move was revealed yesterday by City of Kigali Mayor, Marie-Chantal Rwakazina at the RPF General Assembly of CoK.
CoK sets the target following heavy rains that killed over 200 people across the country in the first quarter of 2018.
Rwakazina said that the exercise will start by relocating people living in the hills of Rebero and Jali before the heavy rains period starts.
Rwakazina who was, at the general assembly, elected the RPF chairperson in the CoK, pledged that she will fast-track the exercise to relocate people in places which put their lives in danger.
“As the RPF chairperson and City mayor, I promise to accelerate the project to relocating 13,000 people from high risk zones during the period of one year. This is part of master-plan implementation, making Kigali clean but most importantly to protect people’s lives,” she explained.
She said that the exercise will start from the most vulnerable families living in high hilly places and those living in dilapidated houses.
The CoK also conducts sensitization among families living in high risk zones to relocate and resettle in safe places.
