{{Police in Nyarugenge District arrested three people in connection with a robbery at an electronics shop on Tuesday night.}}
The burglary occurred at about 4am at a shop owned by one Francois Karenzi, situated in Kiyovu in the city centre where 17 laptops were stolen after thieves broke through the door.
The suspects are currently detained at Muhima Police Station.
Nyarugenge Police said investigations are still on to unearth all those involved in this break-in.
Finger prints were collected from the scene of crime, which will also facilitate investigations, police added.
{{Over 485,867 simcards have been deactivated. Their owners cannot make and recieve calls.}}
On 31st July at midnight all unregistered simcards were disconnected.
However, some unregistered simcards are allegedly active and that their owners are able to make and recieve calls.
The Rwanda Utility and Regulatory Agency RURA told IGIHE that over 6,596, 005 simcards representing 92,6% were registered.
According to RURA communication official Jean Baptist Mutabazi, said, 70,905 subscribers on the TIGO telecom network didnt register their Simcards. 361,123 MTN subscribers didnt register and 53,839 Airtel Subscribers didnt register their simcards.
{{Rwanda has been ranked third in Africa after Egypt and Mauritius in World Bank’s statistical capacity indicator after scoring an overall 77 points out of 100.}}
Statistical Capacity Indicator provides an overview of the statistical capacity of 140 developing countries.
It is based on a diagnostic framework developed with a view to assessing the capacity of statistical systems.
The framework consists of three assessment areas which are: methodology; data sources; and periodicity and timeliness. Rwanda scored 60 points in Methodology, 80 in data sources and 90 in periodicity and timelines.
The success is attributed to achievements registered by the National institute of statistics of Rwanda (NISR) since 2009 with the 5 year national strategy for developing statistics.
These include improved surveys delivery and more professional management as evidences by integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV), National Census and quarterly and annual GROSS Domestic Product (GDP).
Statistical methodology measures a country’s ability to adhere to internationally recommended standards and methods. This aspect is captured by assessing guidelines and procedures used to compile macroeconomic statistics, and social data reporting and estimation practices.
Source data, reflects whether a country conducts data collection activities in line with internationally recommended periodicity, and whether data from administrative systems are available and reliable for statistical estimation purposes.
Periodicity and timeliness, looks at the availability and periodicity of key socioeconomic indicators, of which nine are Millennium Development Goals indicators.
This dimension measures the extent to which data are made accessible to users through transformation of source data into timely statistical outputs.
{{Officials from Ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Refugee Affairs are expected in Malawi for talks on repatriation of Rwandan refugees still holedup there.}}
Rwanda Intends to use the platform to explain to Malawi the process of voluntary repatriation, which the former insist is facilitated by UN refugee agency.
The Malawian government would require about Frw980 million to repatriate the 500 refugees.
“It’s the UNHCR that facilitates transportation of the refugees, not the Malawian government. However, we intend to visit the country and explain all the issues related to the repatriation of refugees,” Antoine Ruvebana, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs, said yesterday.
Ruvebana said they have been to all other countries hosting Rwandan refugees and only Malawi was remaining, adding that it will help to clarify to Malawi about the matter.
The Malawian Home Affairs minister, Uladi Mussa, was quoted recently as saying that his country was constrained by resources to carry out the exercise.
{{Nigeria has prefered not to comment on the ongoing speculation that it is withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from Mali because it lost command of the Peacekeeping Forces to Rwanda.}}
Rwanda’s Gen Kazura Jean Bosco trounced other contenders to assume command of the new Peacekeeping force established in Mali.
Meanwhile Allasane Ouattara, President of Cote d’Ivoire, Authority of Heads of State and Government and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) confirmed this move in Abuja where he refuted the speculations that Nigeria was withdrawing some of its troops because it had lost command of its peacekeeping forces to Rwanda.
Nigeria is now ready to remove some of its troops from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), a part of the group that were transformed from AFISMA.
President Ouattara confirmed the receipt of a letter from President Jonathan declaring that the reason for the withdrawal of the Nigerian troops from Mali was precipitated by a domestic need. According to the letter from President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria needs some of its people, and the country wasn’t withdrawing all its troops, just a small part.
{{The Governor of Northern Province Bosenibamwe Aime has hailed former FDLR rebels for denouncing Genocide ideology and armed rebellion and choosing to return to their home country Rwanda.}}
Mr. Bosenibamwe was speaking to the Ex-combatants at Mutobo Transit center in Musanze district. The ex-combatants are undergoing rehabilitation before they get reintegrated into Rwandan communities.
The Governor was presenting to the Ex-combatants the current situation in the country and government policies saying the country had tremendously transformed in the past 19years since the members of FDLR committed Genocide in Rwanda.
The Ex-combatants numbering over 117 at the Center are part of the 47th group that has denounced rebellion and genocide ideology and therefore returning to Rwanda to participate in nation building.
FDLR rebel group is currently listed as a terrorist organisation with its leader being sought for various charges.
{{Rwanda is seeking to hire a consultant to conduct feasibility study on Kampala-Kigali railway line.}}
The Railwayline is part of the greater regional project connecting Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda aimed at improving transportation of goods on the Northern Corridor.
The northern Corridor links regional countries to the port of Mombasa, which serves Uganda, Rwanda, eastern DR Congo, Burundi, northern Tanzania and South Sudan.
Josephine Uwineza, the director of railway and marine transport at Rwanda Transport Development Agency told local daily that, “there are no development partners or private investors who have committed to finance the project but governments of the three countries are enthusiastic about it and will mobilise the funds.”
The Government of Rwanda is optimistic that by end of the year.
The project that is expected to be completed in 2018 will cost an estimated $3.5 billion and the three member countries will jointly mobilise funds to kick-start it.
Following the successful first phase in the hygiene competition in the City of Kigali, Rwanda National Police on Tuesday launched the second hybrid to further promote cleanliness in the city.
The move seeks to influence sectors to strengthen their activities to improve sanitation in the three city districts – Nyarugenge, Gasabo and Kicukiro – under the police campaign of “Keep Kigali Clean and Green.”
The exercise started with the cleaning of Kimironko bus terminal in Gasabo District and giving CDs containing hygiene messages, to drivers of public vehicles.
The CDs are meant to be played in public cars to send the message to all Rwandans.
It also included erecting dustbins on roadsides.
The competition brings together 34 sectors in the three districts, in which the winning sector will be awarded a vehicle and the second gets a motorcycle, the Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana, said.
He added that a disciplined motorcycle operator with all the traffic requirements will get a motorcycle.
Others to be awarded are journalists, who will write best articles on hygiene promotion, song and poem composers.
The competition is slated to end in July next year.
He said the force conducts such hygienic activities across the country, including during umuganda.
The Minister of Local Government, James Musoni, while officially launching the exercise, said its success requires “ownership of the public.”
He said “pure cleanness starts with personal mind.”
He appealed to Kigali residents to own the exercise, take part in community work – Umuganda – and be part of the development the city needs today.
The Mayor of Kigali city, Fidele Ndayisaba said cleanliness in part of the city’s master plan.
He said they have introduced hygiene programmes in schools, delivered once week.
The first phase of the competition saw Kanombe sector of Kicukiro district emerging the winner, and walked away with a motorcycle.
Rwezamenyo Sector in Nyarugenge came second with 85 percent; Gikondo sector in Kicukiro was third with 79 percent while Niboye and Remera sectors from Kicukiro and Gasabo districts respectively shared the fourth spot with 77 percent.
{{Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo has brushed off U.S. charges that Rwanda was supporting M23 rebel movement in DRC saying that levelling accusations would not help pacify the region.}}
Mushikiwabo on Tuesday told media in Nairobi, Kenya, “Those whose policy is to keep pulling countries of the region into a conflict that is not of their making, we don’t think that is helpful, Scapegoating is not going to help DRC.”
When asked if that amounted to a denial, she told Reuters in Nairobi: “I think my comment is very clear. There are many complex issues in Congo and those have to be looked at with a view to try to reach a peaceful situation in DRC.”
Minister Mushikiwabo was speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of ministers from the Great Lakes region in the Kenyan capital, which included discussions about eastern Congo and regional efforts to broker peace between the rebel group and Kinshasa.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week led a U.N. Security Council debate on the Great Lakes and urged 11 African nations which signed a February deal brokered by the United Nations on ending fighting to respect Congo’s sovereignty.
Alongside that peace initiative, Uganda has been hosting talks between Kinshasa and the M23 group.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed told Reuters a draft deal had been given to Kinshasa and the rebels, and that representatives from both sides were expected to meet soon in the Ugandan capital to discuss it. She did not give a date.
But another delegate at the Nairobi meeting said the two sides remained far apart and little progress was being made in the Kampala talks.
Congo’s U.N. peacekeeping mission announced on Tuesday it was setting up a security zone around Goma and the nearby town of Sake, which briefly fell into M23 hands last year, to prevent the population being caught up in renewed fighting.
The mission, known as MONUSCO, said its troops would disarm, by force if necessary, anyone other than members of the Congolese security forces found carrying weapons within the zone after a 48-hour grace period.
An accompanying map of the proposed zone indicated it would not cover any areas currently held by M23.
“There are many armed groups in this area. Now the brigade is out to enforce peace by means of the security zone, this is the first stage,” Charles Bambara, MONUSCO’s spokesman, said.
The operation will be the first for the nearly 3,000-strong Intervention Brigade, which has been charged with aggressively neutralising armed groups in Congo’s lawless eastern borderlands.
