A therapist, counselor, psychologist, shrink, however you refer to a certified mental health practitioner, is not in any way supposed to solve whichever reason you come to them with.
They can help you get in touch with your true self but not erase your painful memories. They can guide you in digging deep to find the root of a certain habit but
they cannot force you to behave in different ways.
And most importantly, they cannot read your mind as some have neither come to believe nor can they clear your past.
Many who have had sessions with counselors have different experiences because each of us is different and certainly reasons that bring us to those professionals are not similar but you can count on them to do their best to provide you with the help you need. What I like most about it is the confidentiality that the relationship brings where you are allowed to be free and speak your mind without worrying that there will be any sort of gossip outside of what you said during the sessions.
Some have the excuse that these professionals are hard to find in Rwanda but that is false. Clinics are available with trained and licensed counselors ready to help you at any time, and those worried about how much it will cost, know that it is all worth
it and most of these centers accept several insurances. So, do not let that be the reason you do not get help.
There are also virtual ways to get mental health care like Positive which is one of the apps that you can download and seek an appointment with a counselor for free as it is a platform that volunteers and give time and skills to be there when you need help.
So, go to therapy with an open mind and be ready to do the work with the help of your therapist, and be the best you that you can be.
Gilbert Byiringiro and Emmanuel Hasengimana were arrested red-handed with the motorcycle Bajaj Boxer type, registration number RE 519D, in Remera Village, Nyendo Cell of Rwimiyaga Sector.
The motorcycle was reported stolen in the night of December 25, after suspected thieves broke into the house where it was kept.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Hamdun Twizeyimana, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, said that the ring involves three people, with the third member yet to be arrested.
“Suspected thieves broke into the house of the victim located in the same village of Remera, at about 03:00 a.m on Sunday.
The victim realized the criminal act later that night and called the Police, and the search for the motorcycle and suspected thieves was immediately commenced,” SP Twizeyimana explained.
He added: “On Tuesday at about 10p.m, a resident in the same village of Remera called the Police reporting three people, who were traveling on the same stolen motorcycle. Police intercepted the trio, two of them were taken into custody but the third member fled in the process, and the search for his whereabouts is still underway.”
At the time, the ring was looking for a buyer. The suspects were handed over to RIB at Rwimiyaga station for further legal process.
Article 166 of law determining offences and penalties in general states that; any person convicted of theft is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than one (1) year and not more than two (2) years and a fine of not less than Rwf1 million and not more than Rwf2 million, community service in a period of six (6) months or only one of these penalties.
In article 167, the penalty for theft doubles if the offender committed the crime through burglary, climbing or possession of keys other than the owner; the theft is carried out during the night or the theft is carried out by more than one (1) person.
SP Twizeyimana thanked the resident, who facilitated the recovery of the motorcycle and arrest of the suspected thieves.
“Community policing and neighborhood watch in particular, through swift information sharing, is central to fighting and preventing crimes,” said SP Twizeyimana.
“The investigators have 30 days effective today to investigate, prepare and submit their report on the alleged coup plot,” government spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh said in a statement Tuesday.
So far, the west African nation has arrested eight soldiers and one civilian who are still being held for investigation purposes.
The incident incident is one in a series of provocations, including a similar airspace violation that occurred on 7th November 2022, when a DRC fighter jet of the same type briefly touched down at Rubavu Airport before flying back to DRC.
The Government of Rwanda has through released statement disclosed that authorities have once again protested to the DRC Government against the violations of Rwandan airspace by DRC fighter jets.
It further reads that these repeated violations are against the spirit of Luanda and Nairobi peace initiatives.
“The authorities in the DRC seem to be emboldened by consistent coddling by some in the international community who repeatedly heap blame on Rwanda for any and all ills in the DRC, while ignoring the transgressions originating from the DRC. These provocations must stop,” adds the statement.
Apart from airspace violations, Rwanda reported other provocations this year including the shelling of rockets on Rwandan territory in collaboration with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) at different times.
DRC soldiers also crossed into Rwanda shooting at Rwandan security forces at different times but were foiled and shot dead in self-defence.
As residents explained, the idle facility provides loopholes for prolonged hardships as patients can spend up to Rwf5000 on maritime transport to access health services.
The concept of building health posts was introduced by the Government of Rwanda to make access to health services easier.
Gihaya Health Post was completed in 2019 but no nurse was assigned up to date.
Costasie Uzamushaka residing in Budorozi Village said that some women deliver babies before reaching health facilities because they have to travel long distances.
“We experience hurdles while taking a pregnant mother to health facilities. We are sometimes slapped Rwf5000 fine when she delivers along the way. Leaders are aware of it and promised to send nurses but it’s been long without solving the issue,” she said.
Francine Nyirahabufite said that each individual is normally charged Rwf300 for transportation in daylight but the price increases to Rwf5000 to carry a patient.
“Sometimes, patients refuse to board boats over strong wind and wait until the lake is calm. In case she gives birth before reaching a health facility, the fine applies. Our wish is to have a nurse assigned to Gihaya Health Post,” she noted.
A community health worker at the island has also told IGIHE that she recently accompanied a mother who gave birth before reaching the health center because there was no boat to carry them.
“She delivered along the way and was later fined as she went to get her baby inoculated. During a recent meeting, leaders promised to assign a nurse and supply the health post with electricity. We want the promise fulfilled,” she said.
Rusizi District vice mayor in charge of finance and economic development, Louis Munyemanzi said that they wanted to solve the issue of electricity before assigning a nurse.
“We can follow up to establish why there is no nurse assigned to the health post because we had fixed many things when we went there last time. The project might have stalled due to lacking proper follow up to check the progress,” he noted.
Gihaya Island is home to over 1300 residents while Rusizi District has 55 health posts of which only 18 operate properly.
While waiting for business around the Kicukiro trading center located along the road connecting the capital city Kigali to Bugesera District in Eastern Province, Niyoyita said he is among a growing number of riders of motorbike taxis, locally also known as moto-taxi, that offer ride services for passengers from the Sonatube roundabout in Kigali to the Akagera bridge in Bugesera District.
He said, thanks to Chinese companies’ involvement in the nation’s transport sector development, the improved road transport system has become a major boost to the fast-growing commercial motorist business because the roads are of high quality, which makes it easy to travel from one location to another.
“Every day, I wake up early in the morning between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. because many passengers travel from Bugesera to Kigali and vice versa for business. The road has been upgraded by the Chinese company. There are no potholes anymore. It is now a seamless ride from Kicukiro trading center to Nyamata Town in Bugesera District,” Niyoyita told Xinhua in an interview.
“We make a lot of money from transport fares because many passengers, including foreigners and tourists, prefer moto-taxi to public buses,” Niyoyita said.
He said there are times when he also rides on the Kigali-Bugesera road for pleasure because the road provides comfort and beautiful scenery.
As Niyoyita is still waiting for a passenger, numerous motorbike taxi riders in red and green helmets can be seen busy hurtling among the heavy traffic on the road.
“The Chinese are good at road construction, and you can see how the roads are strong, smart, and of standard quality. The roads are big, which allow smooth flow of traffic, and this has attracted many moto-taxis to operate on these roads,” said Samuel Twagiramungu, another moto-taxi rider.
He said he makes profits because driving on these Chinese-built roads from one place to another takes the shortest possible time since the roads provide a smooth ride, enabling him to transport as many passengers as possible in one day.
Niyoyita and Twagiramungu are among a growing list of motorbike taxi riders in Rwanda, especially in Kigali, whose lives have been improved by operating moto-taxis due to high demand from customers. According to the Rwanda Federation of Taxi-Moto (RFTM), there are about 46,000 moto-taxi riders registered in the country, with 26,000 of them operating in Kigali.
“The roads have become the symbol of China-Rwanda relations because we are seeing many roads in Rwanda constructed by the Chinese. The Chinese are smart and faster in their job,” Daniel Ntaganda, the chairperson of the RFTM, told Xinhua.
He said the federation is registering more moto-taxi riders due to a good transport network system and an increase in the number of businesses that depend on moto-taxi for the transportation of people and goods.
In Rwanda, Chinese firms such as the China Road and Bridge Corporation, and the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, among others, are active in the nation’s road construction, especially in Kigali and other major towns. These roads are designed and constructed according to Chinese standards. Apart from providing comfort to motorists, Chinese companies have also provided employment opportunities to many Rwandans.
The roads constructed in Kigali are part of the Kigali Infrastructure Project (KIP) to build a 215-km road network and several bridges by 2024, Merard Mpabwanamaguru, City of Kigali’s vice mayor in charge of urbanization and infrastructure, told local media recently.
More than 70 percent of Rwanda’s national highways and municipal roads were built by Chinese contractors, according to last year’s data from the National Institute of Statistics in Rwanda.
The incident happened on 26th December 2022 around 16h:50. It is said that the young men were extracting minerals in unlicensed mining site.
Sources reveal that the deceased are identified as Donat Irafasha,18, and Noel Ntakirutima, 28. Following the incident, their bodies were taken to Byumba Hospital for postmortem.
The executive secretary of Ruvune Sector, Oscar Beningoma has disclosed that the young men were extracting minerals from a pit nearby the home of a resident who immediately escaped.
“The deceased died while trying to excavate minerals from a toilet-like pit located in banana plantation surrounding a resident’s home,” he said.
Beningoma also sent his condolences to the bereaved families, urged residents to abide by laws and avoid illegal mining activities
Considering endured miserable life, their development seemed to be a fairy tale. The former Gikongoro Prefecture currently comprises two districts including Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru.
Their soil contained much acidity that yields were very low. Sources indicate that the name originated from crops’ disease or hunger occasioned by insufficient agricultural produce or regular pests ravaging crops.
Today, transformations are self-evident. The biting hunger has been eliminated while the name Abatebo has changed to wealthy people. The soil acidity has reduced that the area is covered with flourishing crops and tea grown for local consumption and export markets.
With the land area of 1090 square kilometers, the largest part of Nyamagabe District touches Nyungwe National Park which receives a large number of tourists to experience the Canopy Walkway, fauna and flora. The park’s management also helps them enjoy a memorable stay through hospitality establishments like One & Only Nyungwe House among others.
The development that has significantly impacted residents, stems from hard work by members of the private sector who relentlessly paid taxes over the past 25 years since Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) was established.
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Over the past 25 years, the country expended much effort to recover its economy which had been devastated following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
This resilience journey went hand in hand with psychiatric among other initiatives to heal the wounds of Rwandans affected by the Genocide and strive for a united country looking forward to a shared future without ethnic divisions.
Transformations in Nyamagabe District cover different areas including the education sector. Several schools have been constructed in different sectors and reduced dropouts as students can access education near their doorsteps.
Under the 12 years basic education programme, over Rwf10 billion was allocated for construction of schools that Nyamagabe currently registers at least 5 schools in each sector.
The Mayor of Nyamagabe District, Hildebrand Niyomwungeri affirms that there has been a significant milestone regarding efforts to achieve universal access to education.
“Despite the fact that schools were very few before 25 years, each sector has at least not less than five schools. The number has significantly increased as we currently have more than 150 schools,” he said.
As for health sector, two hospitals including Kaduha and Kigeme were renovated and built.
Other health infrastructures built in the district include health centers, 40 health posts among others under construction.
New office buildings for cells and sectors also cost more than Rwf1 billion.
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Nyamagabe District was reported to be experiencing persistent hunger for long due to acidic soil that resulted in low agricultural yields.
Niyomwungeri affirms that dealing with hunger in Nyamagabe required considerable efforts through wetland restoration, land consolidation and application of organic fertilizers among others.
“Generally, we have achieved a lot in all aspects of citizens’ wellbeing that whoever visits the district after 25 years witnesses remarkable transformations,” he revealed.
Today, the acidic soil is efficiently used to grow various crops including Irish potatoes, wheat and tea and the agricultural produce has increased in no small part.
Niyomwungeri underscored that hunger that was reported in the district in 25 years has been eradicated and went in hand with reduction of stunting which currently stands at 33.6%.
Nyamagabe residents also attest that they have come a long way considering attained transformations.
“In the past, our yields were low. Today, we had access to lime and fertilizers that helped us to increase yields. This increased productivity in combination with infrastructure development in different areas bespeaks some of attained transformations,” said Eliphase Hakizimana from Gasaka Sector.
In a bid to uplift Nyamagabe residents from poverty, different infrastructures including seed collection centers, feeder roads, business center workshops to foster innovations and modern markets were constructed.
New power transmission lines, water distribution systems and tarmac roads are among other developed infrastructures.
Nyamagabe District officials have encouraged residents to continue contributing to national development through taxes to walk together towards a prosperous and shared future.
There is a lot more than our parents contribute to the person we are and most may be involuntary and even go by without being detected if you do not think about it. It is from inheriting the passion from their favorite hobbies to choosing a partner who reminds or resembles them, it is all possible.
Ever wonder how men are prone to marry ladies that have similarities with their mothers? Well, it is not just this way that your choice of partner may be influenced by your parents.
From the moment we are born, the first meaningful relationships we make are with our caregivers, be it birth parents, adoptive parents, guardians, or any other who took care of us while growing up. All these can leave different ways that you view yourself.
If you have heard of “daddy issues” then you know what I mean. This makes sense especially for women because they learn how to relate to the opposite gender from their fathers, and hence why they tend to re-enact the relationship patterns they learned from their dads or father figures.
If a lady was the caretaker to their dad, they might find themselves excessively caretaking their partner in the relationship all while feeling exhausted or resentful as a result which does not help the relationship grow.
A girl who has always been disappointed by her father will project it onto her partner.
It is a little crazy that most of us still think that ‘daddy issues’ are only projected by girls. I myself did not pay much attention to this until one day I came across a video on social media, a clip from a movie I absolutely do not remember.
The video was basically a guy explaining in a comic way the reason a normal looking guy would flip out over a simple thing and start insulting themselves over it.
This whole process the guy is unconsciously talking to himself the same way his father would without knowing it and most of the time he projects this behaviour onto his partner.
Depending on the type of father you had or have; the Emotionally Unavailable Father, abusive and violent, pampering and indulging Father, toxic and controlling Father, ruined and Dependent or the anguished and distressed Father.
You can project a different daddy issue; Anxious-preoccupied, dismissive-avoidant, or fearful-avoidant.
Unfortunately just about anyone can have these issues, it only takes a person to bring their childhood paternal baggage into adulthood.
Humans have the tendency to get in relationships or marry just exactly who their parents were, sadly this is not limited to the ones who had stable happy families because even people who have strained relationships with their parents look for that familiarity in their partner.
For those lucky enough to have grown up with positive paternal patterns, then it is very beneficial to their choice of partners and what course their couple relationships can take.
Awareness is key for those who have not had the same experience. The more you can bring your triggers, behaviors, and reactions into conscious awareness, the freer you can be from your past. It is never too late to work on yourself and give yourself a chance to accept that you are worth more than the shortcomings of your paternal figure.
Manigena had sneaked the bales into Rwanda from Tanzania by boat before he was intercepted in Rama Village of Nyankurazo Cell in Kigarama Sector.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Hamdun Twizeyimana, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, said that Manigena was reported by local residents after they saw him crossing into Rwanda with the goods.
“Police in Kirehe had information about people, who smuggle goods especially second-hand clothes, into the country from Tanzania by boat through Akagera river. On Monday, at about midnight, with credible information that they saw a man on the shores unloading goods from the boat; Police responded and arrested Manigena with three-and-a-half bales of used clothes,” SP Twizeyimana said.
He commended the impact of the public in fighting and preventing crimes, including smuggling and drug trafficking.
Under the East African Community Management Act, seized smuggled goods under article 199, are auctioned.
Article 87 of the law on tax procedures provides an imprisonment of between 2 and 5 years, for tax evasion.
