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  • Miss Rwanda 2009 Bahati, Now a Mother

    {{Former miss Rwanda 2009 Bahati Grace has given birth to a baby.The baby has been named Ethan Jedidiah Muhire.

    The beauty queen is currently rumoured to be in the United states where she allegedly gave birth. However, a closer look at the picture above shows more resemblance of a lowkey Rwandan home not USA.}}

    Bahati says the father of the baby is non other than Muhire William—also known as K8 Kavuyo as his stage name.

    K8 rose to fame after releasing hits; Game Over, Gasopo, and Isaha ya 8.

    K8 is a popular rapper who has been romantically involved with Bahati. The couple has been a subject of gossip that has endured rumours ranging from a failed relationship, denial of responsibility of pregnancy by K8 Kavuyo.

    This brings an end to the long time rumours that the couple had split.

    In May 2010, gossip had spread like wild fire that Bahati and her lover K8 had married. The rumour began by a post on Bahati’s facebook wall page.

    However, then, Bahati said, “It’s crazy. K8 and I aren’t married. I didn’t write that, and I wonder who stole my password (Facebook) and wrote such a thing,” Bahati said.

    “I only share my password with K8, because we trust each other. He is not the one who wrote it, it must have been someone else.”

    Before the marriage rumour, Bahati had confessed to a local daily tabloid, “K8 is my boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean we’re married.

    In any case, we’re both still under the legal age of getting married; K8 is 20, and I’m 19,” Bahati defended.

    Even this time, the birth of their baby Ethan Jedidiah Muhire has been marred by online rumours about the gender of the baby some claiming it’s a boy others say it’s a Girl.

    The source who refused to be named leaked a photo of K8 Kavuyo holding the baby onto his chest.

  • MINICOM Starts Twitter Sessions

    {{The ministry of trade and industry (MINICOM) has today 24th July 2012 opened a Twitter session that will be happening weekly, every Tuesdays from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.}}

    Twitter being the most effective modern communication tool in today’s activities, both personal and professional has enabled many of us into staying constantly updated.

    President Paul Kagame is well known for being very active on twitter.

    Many other government institutions such as the Prime Minister’s office and the Ministry of Health, Twitter it has been a very useful and effective tool of approaching and meeting the people’s needs.

    This first open Minicom Twitter session’s aim is to enable people to ask any question about anything they would like to know as well as contributing in a way or another.

    Hon. Kanimba Francois said: “Minicom is eager to take full advantage of all modern communication tools to communicate with Rwandans and non-Rwandans alike about what the ministry does, why we do it and how well we are doing against the high standards we set for ourselves”

    He added, ”Twitter is emerging as the fastest growing and most readily accessible medium for this kind of citizen engagement. #AskMinicom is therefore an important new element in our ministry’s communication strategy.”

  • Witchdoctor Arrested Over Death of Resident

    {{Police in Rwamagana District, Musha sector in Karambo village is holding a man identified as Jacques Kalisa for reportedly killing Daniel Mparaye while attempting to heal him using his traditional medicine concoctions.}}

    Kalisa, the arrested suspect is well known by local residents as a traditional healer.

    Information about the death of Mparaye circulated after residents found his dead body in Kalisa’s house.

    After getting notified by local residents, Police intervened and took the dead body to Rwamagana Hospital for postmortem while the suspect was taken to Rwamagana District Unit for further management.

    Kalisa admits the dead body of Mparaye was recovered in his house but denies any allegation for killing him. The suspect was arrested on 20th July.

    According to Police sources in Rwamagana, the medical report confirmed that, the deceased had herbal acid in his stomach.

    In an exclusive interview with Superintendent James Muligande, the Rwamagana District Police Commander condemned the criminal act adding that such people have to be fought to ensure security in our localities.

    He attributed the arrest of Kalisa to the good cooperation with citizens who did not hesitate to inform Police.

    Supt Muligande urged Rwamagana residents to go to Hospitals for medication rather than wasting their resources to witch doctors

  • Sudan Rejects ‘Last Offer’ From Juba

    {{As a UN deadline approaches (2 August), South Sudan has provided its last offer of US$3.2Billion in compesation to help Sudan cover a budget deficit resulting from loss of three quarters of its oil production when south sudan seceded in July 2011.}}

    Juba also proposes an increased transit fee to move its oil through Sudan and says it will waive its claim to nearly US$5Billion it says it is owed by Khartoum.

    The two parties are currently holding talks in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia.

    However, Sudanese negotiators on Monday dismissed as “nothing new” what their South Sudanese counterparts have termed as the “last offer” to resolve the two countries’ disputes over oil transit fees and the status of Abyei, in the latest setback to talks bound by a UN deadline due to end in nine days.

    South Sudan’s chief negotiator Pagan Amum, said Monday that Juba told Khartoum it can pay US$9.10 for every barrel of oil that passes through pipelines owned by the China-led Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), and US$7.26 for every barrel of oil that passes through PetroDar pipelines.

    The South Sudanese official said Juba would also forgive US$ 4.9 Billion in what it says are overdue oil payments before its independence and for oil Sudan confiscated after independence. Sudan says it took the oil in lieu of unpaid transit fees.

    The offer also includes a new proposal to hold a referendum organized by the AU and the UN on the status of Abyei, Amum said.

    But Sudan, which previously rejected the south’s offer of paying US$ 2.6 Billion in financial compensation and insisted on getting US$32 for every barrel of oil, swiftly rejected the new proposal saying carrying “nothing new”, as put by the member of its negotiating delegation Mutrif Sidiq.

    Khartoum argues that since South Sudan decided to shifted from direct to AU-mediated talks means that the process is now back to the starting point.

    South Sudan suspended direct talks with Sudan on Saturday citing an airstrike carried out the day before by the Sudanese army inside southern territories.

    Khartoum denied the charge saying it only bombed forces of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) after they crossed into Sudanese territories coming from South Sudan.

  • Neutral International Force to Handle Kivu Crisis

    {{Khartoum will Host a meeting of defence ministers from the Great Lakes Region on August 2 to review progress and fast tracking implementation of decisions made in a similar meeting about a year ago in Kigali, Rwanda.}}

    The previous Kigali meeting deliberated on the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

    The meeting will also flesh out the details of how to establish a neutral international force that the region’s heads of state agreed to on July 15 in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the African Union Summit.

    One of the decisions especially establishment of a Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre has already been acted upon. The centre opened in June in the eastern DRC town of Goma.

    Illegal mining has been cited as the chief source of funds that the different militias operating in the area use to purchase weaponry.

    The neutral international force force will also tackle the FDLR composed of remnants of the Interahamwe who carried out the 1994 genocide — and all other negative forces in eastern DRC, as well as patrol and secure border zones.

    The Khartoum meeting is intended to inform the Extraordinary Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region that Uganda, in its capacity as the current chair of the Conference, agreed to host in Kampala on August 6-7 to address the security situation in eastern Congo.

  • Irrigation Made Easy By Motorcycle-Powered Pump

    Kenya based Farmlink-Africa director Mwangi Mbugiro shows how a motorcycle water pump operates

    {{In Kenya a new innovation could be replicated to help transform farming in rural East Africa, Kenya’s Business Daily has reported.}}

    A group of youths working under Farmlink-Africa has developed a pump that can be powered by a motorcycle engine instead of the traditional diesel engine, which can pump a total of between 22,000 to 40,000 litres of water per hour and consumes 0.2 litres of petrol in an hour.

    Mwangi Mbugiro Farmlink-Africa director of sales, explains that The pump is mounted to a motorcycle power take over — commonly known as the engine shaft that drives it as it pumps the water from its source.

    The machine can also pump water from a well of up to 40 feet but the speed and amount of water is usually dependent on the depth.

    Mwangi adds, “on a not-so-deep place, the water is pumped fast as compared to pumping it from a well that is deep.”

    He noted that the advantage of this machine is that it uses a locomotive that can be used for other purposes as compared to the common diesel water pump that performs one purpose only and lies idle when you are not pumping water.”

    The new innovation was showcased during this year’s Agricultural Society of Kenya show at the Kisumu showground under the theme, enhancing technology for agricultural food security.

  • Drug-Resistant HIV on the Rise in East Africa–Report

    {{New Findings indicate that drug-resistant HIV is on the rise in East Africa and southern Africa.}}

    According to the report published in a medical Journal –The Lancet, this could jeopardise a decade-long trend of decreasing AIDS-related illnesses and death.

    Researchers have noted that Resistance to AIDS drugs in the past decade is growing in parts of Africa but should not hamper the life-saving drug rollout.

    Tiny genetic mutations that make HIV immune to key frontline drugs have been increasing in eastern and southern Africa, something that should be a clear warning to health watchdogs, they said.

    “Without continued and increased national and international efforts, rising HIV drug resistance could jeopardize a decade-long trend of decreasing HIV/AIDS-related illness and death in low- and middle-income countries,” they said.

    The study, published in The Lancet, is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Union (EU).

    It is the widest-ever analysis of a risk that has haunted AIDS campaigners since 2003, when drugs started to be rolled out to poorer countries that are home to more than 90 percent of people with the AIDS virus.

    The nightmare is that — as with bacteria which become resistant to antibiotics — strains of HIV will emerge that will blunt the armoury of antiretrovirals, leaving millions defenceless.

    Silvia Bertagnolio from the UN’s World Health Organisation and Ravindra Gupta at University College London looked at published cases of HIV resistance and supplemented this with data from the WHO itself.

    Over eight years, prevalence of resistant virus in untreated people soared from around one percent to 7.3 % in eastern Africa, and from one percent to 3.7% in southern Africa, they found.

    Similar rates of 3.5-7.6% were also found in western and central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

    The difference, though, is that they remained quite stable throughout this period, and did not experience such a big rise.

    The mutations were found in strains of HIV-1 virus that made them resistant to a class of drugs called non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, or NNRTIs.

    These are the first-option treatments for HIV infection and are also used to prevent transmission of the virus from a pregnant woman to her foetus.

    If a patient is resistant to the drug, the risks of sickness and death rise in line with levels of virus.

    Further treatment options do exist beyond NNRTIs, but these second-line regimens are often far costlier.

    The paper says countries should step up monitoring of HIV resistance and take steps to guard against start-stop treatment that fuels the problem.

    They can do this by ensuring that drug supplies are not interrupted and by beefing up monitoring of patients to encourage them to follow the daily pill-taking regimen.

    Despite the concern, the rollout should carry on, says the paper.

    “Estimated levels, although increasing, are not unexpected in view of the large expansion of antiretroviral treatment coverage seen in low-income and middle-income countries — no changes in antiretroviral treatment guidelines are warranted at the moment.”

    Around 33 million people around the world have HIV.

    In 2011, about eight million badly infected people in poorer countries had access to HIV-suppressing drugs, a figure 26 times greater than the number in 2003 but still only just over half of those in need.

    The report coincided with the 19th International AIDS conference, a six-day event running in Washington until Friday.

  • Miss Belgium in Romance With Rwandan Artist

    {{A Rwandan National living in Beligum is rumoured to be having an affair with Miss Belgium.

    Only identified as Jali 23, he has been reported to be intimately bonding with the Beligian Beauty Queen Miss Laura Beyne.

    The two have been spoted on streets in brussels holding hands and getting cosy. Jali was named Belgium artist of the Year 2012.

    In 2001,Jali ;launched his Album he named ‘Des jours & des lunes’.

    Beyne is currently in China where she is competing for the miss world crown. }}

  • U.S. Training African Anti Drugs Units

    {{Africa is critically viewed as a new battle against narcotics syndicates and terrorism.

    Cocaine smuggling through West Africa has increased in recent years.}}

    Several years ago, a South American drug gang tried to bribe the son of the Liberian president to allow it to use the country for smuggling.

    However, he tipped off the DEA, and the gang members got arrested and convicted.

    The United states government says its behind the curve in some ways to deal with these major threats.

    Thus the US government is already training anti-drug specialists in Ghana and plans to do the same in Nigeria and Kenya to counter Latin American cartels smuggling drugs through Africa to Europe.

    “We see Africa as the new frontier in terms of counterterrorism and counternarcotics issues,”Jeffrey Breeden, chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Europe, Asia and Africa was quoted as saying.

    “It’s a place that we need to get ahead of — we’re already behind the curve in some ways, and we need to catch up.”

    The United States is already conducting extensive anti-drug training programs in Mexico, Colombia and other countries.

    US anti-drug assistance to West Africa has reached nearly $50 million for each of the past two years, up from just $7.5 million in 2009.

    The DEA also is opening its first country office in Senegal.

    Additional information: NY Times

  • EAC Pushes for Arms Trade Treaty

    {{The East African Community deputy secretary general (Political Federation), Dr Julius Tangus Rotich, says arms trafficking is potent threat to stability, security and development.}}

    The EAC wants an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in order to address the problems associated with unregulated transfer of conventional arms.

    “A robust ATT, if fully implemented, would reduce the incentive to accumulate arms and hence reduce spending on arms and spur economic development,” he said in an address to the United Nations headquarters in New York last week.

    He said the regional bloc was keen to have a treaty that would address problems associated with unregulated transfer of conventional arms ” in all its manifestations”, he said in a statement sent to The Citizen.

    According to him, the matter has been discussed thoroughly by experts from the EAC partner states; Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda in the past years and should now be put into practice.

    He added that the region has experienced and continues to experience the devastating consequences of unregulated arms transfer, a situation which has facilitated displacement of populations, human rights abuses and destabilisation of legitimate governments.

    Whereas the region was not producing arms, it remained awash with them, he said.

    The nexus between easy availability of arms, terrorism and piracy continues to manifest itself in the region and remains of primary concern for regional peace and security.

    “The inextricable link between unregulated arms transfer, human rights and humanitarian issues should thus be at the core of the treaty’s objectives, drawing from our regional experience,” Dr Rotich explained.

    He underscored the need for the proposed ATT which includes all arms in the UN Conventional Arms Register along with Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and ammunitions as well as accommodate all aspects of transfer