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  • Cucumber Good for Eyes,Skin

    {{Cucumber is a very edible fruit which comes from the cucumber plant cucumis sativus in the gourd family.

    This fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. With so many health benefits, it is one of the most important parts of food diet as well as skin diet.}}

    {{Cucumber for eyes:}} it is believed that cucumber helps in reducing swelling around the eyes or the dark circles under your eyes because it is an anti- inflamentory, hydrating and cooling snack.

    This is an easy homemade and natural treatment friendly with sensitive, allergic skins. They are the most wonderful and natural eye pads you can find for yourself.

    The puffiness and tiredness in your eyes may just leave you if you do this in a relaxed fashion.

    {{Cucumber for skin:}} if you have a rough or very sensitive skin (against sun rays), cucumber is good for you.

    Both the cucumber and your skin share the same level of hydrogen. Cucumber helps soothing and softening your skin and gets you relaxed in no time.

    {{Cucumber for headache:}} after a long hectic day, chances are you are to get a headache, avoid it by eating a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free.

    {{Cucumber for cellulites:}} try rubbing a slice or two of cucumber along your problem area for a few minutes.

    The phyto chemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulites. It works great on wrinkles too.

    {{Cucumber for shoes:}} Rub a cucumber over your shoe, its chemicals provide a quick and durable shine that repels water.

    {{Cucumber for fresh breath:}} After a meal or drink, take a slice of cucumber, press it on the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds.

    {{Cucumber as an eraser:}}Take the outside of cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen, pencil or marker writing.

  • Western Province Selects Miss Rwanda Contestant

    {{Esther Uwingabire, 23, has been selected Miss Western Province-scoring 91%

    The selection was held 21st of July in Rubavu,Western Province at the main hall of RTUC, the Rwanda Tourism University College.}}

    After selecting Umutesi Aurore,Isimbi Deborah and Umurerwa Ariane as the three contestants from the Southern Province on 14th July; yesterday 21st of July the same event took place in the Western Province in Rubavu.

    The miss Rwanda 2012 being prepared by Minispoc and Mashirika,was hosted by Anita Pendo,and had the minister of Minispoc Protais Mitari as the guest of honor.

    Esther Uwingabire was succeeded by Natacha Uwamahoro, 20, from Rubavu but currently studying from SFB, being the first runner up with 89%, she was also selected Miss SFB 2012 and Annick Umwamikazi, 21, from Nyamasheke with a rate of 82%, she studies from RTUC,Kigali.

    The three selected contestants were chosen among twelve other girls from different districts of the province, namely, Uwase Mignone,Esther Hakizimana, Laetitia Isimbi,Natacha Uwamahoro, Rachel Uwizera,Assia Niyifasha,Alice Nyirahabimana,Esther Uwingabire,Sandra Teta who was the runner up of miss SFB 2012,Adelphine Uwanyirigira,Gratia Mutabaruka and Annick Umwamikazi.

    After the first session of questioning, the number of contestants reduced to five with Teta Sandra’s exclusion being a total surprise to all.
    The five contestants were Annick Umwamikazi,Esther Uwingabire,Alice Nyirahabimana,Uwamahoro Natacha and Isimbi Laetitia.

    Gisenyi Acrobats and the Kigali Live Music Band featuring Rosette and Jonathan tremendously entertained the crowd with their lively acrobatic schemes and wonderful voices and rhythms in between breaks.

    By the time of the second questioning, only three girls selected to participate in Miss Rwanda 2012 had to remain; being, Uwingabire Esther,Uwamahoro Natasha and Annick Umwamikazi titled Miss, first runner up and second runner up of the western province respectively.

    “My message to the youth is to encourage them into being confident and having self esteem because I believe that we can achieve all that we put our minds into.

    If I become Miss Rwanda 2012,I will focus on women and young girls’ activities and purposes as well as working hand in hand with my country in different departments such as campaigning for the fight against drug consumption and addiction.” Said Miss Western Province Esther Uwingabire.

    On 28th July, the very same event of selecting three other contestants will be held in the Easten Province.

  • understanding African Batik

    {{Batik is a word used in West Africa consisting on the process of hand decorating and printing a fabric in which parts not to be dyed are covered by wax.}}

    African fashion really spread worldwide with the batik fabrics tailored in the western fashion way. The patterns on the fabrics reflect the beauty, texture and simplicity of the African tradition.

    These fabrics are originally from West Africa; Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and the Gambia.

    {{History and manufacture}}

    There are examples of batik textiles in many parts of Africa but the most developed skills are to be found in Nigeria when the Yoruba people make Adire clothes.

    Two methods are used in the dying and printing of the fabric: Adire Eleso which involves tied and stitched designs and Adire Eleko where the starch paste is used.

    The paste is most often made from cassava (a root plant) flour, rice, alum or copper sulfate boiled together to produce a smooth thick paste.

    The paste produced from that mixture is used in two different ways.

    The first; using the freehand drawing of traditional designs using a feather, thin stick piece of fine bone, a metal or a wooden comb-like tool. This one is done by women.

    Men on the other hand force the pasting through a thin metal stencil with a flexible metal or wooden tool; this enables accurate repeat patterns to be achieved.

    The patterning of cloth is usually a family tradition handed down from mother to daughter as a cottage industry.

    The cloth is usually divided into squares or rectangles and designs represent everyday tools, carvings, bead work, activities or traditional image of the artists own culture or tribal history.

    An Eleko cloth (paste used) is usually made up of 2.2 meters pieces sewn together.

    The traditional dye is indigo from a plant that grows throughout Africa. They produce a dark blue color which varies with the varieties of indigo. Once the paste resist is dry, the fabric is dyed in large clay pots or pits dug in the earth.

    After dying, the paste is scraped off to reveal a white or pale blue design. The usual cloth is cotton but highly prized clothing using wild silk is sometimes produced.

    But in recent years, other clothes using the African designs have been produced in Britain ( Manchester clothes) and Holland, these ones are made by the machine.

  • Wife Bangs Husbands Head With Hoe

    {{Jean Bosco Tugirabega narrowly survived death after his wife hit him on the head with a small hoe (locally known as ifuni).

    The incident happened at Ruhuha cell,Mugano in Ngororero District.}}

    Uwimana Julienne hit her husband after the two failed to settle a dispute where Tugirabega accused his wife of adultery.

    However, IGIHE reporter who found Tugirabega at the hospital,noticed that he had no medical insurance and was only provided with basic first aid and advised to find money to get extra treatment.

    Later IGIHE went to Tugirabega’s home where local authorities and residents had gathered saying they were going to sell Tugirabegas land to raise funds for medical treatment.

    Uwimana told IGIHE that fights in their home are common and it was not the first time that they had engaged in fights.

    She added that although she admitted that this case of infidelity occurred, she has always been incited by the husband leading into quarrels and fights.

    “My clothes have been burnt before, He has also poured away the food I prepared, I have endured frequent insults. He claims that am sleeping with other men yet its not true” Uwimana narrated.

    Tugirabega also told IGIHE that this is the third time he has been hurt by his own wife saying that the source of the fights his adulterous wife.

    Asked whether he had any evidence that his wife was involved in any extramarital affair, Tugirabega said that , “ I have never caught her but am aware of her extra marital affairs, even neighbours are aware.”

  • LIberian Journalists Earn Greater Freedom

    {{In Liberia, Journalists will not be arrested anymore for defaming and insulting the public, thus giving them greater freedom to operate.}}

    President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, has signed (Saturday) the Table Mountain Declaration which calls for repeal of criminal defamation and “insult” laws journalists are usually charged with.

    The Table Mountain Declaration is an international initiative being championed by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the World Editors Forum, the African Editors Forum and Liberia’s media advocacy group, President Union of Liberia.

    The statement seeks to halt the continuous detention of journalists and closure of media houses on charges of defamation by governments for “insulting” authorities.

    President Sirleaf is the second African leader after Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou to sign the Declaration since its adoption at the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007.

    The ceremony which took place in the office of the President at the Foreign Ministry in the capital Monrovia, was attended by the president of the World Association of Newspapers, Xavier Vidal-Folch, among other members of the international community.

    Prior to signing the declaration, President Sirleaf reiterated her commitment to advancing freedom of expression and free press not just in Liberia but the entire African Continent, noting that these attributes were the foundation of democracy.

    She said the fact that Liberia was not among the 27 African countries where 229 journalists were imprisoned in 2007 also demonstrates her government’s commitment to free expression and free press.

    She said setting freedom of speech and free press in Africa is one of her over-arching goals, as evidenced by the passage by her of the Freedom of Information Act in 2010 and the Access to Free Press Act in 2011.

  • Sudan Bombs South Sudan, Direct Talks Suspended

    {{Just a few days after agreeing in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia to resume peace talks South Sudan has announced (Saturday) it has cancelled face-to-face peace talks with the northern neighbor Sudan.}}

    South Sudan government accuses Khartoum of launching a new air raid on its territory.

    However, Sudan has denied bombing its southern neighbour, saying it had only targeted Darfuri rebels inside its own territory.

    “We were left with no choice but to suspend our direct bilateral talks with Sudan,” the spokesman for Juba’s delegation at the talks in Addis Ababa, Atif Kiir, said.

    “You cannot sit with them to negotiate when they are bombing our territory,” he added.

    “The only negotiations that will happen now will happen through the panel,” he said, referring to an African Union mediation panel conducting the talks in the Ethiopian capital.

    “There was bombing yesterday morning at a place called Rubaker,” in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan’s military spokesman Philip Aguer told Press, adding that “this might have implications because maybe that is the intention of Sudan to bomb us and to stop talking.”

    Aguer said eight bombs were dropped by Sudanese army Antonov planes.
    “Two civilians were wounded — a man and a woman. They were sleeping in their houses in the villages of Wuer Kil and Wuer Puech”, he said.

    “Last time they wanted to break off talks in Addis Ababa, they bombed us … that was on March 26” at a military base in oil-producing Unity state, he added.

    “SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) didn’t violate South Sudanese territory,” Khartoum’s official SUNA news agency quoted one of Sudan’s negotiators to the African Union-led talks, Omar Dahab, as saying.

    “What happened is the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels tried to attack Sudan by coming through South Sudanese territory and SAF responded to them, but inside Sudan,” he said.

    Dahab added that his team “is ready to continue direct negotiations with South Sudan’s delegation.”

    A new round of talks is due to begin Sunday at AU headquarters, a week after Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir exchanged a symbolic handshake at a summit of the bloc.

    Spokesman Kiir said there was “no reflection” of the mood set by the meeting of the two presidents, adding: “We are doing our best.”

    South Sudanese Communications Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin commented, “There are people who don’t want the talks within the Khartoum regime — that’s why they are bombing us.”

    The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has urged Khartoum and Juba to settle their differences on oil and border demarcation before an August 2 deadline set by the United Nations.

  • Shortage of Maize, Rice Could Hit East Africa

    {{The Eastern Africa region would experience a severe deficit of maize and rice in the next few years because of recurring droughts and marketing constraints, the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) has warned.}}

    While deficit in the production of rice could rise to 2.84 million tonnes in 2020, the deficit of maize, the country’s main staple food, would reach a staggering 7.76 million tonnes in eight years’ time.

    EAGC said in a statement that Tanzania has a strong comparative advantage for production and export of maize and rice to feed the region.

    This, the organisation said, was especially made more apparent over the last three years and especially in 2011 when Kenya faced a food crisis due to severe drought to hit EA and the Horn of Africa.

    The peak of the crisis not only witnessed the sharp rise of food prices in the region ‘’to unprecedented levels’’ but also an export ban on cereals by the Tanzania government which EAGC claimed “denied producers a great opportunity to access more lucrative prices”.

    The Council, which is organising the two-day event in collaboration with the Arusha-based Selian Agricultural Research Institute (Sari), said Tanzania can feed the rest of EA if it utilised its great land potentia.

    “At the regional level other partner states in EAC do not have the natural resource endowment and comparative advantage that Tanzania has particularly with regard to agricultural land,” it added.

  • RDF Senior Command and Staff College to Open July

    {{The Rwanda Defence Force will inaugurate on Monday 23 July a new military College named Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College.

    The event will take place at Nyakinama, Musanze district at the former campus of Rwanda Military Academy.}}

    The military college that will teach senior officers from the rank of Major to Colonel comes at a time when RDF has been sending its officers to attend Senior Command and Staff Courses in the region and abroad, at a very high cost.

    At the end of May this year, a UK defence experts’s team validated the RDF Senior Command and Staff College curriculum.

    Lt. Col Jeremy Sharpe from UK Defence Academy, Dr. Andrew Stewert from Kings College London, Commander Chris Taylor, and Aaron Clipps, a librarian expressed their satisfaction that all requirements were in place for the College to commence immediately.

    The College has been accredited to National University of Rwanda to offer a Masters degree to qualified officers, with the signing of an MOU between NUR and RDF on 18thJune this year.

    RDF Senior Command and Staff College is starting with 45 senior officers that will attend the one year course.

  • ‘Rwanda Reads’ Initiative Launched

    {{The Ministry of Education through Rwanda Education Board (REB) has organised an initiative referred to as “Rwanda Reads” to develop a culture of reading in Rwanda.}}

    The event will be launched at the Kigali Institute Education conference Hall on Thursday, 19/07/2012; starting at 8:00 am.

    The objective of Rwanda Reads initiative is to dismantle literacy barriers and develop a thriving and sustainable culture of reading.

    The initiative will utilize a variety of strategies, including public awareness campaigns, improved literacy instruction, and increased availability of reading materials, all ages of the Rwandan population.

    Rwanda Reads is an initiative that will enable Rwandans to achieve our collective vision for the future of our country. We must all be empowered to contribute to the development of our country as described in Vision2020.

    But achieving this goal cannot happen by reading a book here and a website there. We need, all of us, to develop the habit of reading every day for life-long learning and pleasure

  • Bill CLinton Inaugurates Butaro Cancer Center

    {{The Former United States President Bill Clinton and Rwanda’s Minister of Health Dr. Agnes Binagwaho inaugurated Butaro Cancer cente on 18th July Burera district Northern Province.}}

    Dr. Binagwaho said that they will open 2 branches at CHK and King Faysal hospital in Kigali that will work together with Butaro Hospal for cancer prevention program.

    Clinton said that if people work together all things are possible.He said that Clinton foundation helps in the health activities. He thanked President Paul Kagame for the good collaboration.

    Dr.Tharcisse Mpunga, the Director of Butaro Hospital said that construction cost US$ 5.8 Million and US$ 1.5 Milion cost of materials.

    The First National Cancer Referral Center in Rural East Africa will bring comprehensive cancer care to rural East Africa.

    Butaro cancer center will help in limitations against the global cancer burden.

    World Health Organization expects 16 million new Cencer cases worldwide by 2020,with 70% in developing countries like Rwanda.

    Butaro Cancer center will provide a full spectrum of cancer care including screening, diagnosis, chemotherapy, Surgery, patients follow-up,and palliative care.
    It will also serve as the first facility to implement standardized cancer training and protocols that align with Rwanda’s new national guidelines.

    Since 2005,partners in health/Inshuti mu Buzima (PIH/IMB) has worked together with Ministry of Health to strengthen the national health system.

    In collaboration with Clinton Global Initiative, with the support of the Jeff Gordon Children’s foundation and the Dana Farber/Brigham and woman’s cancer centre inaugurated the Butaro Center of Excellence.

    Since 2007,more than 100 patients with a range of cancers have been treated and it will continue to advise and support the advancement of cancer prevention and care in Rwanda.