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  • Karisimbi Cyclists Still Leading

    {{Rwandan cyclists under Karisimbi club emerged the winner of today’s Tour of Rwanda 2011 cycling competition which started from Amahoro National Stadium to Rubavu District in Northern Province.}}

    The annual cycling competition in its third day, American cyclist Joseph Rosskopf took the first position as he pass the finishing line.

    Despite Rosskopf’s overall winner, Karisimbi cyclists took a lion’s share recognized as the winning club due to its cyclists taking the lead in several races ever since the competition begun.

    However judges have not yet announced Rosskopf as the overall winner as they still have another race tomorrow.

    Official results have indicated that 3 Rwandan cyclists Gasore Hategeka, Abraham Ruhumuriza and Adrien Niyonshuti took the third position.

    According to Nicodem Habiyambere a cyclists who participated in the Kigali-Rwamagana race short and flat distances are harder since they cycle more compared to hilly areas like Rubavu because there are easy due to sloping parts on the way.

    Tomorrow (Wednesday) the race starts from Rubavu to Muhanga District.

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  • Congo-Brazaville President Calls For Atrocity Prevention

    {{After guided and explained visual findings of 1994 Genocide at Kigali Genocide Memorial Site,the President of the Republic of Congo-Brazaville Denis Sassou Nguesso called upon African leaders to join efforts in saving their population from human atrocities.}}

    “What I saw from the memorial leaves me almost speechless. I am emotionally disturbed by the horror that befell this country,” Sassou Nguesso said at the memorial Site.

    “As an African political leader, it’s a pity that we face such problems; Africa lacks preventive measures, it is upon us to ensure that we protect out land from such tragedies,” he added.

    Sassou Nguesso said that the kind of atrocity that befell Rwanda can take place in another country if not prevented therefore called for the never again doctrine.

    “I visited the section of child-victims in the memorial, it’s unbelievable how ruthless people became and it also unbelievable how Rwanda has moved on tremendously.”

    After visiting the Memorial Site, Sassou Nguesso also visited the top beverage company Inyange industries where he vowed to begin looking at how its products can be exported to his country.

    He however advised that infrastructural development was highly needed to boost such investments in the country.

    President Sassou Nguesso is in the country on a three-day state reciprocal visit after his counterpart Paul Kagame visited his country last November.

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  • 150 Refugees Return From DR-Congo

    {{At Rwanda’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border, families and friends are awaiting for 150 refugees who have freely decided to come back home.}}

    Those who don’t have families will be taken to Rubavu District based Mukamira refugee camp for shelter.

    Jean Claude Rwahama the Director of refugees’ repatriation at the Ministry of National Disaster and Preparedness, said that the returnees in the camp will be facilitated to integrate themselves in the society.

    The integration process involves training them on vocational skills, connecting them back to their families and some are supported to set income generating activities.

    The continuing repatriation process is geared by a cession clause which rules that no Rwandan will be called a refugee by June 30th next year.

    “The process is going on well since there’s no reason now for anyone to be out of his or her country,” said Rwahama.

    According to UNHCR statistics there’re 70,000 Rwandan refugees of whom the majority have shown interest of freely be repatriated.

    This can be seen in the number of returnees from January to June this year totaling to 4,644 , yet last week only, 40 Rwandans from DRC returned home.

    Most of these refugees returning are believed to have fled Rwanda during the war that stopped the 1994 Genocide 17 years down the road.

    Most of these who took part in the Genocide, have on several occasions don’t have worries of being prosecuted once they’re back, while others hesitate to return due to misleading information about the country’s security.

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  • Harsh Punishment of a Child not Good

    {{Most parents think that beating up their children as a form of punishment will make their children understand their faults.}}

    Most of the time they beat their children because they can’t bear the anger raising out of the fault the child has made.

    A parent feels that they are right when beating or slapping their child as punishment, but the child doesn’t understand the reason behind it; he feels that it’s unfair in comparison to what they did, and in the end, the parent also regrets the harsh punishment.

    Parents should not punish their children harshly all the time and should also understand that their children will not always follow the rules handed over to them.

    Children will not be confident from any sort of activity be it good or bad, and they might be lonely people, once they are always punished in such a manner. This affects their growth.

    Parents should also take care when setting an example to their children; if you beat your child every time they make you angry, then they will also become violent towards peers and siblings every time they are angry…Read more on agasaro.com

    Parents’ responsibilities are to sit down and talk as well as guide their children towards good behavior, not punish them harshly. Thus, when they are also wronged by peers, they will instead turn to talking and handling the matter in a peaceful manner; he grows up a peaceful person.

    This does not mean that you shouldn’t punish your children.

  • Congo-Brazaville, Rwanda Agree Cessation Clause For Refugees

    {{In a joint Permanent Commission meeting between the Congo-Brazaville and Rwanda, both countries have agreed to work hand in hand to see how refugees in Congo-Brazaville can come home.}}

    This is in a way of applying cessation clause for refugees.

    According to Mary Baine the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the meeting, delegation from both countries agreed on how to repatriate refugees in Congo-Brazaville Rwandan refugees.

    Early this year, Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (MIDIMAR) delegations visited refugee communities in Malawi and Congo-Brazzaville to assure them of the transparency of the justice system, the success of reconciliation efforts and their right to reclaim the property they left behind.

    Following previous campaigns in 2010 alone 12,000 refugees voluntarily returned to Rwanda and it is said that currently there are 70,000 Rwandans living as refugees around the world and those who choose to remain in their host country can do so by following that country’s standard immigration procedures.

    The clause, under the UNHCR system, does not allow claims for refugee status after verification by the agency that there are no conditions in the country of origin that qualify for UN protection.

    A cessation of refugee status is a legal avenue open to states and the UNHCR as a way of recognising changed circumstances in refugee- producing countries.

    Designed to be narrowly interpreted, cessation requires a fundamental and profound change in the country conditions that provoked the need for asylum.

    Congo-Brazaville head of state President Denis Sassou-Nguesso arrived in Rwanda for his three-day state visit.

    Arriving at 5:30pm, Sassou-Nguesso was received by his counterpart President Paul Kagame in a high decorated calourful event at Kigali International Airport that saw Rwanda’s cultural troop dancing traditional dance and army parade.

    President Sassou-Nguesso is scheduled to be hosted for a state banquet on tomorrow.

    His visit aims at strengthening both countries bilateral relationships which also follows the last year’s visit of Paul Kagame he had to Congo-Brazaville.

    During his visit in Rwanda, President Sassou-Nguesso is also scheduled to tour socio-economic sites in Kigali and the surrounding areas.

    The two heads of state are expected to hold a joint press conference on Wednesday at Urugwiro Village before he leaves.

    Rwanda and Congo enjoy good and established relations, which were strengthened by the state visit by President Kagame to Brazzaville last November.

    The growing relationship between Congo and Rwanda has been further facilitated by the recent launch of a twice-weekly flight from Kigali to Brazzaville by the national carrier, Rwandair.

    Earlier on today, both countries represented by government officials from different ministries of either states led by Louise Mushikiwabo Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and his counterpart Basile Ikouebe from Congo-Brazaville, discussed areas of bilateral cooperation.
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    The Joint Permanent Commission between the two countries has been formed to farther bilateral relationship with areas of cooperation agreed in trade, agriculture, natural resources and human settlement.

    President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has been an active government servant in the Republic of Congo for more than three decades.

    According to www.congo-brazzaville.org, Sassou-Nguesso was a distinguished General in the military and served on two different occasions as the President of the Republic of Congo, first from 1979 – 1992 and then from 1997 to date.

    President Sassou-Nguesso ended the Republic of Congo’s decades-long socialist state and put the country on the path to democracy.

    He has previously served as Chairman of the African Union and in that capacity helped direct the organization’s peace efforts in Darfur, Sudan.

    Sassou-Nguesso remains committed to preserving the natural environment, especially fostering sustainability and protecting wildlife in the Congo Basin.

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  • President N’Guesso Of Congo In Rwanda

    {{The president of the Republic of Congo Brazzaville Denis Sassou N’Guesso arrived today evening at around 17:30hrs Aboard a Congo based airline ‘Trans Air Congo’ at Kigali International Airport for a 3-day official visit.}}

    President Paul Kagame received his counterpart at the Kigali International airport.

    President N’Guesso is expected to hold talks with President Kagame and host him for a state banquet scheduled tomorrow Tuesday after honouring the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi victims at Kigali
    Genocide Memorial Center.

    Over the past years in 1982 and 1984 the two states had signed Memorandums of Understanding but it had since not been renewed until last year when President Kagame Visited Congo Brazzaville where the two Presidents agreed on terms of strengthening ties.

    President N’Guesso is scheduled to tour socio-economic sites in Kigali and the surrounding areas. The two heads of state will then hold a joint press conference on Wednesday at Urugwiro Village.

    The growing relationship between Congo and Rwanda has been further facilitated by the recent launch of a twice-weekly flight from Kigali to Brazzaville by the national carrier, Rwandair.

    The state visit was preceded by a meeting of the Rwanda-Congo Joint Permanent Commission, which ended today 21 November, by Foreign Affairs’ ministers of the two countries recommending the report covered by the experts during the 2-day meeting.

  • Susan Rice Expected Tomorrow

    {{Igihe.com has reliably learnt that Susan Rice the US Ambassador to the United Nations is expected in Rwanda tomorrow (Tuesday).}}

    Susan Falatko, the Public relations Officer of the US embassy in Kigali confirmed Rice’s visit to Rwanda However said the diplomat will leave on Saturday.

    “We will have a press conference very soon but for the meantime I can’t say anything because we’re waiting a confirmation from Washington,’ she said.

    A top government official who requested to remain anonymous confirmed to this reporter that indeed Rice is expected in the country.

    “I’m aware she will be in Rwanda but I can’t confirm if she will meet the president, hang on a bit I intend to call you later with more details, right now I’m held up with activities of the visiting president of Congo Brazaville .”

    Efforts to reach both the Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo and her Permanent Secretary Mary Baine were fruitless as both neither answered their cell phones nor replied the SMS’s to confirm Rice’s visit.

  • ‘One Nile, One Family’ To Build Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation

    {{Organisations grouped into ‘one Nile, one family’ under the patronage with Nile Basin Discourse Forum, seek to build capacity of Civil society Organizations on climate change adaptation.}}

    They also sought to provide adequate information by producing and disseminating awareness materials on climate change adaptation, and documenting and disseminate best practices of climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction are carrying out the findings on the possible ways that can bring about better ways on tree planting and maintenance.

    This was announced to the residents of Nyarurama cell, Gatenga sector in Kicukiro district over the last weekend during the planting of approximately 2000 trees by the range of partner associations in environmental conservation sector.

    Dancilla Mukakamari, National Coordinator of {Association Rwandaise des Ecologistes} (ARECO-Rwanda Nziza) and Campaign Organizer of both ARECO-Rwanda Nziza and Rwanda Environment Conservation Organization (RECOR) told igihe.com that, “we are inquiring why the trees planted don’t grow.” “We shall release the study before the end of this week,” she added.

    Mukakamari also said that all efforts are being made to implement government’s policy making the forestry industry one of the pillars of national economy while playing a role in supporting africulture, tourism, environmental sustainability, and energy among others.

    The government of Rwanda set an objective to achieving 30% of forestry coverage of the national territory by the year 2020.

    It’s in this regard that the government through ministry of Natural Resources recently embarked on planting over 67million trees before the end of the year as dedicated to forests.

    This year also was dedicated to forests by the United Nations under the theme ‘Forests for people’ which the government of Rwanda translated to ‘forest for sustainability development’.

  • Africa Marks Industrialisation Day

    {{Yesterday November 20, was the day to mark Africa’s industrialization day that is being commemorated annually.}}

    This year’s theme is “Tackling Energy Poverty in Africa” which is said to highlight energy’s significance for industrial development and persistent efforts have to be made to address energy deficit in Rwanda.

    In his message to mark the day, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted, “ensuring access to reliable, efficient and affordable energy is a key element in advancing industrial development, creating decent jobs and increasing productive capacity, especially for small and medium enterprises and rural populations.

    “Modern sources of energy will decrease dependence on primary commodities, reduce vulnerability to external shocks, and increase economic resilience,” Ban Ki-moon added.

    On the National Level, the Africa Industrialization Day is being celebrated today Monday, 21 under the organization of the Ministry of Trade and Commerce (MINICOM) and stakeholders in an event being held at the ministry’s headquarters.

    Industrialization Day in Africa is a time when governments and other organizations in many African countries examine ways to stimulate Africa’s industrialization process. It is also an occasion to draw worldwide media attention to the problems and challenges of industrialization in Africa.

  • Rwanda Military Hospital Undertakes Outreach Service

    {{Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH) medical team, led by Maj Dr King Kayondo, will undertake a special outreach service to the community in Runda (Gihara Health Center) using the 2 donated mobile clinics, from 21-25 November 2011.}}

    Services to be provided include; surgery, Pediatrics, Dental – Tooth extraction, Health education and Laboratories tests – HIV screening, Hematology tests, Parasitology tests and other pathologies.

    The outreach with the mobile clinics will show that Rwanda Military Hospital intends to fully optimise the donation with the aim of soliciting the mobile operating theatre to complement the clinics.

    The outreach is undertaken in conjunction with the Korean Non Governmental Organisation (Good Neighbours) operating in the area.

    RMH has made arrangements with the local leadership to ensure security and reach to the children in Runda.