Youths in Kirehe district are preparing for the 25^th anniversary celebrations of Rwanda’s ruling party Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi).

The youth from various sectors in the district participated in various sporting activities in areas of football, marathon and cycling, and singing completion among others.

The competitions were organized by the RPF Inkotanyi committee in Kirehe district, as part of the preps for the party jubilee that is slated for October 15, 2012.

Kirehe district RPF Inkotanyi Chairman, Protais Murayire hailed the youths for the level of discipline and sporting spirit, and called the youths to form a district team that will compete with other districts at the provincial level in the Eastern province of Rwanda.

The competitions attracted many residents from all the sectors in Kirehe district. They said that through the activities they were able to meet and share their various talents in form of competitions and entertainment, which contributed to the need of getting closer to each other.

The residents also asked that this tradition becomes part of the annual community get together programs so as to encourage unity among the members.

Gatore sector won the football competition, and walked away with the soccer medal, after beating Kigarama sector. Other residents were also rewarded in different categories during the closing ceremony held on October 3.

Marceline Mukakabera is now a thrilled person after close to 200 RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front) youth members in Kibeho sector of Nyaruguru district, Southern Rwanda, started laying the foundation for her house last Saturday, marking the beginning of an end to her ten year-shelter less life.

Mukakabera, 66, survived the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi along with her two children, a boy and girl. Her husband and three other children were less lucky to survive.

For nearly seven years, from late 1994 (after RPF’s military wing halted the Genocide) up to 2001, Mukakabera had been living with her brother in the Huye town district, just next door to her native Nyaruguru district.

The same year, in 2001, she decided to make it to her native village again, where her house had been earlier reduced to ashes and her property looted during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

“Good-hearted people I met here [in her Kibeho village] have been paying for me the Rwf 15,000 [about 25$] worth rent each month”, she said.

After ten years, in August 2011, the turn of events took another, worrying twist for Mukakabera. Her land-lord evicted her of the rented house because, as she put it, “he also needed it [house]” – leaving Mukakabera in a situation where she had nowhere else to live other than in a makeshift shelter.

The now one year old trend for Mukakabera is to be reversed tough once and for all, come 17 November, according Ildephonse Nsanzimana, chairman of RPF youth members in Nyaruguru district.

“On 17 November 2012, she [Marceline Mukakabera] will enter her new, fully-completed house”, Nsanzimana said straight away.

By the time, the cemented, three-roomed house – which will also have a veranda, a sitting-room and, separately, a kitchen and a toilet – will have cost an estimated Rwf 5,600,000 (about 10,000$), Nsanzimana disclosed.

It sounds good news for Mukakabera.

“I thank God for giving me such charitable people who thought about building me a house. May God bless them”, she said, sitting down some five meters away, gazing at a crowd with spades and hoes working on what will have turned into her house come November 17.

“Even if my house would be one-roomed, it’s better than renting”, Mukakabera added.

Saturday’s RPF youth communal work in Nyaruguru district is part of a wide range of activities ahead of December 15, when Rwanda’s ruling party will be celebrating its 25 years anniversary.

Similar communal works are reported to have taken place in other 29 of the country’s 30 districts on Saturday.

In Nyaruguru district specifically, Dr. Evariste Namahungu, a delegate from the country’s RPF General Secretariat and himself a native of Nyaruguru, praised the gathering for taking part in the communal work. Mayor François Habitegeko of Nyaruguru district even went an extra mile to promise a cow to Mukakabera to help her in the new life.

The Secretary General of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Francois Xavier Ngarambe has said that though some members left the party in the past sighting discontent, it has gained many more members.

Ngarambe said this during a press conference on Monday at the party headquarters ahead of the celebration of the silver jubilee since the party was founded.

“Some members failed to honor the principles that guide the party and were left along the way. However, on the same way, the party gained many more members and they are working well,” said the Secretary General.

Referring to how the RPF stopped the devastating 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Ngarambe articulated that the party has been able to transform the lives of Rwandans in all aspects including their social and economic wellbeing.

“Our party has a reason to celebrate these years of working hard to bring Rwanda to where it is today.”

Talking about the party defectors, Ngarambe said that though they lost the members, they are like the chaff that was removed from the good seeds.

RPF which happens to be the biggest party in Rwanda has had its own share of troubles with former members most of whom living in the Diaspora accusing it of deviating from the original mission for which it was formed.

The party has however according to indicators defied the odds and left its detractors speechless by putting Rwanda in a better place on the international platform eighteen years down the road.

“We don’t have to waste our time looking at who was what in RPF because that is in the past. We should rather look at who is what now and what they are doing to advance the party,” he said.

He explained that the party wants to next generation to inherit leaders that who are visionary and said that they have a programme of training young members to be leaders at an early age.

The silver jubilee celebration which is slated to take place on December 15 this year is estimated to cost Rwf 300 million.

According to the RPF Vice Chairman Christopher Bazivamo, the money will be used to help the needy and holding different celebration competitions.

Rusizi district officials have set their eyes on promoting unity and reconciliation in all communities and leave no stone unturned through next district performance contracts 2012-2013.

The district vice mayor in charge of economic affairs Marcel Habyarimana, says that the district has attained 90 percent target in building unity and promoting reconciliation, however there is need to hit the 100 percent mark.

Habyarimana said that research findings indicate that at least 10% of the Rusizi community has not assimilated the essence of unity and reconciliation and there is need to capitalize on this remaining category.

The vice mayor made the remarks during a two-days open community dialogue on unity,  which was attended by various community forums on unity and reconciliation, held in Rusizi at Centre de Pastoral Incuti in Kamembe town, on October 4.

The executive secretary of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, Dr. Jean Baptiste Habyarimana attended the event. He said that the objective of the dialogue was to access the level of unity and reconciliation in the district especially that there were some complicated issues of arising from the recently concluded trials of genocide case.

Reports indicate that there have been issues arising from the category 3 genocide, in which residents have not been able to repay the damages caused during the 1994 against the Tutsi’s.

Dr. Habyarimana asked the association in charge of promoting unity to address the issues by reaching out to these families and find ways in which such cases can be resolved to pave way for complete reconciliation in the community, ahead of the Unity month which is slated for November 2012.

He also said that such dialogue should be disseminated at all community levels and also embarking on the role of unity association to promote harmonious living and peace in the community.

Rwanda will host the seventh African Economic Conference (AEC) which will take place from the October 30 to November 2.

The objective of this Conference is to provide a platform for experts on Africa, both within and outside the continent.

They will also reflect and dialogue on new directions for growth policy on the continent in order to determine the best approaches to attain the Millennium Development Goals, achieve the objectives of NEPAD and accelerate Africa’s sustainable.

Running under the theme “Fostering Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa in an Age of Global Uncertainty”, hundreds of high-level participants including eminent academics, political leaders, representatives of international organizations, CEOs, civil society organizations and the media will participate in the event.

The theme gives delegates the opportunity to debate Africa’s inclusive growth and sustainable development agenda and the role of the African Development Bank Group in promoting development in times of global economic turmoil.

Delegates will take part in wide-ranging discussions, including the possibility of engineering people-oriented growth that enhances environmental protection, poverty reduction, the creation of jobs and investment opportunities.

They will exchange views on how to strengthen Africa’s economic institutions and build infrastructure to leverage economies of scale and integration.

The AEC is co-organized by the AfDB, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

It has become a major forum that brings together leading academics and development practitioners from across the globe towards fostering dialogue and exchange of knowledge that contributes to the search for solutions to the development challenges of Africa.

Ishyirahamwe ry’uturere n’imijyi wa Kigali RALGA ryatangiye gutanga amahugurwa  yo kongera ubushobozi n’ubumenyi abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge bo mu turere twa Rubavu, Nyabihu, Rutsiro na Ngororero mu rwego kubongerera ubushobozi mu kazi bakora.

nkuko byatangajwe na Nizeyimana Bartazard impugucye ya LARGA ngo ubushobozi butangwa bushingiye ku gutanga serivisi nziza  n’imiyoborere myiza, kuko hari aho abaturage bakigezwaho serivise mbi zikiboneka mu nzego zibanze.

Muri ibi biganiro abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge bibukijwe ko nta serivisi itangirwa ku mudugudu ahubwo hakorerwa ubukangurambaga serivise igatangira ku kagari, nyamara bamwe bakaba bavugaga ko mu midugudu yabo bafite amakashi bagatanga serivisi umurenge uheraho ufata ibyemezo.

Hakaba hibukijwe inshingano zabo no kongera gusoma ibitabo by’amategeko bahawe cyane ko bamwe mubakora aka kazi bagiye biga ibintu bitandukanye ariko bakagira ibitabo bigomba kubafasha.

Bimwe mubibazo byagaragajwe bituma abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa badatanga serivise nziza no gushyira mu bikorwa imihigo yabo bakaba bavuze ko bagorwa no kuba zimwe mu nzego zidafite abazikoreramo, gutungurwa na gahunda zivuye mu nzego zo hejuru zigahindura ibyo bateganyije hamwe n’amanama batumirwamo akababuza kwegera abaturage uko bikwiye.

Mvano Etienne umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa w’umurenge wa Bugeshi mu  karere ka Rubavu,  avuga ko ibiganiro bahabwa bigiye gucyemura imbogamizi bahuraga nazo mu kazi kabo zo kwitiranya amategeko, kuba bamwe batinya abayobozi n’abandi bafite ubumenyi bubarenze mu gihe bitabiriye inama bayoboye.

Ibi biganiro kandi bikabashishikariza gutanga amakuru, kuko hari abahisha ibyo bakora ntibagishe n’inama, ibi bigatuma abaturage basiragizwa muguhabwa ibyemezo, mu gihe abandi batarangiza imanza basabwa kurangiza uretse ko hari n’abaturage batanyurwa n’ibyemezo kandi ariko amategeko abigena.

Bamwe  mu banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge baratungwa agatoki na RALGA kuba bashyira igitugu ku banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge ndetse hakaba n’abarangwa no kuvuga nabi.

Ibi bikaba byavugiwe mu mahugurwa ari guhabwa abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge bo mu turere twa Muhanga, Kamonyi na Ngororero.

Aha akaba ariho hagaragarijwe ko bamwe muri aba bagitifu bakoresha nabi abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’utugari two mu mirenge bayoboye, babashyiraho igitugu kugirango bakore ibyo bashaka, ibi ngo akenshi babikora ariko banabwira nabi aba bagitifu.

Si abagitifu b’utugari ngo usangwa babwira nabi n’aba abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge baba bafite iyi mico kuko ngo usanga hari ubwo banabwira abaturage nabi mu gihe baje babagannye cyangwa mu gihe bashaka kubasaba kuzuza inshingano zabo.

Bamwe muri aba banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge basanga abantu bafite ikibazo cyo kuvuga nabi no gushyira igitutu ku bo bakoresha ndetse no kubo bayoboye, byaba bifitanye isano n’amateka igihugu cy’u Rwanda cyaciyemo mu myaka yashize.

Aya mateka ahanini bahuza n’imyitwarire y’aba bantu ni jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ndetse n’intambara byabaye mu Rwanda.

Umwe muribo ati: “abantu babaye ibikange kubera intambara na jenoside, hari abakukiwemo no kuvuga nabi igihe cyose kandi kuri buri wese”.

Izabiliza Jeanne, umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa y’intara y’Amajyepfo avuga ko hari abayobozi usangana umuco mubi wo guhora babwira nabi umuntu wese ubari hasi.

Agiara ati: “bamwe mu bayobozi usanga bafite ikibazo cyo kuvuga nabi ndetse no kuri telefoni, wamuhamagara akakubwira nabi ataramenya uwo uriwe wamara kumubwira uwo uriwe agahindura imivugire”.

Izabiliza avuga ko ibi bigaragaza uburyo bakira ababagana mu buzima bwabo bwa buri munshi mungo iwabo ndetse no mu kazi basanzwemo.

Akaba abasana ko bajya bagarageza kugira ururimi rwiza igihe cyose bavugana n’uwariwe wese, batavanguye.

On October 6^th 2012, residents from different administrative levels in Nyamirama sector in Kayonza district donated cows, goats, rabbits, home use materials, clothes etc to the poor residents of this area.

Donating to the vulnerable was done in preparation of the FPR 25^th anniversary celebrations in Rwanda.

This follows “Girinshuti Munyakayonza” program started where every resident is asked to choose one person to help through donating what he or she can afford but majorly to offer advice on development activities.

Residents that donated commend FPR for bringing peace in Rwanda saying they owe their achievements to this political party.

“We feel it’s our obligation as the party members to help the needy,” residents reveal

John Mugabo, mayor of Kayonza district thanked the residents for helping the needy and asked them to take part in fighting drug use and embracing development programs as well.

“Marijuana and waragi are poison, no FPR party member should engage in using or selling them. A real member pays for medical insurance and sends children to school,” he explains.

During the event, an open day or public accountability was held showcasing the achievements of Nyamirama residents before they donate for the poor.

Among the showcased is an ambulance residents bought in ubudehe program, agricultural products, arts and crafts, ICT and financial achievements.

Local Government Minister James Musoni

Local Government Leaders, including all District Mayors and Directors of Planning in Local Governments are undergoing one week “Management for Results” training.

The training is a second phase of Local Government Leaders’ training offered by Singapore Experts. It will be conducted in three shifts and taking one week each.

The “Management for Results” training is meant for Mayors, Vice Mayors in charge of Finance and Economic Development and Vice Mayors in charge of Social Affairs as well as Provincial, City of Kigali and District Executive Secretaries and Directors of Planning.

It is a logical and supplementary continuation of the Leadership Development training that was also attended by Local Government Leaders in May and September 2011.

The principle objective of these trainings According to MINALOC is to empower local government leaders with skills and capacities that will enable them to improve their performance and expedite realization of the Country’s socio-economic transformation.

According to the Local Government Minister James Musoni, Government is building capacities for Local Government officials purposely to promote efficiency, effectiveness and to develop in them
self-confidence, patriotism, sacrifice so as to have dignified Society and Nation.

“Such series of trainings are designed to provide technical skills as well as develop values among Local Government Leaders of integrity, clarity of purpose by clearly understanding why they are in these positions,” he said.

Minister Musoni emphasized that one cannot achieve results without these values and even if one attains the results, they would not be sustainable.

The Government believes that, these trainings will help Local Government officials understand their crucial roles and responsibilities in Rwanda’s socio-economic transformation and more especially managing for results, which should provide answers to different challenges facing local government leaders. These specifically are in the areas of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Nyirahirwa Veneranda  kugera ubu ubarizwa mu nteko ishinga amategeko y’ u Rwanda niwe wongeye gutorerwa umwanya wa perezida w’ishyaka riharanira demokarasi n’imibereho myiza y’ abaturage( PSD) mu karere ka Ngoma.

Aya matora yabaye kuri uyu wa 6/10/2012 mu cyumba cy’inama cy’akarere ka Ngoma.

Nyirahirwa yongeye kugirirwa icyizere kuko no muri manda ishize y’imyaka itanu ariwe wayoboraga PSD mu karere ka Ngoma.

Amatora yo gushyiraho ubu buyobozi yabaye mu mutuzo ayoborwa n’uhagarariye iri shyaka kurwego rw’intara y’iburasirazuba Rutsobe Michel.

Hatorewe imyanya itandatu ariyo:Perezida w’ishyaka kurwego rw’akarere ka Ngoma,V/Perezida, umunyamabanga ushinzwe inyandiko n’imari,umunyamabanga ushinzwe ubukungu n’amajyambere, umwanya w’ushinzwe imibereho myiza y’abaturage,n’umwanya w’abagize komite ya discipline bagera kuri batatu.

Rutsobe yatangarije abari aho ko  Kuba habaye aya matora ngo ari igikorwa cya demokrasi nk’ishyaka bagenderaho ,komite y’akarere ari iriho manda yayo y’imyaka 5 ngo yari irangiye byari ngombwa ko hubahirizwa amategeko igasimburwa n’indi nshya.

Aya matora yabaye mu mutuzo umuntu yandika ku rupapuro umukandida yihitiyemo kandi mu ibanga.

Mu ijambo rye NYIRAHIRWA Veneranda wari umaze gutorerwa umwanya wa perezida wa PSD mukarere ka Ngoma yavuze ko  ashimishijwe no kongera kugirirwa icyizere.

Yagize ati”Icyizere abayoboke bagenzi  banjye  bangiriye  sinzagitatira,kandi  nzakomeza guharanira icyateza imbere ishyaka rya PSD n’abayoboke baryo muri rusange.”

Uwatowe ku mwanya wa V/Perezida w’ishyaka ni NTEZIYAREMYE J.D’Amour;uwatorewe kuba umunyamabanga ushinzwe inyandiko n’imari  ni  MUTAKWA Andre, GOMBANIRO Theoneste we yatorewe kuba  umunyamabanga ushinzwe ubukungu n’amajyambere;

Ushinzwe imibereho myiza y’abaturage  mu karere ni UMWALI Clarisse;

Abagize komite ya discipline ni 3:perezida wayo ni Bwana NAMBAJE Aphrodis usanzwe ari umuyobozi w’aka karere ka Ngoma; Abandi bari kumwe muri iyi komite harimo NTAKIRUTIMANA Illuminata na NSEKABANYIKA.

Abatowe  bose bahise banarahirira kuzubahiriza  neza inshingano batorewe  muri iyi manda y’imyaka 5,abayoboke bari bitabiriye aya matora bose hamwe bakaba bageraga ku 133.

President Kagame speaks to Prof Karangwa (in grey suit) and Local Government Minister, James Musoni

President Paul Kagame on Wednesday named the former National Electoral Commission chief, Prof Chrysologue Karangwa to the upper House of parliament – ending an era in which he managed two crucial election cycles.

Prof. Karangwa is among the four new presidential Senate appointees. The Head of State is constitutionally accorded right to appoint eight senators among the 26-member House, which is supposed to be filled up following the senate polls last year.

The outspoken Prof Karangwa, until June this year, had overseen Rwanda’s electoral process since 2002. He was replaced at NEC by cabinet with another academic Prof. KALISA MBANDA.

Others on the presidential appointee list include Zephyrin Kalimba, the longtime campaigner for rights of the “Batwa” people, who are referred to in Rwanda as “historically marginalized community”.

The other new senators are Ms Uwimana Consolee and Nyagahura Margaret.

Bamwe mu banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge bo mu ntara y’Amajyepfo baratangaza ko bahura n’ikibazo cyo guhurizwaho imirimo myinshi n’inzego zibakuriye bityo bigatuma hari idakorwa uko bikwiye.

Bakaba batangaza ibi mu mahugurwa bakomeje kugirira mu karere ka Muhanga, abafasha mu kubongerera ubumenyi ndetse bakanagaragaza ibibazo bahura nabyo kugirango bikorerwe ubuvugizi cyane ko aya mahugurwa bari kuyahabwa n’ishyirahamwe ry’uturere n’umujyi wa Kigali RALGA.

Aba banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa bakaba bavuga ko kuba uru rwego rwabo arirwo ruriho kugirango rujye rushyira mu bikorwa gahunda za leta ngo usanga imirimo myinshi ituruka mu nzego nkuru zitandukanye ariho ihurira, hakaba hari ubwo bibabana byinshi.

Umwe muri bo ati: “usanga MINAGRI yaduhurijeho ibyayo by’ubuhinzi, MINISANTE mu buzima, ahandi ukumva ngo sacco n’abandi, ariko buri wese aduha iminsi ntarengwa ukibaza uko ujya kubasobanurira ko hari n’abandi baguhaye ibyihutirwa bikakuyobera”.

Bavuga ko mu gihe cyo gukorerwa isuzuma, buri wese wabahaye inshingano aza ukwe areba ibye atitaye kubyo abandi basize. Ati: “uje kureba uko twakoze niba ari nko mu buhinzi, usanga adusuzuma nkaho icyo twagombaga gukora ari ubuhinzi gusa”.

Nyamara aha umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa w’intara y’Amajyepfo Izabiliza Jeanne avuga ko abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa birundiraho imirimo myinshi kandi bagombye gukorana n’abandi. Avuga ko kugirango batavunika cyane kandi no kugirango babashe kubahiriza inshingano zabo, bajya babasha gukorana n’inzego bahawe kugirango zibafashe.

Izabiliza ati: “ubundi baba bafite abashinzwe ubuzima, uburezi, ubukungu, ubuhinzi n’abandi abo nibo bakwiye gukorana maze we agahuza ibikowa ariko hari ababa bashaka kwigira muri buri kimwe cyose kugirango gikorwe neza”.

Mu byo aba abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa bari kwigishwa hakaba harimo n’imiyoborere myiza cyane ko abenshi ngo bahura n’ikibazo cyo guhuza ibikorwa byinshi bavuga ko bahurizwaho.

NYAGATARE: The vice president of the National Unity and reconciliation commission (NURC), Xaveline Uwimana has warned local leaders in Nyagatare district to avoid the culture of complacency in promoting Unity and reconciliation values.

She made a call on Tuesday, while meeting with local leaders, religious and private sector representatives in the district to discuss the progress made in promoting unity and reconciliation in the district.

In a dialogue that was characterized by contradictions over failure by stakeholders to speed up unity and reconciliation activities in the district, NURC vice president blamed them for not working to the norms and values of true Rwandan leaders.

“I am shocked to realized that there is no functioning unity and reconciliation forum in Nyagatare…this is a blame everyone should take,” said NURC official.

“The history of our country forces us to make Unity and reconciliation a priority in good governance. That is why the commission is attached to the office of the president that foresees every step taken in attaining reconciliation of all Rwandans.”

Participants attributed changes in leadership positions in the district as the main reason for creepy implementation of reconciliation activities in the district.

“Take an example of the last three or five months. There has been leadership changes mainly in good governance positions in the district…these are the focal point offices charged with monitoring and implementing unity and reconciliation programmes,” complained one of the participants.

In response, however, NURC vice president blamed participants for being complacent in delivering to their expectations.

“It doesn’t mean that if a top leader steps down all other functioning departments stops…committed people are those even perform in transition period,” she said.

Abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa baratangaza ko imihigo abaturage baba batitekerereje ubwabo ngo itajya yeswa nk’uko bikwiye kuko baba batayiyumvamo.

Mu busanzwe abaturage nibo bicara bakamenya icyo bashobora guhiga kuzageraho mu gihe runaka kuko aribo baba bazi icyo bakeneye aho batuye ndetse bakaba banazi uburyo bazafaranya n’ubuyobozi bwabo bw’ibanze mu kuyesa.

Nyamara bamwe mu banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’imirenge baratangaza ko hari imihigo bajya bahabwa n’inzego zo hejuru zibakuriye aho kugirango babe bayihawe n’abaturahe bayoboye.

Batangaza ko iyo mihigo abaturage batajya bayibonamo akenshi kuko ataribo bayiteguriye. Bakomeza bavuga ko ikibazo nyamukuru gituma batayumba ari uko kugirango umuhigo wose weswe uko bikwiye ari uko habaho ubufatanye bw’abayobozi n’abaturage, aha ngo abaturage baramutse bayanze ngo umuhigo uracumbagira kuko aribo baba bakorerwa iyi mihigo yose.

Umwe mu banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa mu bitekerezo bye yagize ati: “nk’ubu abikorera bo mu karere ka Muhanga bakoze itorero ryabo ku bushake bwabo kandi babyiyumvamo kuko hari impamvu yatumye bayikora ariko ubu ngo no ku karere ka Kamonyi bashyizeho itegeko ko abikorera bakora itorero, ubwo se uwo muhigo mu gihe uzaza udaturutse mu bagenerwabikorwa uzeswa uko bikwiye koko?”

Aba banyamabanga nshingwabikorwa bakaba basaba ko politike ziva hejuru, bajya babanza bakaziganiraho nabo kuko aribo baba bazi icyo abaturage bahorana bakeneye kandi bashaka.

Aha ariko umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa w’intara y’Amajyepfo, Izabiliza Jeanne avuga ko nta mihigo ituruka hejuru kuko ngo yose iba yemejwe n’abaturage.

Izabiliza akaba asaba ko mu gihe cyose haba hari abayobozi baba bagitura ku baturage imihigo batabanje kubaganiriza, ko bahindura bakajya babanza kumva ibitekerezo byabo kuko aribo bagenerwa bikorwa.

Guverineri w’intara y’Iburasirazuba Uwamariya Odetta ashyikiriza umuyobozi mukuru muri MINECOFIN umusanzu wa miliyari 3 zatanzwe mu Ntara y’Iburasirazuba

Guverineri Uwamariya Odetta uyobora Intara y’Iburasirazuba amaze gushyikiriza Minisiteri y’Imari n’Igenamigambi sheki y’amafaranga y’u Rwanda asaga miliyari 3 yakusanyijwe muri iyo Ntara nk’imisanzu igenewe ikigega AgDF.

Uyu muhango wabereye ku cyicaro cy’Intara y’Iburasirazuba mu Karere ka Rwamagana ku gicamunsi cy’uyu munsi kuwa 10 Ukwakira witabiriwe n’abayobozi b’ibanze mu Turere, bose hamwe bashyikiriza madamu Renatha Shenge iyo sheki y’amafaranga y’u Rwanda miliyari 3, miliyoni 84, ibihumbi 180 n’amafaranga 551.

Guverineri Uwamariya yashimiye abaturage bose muri iyi Ntara bitanze n’ishyaka ryinshi, kandi n’uyu munsi bakaba bagifite umuhate wo gutanga imisanzu yabo ku makonti ari mu mabanki anyuranye mu Rwanda no kuri telefoni zabo.

Umuyobozi mukuru muri Minisiteri y’imari n’igenamigambi, madamu Renatha Shenge yavuze ko ubu mu kigega AgDF hamaze kugeramo amafaranga asaga miliyari 20 z’amanyarwanda kandi ashimangira ko azacungwa neza, ndetse Abanyarwanda bakazamurikirwa uko angana mu nama y’igihugu y’umushyikirano itaha.

Uyu muyobozi yasobanuye ko uko ayo mafaranga azakoreshwa ndetse n’ibikorwa by’ingenzi akwiye kwibandaho kurushaho ibindi bizamurikirwa Abanyarwanda bakabitangaho ibitekerezo nk’uko basanzwe bamenyeshwa kandi bakagira uruhare muri gahunda nziza za leta.

District officials in Ngororero have resolved that the views of the community must take center stage in the implementation of the district performance contracts.

Officials said that this will enable residents to own and full participate in the 2012-2013 performance contracts, instead of subjecting the community development targets and initiatives as a subject of government oriented.

This was one of the resolutions taken by the district officials during a meeting with sector leaders on the implementation of community development programs.

Emmanuel Mazimpaka, the vice mayor in charge of economic affairs, who is also doubling as the acting mayor, said that the performance contracts must be elaborated to the community in order to stimulate ideas from the residents on how to implement the set targets.

Mazimpaka noted that this is one way of giving value to residents and encouraging them to be responsible over their community’s development. he added that this initiative of involving residents has bore fruits in previous experiences and citing an example of resettlement program which has seen the involvement of the community.

Sector officials say that the mindset of residents towards developing the community has changed over the years and despite that some of the targeted activities in the performance contracts require more funding, residents have used the Umuganda exercise to bring their additional contribution onboard.

The vice mayor noted that such an initiative should be promoted throughout the community so that the first steps to development be taken by the residents themselves.

Residents of Rubavu district have said that their leaders should reduce on the number of meetings and time spent away from office work so as  to spare some time for visiting the communities.

Residents said that most of the leaders have not been concerned with the problems of the individuals residents because most of the time the leaders are nowhere to be seen, which has caused a tendency of poor service by the leaders.

The governor of the western province Celestine Kabahizi recently visited all sectors in Rubavu district to remind the local leaders of their responsibility in providing better services to residents.

The residents raised the issues during the governor’s visit saying this must be addressed since most of their issues are not handled on time and fail to get advice whenever they need clarification on developmental programs.

The meeting, attended by security officials, also highlighted the problem of residents who are abused as a result of crossing into the Republic of Congo without travel documents. The officials asked residents to desist from the illegal cross border activities, seek proper identifications and inform the local leaders in case of any sort of abuse.

The governor called on local leaders to reach out to residents and support the community especially in understanding the government development agenda and encourage the participation of all residents, especially the resettlement of families in proper settlements areas in order to avoid risks of natural disasters.

The governor visited residents in Kanama, kanzenze na Nyundo sectors in Rubavu district. The meeting focused largely on security issues, and good governance. Some of the security issues highlighted included: residents who destroy the environment, cross border, illegal construction and brick making activities- which local leaders are aware of but have given a blind eye.

Members of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Nyanza district general assembly on October 6, 2012, convened to elects their new leadership for the next term of office.

The general assembly was attended by party members from various sectors, who were encouraged to make their contribution to the party activities so as to achieve their objectives especially setting up representatives at each community level.

The assembly elected the new party chairperson and eight committee members at the district level. Jean Claude Niyonzima was voted the new party chairman for Nyanza district, in the Southern province.

Niyonzima promised to work for unity, fight injustice and corruption, and promote development and social transformation in the district through a profound collaboration with all legally accepted parties in the country.

One of the party members, Emmanuel Kayiranga said that the new leadership should double their efforts so as to raise the awareness of the party’s activities during their mandate.

Hon. Jacqueline Mukakanyamugenge, the PSD National Vice president, presided over the elections. She said that the elections were successful, free and fair and asked the newly elected leaders to work along the party’s goals, abide by the its constitution and strive for the development of the country.

When there is a different path in Africa, when the common evils and weakness in this continent notably ‘corruption, poor governance and bad leadership, civil wars and alarming poverty seem to fade in a country like Rwanda; devil becomes the earth’s Archangel and preaches peace, human rights, bringing supportive funds all for total control among both African populace and its leaders.

Talking of justice in this world and “as far as Africa is concerned or Rwanda in particular according to the words of Paul Kagame himself, “it’s not possible to tell whether what is applied is justice or politics – you cannot easily see the dividing line”.

In the call to International justice, the Rwandan President says: “just like so many other things we have seen in the recent past, International justice is used to define and determine how Africans should live their lives.”

Yes, he said it all when he even provoked the reality as open as the dawn in the summer season, revealing what many do not seem to know or if they know then they do not care and/or they care but admit too much weakness. That donors use the very aid as a political stick to beat up Africans and lead us in the direction of their choosing. One day they use international justice to lead you where they want.

This is political Persecution which is not deferent from other known injustices done to poor countries in Africa particularly Rwanda. The so called international justice according to President Paul Kagame in his recent speech to Rwanda’s members of Parliament has no ‘clear guidelines’. “This international justice is not used where there is injustice. Instead, they use it for their political interests”, he says

Sequential analysis of the bullying over Rwanda against historical facts

Under Secretary General for DPKO, Herve Ladsous and MONUSCO SRSG Roger Meece meet with Rwandan Defence minister, Gen. James Kabarebe, in Kigali to discuss matters over M-23 crisis in eastern DRC, the 12th of September 2012

You see them shaking hands with us, a Judas kiss indeed. They smile as Delilah in her softened words to conspire Samson but as these ancient tales; you won’t know their hidden agenda.

While analysing the current sequencing allegations about Rwanda, you may wonder whether these International organisations have even gone to school or at least have any sense of reason at all. You then realise that they have all that abilities and credit but no ethics, dignity and humanity for that matter. They only care for their interests but will never admit it. Congo Problems, presence of Rwandaphones, Corruption, poor governance, and several others are only used by western parties for interests not other than the land’s huge deposits of minerals like Gold and Diamond. It is one of few areas in the world where these business wizards can fetch almost all types of wood, hunt wild animals for meat, hides, tusks, rhino horns and you can make the list hundreds of pages; all which is done under the supervision of United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MUNOSCO)

Congo and Rwanda share borders today but they both used to share land too before the colonial robbery. In 1908 until 1960 this area was known as Belgian Congo what French call (Congo Belge) ruled by Belgian. It was established by the Belgian parliament to replace the previous, privately owned Congo Free State, after international outrage over abuses there brought pressure for supervision and accountability. The official Belgian attitude was paternalism: Africans were to be cared for and trained as if they were children. They had no role in legislation, but traditional rulers were used as agents to collect taxes and recruit labour; uncooperative rulers were deposed. In the late 1950s, when France and the United Kingdom worked with their colonies to prepare for independence, Belgium still portrayed the Congo as an idyllic land of parent-child relationships between Europeans and Africans.

This is why president Kagame uses words like ‘Ideological Bankruptcy’ as he states “….I would first denounce those that caused the M23 to exist in first place. I would denounce the government that does not respect or work for its own citizens. I would denounce the international community that seems blind to what is happening, before I denounce anybody else. To me, M23, the Government of Congo, the international community, are all ideologically bankrupt because they cannot properly define a simple problem that they see. They keep running in circles. For over a decade, they’ve been running around and keep blaming Rwanda for the problems of the Congo. Why don’t they have courage to blame themselves and take part of the responsibility before anybody else will take the responsibility? What is this blackmail about?”

Brief but intriguing background

If everyone would at least be sincere just for once, the Land by the name Democratic republic of Congo was formally known as Congo Belge. Two independent Kingdoms of Rwanda (Ruanda) and Burundi (Urundi) were annexed by Germany along with the other states of the Great Lakes region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was attached to German East Africa, a region that had only a minimal German presence.

In the First World War, the area was conquered by forces from the Belgian Congo in 1916. The Treaty of Versailles divided German East Africa with the vast majority known as Tanganyika going to Great Britain. The westernmost portion, which was formally referred to as the Belgian Occupied East African Territories went to Belgium. In 1924, as the League of Nations issued a formal mandate that granted Belgium full control over the area, the area officially became Ruanda-Urundi. The Belgians were far more involved in the territory than the Germans; especially in Rwanda the history will tell you how they are the root cause of divisionism in the region that even led to the Genocide Against Tutsi in 1959, 1973, and the grand one that took lives of more than a million Tutsis in 1994, just 18 years ago.

There are more than reasons for both Rwandans and good wishers to be angry when some political corners rise from airs and dictate what people should do and that they should not while the country has progressively taken its lessons and proved itself worth.  “There is no country in this world that receives aid and accounts for it better than Rwanda. There is none. So, I am not sure if these people who give us aid want us to develop. They give us aid and expect us to remain beggars. They give you aid so that you forever glorify them and depend on them. They keep using it as a tool of control and management….. Africans must refuse to be treated as nobodies.” Stressed Rwanda’s head of state

He furthered, “these powerful countries create a court for Africans and call it “international”, when it is only for Africans. And it’s not necessarily for those who have done wrong. It’s for those who have disobeyed. They pretend and. There are people who kill, who rape, who everything but these powerful countries just keeps quiet about them. Is that how Africans should be? Is it what they want them to be?”  He poses a question

With such a nature of Mr. Rights, Democracy Dictators and freedom makers for the third world, they do not care “if you are killing your own people, if every day you are inciting people to kill other people, these powers will not show up. They will be quiet because, after all, to them there are some people who deserve to be killed. That’s what we are seeing across in the Congo”. Kagame noted.

Congo has bigger problems other than M23

It was not all in his unclothed truth, he put the whole matter on the plate like the late Mozambican Journalist Carlos Cardoso Once outlined “in the business of truth, it is forbidden to put words in handcuffs” the President was not only speaking to Rwanda’s Parliament but to the whole world and especially those primarily responsible for DRC, those who are sponsoring tens of rebels in order to create a situation for their Organisations, for their jobless people, for their industries’ raw materials, their adventure, for justifying why they need funds and several forms of aids for refugees, to create mushroom sects of churches to come pretending to preach peace on one side while maintaining insecurity on the other hand so that they remain in the area. Kagame said no to these lies:

“There are main and big parts in the democratic republic of Congo, where crimes are committed in broad daylight, that’s none of their business. It’s ok because people who are being killed, who are being raped, maybe deserve it. And then they turn to the other part and say everything wrong that has happened in the Congo now has to have people who should be responsible – the so-called M23. People who are raped and killed in Kinshasa, M23 is blamed and Rwanda must condemn it. People killed in Kindu, in Uvira, wherever, M23 is responsible and Rwanda must condemn it. People who raped young girls in those refugee camps, its M23. Even now in the territory that is occupied by representatives of that international community…..This injustice does not make us compliant, it makes us defiant. I am not one of those who would be made to comply by means of injustice done to my people, to my country. I am one of those who will be openly defiant. On being defiant, count me on that”.

According to the head of the state, the only crime Rwanda and its Leaders have committed is: “to be trying our best to be decently making progress. That’s a crime! Let me tell you: No, it cannot happen. It should not happen. It should not be allowed. It should not be accepted. Let us continue to do what we can do. Those insults thrown upon us every day, you ignore them. Don’t even accept to put these unhappy faces on because they will think they have got where they wanted you. Just let us continue doing our best and let us not accept to be provoked. Let us remain balanced. Let us keep mastering our art of getting the most out of the very little we have in our hands. Let us also try and continue to be decent people.

 Ambiguity and high level of deception

This is another thing that Kagame finds as upsetting “First of all they are the law unto themselves. They consider themselves as the law and what they say or want is what should be done. They even influence international justice institutions to do their bidding and this is where international justice ends up being politicised. There is no respect for justice. When you don’t respect the law, why do you expect others to do so?

We are told that they are pursuing their interests but you are left wondering sometimes how we have stood in the way to stop them from pursuing their interests. It is difficult to understand what they really want. We have never questioned or stopped anyone from taking Congo’s wealth because it’s not even our business. However, you will hear the same people turn around and accuse Rwanda of progressing because of Congo’s wealth. How can this happen if the wealth cannot make the Congolese who own the wealth progress? What is saddening is that even the Congolese themselves will join the chorus about Rwanda progressing because of their wealth. Why won’t they use their wealth to develop their country? How can wealth benefit others and not those who possess it?

The only external wealth that I acknowledge to have helped Rwanda progress is the aid that is given to us and taken away as those who give it wish. We are always courteous enough to register our appreciations to those who assist us. However, there are those who give you assistance and want to control and follow you up to show you how you should use the assistance. What culture is this? I think this is too much contempt and arrogance. This cannot happen in a society that values its culture.

People who have power, and have a lot of it for that matter, should also be wise. They should wisely exercise that power. After all if you have power, why not exercise it diligently, in a wise way? Why do you have power and go tramping on people who are powerless? When the powerful get angry, it’s not justified. But many times the powerless have a lot of justifications to be angry.”

His Excellence punched the whole matter with an intellectual guidance: “It is not appropriate in any culture for the powerful to use excessive power on the weak, the poor and powerless. This only happens in a world without a culture and values. But the weak, the poor, the powerless have a different potential that they should use correctly to get out of this kind of position we find ourselves in every time. There is another kind of power that we have and should use: The Power of being right, being correct, and refusing injustice”.

If there is anything that Rwandans must be concerned about, it is not on DRC issues and how they relate to Rwanda. It is a neighbouring country and whatever happens on the other side has effects on this side, but this does not mean a Rwandan has to worry on how to solve whatever problem other than helping to restore peace and unity; a process that has always been put in practice despite international intentional blindness. Rwandans have to find new ways to fasten their development in all spheres, doing more to surpass among those who call themselves number ones.

Mu karere ka Rusizi mu murenge wa Gihundwe  kuwa 11/10/2012,   habereye ibiganiro nyunguranabitekerezo by’iminsi 2 byahuje uturere twa Rusizi na Nyamasheke bigamije gukangurira abanyamabanganshingwabikorwa b’imirenge 33 igize uturere twa Rusizi na Nyamasheke kubirebana no kubahiriza ndetse no gushyira mubikorwa inshingano z’ibikorwa byabo bya buri munsi cyane cyane kuri serivisi zihabwa abaturage.

Nkuko byatangajwe n’umuyobozi wungirije akaba anashinzwe ubukungu n’iterambere  mu karere ka Rusizi ari nawe watangije ibyo biganiro kumugaragaro bwana Habyarimana Marcel yabwiye abo bayobozi ko bafite inshingano zikomeye basabwa kuzuza nacyane cyane ko aribo babana n’abaturage mubuzima bwabo bwa buri munsi aha akaba yanenze bamwe mubayobozi batihutira gukemura ibibazo by’abaturage kuko hari aho ugisanga abaturage bari gusiragira. ni muri urwo rwego yabasabye kwikubita agashyi bakubahiriza inshingano zabo kuko zitoroshye.

Ngarambe Mahtias ari nawe uhagarariye ibi biganiro by’iminsi 2 byateguwe n’umushinga  Local Government Institute  wa RALGA yasabye abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa guha Abanyarwanda  serivisi nyazo zibakwiye kugira ngo iterambere ryifuzwa  ryihute,  aha akaba yababwiye ko kugirango  ibyo bizagerwaho bizaturuka ku gukora cyane bivuye inyuma doreko ari narwo rwego rushyira mubikorwa iterambere ry’umuturage kuko aribo babana nabo buri munsi.

Ibi biganiro nyunguranabitekerezo bibaye nyuma y’ibindi byari byateguriwe abanyamabanga nshingwabikorwa b’utugari mu rwego rwo kubaka ubushobozi bw’inzego zose.