Thursday, 26 September 2013

Nyuma y’ubujurire ku byiciro by’ubudehe abanyeshuri 10 216 bahawe ‘Bourse’.

Yashyizweho kuwa 26/09/2013 .www.umuseke.rw

Ku mugoroba wo kuri uyu wa 26 Nzeri Ministeri y’Uburezi yatangaje ko abanyeshuri bakoze ubujurire bw’ibyiciro by’ubudehe bashyizwemo, ubu abemerewe guhabwa inguzanyo yose bagera ku 10 216 mu banyeshuri bose hamwe 13 298.

Dr Harebamungu mu kiganiro n’abanyamakuru kuri uyu mugoroba

Aba banyeshuri banditse basaba ko ibyiciro by’ubudehe bashyizwemo bitari gutuma babasha gusubira ku ishuri ngo bakomeze Kaminuza.

Benshi muri bo ni abari bashyizwe mu kiciro cya gatatu cy’ubudehe cyabasabaga kwiyishyurira kimwe cya kabiri cy’ibisabwa ngo bakomeze ishuri.

Nyuma y’uko benshi bagaragaje impungenge zabo Leta yashyizeho komite mu turere zo kwiga ku bujurire bw’aba banyeshuri, ibyabuvuyemo nibyo byasubije 10 216 ku rutonde rw’abazahabwa inguzanyo yo kwiga.

Mu banyeshuri 13 298, abagera ku 10 216 bazahabwa inguzanyo yose harimo n’amafaranga yo kubatunga no kubafasha mu myigire (bourse).

Abanyeshuri 2 388 bo basabye ubwabo guhabwa inguzanyo ingana na 50% y’iyo basanzwe babona. Naho abanyeshuri 92 nibo gusa bemeye kuzirihira byose bisabwa ngo umuntu yige Kaminuza.

Dr Herabamungu Mathias mu kiganiro yagiranye n’abanyamakuru kuri uyu wa 26 Nzeri yavuze ko umwanzuro wo gusububira mu madosiye y’abanyeshuri batari bahawe inguzanyo wizweho n’inzego zitandukanye muri guverinoma nyuma yo kubona impungenge ku byiciro by’ubudehe abanyeshuri bari bashyizwemo.

Dr Harebamungu ati “ Kuwa 9 Nzeri inzego zashyizweho mu turere zasubiye kureba niba koko ibyiciro abanyeshuri bashyizwemo bikwiye, basanze hari umubare ukwiye guhabwa iriya nguzanyo yo kwiga.”

Dr Harebamungu hamwe na Alvera Mukabaramba Umunyabanga uhoraho muri MINALOC yafatanyije na MINEDUC igikorwa cyo kwiga ubujurire bw’abanyeshuri

Ministeri y’Uburezi yatangaje ko guhera ku munsi w’ejo urutonde rw’aba banyeshuri n’ibyiciro by’inguzanyo bazahabwa ruzaba ruri ku rubuga rwa Ministeri y’Uburezi ndetse bagashobora no ku rusanga ku bigo by’amashuri no ku kicaro cya Rwanda Education Board.

Abanyeshuri benshi bari batarasubira mu mashuri makuru bigagaho cyangwa abashya bari bagiye gutangira, bategereje imyanzuro izava mu bujurire bw’ababisabye.

MINEDUC yatangaje ko abanyeshuri bari bamaze kwiyandikisha (gukora Registration) ngo ni abagera kuri 70% by’abari bategerejwe, nubwo abiyandikishije bose batahise batangira amasomo.

Kwiyandikisha muri za Kaminuza za Leta bizageza tariki 30 Nzeri. Itegeko ryemeza Kaminuza Nkuru y’u Rwanda naryo rikaba riherutse gusohoka.

Mu nama ya none Ministeri y’Uburezi yibukije ko iyi nguzanyo abanyeshuri bahabwa igomba kwishyurwa mu buryo buteganywa n’amategeko.

Friday, 20 September 2013

Venezuela: U.S. denied airspace permission to presidential plane

By Catherine E. Shoichet and Elise Labott, CNN

September 20, 2013 -- Updated 0558 GMT (1358 HKT)

Venezuelan acting president Nicolas Maduro clenches his fist after he was sworn in, in Caracas, on March 8, 2013.

(CNN)www.cnn.com -- Venezuela accused the United States on Thursday of denying President Nicolas Maduro's plane permission to enter U.S. airspace -- a claim that a State Department official denied.

Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said U.S. officials have blocked plans for Maduro's presidential plane to fly through Puerto Rican airspace on the way to China.

He described the move as an aggression and called for an explanation from the U.S. State Department.

A senior State Department official told CNN that Jaua's claim was untrue, saying that the Venezuelans have, in fact, been approved to clear U.S. airspace.

In remarks broadcast on state television, Maduro called the situation "a serious offense."

The Venezuelan president vowed to take action, adding that the United States had also denied visas for several members of his country's delegation scheduled to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

"If I have to take diplomatic measures against the U.S. government, I will take them to the most drastic level if it is necessary, but I am not going to accept any type of aggression," he said.

The State Department official also called the visa issue untrue, saying the United States had approved them.

Maduro is scheduled to travel to China on Saturday. Jaua said officials were evaluating alternate routes so that the trip could continue as scheduled.

Maduro accused U.S. officials of being nervous about his country's growing relationship with China.

"The United States government is not going to stop our trip," Maduro said.

U.S. officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Venezuelan lawmaker vows to fight for Syria's al-Assad

William Ruto trial: Kenyan's fears over witness claims

Witness 536 survived when this church was set on fire, killing about 36 people

A Kenyan woman says she fears for her life after being wrongly identified as a prosecution witness in the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial of Deputy President William Ruto.

Rahab Muthoni has asked for police protection after her photo was circulated on social media.
The court ordered that the identity of the first prosecution witness be protected for her own safety.
Mr Ruto denies organising violence after the December 2007 elections.
He is charged with crimes against humanity over the violence, in which some 1,200 people died and 600,000 were forced from their homes.
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has previously complained that witnesses are being intimidated, leading some of them to withdraw from the case.
Hidden identity On Wednesday, ICC judge Chile Eboe-Osuji warned that anybody revealing the identity of witnesses, or threatening them, would face prosecution.
He was speaking after being told that bloggers were circulating the name and photo of a woman said to be the first witness.
The photo was of Ms Muthoni but a different name was used.
Ms Muthoni lives in Eldoret, Mr Ruto's home town.
She is understood to have been a victim of the post-election violence in which people were attacked and killed because of their ethnic origin.
The first witness at The Hague gave evidence from behind a curtain and with her face pixelated and voice distorted on the court video.
She is being referred to as witness 536.

Kenya's Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed says President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto should not face trial

The BBC's Odhiambo Joseph says the ICC proceedings are being closely followed in Kenya but are dividing the country along political and ethnic lines.
Mr Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta were elected in March.
They used their prosecutions by the ICC to bolster their campaign by portraying them as foreign interference in domestic affairs.
Mr Kenyatta, who denies similar charges, is due to go on trial in November.
Radio executive Joshua arap Sang is standing trial alongside Mr Ruto - he too has pleaded not guilty.
Our reporter says that the ICC does have jurisdiction in Kenya, but the situation is complicated as it relies on political goodwill.
Furthermore, parliament recently voted to withdraw from the ICC, which would end the court's jurisdiction in the country.
Witness 536 broke down in court during her testimony on Tuesday.
She is said to have survived the attack on the Kiambaa Church in which about 36 people were burnt to death.
She is a member of the Kikuyu ethnic group, who were targeted by Mr Ruto's Kalenjin community, allegedly at his behest.
Mr Ruto is the first serving official to appear at the ICC.

Anna Holligan explains why William Ruto is in court, in 60 secondsMore on This Story

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Assad: Syria needs one year to destroy chemical weapons www.bbc.co.uk

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President Assad says he will "get rid" of Syria's chemical weapons - Clips courtesy Fox News

Syria conflict

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is committed to a plan to destroy his country's chemical weapons but warned it could take about a year.

Speaking to Fox News, Mr Assad again denied claims that his forces were responsible for a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on 21 August.
The Syria disarmament plan was unveiled by the US and Russia last weekend.
The West wants the deal enshrined in a UN resolution backed by the threat of military force, but Russia objects.
Damascus - backed by Moscow - has insisted that rebel forces carried out last month's attack in the Ghouta area.
In a separate development, fierce fighting has been reported between two rebel groups in the north of Syria.
Activists said the fighting began when jihadists from the al-Qaeda-linked group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), and fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) clashed in the town of Azaz, near the Turkish border.
This is believed to be one of the biggest confrontations so far between the jihadists and the FSA.
'Listen to your people' Referring to the issue of destroying Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons, Mr Assad said it was "a very complicated operation, technically".
"And it needs a lot of money, some estimates (say) about a billion.

Syria's chemical weapons

CIA believes Syria's arsenal can be "delivered by aircraft, ballistic missile, and artillery rockets"
Syria believed to possess mustard gas, sarin, and tried to develop VX gas
Syria has agreed to join Chemical Weapons Convention; it signed Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972 but never ratified

Sources: CSIS, RUSI

"So it depends, you have to ask the experts what they mean by quickly. It has a certain schedule. It needs a year, or maybe a little bit more."

And when asked whether he would be willing to hand over chemical weapons to the US, President Assad said: "It needs about one billion. It is very detrimental to the environment. If the American administration is ready to pay this money and take the responsibility of bringing toxic materials to the United States, why don't they do it?"
'Very serious' Mr Assad also used the one-hour interview recorded in Damascus to criticise the US stance in the Syrian crisis.
Unlike the Russians, he said, Washington had tried to get involved in Syria's leadership and governance.
He argued that if there was mutual respect, there would not be any problems.
"Listen to your people. Follow the common sense of your people," he said, in an apparent reference to US President Barack Obama.
Mr Assad's comments come shortly after a senior Russian diplomat said Damascus would fulfil its commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
After talks in Syria on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said President Assad was "very serious" about the disarmament plan.
Mr Ryabkov also said that Syrian officials had handed him "material evidence" that showed the rebels were involved in the sarin attack last month, contradicting claims by the US that the regime was responsible.
And the Russian diplomat criticised the United Nations for being "one-sided" in its recent report on the attack - a claim the UN denied.
The report - prepared for UN weapons experts after a visit to Syria - did not apportion blame for the 21 August attack.
German chemical exports Meanwhile Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in an interview on German television that chemicals exported to Syria which were capable of being used to make poison gas were used for civilian purposes.
The German government, responding to a request from a member of parliament, said 137 tonnes of two substances capable of being used to make the poison gas, Sarin, were exported to Syria between 2002 and 2006.
But she added that officials were still trying to ascertain what use was made of chemicals exported after 2006 and before May 2011, when Germany imposed strict controls on exports to Syria.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war began in early 2011, according to the UN.
Millions have fled the country and millions more have been left homeless.

Gashumba to launch Teen Show on RTV

A smile of a winner. Gashumba shows off one of her awards. The New Times/Courtesy

Sheilah Gashumba is barely seventeen but has been in front of the cameras since her childhood. She is smart, absolutely confident and has all the right answers, leaving you with a glimpse of a youngster who inspires people of all ages.
The 11th year student of Kabojja International School in Uganda, Sheilah took her first role as a news anchor of kids’ news on WBS TV at the age of 10. On becoming a teenager, she was promoted to the teens show called, Teens Club, a leading Youth show in Uganda.
She is a young multitalented girl, who has been in front of the camera since her childhood. Born on February 7, 1996, Sheila grew up as an only child and was raised solely by her hardworking father, Frank Gashumba.
In 2007, Sheila earned recognition as the youngest journalist accredited in the whole world to cover the Common wealth Heads of Government meeting, which was presided over by the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth in Kampala, Uganda.
This extraordinary teenager is unstoppable. By the age of 12, she had written proposals for a TV show, Radio show and clothing line, among several other creative and mind blowing ideas.
Sheila bounced back on the TV screen with a show called T-Nation which airs every Saturday morning at 11am on Uganda’s NTV. The show will be soon aired on RTV.
In 2012, she started Young Bodies Big Hearts, a charity foundation that promotes giving back to society and helping the less privileged with the little that they have to make the world a better place to live.
Gashumba won the Super Talent Awards 2012, and recently won Hottest Teens TV presenter at the Annual Buzz Awards held this year in Kampala. She is currently negotiating a deal to extend her TV show to Rwanda. The New Times had an interview with the TV host.
Excerpts:
Q. What is the name of your TV show?
A. T-Nation
Q. Tell us more about this programme and why did you choose to bring it to Rwanda?
A. T-Nation is a TV Magazine Show for teenagers that feature their tastes in music, fashion, movies, games, etc. The show also provides a platform for the teenagers to express themselves by discussing issues they face on a day to day basis, be it at school, with their peers and even parents.
Q. Of what impact will it have to the youth in Rwanda?
A. The show has a lot to learn from ranging from advice through the teen talks on the show, tips on fashion and style, empowering the viewers by showing talented youth because the show is a fully packaged show.
Q. Do you have plans of shifting and working in Rwanda?
A. Yes, I have plans of working in Rwanda. My TV show is soon going to be syndicated across East Africa, Rwanda inclusive.
I’ve been to Rwanda several times and Rwanda is my second home, actually my great grandparents migrated from Ruhengeri to Uganda in 1923.
Q. You are very young, talented and successful– what’s the secret to your success?
A. I believe in the power of the mind and believe that anything can come true if you put your mind to it. So I make sure I am positive throughout the year and I am never afraid to learn from the best. I also have a very supportive father, Frank Gashumba, who inspires me. He has taught me to learn more, give more, and love more and definitely with the grace of God, everything is possible and, like they say, he who God blesses, no man can curse
Q. What advice can you give the youth out there who want to follow in your footsteps?
A. It doesn’t matter what country or city you were born. You still have the ability to have a great mind. Great minds exist all over the planet, in the ghetto, trailer parks, and villages. Pay no attention to the environment, pay attention to your discipline and create powerful habits.
To all the young girls out there, there is more to life that you haven’t seen yet, so don’t ruin your life because of the choices you make when you are excited. Just hang in there, you are beautiful and I am sure you don’t want to lose that.
Q. How do you see your future and where do you want to be?
A. I see a future where I will live to change the lives of people in Africa and the World.

Rayon to play league matches in Kigali

It has been confirmed that champions Rayon Sports will play all their home league matches in Kigali. Times Sport/P. Muzogeye

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Rayon Sports will play all their home league matches for the 2013/14 season in the City of Kigali, according to club chairperson Abdullah Murenzi.
Speaking to Times Sport early this week, Murenzi, who is also the Mayor of southern district of Nyanza, said the decision was taken because Nyanza stadium does not meet the minimum standards.
The seven-time Rwandan champions had last September relocated back to their roots in the Southern Province after spending 26 years in Kigali.
“At the moment, our field is not in good condition which is why we requested Ferwafa (local football governing body) to allow us play next season’s league matches on better pitches in Kigali, and we believe it will not affect the players and fans as well,” he noted.
He said they hoped this would not affect the team’s performance on the pitch, adding that Rayon players were in great spirits ahead of the new season which gets underway on September 28.
“The team has everything it to compete at the top level, players are in very good condition and happy,” said Murenzi, adding that the players now get their salaries on time as opposed to yesteryears.
The Nyanza-based side begins its league title defence on September 28 against newly promoted Gicumbi FC, who are coached by former Rayon player and coach Jean Baptiste Kayiranga, at Amahoro stadium.
Record 13-time league champions APR will kick off the season against Marines FC at Stade de Kigali, while Police, first runners up in the last two seasons, will be up against another newly promoted side Esperance FC at Kicukiro ground.
Also on the opening weekend, Etincelles will host Espoir at Umuganda stadium in Rubavu, AS Muhanga host Mukura in Muhanga; Amagaju will face the 2013 Peace Cup winners AS Kigali at Stade de Kigali while will Musanze host SC Kiyovu.

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

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Rayon to play league matches in Kigali

It has been confirmed that champions Rayon Sports will play all their home league matches in Kigali. Times Sport/P. Muzogeye

He said they hoped this would not affect the team’s performance on the pitch, adding that Rayon players were in great spirits ahead of the new season which gets underway on September 28.

“The team has everything it to compete at the top level, players are in very good condition and happy,” said Murenzi, adding that the players now get their salaries on time as opposed to yesteryears.
The Nyanza-based side begins its league title defence on September 28 against newly promoted Gicumbi FC, who are coached by former Rayon player and coach Jean Baptiste Kayiranga, at Amahoro stadium.
Record 13-time league champions APR will kick off the season against Marines FC at Stade de Kigali, while Police, first runners up in the last two seasons, will be up against another newly promoted side Esperance FC at Kicukiro ground.
Also on the opening weekend, Etincelles will host Espoir at Umuganda stadium in Rubavu, AS Muhanga host Mukura in Muhanga; Amagaju will face the 2013 Peace Cup winners AS Kigali at Stade de Kigali while will Musanze host SC Kiyovu.

Enjoy this good video shared by Lynnet & Innocent alongside Nana.

Africa's elderly leaders 'risk more revolutions'

By Muvunyi & Lynnet,

September 17, 2013 -- Updated 1036 GMT (1836 HKT)

Robert Mugabe was sworn in for another term as President of Zimbabwe in August 2013, aged 89. Mugabe is Africa's oldest leader and led Zimbabwe first as prime minister from 1980, then as president from 1987.

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Africa's aging leaders - Robert Mugabe

(CNN) -- Africa is in the middle of an amazing demographic shift. Our continent is the only one where the size of the younger generation is rising significantly.

Our population is already 16 years younger than in China, and this is only the beginning. Within less than three generations, four out of ten of the world's youth will live on our continent.

This demographic dividend -- and the energy and enthusiasm it brings -- offers us a unique advantage which other continents facing the prospect of a rapidly aging population and dwindling workforce can only envy. In a world changing with breakneck speed, it is young people who are best equipped to identify and deliver fresh solutions to our problems.

Mo Ibrahim.

But we will only fully reap these benefits if we listen to young people, engage with them and provide the education, skills and support they need to prosper. Despite progress, we continue to fail to rise to this challenge. Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Read this: 'Afropreneurs' will shape Africa's future

There can be no clearer symbol of this disconnect than the age of those who continue to set the direction of our countries and their citizens. For while the median age of Africa's population is now 20 and falling, the average age of our continent's leaders is around 60.

Africa must ask itself why our continent appears so frightened of giving the younger generation a chance.
Mo Ibrahim

I am not arguing, of course, that teenagers should be put in charge of countries. Experience counts in government even more than in business. But Africa must ask itself why our continent appears so frightened of giving the younger generation a chance.

After all, David Cameron and Tony Blair both became UK Prime Ministers for the first time when they were 43. Barack Obama first became President of the United States at the age of 47. Even more importantly, he will step down, because of the constitution, eight years after he entered the White House.

In contrast, Africa has just witnessed an 89-year old sworn in as President of Zimbabwe, a post he first gained 25 years ago. And this was after he had already led his country as Prime Minister for nearly a decade.

The truth is that it is not so much the age that our leaders first come to power which is the problem but their reluctance to relinquish it. Where necessary, constitutional terms are altered to allow them to continue long after they were supposed to step down.

Read this: Holding African governments to account

The result is that political power lies in the hands of aging leaders who have little knowledge or interest in the ambitions and concerns of younger generations -- and sadly even less interest in passing on the reins of leadership.

It is why, when we set up the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2007, we made it a condition that only those democratically elected leaders who hand over power voluntarily at the end of their constitutional term would be eligible.

Even in countries where leaders do not confuse their own interests with those of their country, our young people can find themselves locked out of decision-making and debate. They react, not surprisingly, by turning their backs on the political process. Electoral turnout is falling among the young and political apathy is on the rise.

Read this: Africa's rocky road to democracy

The danger is that, denied the chance of peaceful change, despair and anger is fostered.
Mo Ibrahim

The danger is that, denied the chance of peaceful change, despair and anger is fostered. We must at least enable our young people to play a more active part in the decision-making process. If we do not, we will see even more leaders overthrown.

The risk of creating a marginalized youth only seems to increase when you look at the job market. Our young people are better educated but enjoy less employment opportunities than their parents. We can't just rely on their numbers to drive Africa's continued economic progress.

We need renewed efforts to provide them with the skills they need to fill the jobs of the future. We urgently need to foster national debates involving businesses, education specialists and young people themselves to build the skilled workforce Africa requires to compete globally.

It's time Africa started listening to our young people, instead of always telling them what to do. It is their potential, after all, which will decide our continent's future. Let's not waste it.

Updates regarding MPs elections-2013

Rwanda election: RPF wins parliamentary landslide

Rwandan voters queue outside at a polling station in the capital Kigali on September 16, 2013

The ruling party has been in power since the 1994 genocide ended

Rwanda: Haunted Nation

Rwanda's governing RPF party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, securing 76% of the vote.

The party of President Paul Kagame, which came to power after the genocide of 1994, won 40 of the 53 seats directly elected on Monday.
The opposition FDU-Inkingi, whose leader Victoire Ingabire is in jail, did not take part in the election, as it is not officially registered.
Two other parties regarded as close to the RPF took 13% and 9% of the vote.
Voting took placed days after two people were killed in two grenade attacks in the capital, Kigali.
No group has said it carried out the attacks but officials have blamed the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is accused of links to the 1994 genocide, and critics of the government recently exiled in South Africa.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) government has been praised for maintaining stability and overseeing rapid economic growth since the slaughter of some 800,000 minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
But President Kagame has been increasingly accused of ignoring human rights and stamping out any opposition.
The RPF has kept its parliamentary majority but lost two seats.
A third opposition party to contest in the election, PS-Imberakuri, did not win any seats.
Its officials told the BBC that their supporters were harassed during the campaign - charges rejected by the RPF.
Helped by quotas, Rwanda has been the world's only parliament where women form a majority.
The parliament has 80 seats, 24 of which are reserved for women, two for candidates representing the youth and one representing disabled people.
Women's groups were electing the female MPs on Tuesday; the other quota MPs will be selected on Wednesday.

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