Rwanda | Nyanza: Making a living out of molding flower pots

A sample of decorated flower gardens Samuel Ndayisabye of 32 years of age in Kavumu village  Busasamana sector in Nyanza district have for a period of six years survived on decorating flower gardens. Samuel Ndayisabye confesses to have achieved a lot in life for the past six years he has been doing his work of decorating flower gardens. “I was very poor in my home area and whenever I could see people doing the things I love, I would be envious and think they were born with them”, Samuel Ndayisabye narrates. But now my mind set have greatly changed because I can now get whatever I want and I don’t beg from any one.He managed to develop himself after starting to mold flower pots and sell them to different parts of the country mostly at administrative...

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Rwanda : The NCF-Ngororero sector to radically change family life

The women of National Council of the Women (CNF) of the sector NGORORERO in the district of Ngororero with their colleagues of the FPR INKOTANYI made a commitment to operate radical changes in the life of their deprived partners.They handed over to the act by fitting out domestic gardens collectively known under the ” akarima k’ igikoni ” naming for some families which had no it.Their realizations lean on 4 pillars of the Rwandan government to know the economy, social well-being, justice and good governance.In economy they succeeded in making sensitive the women to group together into cooperatives, to subscribe to the institutions of savings and credits as Umurenge Sacco … For the welfare they made sensitive the women to prepare a well-balanced...

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Rwanda : Rwanda hosts second Grow Africa meeting

Kigali, 20 March 2012-Over the last two days the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture hosted the second meeting of the Grow Africa “First Wave” Initiative.The meeting brought together high ranking officials from the Agriculture Ministries of the seven participating countries. Included in this group were three Agriculture Ministers from Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Kenya.Diplomatic representatives from the G8 Countries in Kigali, Development Partners and representatives from the AU, NEPAD and World Economic Forum were also in attendance.The purpose of the meeting was to encourage the World Economic Forum and G8 Summit to support “First Wave” countries as they prepare their investment blueprints.The meeting also served as preparation for the upcoming Grow Africa Forum meeting in Addis Ababa on 8-9...

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Rwanda | KIGALI: MORE THAN 16 PASSANGERS SURVIVE ROAD ACCIDENT

 More than 16 passengers have survived a road car accident at kimisagara-Nyabugogo road. The accident occurred this morning when a commuter Taxi Hiace RAB 035K knocked seriously other two cars.Jonathan Ntakirutimana who was driving the commuter carrying more than 16 passengers said that to him as a driver knocking other cars was a chance as he managed to save lives of many people. ”My car lost breaks and I had no any other option because I would have knocked many pedestrians, I decided to knock them so as to stopthe car which was on high speed,” explained Ntakirutimana.“This was a great chance to see my passengers survive and helped me out because after knocking the Toyota at the...

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Rwanda | Ngororero: Family problems to end soon

Women cooperating to prepare Kitchen gardensWomen of Ngororero district are very much determined to undress obstacles that disrupt development in their families before the month dedicated to women could end.In partnership with the national body for women, the women of Ngororero sector under their umbrella of R P F met to device means of how they can prepare for their better tomorrowThese women had to do a community work of digging kitchen gardens for several families in Ngororero sector which never had one before they could settle for their meeting. This was in a move to fight malnutrition in families.What was realized is that not only poor families never had kitchen gardens but also well-off families also never had them which implied poor...

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Rwanda | Gicumbi: Residents urged to eat fruits, vegetables

As a way of promotion good health among residents, Gicumbi district hospital has encouraged people to eat fruits and vegetables so as to prevent malnutrition.Fruits and vegetablesMost people suffer from malnutrition due to little knowledge on the foods they should eat and how to prepare them.Dr. Fred Muhairwe revealed to Gicumbi residents March 2012 that if they adopt the culture of eating fruits and vegetables and learn how to prepare balanced diet, malnutrition will be eradicated.Lack of sleep is one of the effects of malnutrition to the person with it. This can be reversed by taking plenty of fruits, vegetables and red meat which are rich in vitamins that promote good sleep, adds Dr Muhairwe.Explaining the importance of fruits...

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Rwanda : Rwanda to expand fuel storage facilities to 150 million litres

The permanent secretary in the ministry of trade and industry Emmanuel Hategeka revealed that the government is going to increase on its oil storage facilities to combat any oil shortages in the country.Emmanuel Hategeka trade and industry permanent secretary“Currently, our storage facilities have a capacity of 30m litres. Under this new policy, we want to upgrade them to 150 million litres by 2017,” Emmanuel Hategeka said.The government wants to increase on the amount of oil imported to ensure low costs on oil purchase.Hategeka said the government currently spends a lot of money on purchasing a few littres of oil so there is need to purchase in bulk.“To manage this situation we will have to set up the oil product law which will set guidelines...

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Rwanda: French investigators expelled ahead of genocide memorial

The government of Rwanda, last week expelled a team of French researchers who were in the country to carry out an investigation of the genocide cases of Rwandans living in France who are accused of participating in the 1994 genocide.Rwanda’s Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga argued that the team didn’t have to do any investigation since the French government has not been particularly cooperative in handling, following up the cases of suspects and done nothing on the cases submitted by the Kigali government.Rwanda has submitted at least 20 cases that are to be investigated by the French Justice department. Apparently, no trial has been made and some of the cases have been lost and Rwanda has had to re-submit the files, while 18 cases of genocide...

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