Dried anchovies best for your side dish

Anchovies can add up to the daily protein needed in your body, adding up to the other protein giving food such as beans, groundnuts and meat stuffs mostly used in Rwanda.

 

Here is how you can make that delicious anchovy dish

 

 

Ingredients

 

>> 100 gram Dried anchovy

>> 2 Brinjal cut and put inside the water

>> 4 Tamarind juice tablespoon

>> Salt To Taste

>> 16 tablespoons of water or adjust quantity of water as preferable

>> 1 medium onion finely chopped (For Seasoning)

>> Garlic 6, mashed (For Seasoning)

 

>> 1 cup Boiled surti beans (16 tbs)

 

>> 1 Brinjal, chopped (For Seasoning)

 

>> 1 teaspoon coriander seeds (dhaniya seeds – For Grinding)

>> 3 teaspoon Coconut (For Grinding)

>> 2 onion (For Grinding)

>> 5 Garlic Clove (25 gm) (For Grinding)

 

>> 1 Tomato (For Grinding)

 

Directions

 

In a pan fry dry fish adding 3tsp of oil nicely till raw smell goes.

 

Then put inside cold water and wash nicely and and keep aside.

 

In a pan add oil,when it is hot put onion,mashed garlic and fry till golden brown.

 

Then add boiled surti beans, brinjal, water little and allow them brinjal to cook.

 

When they are cooked add grinded masala, salt and fry till raw smell goes and bubbles to come.

 

Then add tamarind Juice, dry fish and cook for 5mins, finally when bubbles comes.

 

Take it out and serve with rice

 

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Umuganda legacy bringing harmony and development among Rwandans

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame participating in Umuganda on August 26, 2013

Every last Saturday mornings of each month Rwanda holds community work known as Umuganda where locals across the country commit to cleaning as they also get to each other.

 

This day is also dedicated to fixing and repairing— clearing bushes, repairing, feeder roads, building houses for the homeless, building schools, sweeping and clogged drainages cleared.

 

This isn’t the task of the municipality, it’s that of residents, where neighbours come together to pick up litter, cut grass and trim trees. Communities help build schools or plant crops.

 

As a resultant of Umuganda, the beautiful city of Kigali has a face of trees lining boulevards neatly trimmed; grass on traffic islands is cut as close as golf course fairways; water fountains work; walls are freshly painted; litter bins are everywhere; plastic shopping bags are banned (you won’t even get them through airport customs.

 

During Umuganda social barriers are crossed as all citizens take part – from taxi drivers to mayors; from doctors to priests as well as the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame.

 

While speaking to residents after Umuganda exercise at the mental hospital Ndera on October, 26 2013, President Kagame said:

 

“We can only achieve a better life for every Rwandan if we work to move each other forward, not to hold each other back.”

 

“We know what is right for us, why should we expect others to do it for us? You have made working together to move our country forward part of our culture, so let us continue to look for solutions to our challenges within ourselves, ” he added.

 

President Kagame said that although Rwandans were proud of accomplishments, they should not be satisfied until development reaches every Rwandan.

 

During the exercise people wake up, grab any garden tool that maybe useful such as a hoe, spade or a machete, brooms or any thing worthy.

Umuganda, meaning contribution, is not a consequence of the tragic Rwanda has gone through. It has its roots in an ancient tradition that gives one a sense of the true Rwandan spirit before the descent into genocide.

 

Its application has changed through the ages: In the beginning it brought farming communities together for the common good, then it was a way for chiefdoms to extract a corvée, or tax, in the form of labour.

 

It was exploited by the Belgians to mobilize labour forces during the colonial period, and afterwards it was tainted by the Hutu regime as a means of building nationalistic sentiment and disseminating propaganda against the Tutsi.

 

Now, people embrace Umuganda for its true purpose. It is, in fact, law.

 

Besides coffee and tea, it is Rwanda’s greatest export because Rwandan peace-keepers introduced it to Haiti and Darfur to help locals build harmony and foster a positive, collective spirit in the wake of disaster.

 

Delegates from the DRC also took it back to the communities in their own country.

 

Foreign aid workers and NGOs in Rwanda take part in Umuganda and spread the good spirit to other communities in Africa.

 

In July last year, Klab members started e-umuganda community work an initiative toward filling names of places and streets of Kigali on openstreetmap.org.

 

www.openstreetmap.org is an organisation that share free geo-location data to the world. The project creates and provides free location mapping to anyone who wants it

 

Today close to 80% of Rwandans take part in monthly community work. Successful projects include the building of schools, medical centres and hydro electric plants as well as rehabilitating wetlands and creating highly productive agricultural plots.

 

The value of Umuganda to the country’s development since 2007 has been estimated at more than US $60 million. -

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NBA - Rockets to waive Camby

Marcus Camby

The Houston Rockets will waive 39-year-old center Marcus Camby, the Houston Chronicle reported on Sunday.

 

That probably will mark the end of Camby’s playing career as he has been unable to make a satisfactory recovery from torn plantar fascia tissue.

 

However, he may remain with the Rockets in a coaching or player development role, according to the report.

 

Camby is likely to have foot surgery to repair the damage.

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Rwanda Police hold Umuganda in Haiti

Over 100 Rwanda National Police officers serving under peace mission in Haiti dedicated the last Saturday of August, 2013 doing community work ‘Umuganda’ to help locals build harmony and foster a positive, collective spirit in the wake of disaster.

 

The police spent all day sweaty planting trees and cleaning bushes in the community.

 

The exercise that coincided with the monthly community work Umuganda in Rwanda took place in Minustah Regional Headquarters and in Jeremie Base Camp.

 

According to CSP Peter Hodari, the Contingent Commandant, planting trees will help conserve the degrading sorround in the area and cleaning is meant to improve the hygiene.

 

“This is also part of our greening the mission and environmental conservation campaign,” he said.

 

“And also part of observing our values such as Agaciro,” CSP Hodari added that the role of Rwanda FPUIV goes beyond its mandate of helping Haitian National Police to ensure the safety of people living in Haiti.

 

“We are also here to enhance development through maintaining infrastructure, environmental protection and supporting people’s welfare,” He said.

 

Indeed, as it is done back home, Rwandan Police Officers in Haiti, very last Saturday of the month, organize activities to help people in Haitian villages.

 

“This is another way of preserving Rwandan values in the mission CSP Hodari said.”

 

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Rwanda is “most improved economy” since 2005, says World Bank

The construction industry has benefited from the improvements in doing business

 The 2014 Doing Business Report – an annual survey of the ease of doing business around the world says that Rwanda is the most improved economy in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2005.

In the report, Rwanda is praised for the impressive strides in having well-designed institutions, and the ability to coordinate efforts to improve the business climate.

In the 2014 report, Rwanda once again performed well in making it easy to do business and has been ranked in position 32 out of 189 countries in the latest World Bank data.

The country moved up 22 places from its former position at 54 in the previous assessment on Doing Business 2013.

The 2014 ease of doing business report indicates that Kenya came in 129, Burundi in 140, and Tanzania 145, while Mauritius came in 20 and DR Congo 183^rd position.

Rwanda’s improved performance was seen in the areas of dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying and resolving insolvency.

However, there was a slight one point position decline in starting a business, getting electricity and trading across borders declined by two positions.

The biggest increment in position was seen in the area of property registration-from position 62 to position 8, and dealing with construction permits- from position 122 to 85^th. There was no significant change in area of enforcing contracts and Rwanda maintained its earlier position at 40.

Countries in the EAC region didn’t make any much adjustment from their previous performance in 2013 in the economy indicators- distance of each economy to the “frontier”- across all economies and across time.

Rwanda made an improvement from 64 in 2013 to 70 in 2014, Uganda and Tanzania remained in same positions with just marginal improvements (56 and 54 respectively); while Kenya made one step up the ladder from 59 to 58^th. Burundi made a significant improvement from 47.5 to 50.6.

source:http://www.rwandaeye.com/featured/3202/rwanda-is-most-improved-economy-since-2005-says-world-bank/

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US Says DRC Must Have “Negotiated Accord” With M23

Despite reported military victories against M23 rebels in the past few days, the DR Congo government risks jeopardizing ongoing regional and international efforts to end the country’s conflict, says the US special envoy Russell Feingold.

Last week the US envoy was on a regional tour that took him to Kinshasa, Kampala and Kigali. On his way to Washington via Paris, Feingold was asked by RFI if that did not mean the conflict was finally over, to which he simply said. “No…”

“The military solution does not in any way respond to the problems posed by the M23 and the forty or forty-five other armed groups in the region,” said Feingold. “What we need is a peace agreement negotiated with the M23.”

“The ongoing process within the framework of Kampala must be concluded soon, as this could put an end to the fighting, but it needs to be done without granting amnesty to those who have committed serious crimes.”

The US envoy said continuing offensive will “put at risk” the Kampala process, which could eventually lead to M23 disarming completely.

“It also risks jeopardizing the peace initiatives supported by the international community and the African Union,” said Feingold.

“So yes, we have seen that the Congolese soldiers had several successes in recent days, but nevertheless we believe that at present, the [negotiated settlement] will better serve the people of Congo and the region.”

source:http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/20896/us-says-drc-must-have-negotiated-accord-with-m23/

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The immigrant that turned beauty queen, movie star

Sonia Rolland

Former Miss France and French actress, Sonia Rolland has been in the country for the past three weeks shooting a documentary that will feature the country’s progress over the past 20 years since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Through the documentary, she plans to show the strides the country has made in various aspects, such as the place of women in the society and economic development. The documentary which comes out next year will be showcased at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, amongst other festivals.

“Most of what I have read or watched has left me disappointed. Most of them don’t do the country justice; some are too short others got it all wrong. I am just looking to show people all over the world a positive side, development and what can be achieved by people with a vision.”

Most people would wonder why Sonia would be interested in Rwanda of all countries. To that she answers, “I was born and brought up in Rwanda, it is a county I know. I can’t have a vision of other countries I don’t know well. I always talk about Rwanda.”

She lived in Rwanda before moving to Burundi in 1989 and later to France in 1994. “When I arrived in France in 1994, I had a culture shock. People I met there knew little about me and where I was from. They had all sorts of theories about me and it kind of made me mad that they were closed minded.”

But even as disadvantaged as she was, she defied all odds by proving to them what an African immigrant teenager would be if she put her mind to it.  “I joined the beauty competition to enable me to be become an actress. I began as Miss Bourgogne in 2000 and three months later I became Miss France.”

The lanky beauty, who dwarfs everyone around her not only because of her height but also because of her grace, says that in a way the crown prepared her to be an actress. “In a certain way, Miss France was like a role for me. During my tenure as Miss France, I was acting as people expected of me. That enabled people to take interest in my personality making it easy for me to move into acting.”

Though she held the title more than a decade ago, she has managed to stay relevant as an actress and public figure. “Fame can be tricky. What helped me get through easily is remembering that it was just for a passing moment, one year. I never let it get into my head. When you are famous, friends and people around you can be ‘fake’, only your family remains real.”

Sonia admits that she was afraid to have kids as it would ruin her acting career. “I was like everyone who thinks about their career, I thought it would derail me. I am not married but I have two children. Family is everything and my kids have made me stronger.”

“I have a boyfriend who is a director and actor. For now our lives are our biggest project.”

Next year in May she plans on doing a fictional movie, Ordinary Life, a story of two teenagers who grew up in their mother’s absence. “I think the local movie industry is coming up. I would like to work with the local industry. I am almost where I want to get in life and in the course of the way I have had to say no to some movie and salary offers as they were not good for the path I had set out on.”

On whether the Rwanda movie industry has focused too much on Genocide themes at the expense of other themes, Sonia says it is a story that has to be told as it was a defining moment in the country’s times.

Her determination in working with the local industry can be proven by her putting up a local production company, Sa tourne Productions.

Madjissem Beringaye, Sonia’s business partner says over the years Sonia has begun showing interest in what is happening in the country. “You can see her maturity and her wanting to be in touch with what is happening in Rwanda. She has even put up a production company and she wants to play a bigger role.”

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