8/16/08

Rwanda: Two Down, Two to Go As Swimmers Fail in Beijing


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Bonnie Mugabe
Beijing

Rwanda's Olympic medal hunt is now left to the two runners, Dieudonne Disi and Epiphanie Nyirabarame after the two swimmers Jackson Niyomugabo and Pamela Girimbabazi failed to go past the preliminary phase.

Girimbabazi finished third in heat one yesterday at the national aquatics centre hence joining Niyomugabo out of the Beijing Games.

Niyomugabo was eliminated out of the Games on Thursday after finishing second in his heat in a time of the men's 50m freestyle.

Three-time Olympian Girimbabazi clocked 39:78 seconds to finish behind Bahrain representative Al Bitar Sameera who needed 30:32 win the heat.

Gloria Koussihouede (Benin) finished second in 37:09 while Guinea's Barry Djene used 39:80 to finish last in heat one that had only four competitors.

All heat one participants could not get a chance of reaching the semi finals their time was too far compared to the actual time needed for qualification. Girimbabazi's time was the 88th ranked overall out of the 90 competitors.

Uganda's Olivia Nakitanda won heat three in 29:39 seconds while Burundi's Elsie Uwamahoro was seventh in heat after clocking 36:86 seconds.

The 50m freestyle world record holder Lisbeth Trickett stormed the semi finals after coming ahead in heat twelve in a time of 24:87 seconds.

With the swimmers out, Rwanda's medal hopes now remain on Disi (10.000m) and Nyirabarame (marathon). The pair will be in action tomorrow (Sunday).

Rwanda's high profile personalities who attended both men's and women's events included Rwanda's ambassador to China Ben Rugangazi, RNOC boss Ignace Beraho, Chef de mission Thierry Ntwali and other Rwandans living in Beijing but one notable absentee was RNOC Secretary General Freddy Somayire who preferred to go on shopping in Hong Kong than supporting the swimmers.

 






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The man who brought Rwanda back

By Bella English Globe Staff / August 16, 2008
 

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
By Stephen Kinzer
Wiley, 380 pp., $25.95

As the world knows, the tiny African country of Rwanda in 1994 was the scene of one of the swiftest and bloodiest genocides in history: Some 800,000 people - 10 percent of the population - were slaughtered in the space of 100 days, most of them hacked with machetes or beaten with clubs. While the United Nations refused to intervene, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a shadowy rebel army, defeated the government militia and stopped the killings.

The Hutu genocidaires did more than kill their fellow countrymen; they in effect killed their country. They looted vaults, burned down schools, churches, stores, and homes, and murdered much of the professional class that had helped make the country run: judges, professors, doctors, even the prime minister who had counseled peace.

Since then, it has fallen largely on one man to bring Rwanda back to life: its president, Paul Kagame, the enigmatic RPF general who grew up in exile. In "A Thousand Hills," journalist Stephen Kinzer, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, profiles the man and his vision for Rwanda, which Kagame fled during a Tutsi pogrom when he was 2 years old.

Though many books have been written about Rwanda, Kinzer's is the one that, through extensive interviews with the president, his supporters, and his detractors, captures the elusive essence of Kagame. It is through the president's keen eyes that the reader sees the country, the genocide, and its aftermath. Authoritarian and ambitious, Kagame is a complex man who, with limited means but limitless vision, is resurrecting his homeland.

Kinzer gives Kagame's critics a voice, and they describe human-rights abuses, a curtailing of press freedom, a one-party state, and a strict police presence everywhere. The author also allows Kagame to respond to the charges, and many of his arguments make sense in the fragile country where genocidaires still wait hungrily across the border.

The story of post-genocide Rwanda and its leader is all the more impressive when compared with its neighbors' recent troubles: the chaos in the Congo, the recent violence in Kenya, the bloody dictatorship in Zimbabwe, the genocide in Darfur. Certain political leaders emerge at critical junctures in their nation's history, Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, and Mandela among them. In Kinzer's view, Kagame is the man who is going to determine whether Rwanda can fully emerge from its horrific past and take its place as an African gem. The goal is ambitious and has never been achieved in Africa: taking a country from abject poverty and genocide to a middle-class mecca in a generation. It's clear that Kinzer believes if anyone can do it, Kagame can.

With a journalist's eye for detail and a historian's understanding of context, Kinzer provides a compelling account of the enmity between Hutu and Tutsi since colonial times and the political machinations of a murderous regime bent on exterminating every single Tutsi. He also offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the secret rebel army in exile and the brilliant strategy that led to the government militia's defeat.

In the book, many people and institutions come in for valid criticism, including the colonial powers, the Hutu fanatics, the United States, the UN, and the Catholic Church in Rwanda, whose priests Kinzer says often collaborated with the regime. But Kinzer saves much of his bile for the French, whom the Rwandan government has accused of arming and training the genocidaires. The French, writes Kinzer, helped the genocidaires escape the advancing rebels and offered asylum to the massacre's top architects.

The most remarkable thing about Rwanda today is, as Kinzer notes, the reconciliation between survivors and perpetrators. "Reconciliation" is the unofficial government motto, for Kagame - and the rest of the citizenry - know how easily another genocide could occur. The government has turned to the gacaca, or traditional village hearing, for the mass of cases. Kinzer, like most outsiders, can't fathom the ability of so many Rwandans to forgive those who raped and killed their loved ones. Those he interviewed explain it in spiritual terms: It's what God wants. The subtext is that it's also what Kagame wants.

Is Paul Kagame a savior or a semi-dictator? Will he be able to effect a Rwandan miracle?

"If Kagame can achieve half of what he has set out to do, he will go down in African history," Kinzer writes. "If he can achieve it all, leaders of every poor country on earth will look to Rwanda for lessons, and bands of angels will sing in heaven."






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Review: The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris


Last Updated: 12:01am BST 16/08/2008

Tim Butcher praises an attempt to unravel the complications of Congo

That there has been war in Congo for a long time is as much as most outsiders know of the place. The complex background to the decades-old turmoil, the shifting alliances of tribal interests and rebel groups, the coups and counter-coups, and the numerous foreign powers that have invaded, mean most people find it impenetrable.

Even the name is confusing. Today's Democratic Republic of Congo was once known as Zaire, and before that the Congo Free State. It is often mistaken with another country altogether, the former French colony now known as Republic of the Congo.

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This curse of complication means outsiders typically give up on Congo.

Lieve Joris is not a typical outsider. Born in Belgium - the former colonial power in Congo - she has been drawn there numerous times since her first visit in the 1980s, and The Rebels' Hour is her third book on the country.

It is also her most ambitious as she tackles the country's complicated conflict.

If she had done this head-on, her book might have tended towards an academic thesis. It would have needed a lengthy list of factions (a single key Congolese rebel group recently morphed into three, the RCD, RCD-ML and RCD-N) and to have chronicled a succession of military episodes often only memorable because of their savagery.

Thankfully Joris uses a more imaginative device. The Rebels' Hour follows the life of a single man, Assani Zikiya, born to a tribe of cow-rearing herdsmen on the high plains of eastern Congo near the country's troubled neighbours, Rwanda and Burundi.

His bucolic childhood ends when ethnic rivalries spill into Congo from outside and Assani is swept away on a tide of violence that flows and ebbs across the nation.

Promoted up the ranks of a rebel force, his duties twice take him 1,500 miles away from home to the capital, Kinshasa, and twice he leaves the city fearing for his life. The book ends with him going for a third time to the city, uncertain of his fate.

Like a lot of modern non-fiction, this book often reads like a novel.

In the preface you find out why. Joris admits that while the book is minutely researched and grounded on her own knowledge of events, "I've had to fill in some parts … from my own imagination".

Purists might grumble, but in a book rich with detailed factual and chronological references I found not a single error. She even knew a train running west from the ruined town of Kalemie could not have got through because its bridge was washed away by storms in the 1990s.

Skilfully translated from Dutch by Liz Waters, the novel-like structure does not just make complex issues accessible; at times it makes them sing.

This is how Joris describes the crucial moment when Assani, so brutalised that he breaks with his family roots, decides to join the rebels across the frontier: "He'd gradually broken loose from the landscape that produced him. He'd become so light that he blew across the border like a feather."

Joris is particularly strong when describing the Tutsi/non-Tutsi divide, the key driver behind so much turbulence both in Congo and the wider Great Lakes region.

Assani belongs to the Banyamulenge, a tiny Congolese minority that trace their roots back to the Tutsis of Rwanda and Burundi and who have suffered much in recent years.

Not Congolese enough to satisfy Congolese nationalists, and not Tutsi enough to always satisfy Rwanda's modern Tutsi government, the Banyamulenge have often been treated as a scapegoat, and sometimes as a punchbag.

Assani has a long career commanding a rebel force made up of a few dozen child soldiers. Joris makes no apology for this abuse of innocence. This is a non-fiction history and the use of child soldiers on all sides is routine.

But Assani does have a conscience. He finds himself trapped between the two counter-currents of Congolese nationalism and Tutsi ethnicity, leaving him a nervous, rootless figure prone to using a satellite phone from the frontline to call a friend for solace at all hours - hence The Rebels' Hour.

Joris's descriptions of the various waves of conflict are not entirely authentic, failing to capture the ghastly chaos in which most of Congo's fighting takes place. She describes forces that are too organised, too Western, to be convincing.

But Assani is a truly fascinating individual, a single person whose ambitions, background and frustrations do much to unravel the complexity of modern Congo.

Five million people have died through conflict in Congo since 1997 and yet the world rarely pays heed. The Rebels' Hour is an intelligent and at times beautiful reckoning of one of the great human dramas of our age.





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How pens can write some wrongs that blight Rwanda

The Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Solihull, Maggie Throup, was among the participants of Project Umubano, the Tories' social action project in Rwanda this month. She describes why Rwanda gets under her skin.

Why did I return to Rwanda to carry out voluntary work for a second year? This is the question many people have been asking me – Rwandans and fellow volunteers alike.

Well the answer is simple – last year I took far more away from my experience than I gave. It was never meant to be like that. I was giving my time and experience so why should I benefit too?

It is not a simple task to explain how I benefited from the experience – words cannot describe how Rwanda and the Rwandans get under your skin and in your blood and I know my second visit to this country will definitely not be my last.

This is a country rapidly recovering from the devastating genocide of 1994, when almost one million people were massacred in just 100 days. How does a country and its people every recover from that? It's down to pure determination and hard work and I do feel that progress has been made in the 12 months since my first visit. Every one is looking to the future with optimism, hope and a sheer determination to build a modern, progressive society.

To personally experience the impact and the need for international development first hand is by far the best way to understand it. Reports and strategy documents do not do justice to what is actually needed on the ground. International development is more than just giving money. Skill-sharing is equally important, and is what is behind the whole project.

In 2007, 43 of us came to Rwanda, focusing on volunteering across a wide range of projects. This year there are over 100 of us, focussing on five project areas – private sector, teaching, health, construction and justice.

Continuing last year's theme of giving marketing skills to businesses involved in the increasingly important tourism industry, this year I have been working with the fledging Chamber of Tourism to ensure the business support it gives is tailored to the needs of its members.

Many experts acknowledge that establishing sustainable tourism in developing countries is an effective and relatively rapid way of getting a country out of poverty. Tourism is high on the Rwandan's Government agenda for this very reason.

Every Rwandan I have met, both this year and last, has been so absorbent and ready to learn. It is so refreshing and rewarding. Rwanda is a country full of hope and could probably be described as the world's newest country. This brings with it its own specific challenges both socially and economically.

There are many strong and influential women in Rwanda, borne out by 48 per cent of the Rwandan Parliament being made up of women, putting our record to shame. There are also many women entrepreneurs and I've had the privilege to meet Janet and Joy as prime examples.

In 2003 they set up a business, teaching widows of the genocide and Aids victims how to carrying out basket weaving to a commercial standard. The training lasts two weeks then the ladies go back to their villages and teach other women what they have just learned. In the last five years, Janet and Joy have trained 3000 women, who in turn have trained many more thousands of women, to be independent and earn a living. The other part of the good news story is Janet and Joy are exporting their products to Macey's in the States - what a success story. I am now looking for links into the British and European markets for Janet and Joy to widen their customer base.

I have also had the opportunity to visit the school I twinned with one in Solihull during my visit last year. It is a state-funded boarding school as students have to travel many tens, and in some cases, hundreds of miles for their secondary education. But how can students get the most from their education when the staple diet is beans and rice? The school budget does not run to meat.

The school specialises in sciences, yet the laboratories were devoid of equipment for chemistry, biology and physics experiments. A lot of the teaching is just theoretical, without any opportunities for practical experience.

The 800 boarding students share one football pitch (where the school cows were grazing when I visited), and one makeshift dual purpose basketball and volleyball court. With just 20 computers for internet access during free time, the leisure opportunities are very limited. Added to this, I probably have more books in my home than I saw in the school library.

While I was at the school I was able to hand over thousands of pens as part of my 'Pen4Life' project I set up after last year's visit. Many families in Rwanda struggle to afford a pen for their children to take to school for their lessons. My goal is to ensure that every child in Rwanda can go to school with a pen. If you give a child a chance of an education, you give them a chance in life.

Many people across Solihull and further afield have been so generous with their donations of pens, the smiles on the children's faces made it so worthwhile. My Pen4Life project does not stop with this delivery, but will continue for many years to come; just one of the many reasons why this visit will not be my last.






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Rencontre entre le dalaï lama et Kouchner : "Une incohérence de plus"

NOUVELOBS.COM | 15.08.2008 | 15:30

C'est ce que déclare le socialiste Jean-Louis Bianco, vice-président du groupe d'étude sur le Tibet à l'Assemblée nationale, après l'annonce d'une rencontre entre le chef spirituel tibétain et le ministre des Affaires étrangères le 20 août.

Jean-Louis Bianco (Sipa)

Jean-Louis Bianco (Sipa)

Le vice-président du groupe d'étude sur le Tibet à l'Assemblée nationale, le socialiste Jean-Louis Bianco, dénonce vendredi 15 août "une incohérence de plus de la politique du gouvernement" après l'annonce d'une rencontre entre le dalaï lama et Bernard Kouchner.
"Il s'agit manifestement d'une improvisation tardive en raison du retentissement qu'a eu la réception avec les parlementaires au Sénat et de l'annonce de la rencontre avec Ségolène Royal", explique-t-il dans Libération.
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères a annoncé jeudi qu'il s'entretiendrait avec le chef spirituel des Tibétains et que la secrétaire d'Etat aux Droits de l'homme Rama Yade souhaite le rencontrer.

"Encore une correction de trajectoire"

S'il y a "une part de sincérité dans (l)a démarche" de cette dernière, mais aussi "une part de tactique de Nicolas Sarkozy, qui laisse parfois avancer Bernard Kouchner et Rama Yade", note-t-il. "J'imagine mal qu'ils puissent prendre cette initiative sans avoir eu le feu vert de leur hiérarchie".
Quant à la rencontre annoncée entre le président de la République et le dalaï lama en décembre, Jean-Louis Bianco estime que "c'est encore une correction de trajectoire". "De plus, il recevra le dalaï lama avec d'autres prix Nobel de la paix et n'aura sans doute pas avec lui un entretien sur la situation et l'avenir du Tibet".
"Il n'avait pas besoin de le noyer dans une réception collective", critique le député des Alpes de Haute-Provence. "C'est une façon de ménager la chèvre et le chou".




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TO THE EDITOR: From Tbilisi
10:00 Fri 15 Aug 2008
 

Note: This letter was written by a woman living in Tbilisi sent to a friend of hers in Bulgaria. She has agreed for it to be published in The Sofia Echo.

Dear All,

Sorry about this style of communication, but I am a bit overloaded at the moment, so I write in haste.

The question you may be asking is: What am I doing staying on in Tbilisi when others are leaving or have left?

I am not working, or doing anything remotely great. But I feel that I should be here, as I am able to do small things in my own small way. Also, my girls would be torn to leave their father alone here – and, of course, me, too – so it is not in our plans at present. He is under a lot of stress – so I hope we are supporting him in some way so that he is able to concentrate on his work.

We were dismayed when the Russian attacks started spilling out of South Ossetia into the rest of Georgia. Instead of preparing to leave, the girls and I have been able to spend time preparing boxes to distribute, and I am especially pleased that over the last two days my faithful missionary friends have been able to collect so much furniture and clothing for the most forgotten orphans of Georgia for whom they care so lovingly without any disruption. I was also able to get someone who panicked a place on the evacuation convoy arranged by the German embassy that was leaving in 30 minutes, send on info to people about the situation and possible ways out by road because other friends who are now safe are sending feedback to me.

These are just snippets of many other things that happen during the day, telephone messages that never stop. I can answer these and phone people; our communication system is working quite well.

You don't have to be a hero to make a difference for someone else. Just the bare fact that we are here, I am told, is encouraging to some missionaries who are still serving, and our neighbours (who are curious and watch us all the time from their windows!) and our guards are pleased, too, that we have not left them. After all, we sort of represent the European Union to them. They don't get to dine with the politicians.

Terrible things are happening to helpless civilians. Much, much worse than is getting into the media that you are getting, I imagine. I am not capable of writing about that. Please support the refugees on both sides in any way you can. They have already suffered too much. I have a tough time swallowing all this. It brings back memories of Kosovo, when we were in neighbouring Bulgaria and not able to do anything. I am not one of these people who grow accustomed to it all.

Thank you all so much for thinking and praying about Georgia. Every e-mail message and every call you have made has meant so so much to me. So, thanks for being there.

Those of you concerned about all our household belongings which are in the Black Sea port of Poti (attacked on Friday); we have finally heard that our container is safe in an untouched terminal. But they cannot take it back for us and divert through Turkey because it has officially left the country. Maersk has informed us that it is not undertaking any more shipments, etc. We are concerned because it will not be insured, as this is war.

We really hope that it will find its way to Kigali unscathed, especially since there are so many antique Russian paintings in it – along with all the girls' Montessori homeschooling materials for the next four years!

The girls are being amazing: helpful, calm, enterprising, you name it. This is even on top of just having the whole house packed up and removed, possibly lost, and preparing to move continent. I have discovered Lara (just nine) is a great cook and communications officer and as strong as a horse! Mia is a super-fast efficient organiser and packer. I have not heard a single negative comment or complaint from any of them (as usual – but I thought they could be a bit on the edge by now).

We were woken up by the biggest explosions that we have heard in the early hours of the morning. They got the communications up the mountain near the European Commission delegation offices. We sleep together at night (well, I don't much! I like to stay up and keep a watch on things in the night).

We are still hoping to stay here and leave on August 28 to Kigali, as previously planned. Whatever happens, I am very grateful to have been able to stay on here until now.

Lots of love,
Anna-Marie

PS: Latest news I have: Saakashvili signed European Union proposals for a ceasefire, but the Russians have already rejected it. So Kouchner is going to Moscow tomorrow [August 12]. Russians taken over Gori so have secured path to Tbilsi. Reports that they are marching on Tbilisi tonight. Sarkozy arriving in Tbilisi tomorrow (Tuesday). Maybe Russians will be here to greet him??






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Le congrès sur le pétrole recommande la libéralisation du secteur pétrolier

RDC | 14 Août 2008 à 07:26:57


L'avant-projet du code des hydrocarbures a été validé mercredi à Kinshasa au terme du premier congrès national sur le pétrole, gaz et exposition. Plusieurs recommandations formulées par plus de 300 experts nationaux et internationaux présents.

Ces recommandations portent sur l'exploration, la production, le transport, le stockage et la commercialisation des produits pétroliers. Selon les experts congolais, ces recommandations consacrent la libéralisation du secteur pétrolier en RDC tout en garantissant la défense des intérêts du Congo démocratique. Ce projet sera soumis à la délibération du gouvernement, avant son adoption par le parlement.

Le partage de production entre la RDC et les producteurs pétroliers est préféré au contrat de concession, caractérisant l'ancien partenariat. Ce système est plus gagnant pour la RDC, selon un expert, avec plus 30% de part de production, voire davantage en cas de grande réserve dans un gisement et d'augmentation du coût de brut sur le marché mondial. De même que la durée du contrat est négociée, et peut-être réduite, contrairement aux décennies consacrées dans le contrat de concession.
Ce texte accroît le rôle de l'Etat dans le contrôle des opérations des pétroliers, dont le respect de l'environnement. De même, il plaide en faveur des renforcements des compagnies étatiques évoluant dans le secteur. Cas du Sozir à moderniser pour le raffinage du brut congolais, de la Cohydro dans la conservation et la commercialisation des produits pétroliers, et Sep Congo dont le monopole est décrié, voit ses prérogatives réduites.

Les investissements dans l'exploration, la constitution des banques de données, ainsi que la formation de l'expertise nationale sont vivement recommandées.
Sur les interventions sociales, la répartition des richesses se fera conforment à la loi sur la décentralisation.

Pour un projet de code voulu libéral, aucune réaction n'a été enregistrée de la part des pétroliers étrangers.





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Publication de l'Examen d'Etat 2008 : Emmanuel Lumbala réalise 92% en Mathématique

RDC | 14 Août 2008 à 07:33:52


Le ministère de l'Enseignement Primaire, secondaire et professionnel a publié depuis hier soir les noms des meilleurs lauréats des Provinces de Kinshasa et de Maniema dans les options suivantes : Mathématique Physique, Latin Philosophie, Biologie Chimie, Education Physique, Commerciale informatique, Secrétariat, Secrétariat informatique, Musique, Esthétique et coiffure, Arts plastiques, Arts dramatiques, Hôtesse d'accueil, Education physique, Normale. Le meilleur pourcentage de cette édition revient à l'élève Emmanuel Lumbala Lumina du Collège Notre Dame du Congo de Kinshasa qui a réalisé 92 % en Mathématique Physique, indique radiookapi.net






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Ituri : l'ONC relance la production de café arabica et robusta

Province Orientale | 14 Août 2008 à 08:03:46


Plus de 7000 milles plantules de café sont déjà disponibles dans les germoirs du bureau de l'Office national de café, ONC. Selon le chef de sous-secteur de cet office, ces premières plantules sont destinées à la culture du café à Bunia et ses environs. La production doit ensuite gagner les cinq territoires du district. Cette initiative vise à rajeunir cette culture dans des plantations qui ont été abandonnées notamment dans le territoire de Djugu au moment des guerres ou ravagées par des maladies végétales propres à cette espèce, indique radiookapi.net

Pour Antoine Lukelo Alitum, chef du Sous-secteur de l'Office national du café, les plantations de café Arabica en territoire de Djungu et de Mahagi ont vieilli, celles de Robusta à Mambasa et Irumu ont été ravagées par les maladies. Face à ce tableau sombre, ce dernier a annoncé ce jeudi la relance de la culture du café, dans un premier temps à Bunia et ses environs ensuite sur toute l'entendue du district. Cette relance consiste notamment à distribuer aux planteurs dans les mois qui viennent des plantules plus résistantes aux maladies. Avec ce coup de jeunesse, l'ONC espère donner l'occasion aux planteurs de réaliser des bénéfices et de stabiliser leur foyer grâce aux revenus du café. L'agronome technicien de l'Onc a précisé que ces plantules ne seront distribués qu'aux planteurs identifiées et qui seront en mesure de bien les multiplier.





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Masuga Rugamika : « plus de toge pour les élèves de la maternelle et du primaire »

RDC | 14 Août 2008 à 08:13:39


Plus de cérémonie de collation des grades académiques pour les étudiants qui réussissent après une deuxième session, et plus de port de toges par les enfants de la maternelle à la fin de l'année scolaire, ni pour les élèves en général. Par ces mesures prises le week-end dernier, le ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et universitaire, Masuga Rugamika, dit vouloir mettre de l'ordre dans ce secteur, rapporte radiookapi.net

Masuga Rugamika : « La toge académique est une exclusivité réservée aux institutions de l'Enseignement supérieur, universitaire et de la recherche scientifique et aux personnes qui sont gradées : les finalistes du premier, du deuxième et du troisième cycle. Ce sont ces personnes là que même dans leur vie professionnelle peuvent porter ces toges entre autres les professeurs, les avocats et les magistrats. La toge pour un enfant de la maternelle, pour quelle finalité ? La collation de grade académique a lieu en première session. Pour la seconde session les cotes sont affichées, les étudiants qui ont réussi ne peuvent passer que pour retirer leur diplômes. Quiconque osera encore proclamer la collation des grades académiques [en seconde session], ces grades seront annulés. »





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Kasangulu : remise officielle d'une nouvelle carrière aux entreprises chinoises

Bas Congo | 14 Août 2008 à 09:53:34


Les chefs coutumiers on remis mercredi une nouvelle carrière aux entreprises chinoises du groupe Crec. Située dans le village de Nsabuka, à environ 15 kilomètres de Kinshasa, cette carrière de deux collines servira à l'extraction de moellons pour la construction des routes à Kinshasa, rappelle radiookapi.net

La cérémonie s'est déroulée mercredi au Bas-Congo. C'est dans une ambiance de fête que les membres de la famille royale du groupe Matampa Kimwenza Ngudia Baka, propriétaires coutumiers du sol, ont reçu les présents que leur apportaient le vice-ministre des travaux publics et les représentants du groupe chinois Crec. Parmi ces présents, du vin de palme, de la noix de Cola, des sacs de riz, du sel, des poissons et bien d'autres objets traditionnels offerts aux ancêtres du groupement Nsabuka où sera érigée la carrière. Selon le vice-ministre, ce geste traduit la reconnaissance du pouvoir coutumier par le gouvernement ; pouvoir, du reste, reconnu dans la constitution.

En retour, le chef du groupement a remis au vice-ministre et aux représentants chinois les clés des ancêtres, qui acceptent l'exploitation de leur sol pour le développement du pays. Fumu Fiba n'a pas manqué, par ailleurs, d'exprimer ses attentes : « Nous attendons d'abord en retour que les différentes routes soient faites. Nous nous attendons à ce qu'il y ait des constructions, à la limite, des écoles. Nous savons qu'il y aura certainement des bâtiments. Pour nous, c'est un grand plaisir. Le courant sera automatiquement [dirigé] vers les chantiers. Ça va alimenter notre entité. »

Pour le représentant du groupe Crec, cette carrière va apporter le développement de la population locale. La cérémonie s'est clôturée par la visite de la carrière située au bord du fleuve, soit à 2 kilomètres du village.






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Luberizi : 1900 soldats FARDC achèvent une formation complémentaire assurée par la Monuc

Sud Kivu | 14 Août 2008 à 10:05:01


Ces militaires sont issus des 3e et 11e brigades intégrées. La cérémonie officielle s'est déroulée ce mercredi au centre de Luberizi, dans la plaine de la Ruzizi. Il s'agit d'une 3e session de formation organisée dans ce centre. Ces FARDC forment les 14e et 15e bataillons intégrés entraînés par le contingent pakistanais de la Monuc, rapporte radiookapi.net

Le ministre congolais de la défense, le chef d'Etat major général des FARDC, et le représentant spécial du secrétaire général des Nations unies en RDC étaient présents à ces manifestations.

A entendre Tshikez Diemu, ces soldats portent désormais l'espoir de tout un peuple, surtout face au déplacement massif des populations dans une région encore en proie à beaucoup d'instabilités. Selon le ministre, ce recyclage entre dans le cadre de la reforme du secteur de sécurité, un programme soutenu par la communauté internationale et la Monuc.

Prévue pour trois mois, ce programme inclut des cours militaires ainsi que des notions sur le droit et l'environnement. L'ambassadeur Alan Doss est revenu sur le manque d'appui logistique qui devrait accompagner les troupes formées dans leur secteur de déploiement. Ces secteurs ne sont pas encore connus à ce jour. Les lauréats ont exhibé plusieurs tactiques, à travers des démonstrations destinées à la délégation. Parmi les meilleurs officiers et soldats, 11 lauréats ont été gratifiés.






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Bunia : 66 hommes ont été violés de décembre 2007 à mai 2008

Ituri | 14 Août 2008 à 10:06:19

Ces viols ont été enregistrés dans différentes structures sanitaires du territoire de Djugu. Selon le responsable intérimaire chargé de la santé de reproduction à l'ONG Coopi, qui livre cette information, ces viols ont été commis à la fois par des militaires et des civils, tous sexes confondus. Il précise que, dans certains cas, des femmes militaires imposent aux hommes d'avoir des relations sexuelles avec elles. Notez que ces cas se concentrent surtout dans les zones de santé de Lita, Jiba, Linga, Drodro et Fataki, en territoire de Djugu, rapporte radiookapi.net




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Tshikez Diemu : une sévère mise en garde aux groupes armés

Sud Kivu | 14 Août 2008 à 12:36:37


Le ministre de la Défense reste ferme. Il lance un appel aux groupes armés concernés par le brassage au Kivu de saisir l'occasion et de cesser leurs bavures sur la population, au risque d'être rattrapés par la justice.

La réforme du secteur de la sécurité a franchi une étape importante en RDC, avec près de 1000 ex-combattants rwandais FDLR rapatriés à ce jour dans leur pays. Le ministre congolais de la défense a fait ce constat mercredi au cours d'un point de presse dans la plaine de la Ruzizi au Sud Kivu. Ceci, a-t-il déclaré, malgré la persistance des cas d'exactions et d'insécurité attribués à d'autres hommes armés nationaux qui se nourrissent sur le dos des civils. En effet, plusieurs cas ont été dénoncés au Sud Kivu, notamment avec la 14e brigade intégrée.
Le ministre Tshikez Diemu rappelles ces groupes armés à la raison : « Cette réforme de l'armée est destinée à stabiliser le pays. Si ces messieurs n'ont pas compris qu'il faut quitter la rivière quand l'eau est dans les genoux pour rejoindre le processus Amani, pour rejoindre le brassage, l'intégration. Ill sera tard un jour. La justice finit toujours par rattraper les pervers. Qu'ils ne disent pas qu'on ne les a pas avertis. Des signaux sont partout. Karadzic, où est-ce qu'il est aujourd'hui ? Dans notre pays, il y a des gens. Mieux vaut tard que jamais. Il n'est jamais trop tard pour faire du bien », a martelé le ministre de la Défense.

Concernant la 14e brigade, le ministre a indiqué que les ces gens se trompent à croire que « nos parents doivent continuer à souffrir et à les prendre en otage ». «Ca ne durera plus. Qu'ils se ressaisissent. Du côté des conditions de vie des militaires, nous nous battons, je ne peux encore rien dire, d'ici la fin du mois, ils verront le geste… », conclut-il.




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Kananga : inspection provinciale de l'Agriculture, 127 agents impayés

Kasaï Occidental | 14 Août 2008 à 15:38:51


Ces agents affirment que leurs noms ont été omis sur la liste de paie, et par conséquent, ils n'ont pas touché leur salaire de juillet 2008. Ils ont écrit aux autorités en vue d'une solution. Mais pour le gouvernement provincial, ces agents sont concernés chacun dans une quelconque irrégularité. Une commission mise sur pied mercredi va déterminer leurs cas, rapporte radiookapi.net

Dans une lettre adressée aux autorités, les 127 agents se plaignent d'être considérés comme des fictifs alors qu'ils ont été toujours payés par le passé. Ils estiment cette décision non justifiée et demandent au gouverneur de province de régler leur cas. Pour preuve, ils ont chacun annexé leurs grades à la lettre, y compris le montant du salaire mensuel.
Pour sa part, le ministre provincial du Travail et de la Prévoyance sociale, précise que cette décision est prise dans le cadre de l'assainissement de l'effectif des agents et fonctionnaires de l'Etat. Emmanuel Kanda Mapwe considère qu'il s'agit soit des agents qui touchent le double du salaire mensuel, soit des fictifs qui ne viennent qu'au jour de la paie, soit encore ceux qui sont permutés et dont le salaire est transféré dans leur nouveau poste d'affectation. Toutefois, indique-t-il, une commission a été instituée pour fixer chacun sur sa situation.




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JO- Pékin 2008 : natation, Kimpompo termine dernier de la deuxième série

Sport | 14 Août 2008 à 17:09:59

La participation de la RDC aux Jeux olympiques de Pékin 2008 risque de se résumer à la devise de l'historien et pédagogue français, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, devise qui dit «L'essentiel est de participer». En effet, après l'élimination en série de Harry Saliku en boxe et d'Eric Kibanza au deuxième tour en judo, Stanislas Kimpompo, le seul nageur du pays à ces jeux, n'a pas pu faire la différence. Kimpompo a terminé dernier de la deuxième série en 50 mètres nage libre. Il a réalisé 35 secondes 19. Soit le mauvais chrono de toutes les 13 séries de ce jeudi en 50 mètres nage libre.
Restent en compétition, Magalie Franka et Gary Kikaya, qui n'entreront en piste, respectivement, qu'à partir du 16 août et 21 août prochains, rapporte radiookapi.net





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Exetats 2008 : les résultats difficilement accessibles sur eduquepsp.org

RDC | 14 Août 2008 à 17:26:19


Le ministère de l'EPSP a changé les dispositions en rapport avec la publication des résultats des examens édition 2008. Notamment en publiant les résultats sur le site Internet de l'EPSP. Les élèves qui accourent dans les cybercafés disséminés à travers le pays se retrouvent face à un problème : les résultats sont difficilement accessibles sur ce site.

Même si, dans le cadre de son partenariat avec le ministère de l'EPSP, la société privée Vodacom publie aussi les résultats, le vice-ministre de l'enseignement primaire reconnaît que cette entreprise de télécommunication ne couvre pas toute l'étendue du pays.

Pour contourner certaines difficultés, le vice-ministre de l'EPSP indique que certaines personnes devront, comme dans les années antérieures, se deplacer vers les grands centres pour s'informer des résultats.




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Mwene Ditu : 150 wagons de produits vivriers traînent à la gare

Kasaï Oriental | 14 Août 2008 à 17:26:56


Ces wagons de marchandises sont entreposés à la gare de la Société nationale de chemins de fer, SNCC /Mwene Ditu, depuis plus d'une semaine, faute de moyens de transport. Ces wagons contiennent des produits divers dont certains courent le risque d'être avariés. La SNCC appelle les propriétaires des remorques à revenir à Mwene Ditu, rapporte radiookapi.net

La difficulté actuelle des commerçants est due au manque de transport pour acheminer les produits vers la capitale provinciale. Les camions remorques se font rares, et ,sur les quelques engins qui restent encore opérationnels, le prix d'un container est passé de 1 250 à 1 800 USD. Du coup, les opérateurs économiques ne savent plus où donner de la tête. Dès lors qu'ils n'ont pas libéré les wagons de la SNCC, ils sont obligés de payer le chômage, des frais perçus par la SNCC pour le cas où la marchandise dépasserait les 48 heures de délai de stockage dans les wagons.

Selon certains commerçants, cette situation de rareté des camions est aggaravée par l'affectation de petits engins vers les villages pour la récolte de la moisson de la 2e saison. Ces derniers aidaient un tant soit peu au transport. Déjà, les transporteurs de Mbuji Mayi quittent la province pour le Katanga ou Kinshasa, dans l'espoir de se faire plus de gains, à cause la crise connue par la SNCC dans l'acheminement constante des importations.






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Uganda: Teaching Religion in Schools is Necessary


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Nsaba Buturo
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Majority of Ugandans know that religion serves us well. True religion espouses us to developmental ethical values which are fundamental to our freedom, stability, security, peaceful coexistence and prosperity. The values include honesty, hard work, respect, care for the underprivileged, faithfulness, love and justice.

True religion speaks against practices such as infidelity, homosexuality, murder, witchcraft, pornography, abortion, prostitution and theft.

With these advantages, why would anybody oppose the teaching of ethical values that are critical to our development? Uganda can only rise to greatness when our leaders appreciate God and, through the study of true religion, expose Ugandans to God's centrality in human existence.

For decades now, religious education in schools has been the core of character formation and moral foundation even for those who have later grown to hate and denounce it. An unholy alliance that is seeking to remove God who is the author of the moral law from our society is flexing its muscles. As a consequence, the threat of having a morally unbalanced society is real. Those involved in the alliance are directing their attacks at the school, church and family, yet these have been the true context of our moral information, reflection, transformation and formation.

Teaching of religious studies is a perfect way of introducing the language of God to students and pupils. Our belief in God compels us to take action or behave in ways that are pleasing to Him who created human beings.

Uganda is currently facing formidable challenge of underdevelopment. To confront them head-on and successfully, the ethics of development have to be better appreciated by our decision makers. After all, the whole basis of development is ethical. It is a reflection of the ethics of responsibility and of a sense that one is not only on this planet to consume but is primarily a producer who is also in partnership with God.

Some scholars have canvassed that the main reason for our underdevelopment is a cultural one, which has risen largely from the discontinuities in our indigenous and organic response to the challenges of existence by colonialism whose supremely violent nature was unleashed on our psyche and reflexes. No doubt, we must come to terms with the unrelenting trauma of this dehumanisation but I am certain that God Almighty, whose grace and love have no bounds, has given Ugandans the capacity of recovery from which we are yet to draw with adequate enthusiasm.

The healing is long overdue. We must now pull into the depths of our soul and find a meaningful response to the disorientation that screams at us everyday, everywhere. We must find those kinds of strengths which only the abused and the victimised can recognise. Has the Lord not spoken that Uganda is part of His divine economy? What is holding us back when Jesus has already liberated us?

Over 95% of Ugandans believe in God. Nevertheless, it is telling to see that there is a gap between our creed and conduct. This has enfeebled Uganda's capacity to actualise many of her lofty dreams. How do we reconcile a reputation for being a very religious country with a global reputation for being a corrupt country?

The moral decadence in our society is reaching alarming levels yet we continue to witness large congregations in places of worship.

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Our challenge is how to move spirituality to religion's proper place as the underpinning factor of our development. What Uganda needs are unifying principles that command the respect of all and are life-changing enough to energise us so as to make awesome sacrifices for the development of Uganda. Teaching of religious studies in schools is one good step in the right direction.






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Uganda: Quest Made for a Comprehensive National Coffee Policy


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Absence of a comprehensive national coffee policy is one of the major ills eating away the industry and a delay in action, millions of Ugandans and the entire economy is destined to ruins.

In spite of Uganda's strategic position of being Africa's second biggest coffee producer after Ethiopia and has become a major player in robusta coffee production after political unrest in former top grower Ivory Coast slashed output. Earnings from coffee, thou still reign the export sector and a source of employment for over 5million Ugandans.

Current annual coffee exports according to UCDA records show that Uganda slightly produced about 3 million bags and this earned the country over $256 million.

The Executive Director Uganda Coffee Development Authority a government advocacy body that regulates coffee trading in the country, Mr Henry Ngabirano in an interview with Daily Monitor said; "There is a policy which governs UCDA but it only caters for marketing, processing, export, and value addition and when it comes to extension services this is under NAADs. Production, which is most important level along the value chain, is left out".

Ngabirano added that with a comprehensive policy in place, it would be a guideline for the development of the industry and it put the country in a position to fight and even be able to prepare for the changes in the climate.

Mr Joseph Nkandu the executive director National Union of Coffee Associations and Farmers Enterprises (Nucafe) a framework designed to support coffee farmers to organize themselves to assume as many roles as possible in the value chain in order to have a bigger market value share, in separate interview with Daily Monitor said; "If the policy should address issues like gestation period for the coffee trees as when they are supposed to be productive, which is one of the major problems affecting production".

Research in the variety of species, which are both disease and drought resistant, should also be addressed in the policy to enable further plan.

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Mr Nkandu added that currently there is no major local coffee consumption campaign in the country yet if this was mentioned in the policy it creates more jobs and more money would go into the pockets of the farmers.






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: Shs3 Billion Missing As Defence Sells Off UPDF Helicopter

Uganda: Shs3 Billion Missing As Defence Sells Off UPDF Helicopter


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An estimated $1.9 million (about Shs3.06 billion) that could have been obtained from what has been described as a controversial sale of an army helicopter cannot be traced, it emerged yesterday.

At a stormy meeting with officials in the Ministry of Defence, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) heard that in June 2002 an army aircraft valued at $1.9 million was boarded off at $1 million (about Shs1.6 billion) through unclear circumstances.

"A detailed analysis of the [aircraft] sale was, however, not provided for audit and I could therefore not ascertain what was sold and what expected proceeds were," the Auditor General's report for the year ended June 2003 reads in part.

Even though there is undisputable evidence that the aircraft was sold off to an unnamed international firm, the MPs , heard that the transaction was never captured in the Ministry of Defence accounts.

Pushed to explain the whereabouts of the $1 million obtained from the sale, the Defence acting permanent secretary, Ms Rosette Byengoma, said; "We sold it at $1 million because it had turned into a scrap and not an aircraft as such and the valuation was done by Swipco."

However, asked to present evidence that the proceeds were taken to the Consolidated fund, Ms Byengoma said the missing $1 million was banked on the Classified Account in the Bank of Uganda. "I request that you give us one week to provide accountability," Ms Byengoma pleaded.

However, Mr Nandala Mafabi (FDC, Budadiri West) who also chairs the committee said; "This is stealing government money. This was no scrap but an aircraft which needed to be boarded off and there was nothing classified as far as this money was concerned."

The committee became even more suspicious after Ms Byangoma explained that after the money was taken to Bank of Uganda, it was later withdrawn and used by the Ministry of Defence to buy classified items. However, she could neither produce authority from Secretary to the Treasury nor the Parliamentary approval to use such funds in question.

But while addressing a news conference after the meeting, Mr Mafabi said officials in the Ministry of Defence have been given one week to either produce a receipt for $1 million from the Accountant General or face disciplinary action on charges amounting to stealing government funds.

"Whoever took this $1 million is going to pay back," Mr Mafabi said. "We cannot accept what these officials are telling us because this was a helicopter valued at about $2 million."

MPs heard that it was further noted that aircraft parts worth Euros 1.5 million were sold to unnamed private company in June 2002. The accounting officer then stated that he [Brig Nobel Mayombo (RIP)] advertised the [aircraft deal] for two years but didn't get a buyer. He then decided to eventually sell it off to the highest bidder.

"It was noted that the proceeds (Euros 1.5 million) were not receipted and banked as revenue, instead they were banked in the foreign exchange account with Bank of Uganda where it was utilised without authority from the Secretary to the Treasury," the AG report adds in part.

In a related development, MPs heard that the Ministry of Defence also entered into a contract with a local company to lease an aircraft to carry out services in Congo. The AG further explained that during one of its flights the aircraft was shot at and damaged. The local company made a claim of $797,700 which was later reduced after negotiations to $638,160.

But according to the AG, noted from the Solicitor General however that the Ministry of Defence breached the contract by not taking out additional insurance when the aircraft was operating in zones of higher danger as required by the contract, and that this could have averted the expenses.

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"Ministry officials didn't participate in the inspection of the damages incurred by the local company, according to the Civil Aviation Authority report, there was no way such aircraft could have been flown to Entebbe in such a state," Mr Mafabi said.






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