Friday, February 24, 2012

Rwanda: Akarengane ku murenge wa Jari

Inkuru ya Juvenal Majyambere
Democracy Human Rights
Tariki ya 23 Gashyantare 2012


Ku murenge wa Jari mu karere ka Gasabo mu mujyi wa Kigali haherutse kubera agashya aho umwe mu bapolisi barinda uwo murenge yagambanye n'umu local defence bashaka agapfunyika k'urumogi bajya kugashyira mu iduka ry'umuntu bashakaga kwambura amafaranga. Bamaze kukarambika aho acururiza baragenda maze mu gitondo bazindukirayo kumufata ngo acuruza ibiyobya bwenge. Abaturage barahagurutse barahagarara batera hejuru basabira imbabazi uwo muturage kuko bari bamuzi ko adacuruza ibiyobya bwenge ariko biba iby'ubusa baramujyana no muri kasho y'umurenge.

Bene wabo w'iyo mfungwa, nako inzira karengane, baza kumureba ndetse bumvikana n'uwo mupolisi umufunze ko bamuha ibihumbi makumyabiri akamufungura. Uwari utanze ayo mafanga ndetse n'imfungwa igafungurwa yahise ajya ku muyobozi w'umurenge gusobanura uburyo ibintu byagenze dore ko yanayamuhaye hari abaturage babirebaga banabyemeje imbere y'umuyobozi w'umurenge. Umupolisi yasabwe guhita asubiza amafaranga yakwanga akajya muri kasho. Yahise asubiza ibihumbi bitandatu asobanura ko andi yamaze kuyarya ko azayatanga vuba. Umuyobozi w'umurenge yamusabye ko agomba kuyatanga bukeye yakwanga agafungwa. Umupolisi yarabisinyiye.

Iki kibazo birumvikana ko uburyo cyakemuwe budahwitse na gato. Iyo bivuzwe ko polisi yaka ruswa ndetse ko inahohotera abantu, hari abavuga ko ari ugusebya igipolisi cy'u Rwanda ko kigira discipline nyamara abaturage ntibasiba gutabaza bavuga ko abapolisi babahohotera. Urundi rugero ni abaturage nanone batuye muri uwo murenge ndetse n'abaturuka mu mirenge bituranye yo mu karere ka Rulindo nko mu murenge wa Ngoma no mu gace ka Shyorongi gateganye n'umurenge wa Jari banyura muri uwo murenge wa Jari bajya kugurisha udukwi mu baturage batuye Gatsata, Gihogwe na Karuruma ngo babone amaramuko ariko bakazamburwa n'abapolisi bakorera kuri uwo murenge ndetse bakanabafunga. Igitangaje ni uko bahengera ahagana mu ma saa mbili z'igitondo abakozi b'umurenge baza ku kazi bakabafungura ariko inkwi baba bazibambuye bakajya kuzicana aho bacumbitse mu nzu iri hafi y'umuurenge. Ese abaturage inkwi bazamburirwa iki ko n'abazibambura bajya kuzicanira? Ibi byabaye akamenyero iyo abapolisi babuze inkwi zo gucana bajya gutega abaturage bakazibambura bakanabafunga bya nyirarureshwa ngo babatere ubwoba bareke gukurikirana utwabo. 

Iyi myifatire irababaje cyane kubona abaturage barengana bakabura uwabarenganura mu Rwanda birirwa baririmba imiyoborere myiza. Aya makuru akaba yaratanzwe n'abaturage batuye hafi y'uyu murenge babonye iri hohoterwa uburyo ryakozwe. Niba hari ukeka ko atari yo najye ku murenge wa Jari abaze iby'uriya mupolisi azasanga inkuru ari impamo ndetse anabaze iby'abaturage bamburwa inkwi zabo azasanga nabyo bikunze kubaho kenshi. Akarengane nk'aka gakwiye kurwanywa.

Rwanda: What Kagame needs to fix in order to dream turning Rwanda into the "African Singapore"

By Simon Ndiho
Democracy Human Rights
February 23, 2012

Below please find a non-exhaustive list of a few things that Paul Kagame needs to fix before dreaming  to turn Rwanda into the   "African Singapore":

1. Rwanda is best known for the genocide that claimed at least 500,000 lives in 1994. It has been peaceful since then, but lacks nearly all of Singapore ’s advantages.
2. Rwanda ’s president is a controversial figure.
3. His forces killed huge numbers of people.
4. The elections he holds are a sham.
5. Companies still face immense hurdles, however. Skilled labour is scarce. Only 5.7% of the domestic workforce have a tertiary qualification. An agri-businessman says that he can trust only one of his employees with complicated duties.
6. “Most domestically educated Rwandans have never learned how to think independently and critically,” says the Legatum Institute.
7. “Many Rwandan businesses do not even grasp the idea of bulk discounts, and tend to charge premia for larger orders.”
8. Rwandans admit they are not good at wheeling and dealing. The countryside is largely empty of the small businesses like battery recharging, second-hand clothes and cafés which light up villages even in Congo .
9. Taxes are another headache. Most Rwandans are too poor to pay anything, so the top 200 taxpayers shoulder 75% of the burden.
10. Value-Added Tax (VAT) is payable on invoice, not on receipt of payment, which creates terrible cashflow problems for small firms. Enforcement is strict: paying a day late can mean the bill is doubled.
11. Domestic infrastructure is shoddy. The electricity supply is meagre and expensive. Outside Kigali , naked flames often provide the only artificial light.
12. Transport is tough, too.

Thanks to the “Economist”  and Eugene Karangwa as well.

Note:

The above lines were selected from the article "Business in Rwanda: Africa’s Singapore?" as provided by the Rwandan- Canadian  Economist, Eugene Karangwa.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I Rwanda ngo ngwino urore, aba Muvoma nabo ngo vamo nanjye njyemo!


Inkuru ya Freddy Inkindi
Le Médiateur-Umuhuza

Tariki ya 22 Gashyantare 2012





Umunara wa Babel wubatswe na FPR i Kigali ngo ni Ikimenyetso cy’ubutabera n’amahoro ku basura u Rwanda!

Imyifatire y’abanyarwanda bamwe ikomeje kugaragaza kurindagira biteye inkeke! Kuva inkotanyi zatera u Rwanda muwa 1990, wagira ngo ni amajini zikoresha kugira ngo zishore benshi mu kinyoma: Buri gihe zagiye zibona indindagire zizigenda inyuma, zikazifasha uko zishoboye kose mu kwerekana ko amahano zikorera abanyarwanda afite ishingiro. Reka twoye kuvuga abagiye barangiza urwo rugendo rukotanyi nabi cyane, bakaba bararangije ubuzima bwabo zibahembye uko zizi kubikora zo zonyine. Abo barangije urwabo, icyaduha ngo Imana ibahe iruhuko ridashira, naho ubundi agahinda bajyanye ikuzimu kazatuma abazimu babo nabo batera u Rwanda! Baracyahari ariko abagize amahirwe yo kudahembwa n’inkotanyi uko zibizi zonyine, bakaba barashoboye kuziva mu nzara, bakazihunga. (Uretse ko bamwe wagira ngo zarabaroze, kuko ugira utya ukumva ngo kanaka wahigishwaga uruhindu n’inkotanyi yongeye kuzisanga!!!). Isomo ryananiwe gufata. Aho icyo kibazo cy’uburandigire gituruka niho hatazwi kugeza ubu, abaganga bazi gusuzuma uburwayi bwa sosiyeti ahari kera bazamenya microbi itera indwara yo kurandagirana n’inkotanyi!
1. Ngwino urore!
Slogan inkotanyi zashyizeho muri bino bihe yo kureshya abanyarwanda no kubarindagiza iteye kumirwa! “Come and see, ngwino urore.” Kera intambara igitangira iyi ngwino urore ntiyaberaga mu gihugu imbere, ngo yaberaga i Kampala, nyuma iza kujya i Kinihira. Umugabo muzima akaba arikoze ati ngiye i Kinihira kureba izo nziza zije gukiza u Rwanda! Ubwo akahava arwana inkundura, reka akabuza amahwemo abanyagihugu, ngo yagiye kureba none yarabonye. Nyuma wazajya kumva ukumva ngo wa mugabo inkotanyi zamuhitanye, cyangwa se ngo yahunze!
Mu myaka yashize, inkotanyi zashoboye kureshya cyane ababaye abaparmehutu n’ababakomokaho. Dore se ngo baratoroma ku bwinshi ngo agakiza gatashye i Rwanda. Bakaba se bari bayobewe ko umwanzi wa mbere w’inkotanyi yari Parmehutu batere? Reka reka ingofero n’imyambaro ya rouge noir baradodesha, amabendera baramanika, ngo RPF ije gushyigikira ishyaka rya papa na mama! Ntibitinze gato, FPR ibereka aho ibera yo nyine! Parmehutu yasangaga RPF, bajyaga mu bajiji ari abajiji? Ubu iyo ubabajije uti bigenze bite se? Rya shyaka ry’ababyeyi inkotanyi ryabemereye ko rikora ryarigitiye he? Aho benshi bahungiye ahashyushye bacitse ku icumu ry’inkotanyi, bakirema agatima ngo abarwanashyaka bacu barakoze kuko bakuyeho ubwami bakimika repubulika! Repubulika? None ari repubulika, ishyaka mwita ko ari iry’ababyeyi ryagiye hehe? Mwarisize hehe?
Nyuma abapermehutu bakubishwe ishoti bati burya abari abamuvoma nibo barebaga kure. Baba barisunganye umwanzi abaye umwe ga! Abaye umwe? Umwana w’inkotanyi aba yabikenze ati aba bavunamuheto nibajya hamwe biraba birangiye! Sibwo abitwaga interahamwe ejo batangiye kwegerwa? Interahamwe kabombo ziba zikuwe iyo za Burayi mu mwaka ubanziriza uwashize, ngo zigiye muri “ngwino urore!” Barazikina zitaha zameze amababa, ariko inkotanyi izica ruhinganyuma uti nimufunge izo nyanazimbwa zakoze amahano. Icyo inkotanyi yashakaga yari yakigezeho, ngo yereke amahanga iti turi abamalayika, dore n’interahamwe ziraza, zigasubirayo ntawe uziriye urwara!
Aho byabereye rurangiza ni ibyabaye uyu mwaka, nako umwaka urangiye ngo ngwino urore! Inkotanyi iragiye igufatiye abahoze bagaragiye Habyarimana (abo bamwe bavuga ko bari mu kazu) n’ababakomokaho, ziti “Ngwino urore!” Erega abahoze bakurikiranwaho ko aribo bateguye genocide baba bahagurukanye n’imizi ngo twatanzwe! Ubu baragaruka baca igikuba, ngo u Rwanda ruragendwa, nyamara batazi ko umukino w’inkotanyi wafashe. Ntizeretse amahanga izuba riva ko n’abazivuga gutoteza abahoze ari ba Habyarimana bazibeshyera?
2. Vamo nanjye njyemo!
Ngo urukwavu (Bakame) rwafashwe mu mutego runanirwa kwivanamo, ahasigaye rubona ko baruriye birangiye. Mukanya haza guca impyisi, urukwavu aho rwari mu mutego rurisabagiza ngo “ikinyenga weeee!”. Rupyisi nayo iti reka kumva icyo kinyenga wenyine reka natwe twumveho. Rupyisi iba ifunguye wa mutego, bakame isohokamo, ikindi aba aricyo cyicokamo. Imaze kwinjira bakame ihomekaho urugi. Birumvikana ko nyirumutego wasanze umutego we wafashe impyisi yarakaye cyane ubundi akayikanira uruyikwiye. Umugani ugana akariho. Muri ngwino urore, ninde nyir’umutego, ninde bakame, ninde mpyisi? Buri wese yabasha kureba kategori cyane cyane ashyiramo indindagizi z’iki gihe.
Ntabwo byumvikana ko nyuma y’imyaka 18 inkotanyi zikora amahano, zifungira abantu benshi ubusa, zirigisa, zica abanyepolitiki n’abanyamakuru, ntabwo byumvikana ko muri iki gihe umuntu ashobora kwikora ngo agiye i Kigali, yavayo akaza asobanurira abandi ngo byose ni sawa sawa. Iyo witegereje imyifatire y’abanyarwanda bamwe, baterera agati mu ryinyo kuri ubwo buryo mu gihe abandi bariho biyuha akuya ngo abaturage bavanwe ku ngoyi, wibaza icyo kwikunda bigezeho bihatse, n’ubwo biba bivanze n’ubucucu birumvikana. Ikibabaje kandi ni uko bene abo basenya ibyo abandi bubaka biyushye akuya, iyo bibakomeranye usanga bagarutse ngo nimudutabarize nyabuna! Ubunwa burya ntibuguhe, buvuza induru ntiwumve! Ntabwo abanyarwanda bamwe bazajya barya amafranga y’inkotanyi mu gihe abandi biziritse umukanda bitanga baharanira ubutabera mu gihugu, hanyuma ngo abariye nibamara kugaruka basabe ngo nibabatabarize. Birakwiye ko abanyarwanda biga uburyo bwo guha akato no kugira ruvumwa ababagambanira kubera inyungu z’ibintu.
3. Abamuvoma ni iki kibakanguye ubu bakaba barigize abavugizi b’inkotanyi?
Abanyarwanda bakwiye kumenya ikihishe inyuma y’ibi byose, n’icyo inkotanyi zizeza abo baza kuzishakira isura zidafite. Icyo kandi nta kindi ni ibintu. Bimenyekane bityo kuko ariko bimeze, ubu ambassades z’u Rwanda hirya no hino zegereye abanyarwanda baba hanze bahoze bagaragiye ingoma ya Habyarimana, bizezwa ko bazabasubiza ibintu, cyane cyane amazu yabo bari bafite mu Rwanda. Ngicyo icyatumye bamwe bahaguruka nk’abatakirwambaye, bagasya batanzitse, ubu bakaba aribo bigize abavugizi b’ingoma yari yarabahinduye ibicibwa ku isi yose. Uvuguruza ko atari uko ibintu bimeze abigaragaze.
Iyo ubajije kandi benshi muri abo bijejwe gusubizwa imitungo yabo bari batunze mu Rwanda, impamvu bagarukiye leta y’inkotanyi, bagusubizanya akenshi inabi ivanze n’ubujibwe (naiveté), ngo “nimurebe rwose inkotanyi zarahindutse, kuko mu minsi ishize twari ibicibwa, none ziratwemerera no kudusubiza ibyacu!!!” Iyo wumvise imvugo nk’iyo iri muri bamwe mu banyarwanda bari hanze, wumva ikintu cy’umujinya kikuzamutsemo. Ese abo bantu bavuga ngo inkotanyi zarahindutse kuko zitakibagira ibicibwa, bibwira iko iyo nkundura aribo bayirwanye, cyangwa ni abandi banyarwanda bakomeje kurwana mu bwizige bwinshi kugira ngo abo batari bagifite ijambo bongere bahabwe agaciro. Ariko ukajya kumva umuntu arakubwiye ngo “niba urwanya ko leta insubiza imitungo yanjye urabiterwa n’uko wowe nta mitungo wagiragayo!” Oh God!
Hari igihe iyo witegereje ibyo byose wibaza niba ubundi koko abanyarwanda bagomba kubohorwa ingoyi, kuko n’ubundi benshi imbere muribo ni imbohe. Ntibyumvikana ko umuntu wamaze imyaka 17 hanze y’igihugu ashobora kujyayo icyumweru akaza yemeza isi yose ko u Rwanda rumeze neza, ko nta karengane, ngo ko yabwiwe mbere amakuru yo kumubeshya. Igitangaza ni uko umuntu aza akubwira ibyo yirengaje ko wabaye mu Rwanda rw’inkotanyi kuva zafata ubutegetsi, ndetse ko hari na benshi baba bararwananye urugamba nazo. Uwo uza yemeza isi yose ngo u Rwanda ruratunganye rurubahiriza ikiremwamuntu, iyo abivuga atyo aba yibaza ko abandi bose ari ibicucu? Ngo utazi ubwenge ashima ubwe!
Kurindagira kw’abanyarwanda gufite imvano!
Biraboneka ko abanyarwanda benshi muri iki gihe bataye icyerekezo (orientations). Ntibazi iyo bava n’iyo bajya. Benshi bakomeza kwiha akanyabugabo, basubira mu byiza byinshi bazaniwe na repubulika, ndetse bamwe iyo bicaye banezerewe (uretse ingorwa ziri mu gihugu), batangira gusubiramo ibigwi by’abazanye repubulika! Hakaba abirya icyara, nabwo mu buswa bwinshi, ngo inkotanyi zakora ibibi, ariko zikomeza repubulika twazaniwe n’abayiharaniye! Ntawe utinyuka kujya ku muzi w’ibibazo rubanda ihura nabyo ubu ngubu! Nta wibaza ati repubulika yagiyeho yatumariye iki mu by’ukuri, mu gihe nta demokarasi twigeze tumenya! Ikosa nanone nta warishyira kuri benshi bataba basobanukiwe, ahubwo iryo kosa ryashyirwa cyane cyane ku bakagombye gushakira abandi umurongo mwiza wo gukemura ibibazo by’igihugu. Abo bose bakunze kwiyita abanyapolitiki, bari bakwiye kuba aribo baba abambere baterwa isoni no kubona igihugu kidashobora kugira programme ya soyiyeti yaha abanyarwanda ubwisanzure n’amahoro. Inkotanyi zizakomeza kugaraguza agati abo zishyikiriye, ariko burya ngo Nyabarongo yica uyizaniye, kandi uwigize agatebo ntabura kuyora ivu.
Imana ifashe kandi irinde u Rwanda n’abanyarwanda b’umutima.

Rwanda: Ikinamico mu manza z'abanyapolitiki rirarambiranye

Inkuru ya Juvenal Majyambere
Le Prophète
Kigali, Tariki ya 22 Gashyantare 2012


1. Amakuru y'imvaho aturuka muri gereza nkuru ya Kigali (1930) aremeza ko ejo taliki ya 20 Gashyantare 2012 ahagana mu ma saa sita z’amanywa, umukuru wungirije w'amagereza mu Rwanda Merry GAHONZIRE yinjiye mu cyumba gifungiyemo Charles Ntakirutinka  umwe mu bashinze ishyaka PDR Ubuyanja nuko atangira kumutuka no kumutera ubwoba aho yamubajije ati « Harya ngo ugiye gutaha sha ? Uzongera kuvugana na Pasteur Bizimungu? Ubu ugiye gutaha maze wongere ujye guteza ubwega ? Uzibeshye tuzakwereka uko dukora ! ». Charles Ntakirutinka amaze kumva ayo magambo yashubije Gahonzire ati « niba uhurujwe no kunshakaho impamvu ntayo ubona .» Kereka rero niba Gahonzire ari Batarimpamvu, wa wundi wubatse inzu mu yindi !

Iki gikorwa kigayitse kibaye mu gihe iyi nzirakarengane yenda kurangiza igihano yahawe mu buryo bw'akarengane cy’imyaka 10 yose, ubu  arimo kwitegura gutaha mu ntangiriro z’ukwezi kwa Gatatu 2012. Biramutse byubahirijwe, Charles Ntakirutinka  yagombye kongera kubona izuba kuwa kane taliki 1 Werurwe 2012 aho azaba ashoje icyo gihano cyose uko cyakabaye. Iri terabwoba rya Gahonzire rikaba ribaye rikurikira irikorwa na Rwarakabije ndetse na Gahima, aba bose bafite ububasha ku mfungwa za politiki ziri muri iriya gereza.

2. Andi makuru aturuka muri iyo gereza aremeza ko Maitre Bernard Ntaganda yimuwe aho yari asanzwe afungiye agashyirwa mu kindi cyumba ngo kubera ko aho yari afungiye  bahashyize undi mu shinjabinyoma witwa BIZIMUNGU Théogène ngo uvuye mu myitozo ku mpamvu z’uko leta ya Kagame ishaka kumwifashisha mu kugerageza kugerekaho urusyo  Madame Ingabire Victoire; umuyobozi wa FDU-INKINGI uhafungiye azira impamvu za politiki. Uyu mushinjabinyoma BIZIMUNGU Theogene akaba ahasanze undi nawe umaze igihe ategurwa n'Agatsiko witwa NSABIMANA Phocas  nyuma y'aho bamufashe bavuga ko azira amafaranga ya Banki yibye ariko ngo bakaba baragumye kumutereta ngo abafashe gushinja Ingabire Victoire kuko ngo bamubonye mu bantu baje kwakira Ingabire ku kibuga cy’indege i Kanombe ubwo Ingabire yageraga mu Rwanda. Amakuru kandi avuga ko uyu Phocas yaburanye icyo cyaha akagitsinda mu gihe yarekurwaga muri gereza ya Gitarama nyamara agahita yongera gutabwa muri yombi n'inzego za gisirikari, zikamujyana kumutoza none akaba ari muri gereza ya Kigali aho yiteguye gukora akazi nk'akakozwe n'abandi bashinjabinyoma.

3. Mu gushakisha abagomba gushinja Ingabire ibinyoma kandi mperutse kubagezaho uburyo capitaine Karuta JMV yafashwe n'abasirikari akajya gutozwa gushinja Ingabire ariko mbere y'uko afatwa akaba yarabanje kubisabwa ku neza na Rwarakabije n'abandi basirikari bakuru abyanze arafatwa abyemezwa ku ngufu none akaba ari mu ikipe y'abasirikari bahoze muri FDLR-ISHINJA! Iyi kipe ishinja ikaba ikuriwe na Vital Uwumuremyi wari ushinzwe guhuza ibikorwa byo gushakisha abasirikari bahoze muri FDLR bo gushinja Ingabire akaba ari na weo ubayoboye kugeza ubu. Mu gihe rero iyo kipe yamaze kwerekana ko ntacyo yagezeho mu byo yatojwe, ubushinjabinyoma bwakomeje gusabwa gushyiramo imbaraga ngo Ingabire abonerwe ibyaha dore ko ngo batifuza no kumufungura atemeye bimwe mu byaha aregwa ngo babone uko bamucecekesha burundu kuko ngo batashobora kuguma ku butegetsi igihe yaba ari hanze ya gereza nk'uko yabibwiwe n'umushinjabyaha mukuru Maritini Ngoga.

Mu kwifashisha abasivili ngo nabo bazaze muri ibi bikorwa byo gushinja hageragejwe abantu benshi bamwe barabyanga ariko ibigwari n'ibisahiranda ntibibura kuko hari n'abemeye kuzajya ku karubanda bagakora nk'ibyo Vital Uwumuremyi na bagenzi be bakoze ! Nabibutsa ko uriya capitaine Karuta yafatanywe na mubyara we w'umusivili waje kurekurwa kuko basanze imyitozo atayibashije. Hagiye hafatwa kandi n'abandi bantu benshi bamwe bakabikwa muri gereza abandi bakarekurwa ariko umwihariko ni uko hafi ya bose bakomoka mu karere ka Rusizi.

Muri abo bagiye bafatwa navuga nk'abitwa Habimana bavanye mu ishuri arimo kwigisha, Ndarama bavanye iwe mu rugo, Sayinzoga Ildephonse bakuye iwe mu rugo mu kagari ka Gakoni, uyu akaba yaratwawe na maneko yakoreraga ku ruganda rwa CIMERWA. Abandi batwawe n'umusirikari witwa Ruzindana Jean de Dieu wabashyiriye Major Muvunyi wakoreraga kuri CIMERWA. Aba bose batuye mu murenge wa Muganza mu karere ka Rusizi, bakaba baratwawe nko mu mataliki 20 Kanama 2010 bashakishwamo abagomba gushinja ibinyoma Ingabire. Ndarama we ubu afungiye muri gereza nkuru ya Kigali ibyo azakoreshwa ntibiramenyekana neza ariko na we akekwa kuba muri uwo mugambi naho abandi nta rengero ryabo riragaragara.

4. Tubibutse ko urubanza rwa Ingabire leta ya Kagame noneho yafashe icyemezo ngo cyo kuzaruburanisha hifashishijwe urugereko rwihariye mpuzamahanga nk'uko byatangajwe tariki ya 16 Gashyantare 2012 n’umuvugizi w’inkiko Bwana KARIWABO Charles!

Ibi ababikurikiranira hafi basanga Leta yarabuze ikintu gifatika yashinja Ingabire bityo ikaba iri gukoresha amayeri yo kureba uko batinza urubanza rwe kugirango ahere mu buroko hitwajwe ko urubanza rwe rukiburanwa. Bamwe bakaba banibaza impamvu yahindurirwa urukiko kandi urukiko rukuru rwari rwaratangaje ko rufite ububasha n’ubushobozi bwo kumuburanisha. Bikaba bigaragaza neza ihuzagurika riri mu bucamanza bwo mu Rwanda nk'uko Ingabire yabivuze akigera mu Rwanda.

5. Ikindi kimaze iminsi kivugwa muri ubu bucamanza ni amakimbirane leta ya Kagame yagiranye n'umushinjabyaha mukuru Maritini Ngoga hamwe n'abatekinisiye yashyizeho aribo Ruberwa Bonaventure, Hitiyaremye Alphone na Mukurarinda Alain. Uyu Alphonse we akaba ataranagaragaye ubwo Ingabire aherutse mu rukiko. Umuntu akaba yanakwibaza impamvu ikibazo cy'iyimurwa ry'urubanza rwa Ingabire cyavuzwe n'umuvugizi w'inkiko kandi cyari gisanzwe kivugwa n'umushinjacyaha mukuru cyangwa umuvugizi we. Bikaba biri muri bimwe mu bigaragaza aya makimbirane navuze haruguru.

Reka dukomeze tubitege amaso ariko nyine ijuru si ryeru mu bucamanza bwo muri iki gihugu, aho ubushinjacyaha bwiyemeje kugirwa UBUSHINJABINYOMA izuba riva !

Rwanda: Umunsi Kagame akarabye inkaba i Kibeho!




















Birakomeye kuri leta iyo ariyo yose yakwiha kubeshya ko iri kubaka ubumwe n’ubwiyunge ku byemeza abantu, mu gihe cyose yaba ikomeje kuvuga ko ari uburenganzira ku bayiyoboye gukora ibintu nk’ibi! N’undi wese uzibwira ko azakemura ibibazo ari uko yishe impinja, abagore, abangavu, abasaza, ingimbi, n’abandi bose batamurwanya, azamenye ko kuyobora u Rwanda atari ibye. Iyo bikubitiyeho no kwimana uburenganzira bwo kwibuka bene aya mahano ngo ntazasubire, byerekana ko igihugu cyarangije gutana burundu n’amahame yo kubahiriza ikiremwamuntu.



























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Malnutrition: the scourge of Rwanda's children

More than 2.6 million children worldwide die each year from 
undernourishment. As a campaign to cut child mortality is 
launched, Jay Rayner in Rwanda reports on how, even in 
such a fertile country, poverty and high prices are a fatal 
combination
Patrick Mugisha is suffering from acute malnutrition manifesting in chronic wasting.
Patrick Mugisha is suffering from acute malnutrition manifesting in chronic wasting. Photograph: Sebastian Rich
Her name is Masezeno and she is 12, though you wouldn't know it to look at her: seven, or perhaps eight, at best. She sits by herself on her bed in her blue hospital gown, her knees pulled up to her chest, eyes wide, watching the room. She has little hair. She is in the children's ward of the new Butaro district hospital in northern Rwanda and it is here that I meet the stark reality of chronic child malnutrition.
At least she isn't screaming any more, as she was a few days ago, when she was first admitted with a condition known locally as kwashiorkor, the symptoms of which include painful swellings or oedemas, caused by long-term protein deprivation. She is still a little swollen, but the treatment is dealing with that. Other symptoms will be with her for life. Masezeno is at least 10cm shorter than she should be, and the medical staff say there may be intellectual impairment by as much as 15 IQ points. In the blunt, unforgiving language of malnutrition, she is stunted.
It shouldn't be this way, for here in Rwanda the fields hang heavy with food. The tightly packed terraced fields which, as in so much of this tiny landlocked east African country, are planted right to the tops of the most vertiginous hills, groan with plantain and cassava; with maize and beans and potatoes both sweet and, as they call them in this part of the world, Irish. Rwanda looks at first sight like a country built of things to eat.
But these burgeoning crops hide a bitter secret. In Rwanda it is not only the fields that are fecund. It is the most densely populated country in Africa, its 10 million-strong population weighted heavily towards the young – half of them are under 18 – and far too many of those children are simply not getting enough of the right things to eat. For all that food in the fields, 44% of Rwanda's children remain, like Masezeno, chronically malnourished. They are also stunted.
Last week, the charity Save the Children launched the latest stage of its No Child Born To Die campaign. It called on the prime minister, David Cameron, to name a day for a global summit on child malnourishment.
Enormous advances have been made in tackling child mortality in recent years. A huge global push on vaccinations and investment in frontline medical care have reduced the number of children under five dying each year from 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million.
But chronic malnourishment – not famine, but the simple grinding poverty of a diet that does not give children what they require – remains the world's dirty hidden crisis. Around 170 million people worldwide are now stunted, which has immense implications for the productivity and development of their countries.
If nothing is done, it is estimated that half a billion children will be stunted over the next 15 years. It amounts to a lost generation. What's more, it is the underlying cause of 2.6 million child deaths a year, or 300 every hour. The death certificate may record pneumonia or a digestive infection. The fact is that a malnourished child simply doesn't have the immune system to fight off a disease.
There has been progress on malnutrition in Asia. However, half of all child deaths attributed to malnutrition still occur in Africa, despite the continent having only a third of the world's malnourished children. A combination of rising food prices, political instability and lack of technological progress in farming have meant that improvements in child nutrition here have proved hard to come by.
Since the genocide of 1994, which claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 people, Rwanda has done much to care for its children. Deaths among under-fives have halved, from 152 per thousand a decade ago to 76 per thousand now (in the UK the figure is 5.3 per thousand). But making sure that those children who live grow to their full potential is proving much tougher. Last week I travelled across Rwanda with Save the Children to see the scale of the problem and the impact it has on families.
Which is how I came to meet 23-year-old Josephine and her two little boys. She was waiting patiently in line with the other women of her village at the Ntaruka health centre. Until a year ago the centre was little more than a shack with plastic sheeting for walls and a roof that leaked whenever the rains came, which in Rwanda is often. Now there are low-slung brick buildings overlooking the lake, surrounded by outcrops of black volcanic rock courtesy of the five smouldering peaks that stand guard.
We are outside on the veranda, where volunteer health workers are helping to weigh Josephine's sons, aged three-and-a-half and 18 months. The eldest was displaying symptoms of chronic malnourishment, but it's clear from the measurements that a treatment with therapeutic food supplements – prime among them a fortified peanut paste called Plumpy'nut, which the children gobble up – has started to shift him out of the danger zone. But her youngest, Innocent, is still acutely malnourished. His arms are too thin. At just over 7kg, he is simply too small.
Josephine tells me that she had no idea there was a problem until one of the volunteer health workers came to her home to tell her. Was it upsetting? She shrugs. "Not really. They gave me the supplements." Gathering enough food for her family – she has other children at home – is tough. "I have no land and I am the only one who gathers food. I get it by working in other people's fields." Why did her children become malnourished? "Because I cannot get enough food."
Rwanda may well be hugely fertile, but global price rises – the cost of maize has doubled – make it impossible for women like Josephine to keep her children fed. "The supplements are very useful," she says simply. Her boys are the lucky ones. Their condition has been caught early.
I am taken to a typical rural village a short drive away, bouncing down rutted tracks, where the homes have floors of hardened mud and cooking is over open fires, which gives the main room the high tang of soot. There I meet Leonie and Immaculate, both widows, both mothers of six, each of whom has children displaying the most acute symptoms of stunting. Immaculate's nine-year- old daughter, Claudine, is particularly affected. She has learning difficulties and is very small for her age. "I was surprised when they told me," Immaculate says, "because I did my best to feed my children. I thought it was some other form of disease."
At another home I meet Vestine, who has lost three babies because she was malnourished during pregnancy and forced to work in the fields too close to her due date. She and her husband, Claver, have a daughter who is eight and 18-month-old twins. Their daughter in particular is showing symptoms of malnourishment. When Vestine leads me into the house to let me see what she has to feed them with, it is not really surprising. She is doing her best, but the pile of beans, potatoes and green leaves defines the word meagre.
Dr Agnes Binagwaho, the charismatic Rwandan health minister and a paediatrician by training, says that in many ways her country is a victim of its own success. "We have much better child survival, but in the poorer, less educated families we have less uptake of family planning. The result is that there is not enough food for all those children who a few years ago would not have survived."
There was, she says, also a problem specific to Rwanda. "We do not know why, but for many years our measuring charts were simply wrong. Those children shown as fine were often malnourished, those as malnourished were acutely malnourished, and so on." She noticed only in 2008, when she was comparing Rwandan growth charts with those from Europe. In Rwanda the crisis was literally hidden.
But Binagwaho is optimistic. "It is not about food aid. We do not need food in Rwanda. We need education." However it is, she says, about what is being grown. Cassava root, ground to a flour and cooked up as a doughy paste, is a traditional staple. It fills children up but has almost no nutritional value.
"It's also about how they treat vegetables. Families cook carrots too long, for example, so there is no vitamin A left." Along with charities like Save the Children, the government is running kitchen-garden projects to educate the mostly female farmers in how to get the best from their land. They are distributing new seed strains that are fortified with particular vitamins.
I ask her how long it will take to make real progress on the issue. Binagwaho, famed for her take-no-prisoners approach, grins and says: "Give me a year."
It may sound like wishful thinking. It may be overambitious. But at least it suggests a drive to get something done. And that's what matters. Otherwise millions more children like Masezeno will see their futures permanently blighted. Millions more will die.