On Friday June 10, about 3,000 Rwandans in the Diaspora converged at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago to celebrate “Rwanda Day 2011.” The day’s main speaker was President Paul Kagame. In the audience was Pierre Celestin Rwigema.
Air, water and food pollution, famine, environmental degradation straining of budgets are just a few of the dangers of an ever increasing world population.
…problem is that so few want to articulate this truth
There are reasons why Africa is such a backward place: why it is the beggar continent that perpetually lives off handouts called ‘foreign aid’ even as it sits on an abundance of natural resources; why most of its countries are lands of broken down infrastructure, stratospheric jobless rates, ramshackle government institutions “education systems” that are a sad joke, and so on ad infinitum.
Although significant efforts have been made to accord people with disabilities their fundamental rights, a lot remains to be done to be done to protect them against discrimination in the job market.
“Either sustainable agricultural intensification is adopted in the Central Africa region, or we may find ourselves in a situation of war, not because of politics or ethnic differences, but war for food and space.”
Dr Bosco Mugabo Mtsatswe of Kibagabaga Hospital is a busy man. About 28 out of every 100 women who report at this hospital to give birth prefer to deliver their babies through caesarean, a surgical operation commonly known as C-section.
In a bid to increase access to electricity among rural population, three micro-hydro power plants were last Thursday inaugurated in Rubavu and Rutsiro districts.
Rwanda has once again been ranked the least corrupt country in the region with a bribery prevalence of 5.1% down from 6.6% recorded last year, according to a recent survey carried out by the East African Bribery Index.
By day he is a lecturer in social development issues; by night he promotes social interaction in his own nightclub. Meet Martin Kaniu.
President Paul Kagame’s call last weekend for a joint regional effort to tackle current security threats against the people of East Africa could not have come at a better time.
