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President Paul Kagame yesterday met with investors from Ghana including Sir David Adjaye, the founder of Adjaye Associates together with Ramzi Yamusah and Lamar Cardinez of Yamusah Group.

They discussed the country’s economic and investment plans as announced by Presidency Office via twitter account.

Yamusah Group is a company that has been in the hospitality business for close to two decades. It has invested in Hotels like Best Western Premier, Airside Hotels, Protea Hotel by Marriott among other construction projects. It is also involved in trading activities through Zara Trade, Zara Kitchen, Zara Security, Zara Forex and Zara Travel & Tour.

Adjaye Associates is an award winning architectural and design firm with studios in Accra, London and New York, led by Sir David Adjaye. He has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal 2021, becoming the first black architect to win the prize.

Awarded by RIBA and personally approved by the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal recognises those who have dedicated their lives to the “advancement of architecture”

Sir David Frank Adjaye born September 22, 1966 is a Ghanaian-British architect. He is known for designing many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.

Adjaye was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he lived in Tanzania, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon before moving to Britain at the age of nine. Upon graduating with a BA in Architecture from London South Bank University in 1990, he was nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals, and won the RIBA Bronze Medal for the best design project produced at BA level worldwide. He graduated with an MA in 1993 from the Royal College of Art.

Recent works include The Webster in Los Angeles, California (2020), Mole House in London, UK (2019), Ruby City in San Antonio, Texas (2019), McCarter Switching Station in Newark, New Jersey (2018), Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Development in Harlem, New York (2015), Alara Concept Store in Lagos, Nigeria (2015), Aïshti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon (2015).

In 2015, he was commissioned to design a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem.

In March 2018, Adjaye Associates’ designs for the National Cathedral of Ghana were unveiled by Ghanaian president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

In September 2020, David Adjaye unveiled his designs for the Princeton University Art Museum.

President Paul Kagame in a group photo with investors from Ghana.

Source : https://en.igihe.com/news/article/kagame-meets-ghanaian-investors

Shampiyona y’icyiciro cya mbere mu mupira w’amaguru mu Rwanda iratangira mu mpera z’icyumweru gitaha, umukino uhuza APR FC na Rayon Sports uba witezwe na benshi uzaba tariki ya 27 Ukuboza 2020.

Ku munsi w’ejo ku wa Kabiri nibwo FERWAFA yari yatumiye abayobozi b’amakipe mu nama kugira ngo babereke uko iyi ngengabihe izaba imeze ariko ntabwo bigeze bayihabwa.

Shampiyona izatangira tariki ya 4 Ukuboza 2020, APR FC yagombaga kwakira Musanze FC mu gihe AS Kigali yagombaga kwakira Police FC, ariko iyi mikino yahise iba ibirarane bitewe n’uko APR FC na AS Kigali zizaba zifite imikino nyafurika.

Rayon Sports izatangira shampiyona isura Rutsiro FC umukino uzabera i Rubavu.

Mukura VS ku munsi wa mbere wa shampiyona izaba yakiriye Kiyovu Sports, ni mu gihe Sunrise FC izaba yakiriye Gasogi United. Marines izakira Gorilla FC mu gihe AS Muhanga izakira Etincelles.

Umuikino w’abakeba uhuza Rayon Spprts na APR FC uzaba tariki ya 27 Ukuboza 2020, ni nyuma y’iminsi ibiri gusa Noheli yaraye ibaye, azaba ari umunsi wa 8 wa shampiyona.

Umukino wa APR FC na Rayon Sports uzaba mu mpera z’ukwa 12

Source : http://isimbi.rw/siporo/article/gahunda-ya-shampiyona-yasohotse-apr-fc-na-rayon-sports-zizahura-nyuma-ya-noheli

The Regional Resource Hub for protected areas and biodiversity is now available to support the 24 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa in improving conservation outcomes and achieving global commitments, for the benefit of nature and people.

During an online event, the International Union for Conservation of Nature-IUCN, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development-RCMRD, and partners on Tuesday officially launched the Regional Resource Hub and one of its flagship knowledge products, the most comprehensive analysis on the state of protected areas in Eastern and Southern Africa.

The Regional Resource Hub is a knowledge hub that compiles and analyses relevant data and provides information to support field interventions and policy dialogues, for fair and effective management and governance of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa.

The hub acts as one of the regional observatories implemented by the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme and is hosted by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD).

It includes an information system, co-developed with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, which helps decision-makers to track progress on conservation targets and to manage and assess the protected and conserved areas in the region.

Other similar hubs have been established with BIOPAMA's support in Western and Central Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. 'Effective conservation, management, and governance of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa is crucial to long-term economic growth and development.'

'The establishment of this Resource Hub is a great milestone as it will facilitate the provision of relevant information and data to support policies and effective decision-making on protected and conserved areas which are our invaluable natural heritage,' said Luther Bois Anukur, Regional Director, IUCN Eastern, and Southern Africa Regional Office.

The Regional Resource Hub was launched in the presence of Heads of Protected Area agencies, ministries responsible for protected areas and wildlife, high-level technical institutions, Regional Economic Communities, and BIOPAMA donors and partners.

'RCMRD is confident that the data and information availed in the Regional Resource Hub will go a long way in delivering useful information to make informed decisions, as the various stakeholders in conservation address the challenges that threaten our biodiversity,' said Dr. Emmanuel Nkurunziza, Director General, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development.

The knowledge generated here aims to support national governments, regional organizations, NGOs, communities, and other organizations, in achieving their biodiversity conservation objectives and to report their progress on multilateral environmental agreements, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, more accurately.

SOURCE: CGTN

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The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has estimated that 600 people have been massacred in the western town of Mai-Kadra. These crimes were allegedly committed by a Tigrayan militia.

According to the latest investigation by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, at least 600 Amhara individuals were massacred in Mai-Kadra by a Tigray militia.

Amnesty International had already raised fears of this village located along the Sudanese border, victim of violence between civilians on November 9.

Crimes were planned and then committed in cold blood by the Samri, a brigade of young Tigrayan militiamen, after interviews with survivors.

The account of events is unequivocal, the towns people would have had no chance of escaping their tormentors. The massacre is taking place in these lands in the west of the province, the scene of territorial claims between Amharas and Tigrayans for decades.

However, the current situation calls for caution because contradictory testimonies are pouring in from neighboring Sudan, where more than 40,000 Ethiopians have taken refuge.

It is still impossible to fully shed light on these crimes today. And these questions remain as long as the Tigray remains in the dark, cut off from all contact with the outside as it has been for twenty-two days.

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The African football fraternity lost a hardworking personality Augustin Sidy Diallo, the president of the Ivorian Football Federation. He contracted Covid-19 and died on Saturday.

The virus prevented Diallo from accompanying the Ivory Coast's national team in this month's African Cup of Nations qualifying double header against Madagascar.

It was announced earlier in 2020 that Diallo would leave his post as president of the Ivorian Football Federation after serving two mandates. Under Diallo's presidency, the Ivory Coast won the 2015 African Cup of Nations.

Several celebrities from the African and world football world paid him vibrant tributes. The international Samuel Eto'o was not left out of the tributes.

Through a post on social networks, the former FC Barcelona striker recognized in the illustrious disappeared, an enduring man who marked Ivorian and African football.

Augustin Sidy Diallo

'You marked football'

'In our last interview, I used all my verb to try to convince you to stay in what you called 'your complicated world': the world of football. You were certainly right, president. However, I have always believed that beyond sports politics, it is a duty to try to change things. You tried, even against the greatest, and you succeeded. You have marked Ivorian and African football with your determination and your desire to seek excellence for this beautiful country. Despite all the obstacles, and often without subsidies, you knew how to achieve your goals, namely, to fight for what is right for the football of your country. 'Posted Eto'o.

Go and rest in peace!

'I'm so proud of you president. You have been an example, and I hope that your fellow presidents of African federations will follow you, because you have shown to the world that all federations are equal! As you leave us, Africa needs more than ever that courage, that vision, that determination and that leadership that has characterized you so well. (…). It was my great honor to know you and to be around you President. Go and rest in peace! Wrote the former captain of the Indomitable Lions.

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Burundi refugees returning in their country end up in a life that is so complicated and have to endure various sufferings including hunger, lack of clothing, shelter, disease and misery.

The plight of these returnees was revealed during a brainstorming workshop of various government and non-government partners and stakeholders on effective and sustainable reintegration mechanisms for returnees, late last week.

Nestor Bimenyimana, director general of repatriation, reintegration and reintegration at the Interior Ministry said, 'Ultimately, a returnee ends up feeling like a foreigner at home, in his country.'

Bimenyimana seeks the establishment of an intervention coordination mechanism to be able to channel all the initiatives in accordance with a mapping of the logical framework of a well-defined action plan.

'Everyone is going to be aligned with the same goal. An intervention framed according to the region and the need. All initiatives will be coordinated by the ministry and at the end of the year it will do an evaluation,' he said.

For him, this mechanism will allow the various partners and stakeholders to succeed in the socio-professional reintegration of returnees.

He notes that the installed environment will generate positive effects even in countries of asylum.

The returnees, if they well accorded their rights, then become a point of reference for the rest of the refugees still in exile. Other refugees will be encouraged to return to their homeland.

According to the UNHCR representative in Burundi, welcoming returnees in this context of the Covid-19 pandemic requires a lot of effort in terms of technical and financial resources.

It reassures, however, that all the necessary measures have been taken to facilitate their repatriation in accordance with the tripartite agreements which have been concluded.

Over the past three years, 106,558 returnees have already been received and settled in all provinces of the country. 10 provinces concentrate more returnees due to their proximity to the neighboring countries of Burundi.

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The photo of Congolese former First Lady feeding lion cubs is very fascinating and an endorsement to conservation. The photo that is doing rounds on social media breaks silence on what the former first family could be doing in a private life out of office.

Almost two years after leaving the busy and highly protected life as first family, Kabila family seems to be setting a good example of how Congolese leaders may live after office.

For example Kabila himself has been seen riding a monster Harley Davidson on the streets of Kinshasa in company with other bikers.

Mrs Kabila the mother of two also popularly known as Maman olive Lembe Kabila has also shown that life outside first family arrangements can also be extremely sweet.

The former first lady was born in the small town of Kaïlo, located in the eastern province of Maniema in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 29 July 1976, to Barnabé di Sita and Léonie Kasembe Okomba, a woman of mixed Belgian and Congolese descent.

Kabila's family was not wealthy and her father died when she was still quite young. Her mother remarried and relocated to the town of Kirotshe, located roughly thirty kilometers from the eastern Congolese city of Goma, where Kabila attended the Mushindi primary school from 1982 to 1987.

She then went to the Institut Maendeleo in Goma for her secondary education from 1987 to 1992. After Kabila graduated from the Institut Maendeleo, she created her own store in Goma in 1993. Her determination to succeed led her to sell door to door and she worked hard to overcome the poor economic situation in the Congo.

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The leadership of Gakenke district in Northern Province of Rwanda are gearing up for the official letting into their new headquarters.

'Congratulations Gakenke District this is very amazing District Head Quarters for a visionary Leadership,' said Northern Province Governor Marie Vianney Gatabazi.

According to the district authorities, construction of this double storey complex with two wings begun on March 4, 2019 under facilitation from Local Administrative Entities Development Agency (LODA).

With this new facility, public services delivery is expected to speed up coupled with efficiency since most departments will have office space in one building.

Statistics institute of Rwanda puts the total population of Gakenke district at slightly above 345,000 residents. This also represents 17% of the total population of Northern Province and 3.2% of the total population of Rwanda.

Authorities of this district say this part of the country is positioning itself as an agro processing and mining hub.

The district boasts of expanse land suitable for agribusiness activities like growing passion fruits, pineapple and coffee to enable agriculture export; wheat and beans cultivation; cattle keeping for fresh milk production; mineral deposits and quarries. Arts and crafts, especially tailoring, are another potential of Gakenke District that can be exploited.

There is huge potential in Coffee value chain, fruits including pineapple, passion fruits and banana value chains, piggery value chain and mining value chain. These value chains have been chosen because they are currently the largest source of income for the people in Gakenke District.

Gakenke also has considerable deposits of minerals such as cassiterite, coltan, clay and stones.

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