Rutahzamu w’umunya-Ghana, Michael Sarpong wakiniraga Rayon Sports, yamaze kugera muri Tanzania aho agiye gukinira ikipe ya Yanga mu gihe cy’imyaka 2 iri imbere, akaba yakiriwe n’abafana benshi b’iyi kipe babanza kumusengera.
Mu gitondo cyo kuri uyu wa Gatanu nibwo twabagejejeho inkuru y’uko Sarpong ari bwerekeze muri Tanzania gusinyira Yanga, ni mu gihe ibiganiro ku mpande zombi byari byarangiye.
Ku isaha ya saa Tanu ni bwo Sarong yahagarutse mu Rwanda, akaba yageze ku kibuga cy’indege cya Tanzania asanga ubuyobozi bwa Yanga bumutegereje aho yakiriwe na Eng. Hersi Said, umuyobozi wa GSM umufatanyabikorwa wa Yanga urimo kubafasha kugura abakinnyi.
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Speaking at a virtual meeting of the African Union Bureau and Chairs of Regional Economic Communities chaired by AU chairperson, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, President Kagame said that this will ensure that Africa does not miss out on the vaccine or get insufficient quantities.
“I would like to request the Chairperson to consider appointing one of the Heads of State to work closely with Strive (Masiyiwa) who is already on the task to focus on ensuring that Africa obtains the vaccine once it is available,” the President said.
Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean Business Mogul is working closely with the AU to acquire medical supplies and preventive gear for the continent.
It came to be, at the outbreak of the pandemic, that countries making individual orders of medical supplies were having a hard time accessing the supplies due to the magnitude of orders globally as well as some restrictions by some economic regions globally. In response to the challenge, the African Union teamed up and appointed Masiyiwa to lead in the coordination of procurement efforts.
If the same model of consolidating resources and orders is implemented in vaccine procurement, experts believe that it could improve chances of vaccine access across the continent.
Kagame expressed the need to advance the domestic health financing agenda that was propelled by the AU.
“This is the moment to look closely at our health budgets and see where we can improve both the quantity and quality of spending,” he said.
“Ultimately, the best defense against the COVID pandemic, as well as future health emergencies, is a strong, resilient, and sustainable health system,” said the Head of the State. President Paul Kagame has requested AU leadership to appoint an official specifically to ensure that the African continent will be able to obtain the vaccine when it’s available.
Ronald Koeman w’imyaka 57 watozaga ikipe y’igihu y’A Bahorandi, niwe ubaye umutoza mushya wa FC Barcelona nyuma yo gusezerera Quique Setién mu ntangiriro z’iki cyumweru.
Passengers using public transport buses within the capital Kigali have been fleeced billions of francs worth of internet they pay for but cannot connect to and doesn’t exist in these buses.
In a one-year-long investigation, Taarifa team has boarded nearly all city buses belonging to three transport companies and the findings indicate a carefully woven massive and powerful financial fraud cartel.
In November 2015, Rwanda public transport system introduced an innovation that leaped the country into a digital era- passengers started using a contactless smart card to pay for their trips across Kigali city.
The country has been fast-tracking its adoption of a cashless economy.
AC Group, a local technology company specializing in smart transport solutions partnered with the government and city bus operators and introduced a cashless payment solution for city commuters. This service was named Tap & Go.
For the past five years since the introduction of Tap&Go, the AC Group has so far managed to connect 2 million customers into its database and works with three bus operating agencies.
According to the group, Tap&Go cards are used on all public buses in Kigali to pay for transport fare.
Commuters buy the cards from agents, load it with money, tap it on the card reader at the bus entrance, and are allowed into the bus.
Meanwhile, under this new innovation, all three bus agencies were required to be fitted with WiFi that passengers would connect to with their smartphones and laptops or any other gadgets that require the internet as they enjoy their ride.
AC Group statistics indicate they started with a deal of connecting 450 buses by fitting them with routers that would ensure the sharing of the internet within the buses.
Vianney Mugabo, the acting mayor of City of Kigali in 2016 (L), Former ICT Minister Philbert Nsengimana (C) and Patrick Yoon, the Olleh Rwanda Network chief executive, cut a ribbon at Kigali City Park to launch the Smart Kigali 4G Internet connectivity for public buses in February 2016
The company’s CEO, Patrick Buchana told Taarifa in an exclusive interview that currently, they connect “over 100,000 passengers with some routes are having more and others less,” although AC Group’s website says 300,000.
For the past one year, Taarifa has been investigating this Tap&Go and Bus WiFi connectivity services.
During this period, our team has commuted on nearly all routes of the city road network but the findings are very mind-boggling.
Both Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) and AC Group confirmed to Taarifa that every time a passenger taps their at least Rwf10 is deducted from their total journey fare to pay for the internet.
For example, if a passenger is boarding from Kimironko heading to downtown Nyabugogo and pays Rwf270, it should be noted that the internet fee is included.
With 300,000 daily connections, the AC Group fetches Rwf3 million daily from passengers in about 450 buses. This means the company can rake in a monthly Rwf90, 000,000, and annual Rwf 1,080,000,000.
This service has been part of the passengers’ expected package for over three years. That means according to AC Group’s numbers, Kigali commuters have paid about Rwf3.24 billion in three years.
However, during this year-long investigation, Taarifa has also discovered that not all 450 buses are connected to the internet daily.
Notably, not all passengers use smartphones. In Rwanda, only 20% of the population own smartphones. The largest majority of the commuters don’t spend the Rwf10 deducted from their fare.
Only about 80 buses have been at most supplying internet to passengers. As of today, there is no bus that is connected to any form of internet.
Holders of Tap&Go cards are candidates of an unavoidable yet mysterious technical trap. To acquire this card, you go to any agent mostly found within bus terminals or bus stops.
The card costs Rwf500 but you have to pay an extra Rwf500 to be added on the card, a minimum although a card can have about Rwf2000 balance at one point.
There are those passengers that load more money probably to take them through the whole month.
However, when you lose this card, there is no way you can claim the balance on it because the card is not registered to the owner.
Over hundreds of millions of unclaimed cash is lost annually in this manner because there is no proof of card ownership (look out for Taarifa’s investigation into this matter next week).
Last year, RURA said it had recorded a large number of complaints from people who had lost the card or stolen – and the cash as well.
Patrick Buchana the CEO AC Group told Taarifa in an exclusive interview on August 1, “Balance on Tap&Go cards doesn’t belong to bus companies.
Bus companies don’t care if the internet is provided or not because the revenues belong to AC Group.
Money is kept in an escrow account and there are rules governing escrow accounts which we follow.”
Taarifa asked Buchana; who has oversight on this money? He said; “No one [based on] escrow rules, only when a client taps at any payment point does claim their share. There is a technology system for that.”
About the controversial availability of internet on buses, the group CEO says the internet is working at 85% uptime [as of last week…that was in July] which is good for a mobile router serving in a harsh environment.
“Please go test it for yourself and if it is below, this can be a need to us to address,” he challenged Taarifa.
We have asked passengers and bus drivers. “Zero, no internet,” says Annet Mutesi from Kimironko.
“We have been telling our bosses that the buses are not connected, but they don’t tell us why,” says one of the drivers on the Kicukiro-Nyarugenge route.
“There is no internet, it is a scam,” says one Muhire, a passenger from Remera.
However, one passenger from Masaka told us that there was some internet in the first months when the service introduced, but she says the internet was too slow and couldn’t even send a WhatsApp message.
“After a few months, there was no more internet at all since then. Never,” she says, laughing sarcastically.
Who is responsible for helping commuters recover these billions of francs that were taken? Will these billions be returned to the public who received no service?
Kapiteni w’ikipe y’igihugu y’u Rwanda, Haruna Niyonzima avuga ko mbere y’uko Mugiraneza Jean Baptsite [Migi] asezera mu ikipe y’igihugu ari we yabanje kubibwira, gusa ntabwo yemera ko cyari cyo gihe cye cyo gusezera.
Tariki ya 13 Kanama 2020 ni bwo Mugiraneza Jean Baptiste uzwi nka Migi, nyuma y’imyaka 14 yasezeye mu ikipe y’igihugu kuko yumvaga ibyo yagombaga gutanga yamaze kubitanga.
Mu kiganiro na B&B FM, kapiteni w’ikipe y’igihugu Haruna Niyonzima yavuze ko mbere y’uko Migi afata umwanzuro wo gusezera mu ikipe y’igihugu yabanje kubimubwira ariko bitari cyo gihe cyo gusezera.
Yagize ati“Ninjye yabibwiye mbere kuko n’ubundi ni inshuti yanjye, ni umuntu tuganira ibintu byinshi cyane ariko buriya afite impamvu ze ntaribuze kuvuga ashobora no kuba yarazivugiye ku giti cye ariko ku bwanjye ntabwo byemera 100%, Migi ntabwo yari ageze igihe cyo kuba yasezera mu ikipe y’igihugu.”
Yakomeje avuga ko Migi yasezeye bitewe n’abanyarwanda birirwaga bamusazisha ngo arashaje, aho we abona ko gusaza atari ikibazo ahubwo ikibazo ari ibyo yaba atanga.
Ati“ndabikomoza ku banyarwanda, kuko njye ndi umunyarwanda, ibi bintu abantu batubwira, umutwe wanjye si wo wa Migi uburyo tuzaganira ibintu uko nzabifata siko Migi azabifata, ibi bintu bavuga ngo abantu ni abasaza, barashaje ntacyo bivuze, muri ruhago ntaho biba bihuriye, ubushobozi bwawe ni byo bya mbere.”
Yahamije ko Migi yasezeye kubera umujinya n’agasuzuuro.
Yakomeje avuga ko abakeka ko impamvu badasezera ari amafaranga bakuramo atari byo kuko ubu mu ikipe y’igihugu nta n’amafaranga menshi arimo ugereranyije na mbere kuko mbere kwinjira mu mwiherero w’ikipe y’igihugu byari 1000$, mu gihe ubu bisigaye ari 500$.
The return comes after Rwanda has made it clear that it was not against the repatriation of Burundian refugees who have been in Rwanda since 2015. It was agreed by the three parties that the UNHCR will facilitate the process.
According to Elise Villechalane, the UNHCR spokesperson for Rwanda, the first batch will depart in just over a week. A hotline was set up for refugees to voluntarily call and express the desire to return home and they are added on the list.
“We have put in place a hotline that Refugee can call and express their wish to return and they can also approach directly UNHCR staff who are everyday in the field,”
“Only those who voluntarily and individually express their wish to return will be considered for voluntary repatriation,” Villechalane said.
“Once we have the list of people who would like to return, then we will organize together with UNHCR, Burundi and the Rwandan government and their transport and once in Burundi, they will be welcomed,” Villechalane added.
When in Burundi, the refugees will go through the transit centre for registration and get also their integration package, which will include a lumpsum for their transportation to their area of return while UNHCR will continue monitoring other resettlement processes.
Following the meeting in Kigali, the Burundian officials said the government needed to prepare locations where the refugees will be received.
Rwanda is currently the third country with the largest number of Burundian refugees, with about 72,000; it comes right after Tanzania and DR Congo. Many of these fled the 2015 political turmoil that gripped the country after the late President Nkurunziza decided to extend his mandate.
UNHCR counts more than 430,000 Burundian refugees in: Tanzania (164,873), DR Congo (103,690), Rwanda (72,007), Uganda (48,275), Kenya (13,800), Mozambique (7,800), Malawi (8,300), South Africa (9,200) and Zambia (6,000) by the end of June 2020.
The first cohort of Burundian refugees in Rwanda is set to return to their homeland on August 27
On August 17th, the Coalition of Caribbean Leaders for Peace (CCLP) consisting of the former and current leaders in the Caribbean including the former president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sent a joint letter to South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
In the letter, they said the governments, even in response to the urgency of the pandemic, must take responsibility for the protection of human rights regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status and expressed concern about ongoing oppression against Shincheonji Church, a South Korea-based Christian denomination that suffered from the unexpected mass infection at the beginning of this year.
Ahead of this joint letter, 11 NGOs including the European Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience (CAP-LC) submitted the “annual report for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights” regarding the inappropriately targeted discrimination against Shincheonji Church to the UN Secretary-General.
The annual report was titled “Scapegoating Members of Shincheonji for COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea”.
The letter briefly pointed out the facts surrounding Shincheonji and Covid-19 as follows;
〮 Covid-19 was introduced to South Korea from China.
〮 According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus was already prevalent in the city of Daegu before the confirmation of (Shincheonji) the Patient 31 (in Daegu).
〮 The government’s refusal to close the border to China contributed heavily to the outbreak.
〮 In the face of growing public discontent that the government did not impose a travel restriction on China, Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae ordered the prosecution to investigate Shincheonji.
〮 Vice Minister of Health confirmed that the list of private identification information gathered was not much different than that collected and checked by the government.
〮 Prosecutors have arrested the officials of Shincheonji on the grounds that the list of congregation members submitted by Shincheonji was not complete.
By referring to the report “Factsheet on the global response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the impact on religious practice and religious freedom” by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the joint letter reiterated that South Korea provides a vivid example of how public health emergencies can increase the risk to marginalized religious groups.
They pointed out that the South Korean government’s silence about the current situation would set a dangerous global precedent for allowing similar persecution, violence, and harassment against other religious minorities, and strongly urged the Korean government to “step forward to an end to this discrimination.”
Dalia umugore w’umukristo ukomoka mu gihugu cya Iraq yagize ubutwari akomezwa n’Ijambo ry’Imana ndetse akomeza n’abandi bakristo n’ubwo yari mu kaga gakomeye muri ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
Dalia ahora afunze ibikapu yiteguye kongera guhunga
Yibuka neza ijoro ryo muri Kanama mu 2014 ubwo we n’umuryango we bagombaga guhunga urugo rwabo ruherereye mu kibaya cya Nineve. Nyuma y’uko umutwe w’abaislamu (jihadist group) ufata Mosul, uyu umutwe wa kislamu wirukanye Dalia n’umuryango we mu mujyi wabo, hamwe n’abandi bakristu ibihumbi.
Dalia, umubyeyi w’abana batatu, aragira ati: “Ndibuka ko nari mpangayitse cyane!Twavuye mu nzu yacu twari tumaze imyaka twubaka twirukankira ahantu tutazi, tugenda nta myenda nta n’ikindi tujyanye”.
Yakomeje agira ati: “Mu nkambi y’impunzi, abantu bambazaga impamvu ndimo guseka, nkabasubiza ko dushobora kubura ubutunzi bwose bw’isi, ariko turacyafite Yesu kandi nta muntu n’umwe wamutubuza. Bibiliya ivuga ko abizera Yesu bazatotezwa, kandi ibyo turabizi neza”.
“Ntibisobanuye ko ikibazo cyabaye kitangizeho ingaruka kuko niriwe ndira umunsi wose mugihe twahungaga. Ariko gutotezwa byarushijeho kunyegereza Kristo mwikomezaho”.
Nyuma yo kumara imyaka myishi mu buhungiro bavuye aho bavukiye, Dalia n’umugabo we Imana yabatumye gusubira mu Kibaya cya Nineve gukomeza Abakristo bagenzi be no gukomeza itorero muri rusange. Hatitaweho ibibazo barimo, Dalia ubu ni intwari arimo kwigisha abagore Bibiliya.
Asubira mu mujyi we mu 2017, hari ahantu hateye ubwoba kuko amazu yari yaratwitswe andi yanditseho amagambo ya kisilamu.
Dalia ati: “Ndetse no mu nzu yanjye bwite, numvaga meze nk’umunyamahanga, nk’aho ntari uw’aha hantu. Birababaje cyane! Mubyukuri ibikapu byacu bihora bipakiye twitegura ko dushobora kongera guhunga”.
Uyu mubyeyi Dalia yunzemo ati”Nkomeye cyane ku bana banjye , mpora mbasaba kwitonda. Umukobwa wanjye yiga i Mosul, ahakunze kugaragara ibikorwa by’ishimutwa ry’abana, mubyukuri biteye ubwoba”.
Ariko kujya mu rusengero no guhura n’Imana byamuhaye ibyiringiro, arasenga cyane kandi abifshijwemo na Yesu.
Dalia aragir ati: “ Mugihe numva mbabaye cyangwa ncitse intege, ntakira Imana ikansubiza intege mu bugingo. Buri gihe nibuka ijambo intumwa Pawulo yavuze nkarisubiramo kenshi rivuga ngo nshobozwa byose na Kristo umpa imbaraga ”.
