Government Supporting Daily 4 August 2011 A former senior officer with the Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA) – now Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) – has abandoned subversive activities and returned home after what he called “three years of deep reflection on what I was involved in against my country.” Gerald Ntashamaje, 54, who was, until his [...]
Government Supporting Daily 4 August 2011 Transparency Rwanda (TR) will next week launch a report on Gender Based corruption at work places in the country. Speaking to The New Times yesterday, Marie Immaculee Ingabire, the Chairperson TR, said that her organisation would present its latest findings in a survey conducted in both private and public [...]
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New Portable Device Diagnoses HIV, Syphilis Jessica Berman | Washington Scientists have developed an inexpensive, portable blood test kit that can tell within minutes whether a person has HIV or syphilis. The device was successfully field tested in the African nation of Rwanda, and researchers say it could provide a faster, cheaper and easier way [...]
Government Supporting Daily Edwin Musoni 3 August 2011 Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza, yesterday, appeared before a joint parliamentary session where he presented a detailed report on the status of the nation’s economy. In his presentation, the Premier mainly highlighted the performance of core products in the market, including, rice, sugar, fuel, and cement, among others. [...]
Government Supporting Daily Joseph Rwagatare 3 August 2011 opinion President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda ended a four day state visit to Rwanda on Monday. By all accounts it was a successful visit. The Ugandan president’s visit had aroused much speculation in the media, not least because of the reported sour relations between the two countries [...]
Violence in Hama (Photo: Reuters) Several months ago I had a conversation with an American academic specialising in the Middle East. Wouldn’t it be difficult, I’d asked, for Bashar al-Assad to repeat his father’s 1982 massacre in Hama all over again in 2011, in the age of YouTube, Twitter and Facebook? “Why?” came the frigid [...]
According to Samuel Sia, a biomedical engineer at Columbia University, the first field trial for the “lab on a chip” successfully detected HIV and syphilis among residents of Rwanda, The Washington Post reports. The tests took about 20 minutes to produce results. According to a report published online by Nature Medicine, these kinds of tests could [...]
Government Supporting Daily Edmund Kagire 31 July 2011 Kicukiro — On the Second Day of His 4-day state visit, Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni joined his host President Paul Kagame and the residents of Nyarugunga sector in Kicukiro District for the end of the month community work locally known as “Umuganda.” The two Heads of [...]
— Beneath a star-filled African sky, crowds of city dwellers and rural farmers gather before a giant inflatable screen. It’s movie night in Rwanda and thousands have come to see films selected in this year’s Rwanda Film Festival. Most of them have never seen a motion picture on a large screen before and for many [...]
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Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]