Try as you may, you will never figure out how the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, determines what constitutes development priorities. Nevertheless, his policy actions suggest he favors mega-projects that have a visible impact. Put in another way, Kagame prefers to implement projects that have a demonstrative effect. For example, Kagame spent US$300 Million to build a convention center. He sunk over US$1 Billion into the national airline. He also spent US$40 Million on the English football club Arsenal. For this amount of money, Arsenal will wear a "visit Rwanda" logo to sponsor tourism.
Kagame's preference for large-scale visible projects has adverse consequences. This has led to a devastating neglect of invisible but vital imperatives central to socio-economic transformation. As the saying goes, what you don't see can seriously harm you. Case in point is electricity — easily, the most damaging developmental failure by the Kagame government.
Percentage of population with access to electricity — Sustainable Energy for All database jointly led by the World Bank and the International Energy Agency.
The percentage of the Rwandan population with access to electricity is 29.4%. Comparatively, the percentage of the population with access to electricity in Somalia stands at 29.9%. Somalia is a country without a functioning government for almost 30 years. Electricity access in Haiti is 38.7%, while electricity in Eritrea is 46.7. Haiti and Eritrea are generally regarded as failed states — but here they are with higher electricity access rates than Rwanda which is a self-proclaimed Africa's success story.
The situation is much worse in rural Rwanda. The percentage of the rural population with electricity in Rwanda drops to 17.8% as shown in Figure 2.
FIGURE 2 — Comparative Rural Access To Electricity
World Bank/International Energy Agency: The percentage of the rural population with electricity
"In Rwanda, 95 percent of people use solid fuels for cooking, while further south in Malawi, biomass meets 93 of energy needs. But dependency on solid biomass such as firewood is harming the environment, as overharvesting of wood degrades the land and contributes to climate change. Burning wood for fuel also causes indoor air pollution that adversely affects populations that are already disadvantaged, in particular women and children."
Rwanda's position in electricity generation global rankings completes the gloomy story.
The CIA World Factbook which ranks countries according to installed electricity generation capacity further indicates Rwanda's dire circumstances.. Rwanda stands in position 170 out of 215 countries. Part of the global rankings is shown in Figure 3.
FIGURE 3— Global Rankings On Installed Electricity Generation
Source: The CIA World Factbook
Less than two years when Rwanda is supposed to become a middle-income state per Vision 2020, most Rwandans live in the dark. Over 95% cook with firewood that is destroying the environment. Comparatively, Rwandans have less access to electricity than their counterparts in countries categorized as "failed states" such as Somalia, Haiti, and Eritrea. It is stating the obvious to say that Kagame's development model is very strange.
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The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has cancelled its mission to Rwanda after suspending the visit last October.
The UN body accuses Kigali of lack of cooperation.
"In 11 years of exercising its mandate and more than 60 visits, it is the first time the SPT is terminating a visit before its completion. There was no realistic prospect of the visit being successfully resumed and concluded within a reasonable timeframe," the agency said in a statement on July 4.
The decision has irked Kigali which accuses the body of acting in bad faith.
"The allegations of lack of cooperation are untrue, unfounded and in bad faith and the Government of Rwanda rejects them now as it has rejected them previously," the administration said in a statement last Tuesday.
The UN body regularly visits countries that have ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture to investigate torture allegations and assess implementation of measures aimed at preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
The mission was first suspended in October last year, when members of the subcommittee cut short their visit in Kigali citing a "series of obstructions imposed by authorities".
The team also said it was denied confidentiality to certain interviewees who it argued could face reprisals.
"The Government of Rwanda acceded to and fully facilitated the visit of the SPT, including granting full and unimpeded access to places of detention and to detainees," the government responded.
Termination of the mission now undermines UN's recognition of Rwanda's Human Rights Commission, which was granted the mandate by Parliament in February to serve as the national preventive mechanism against torture.
In a report by the Human Rights Watch last year, the watchdog alleged that the military routinely tortures detainees with beatings, asphyxiations, mock executions and electric shocks.
HRW said it had confirmed hundreds of people who were illegally detained and tortured in army detention centres between 2010 and 2016.
But Kigali dismissed the report as fake, arguing that the watchdog was "desperate for attention".
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A new rebel Movement has claimed responsibility for the recent wave of attacks in Rwanda and announced its intentions to topple the government of President Paul Kagame by force of arms.
The group, which calls itself, the National Liberation Forces (NLF), accuses Kagame of dividing the nation, suppression of civil liberties, amending the Constitution to stay in office, harassment of political opponents; and failing to address poverty, starvation and mass unemployment.
"We therefore created the armed forces known as the National Liberation Forces (NLF) and we assigned them the mission to put an immediate end to the dictatorial power of the RPF Kagame," reads a statement issued by the so-called Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change (RMDC).
"The NLF will use all possible means including the armed struggle to drive the RPF out of power, since it refused all peaceful ways," the statement added.
The rebels posing for a group photo
ChimpReports understands RMDC is led by Paul Rusesabagina, a wealthy Rwandan humanitarian, who says, while working as a house manager at the Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,200 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide.
He has since won international awards for this alleged heroic act.
Rusesabagina was praised for shinning a spotlight on the crimes committed by the genocidal regime. He would later turn his guns on Kagame – accusing the president of human rights abuses.
On April 6, 2006, Kagame responded: "Rusesabagina should try his talents elsewhere and not climb on the falsehood of being a hero, because it's totally false."
The group has claimed responsibility for recent attacks in Rwanda; claims we couldn't verify
War
It now appears Rusesabagina has been quietly recruiting militants to fight President Kagame.
Rusesabagina is deputized by Callixte N. Sankara, who also is the spokesperson of the military wing.
Third in command is Wilson Irategeka, the leader of a splinter group from the FDLR – a group of militias blamed for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
ChimpReports was yet to establish a link between NLF and dissident Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Attacks
NFL claimed responsibility for the attacks in Nyaruguru which is located in the South Western part of Rwanda – about 100kms from the Capital, Kigali.
One of the rebels poses with a machine gun
Rwanda National Police said in a statement that "At about 23:30 Sunday July 1, 2018, an armed gang with rifles attacked Nyaruguru District in Nyabimata Sector, Ruhinga Cell in Cyamuzi Village."
Police said the "gang stole items belonging to community members including livestock and food items like beans, rice, Irish potatoes. The gang attacked through Nyungwe forest from Burundi and they fled back in the same direction. This is a similar incident that occurred in the same district less than two weeks ago."
In their statement, the new rebel movement said they had carried out attacks in Cyangugu, Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, Bugesera and Huye," adding, "everywhere the soldiers of Kagame suffered casualties and those who escaped preferred to take their legs close to their necks."
Rwandan officials said they were not aware of armed attacks in the aforementioned areas apart from Nyaruguru.
Rebels learning how to assemble weapons (Courtesy photos/Social Media)
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The rebel force's source of funding and logistics remains unclear.
But pictures released by the movement shows militants wearing raincoats wielding heavy guns and rounds of ammunition.
The group's ability to challenge the statusquo in Rwanda is unknown to us but Rwandan officials believe Kagame's enemies have been recruiting fighters from across the world.
Burundi has since denied accusations of harbouring Rwandan rebels, saying it should be Rwanda to blame for arming and training Burundian dissidents to destabiise the reign of President Pierre Nkurunziza.
The unfolding developments point to the possibility of a protracted armed conflict between rebels and the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), a situation that could drag in other countries in the region.
RDF is yet to speak out on the attacks in Rwanda; tactfully letting police handle the matter possibly to avoid alarming citizens, neighbours and visitors.
Lt Col Innocent Munyengango did not respond to our communication seeking comments on the unfolding security situation.
However, President Kagame this past week warned saboteurs of tough time ahead, saying Rwanda was prepared for war if imposed on his country.
The President, whose rebel outfit, RPF, came to power in 1994 by force of arms, added: "RDF is trained and prepared to fight wars but not to start them with others."
Flanked by the military's top brass including Defence Minister Gen James Kabarebe and Chief of Defence Staff Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, Kagame added: "But if others make us their problem and choose to start a war with us, that is when we use judgment, determination and training to fight and finish it for them."
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None ko umbuza kuvuga icyo ntekereza ? Ntabwo ari uburenganzira bwabaye?
U Rwanda ni urwacu twese kandi ntawe ugomba gucecekeshwa, cyane cyane abakora politike bagomba kwemera ko abanyarwanda batanga ibitekerezo ndetse byaba ngombwa bagakiritika Leta na opposition. Mu mucyo. Umunsi opposition yatangiye kwifata nka Leta ya Kagame, nayo tuzayamagana, nta kundi byagenda, ariko tudatukana. Ntawe dushyizeho igitugu cyangwa ngo tumutere ubwoba. Niyo demokrasi duharanira. Kota njye mbona atigira igihangange, ndetse nahamyab ko ari mu bantu b'inararibonye, batanga ibitekerezo byubaka, yemye, adatukana, atiyenza cyangwa ngo agire uwo asuzugura.
http://www.cupr-ubwiyunge.org/ "Commence par faire le nécessaire, puis fais ce qu'il est possible de faire et tu réaliseras l'impossible sans t'en apercevoir"(St François d'Assise)
Le jeu. 12 juil. 2018 à 18:22, Michel Niyibizi <niyimike@yahoo.fr> a écrit :
Hali amwe mu mashuli y'isumbuye Irwanda yigishaga Animal farm ya Georges Orwell, mbere ya 1994. Hali abacyibuka inyamaswa zitwa Old Major (big brother or the founding philosopher), Squealer ( the best propagandist who could turn black into white), etc. None Radio itahuka igaruye icyo gitabo, noneho cyose uko cyitwa "1984": nibishimirwe.
Bwana Sebahire avuga ibili mu gitabo, yakomoje ku itekinika /ubulyalya (lies), ubusambo (greed), ubwoba (peur/ intimidation), ibibi byanakuruliye/bikurulira abanyarwanda, byishe/bikica uburanga, byatumye/bigatuma ikizere kiyoyoka. Ngiyo:
- Opposition itarashishoje, idashishoza: yashwanyaguritse, n'udusigisigi tuvugwa twishakira amaramuko, twizerwa na bake.
- Rubanda iracuguswa ngo yoye gutekereza, yemere igikwiye yanga ikibi; irwanira gusa kurebwa neza na BB (Big Brother) uliho: isa nk'iyabaye ikintu, idashishikajwe n'uburenganzira bwa muntu cyane cyane ya "Je pense donc je suis".
Urwanda nk'uru rutandukaniye he n'ibi byo mu bihugu bya George Orwel, aho gutekereza ali icyaha kibi cyane? Banyarubuga, dufite ikibazo nk'icya Wilson: ese mama twicecekere, tutongera kugira icyo twandika ko BB adutunze amaso hose?
Turasaba intore zidukunda kutuyamba zitubwira uko twabigenza, niba zibishaka!
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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
