Mugume

This is politics, You can wonder when International Law will ever be Law.

Rwanda welcomes French court ruling to lift arrest warrant of top official
By Rwanda News agency

Kigali: The Rwandan government has welcomed a decision by a French court to lift the arrest warrant of Madam Rose Kabuye who was arrested in Frankfurt, last November, RNA reports.

Madam Rose Kabuye, the Director of Rwanda’s State Protocol was arrested on a French warrant over her suspected involvement in the assassination of Rwanda’s former president, Juvenal Habyarimana, in 1994.

After the court ruling Kabuye returned and was received Tuesday evening at Kigali International Airport. Upon arrival, she indicated that the lifting of the indictment implies that she will be able to resume her duties and travel freely anywhere in the world.

The government released a communiqué welcoming the ruling and stated that, Rwanda as a nation has interest in supporting international justice and the government remains ready and willing to play its role in conformity with the spirit of international justice and fairness.

The arrest caused a diplomatic furore and was greeted by street protests across the country and many African organisations condemning the arrest.

Kabuye’s arrest stemmed from the controversial indictments issued in 2006 by French Judge Jean Louis Bruguière’s indictments that have widely been condemned by the Rwandan Government as having been politically motivated.

Rose Kabuye was suspected along with eight other former senior members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) in connection with the shooting down of the plane carrying former presidents Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi.

Kabuye was arrested in November last year in Germany while on an official trip to prepare for a presidential visit. (End)

I have always wondered the thinking os such people, i dont know what they are about! Instead of reconciling and think about the future and a better Rwanda, They keep on making such attrocities. May God come for thier rescue. Am sure its the devil in them making them do that.

Two Genocide survivors killed, bodies dumped in Nyabarongo

BY EDMUND KAGIRE , Newtimes, Rwanda
Theodore Simburudali, the President of IBUKA, the umbrella body of Genocide survivors association, Tuesday, strongly condemned the killing of two genocide survivors in the Southern Province.

The victims, Francois Gasirabo and Jeannette Nyirabaganwa, both residents of Huye District, were reportedly murdered on March 22 in the Southern Province and their bodies were dumped in River Nyabarongo. They were recovered near Kigali.

Simburudali told members of the press there was evidence that the two were killed by people they possibly exposed before Gacaca courts or their relatives, for participating in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis.

He added that to cover up the cause of the killings, the suspected murderers started circulating rumours that the two were killed because of business rivalry.

During the Genocide, Tutsis were killed and dumped in the river that pours into River Akagera and Lake Victoria so they could flow back to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) where they allegedly came from.

The IBUKA President said that the act was unfortunate especially at a time when the Genocide Commemoration Week is approaching, noting that more cases of stigma and trauma directed towards genocide survivors are being registered.

Police Spokesperson John Uwamungu said that police are still investigating the murder and a search for the culprits has been mounted.

He however refused to give further information about any progress in the search saying it would jeopardise investigations.

Uwamungu also noted that another case of attacks directed towards genocide survivors is being investigated but could not give further details.

Meanwhile, Simburudali said that IBUKA and other organisations like AVEGA (Genocide Widow’s Association) and the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) are working with the police and other authorities to ensure that the attacks on the survivors, which are expected to increase ahead of the commemoration, are quelled.

Gasirabo and Nyirabaganwa were buried on March 28 and 30 respectively.

18 Lango ministers sworn in
By Patrick Okino, Newvision, Uganda

The state minister for gender, Rukia Nakadama, has urged cultural leaders to promote cultures which respect human dignity and consolidate their institutions.

Officiating at the swearing in of 18 Lango Cultural Foundation ministers at the cultural centre in Lira district on Saturday, Nakadama advised people to kick out politicians who did not support their institution in the next elections.

Nakadama said the National Resistance Movement government restored the cultural institutions because their role in resolving disputes and domestic problems were paramount.

“It is your constitutional responsibility to pay allegiance to the cultural leaders,” Nakadama told the public. She appealed to the leaders to incorporate women in their cabinets.

Commenting on a query raised by the Lango Paramount Chief, Yosam Odur, about the Domestic Relations Bill, Nakadama said the Bill was aimed at reducing the rampant domestic violence.

The ministers and prime minister were sworn in by Gabriel Nyipir, the Lira chief magistrate.

World Bank Trains Young Southern Sudanese

By Mugume Rwakaringi

The World Bank has embarked on a training program young Southern Sudanese aimed at improvement of Human resource in the country, Daily Liberation has reliably established.

Last week, World Bank started with 11 students who will graduate as Administrative and Client Support (ACS) staff usually referred to Secretaries or Administrative Assistants in other institutions five of these trainees will immediately be absorbed as World Bank staff while the remainder will be recommended for potential employers, reliable sources intimated to our reporter that the rest will also require some “juicy” jobs in other UN agencies here in Southern Sudan.

Speaking on the function to inaugurate this training, World Bank Sudan Country Manager, Mr. Laurence said: “Our main objective is to fill the support staff positions in the World Bank Juba Office with Southern Sudanese”.

South Sudan has in past failed to have qualified staff for some professional employments living employers to rely from those from East Africa.

World Bank Human Resource Manager for Eastern Africa, Mr Agufana Obed said via a video conference from Nairobi concurred that it was difficult to get the cadres needed, Therefore the Bank had to recruit the support staff from the Eastern African region when the it was setting up the Secretariat for the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Southern Sudan (MDTF-SS) in 2005.

Addressing the audience on the launching ceremony from Addis Ababa via the same video conference, the World Bank Country Director for Sudan and Ethiopia, Mr. Kenichi Ohashi, said the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) needs all the support it can get to reconstruct the war devastated region. He said development is not only about building infrastructure. The Director underlined the importance of qualified personnel as assets in fostering development.

The GoSS Minister of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development, H.E. Awut Deng Achuil, appreciated the role of the Bank in capacity building in Southern Sudan. She urged the Bank to continue supporting the institutional and personnel development in Southern Sudan.

The Minister supported The World Bank Human Resource Manager for Eastern Africa, Mr. Agufana Obed appeal on the trainees to absorb the knowledge given by International experts.
He requested them to be good ambassadors of Southern Sudan in the international community.

Some of the courses offered include Ethics in Workplace, Cross Cultural Communication, Basic Administrative Procedures, Time Management, Project Cycle Writing Memos and E-mails conducted by World Bank experts from Washington, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Khartoum and Juba.

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