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[AFRICAFORUM] Fw: FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY

On Saturday, March 1, 2014 12:50 PM, R. Tucker <cslpublishing@yahoo.com> wrote:

R. Stanton Tucker is giving away 7 copies of Success Is Your Birthright God's Success on Goodreads, http://www.goodreads.com/. Sign up for or login into Goodreads to register.

The book is available internationally to United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, EU countries, Russia, Australia, and other markets through Amazon.com. Success Is Your Birthright God's Success is also available at http://www.bn.com/ (Barnes & Noble).

Read on the book excerpts here. Click below.

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[RwandaLibre] Rwanda's private sector close to controlling economy

Rwanda's private sector close to controlling economy

By ALEX NGARAMBE Rwanda Today
Posted Friday, February 28 2014 at 19:20

IN SUMMARY
According to Rwanda Development Board (RDB), since 1995 when the
government put in place a series of economic mechanisms to revive the
economy, more than 80 government parastatals have been put up for sale
with about 60 of them fully or partially sold.

The government's plan to let the private sector take ownership of
running the economy is gaining momentum with more than 80 per cent of
all government parastatals that were lined up for privatisation being
fully or partially sold to private investors.

The majority of the companies that were up for grabs have been taken
over by foreign investors with Rwandans allowed a chance to have
ownership in a few companies that are listed on the stock exchange.

According to Rwanda Development Board (RDB), since 1995 when the
government put in place a series of economic mechanisms to revive the
economy, more than 80 government parastatals have been put up for sale
with about 60 of them fully or partially sold.

More than 20 untouched

The privatisation drive was aimed at addressing the deteriorating
situation of public enterprises that lacked expertise after the
devastation caused by four years of instability in the country that
rendered sustained economic growth difficult.

READ: Boost for struggling firms as investors come calling

More than 20 companies are however untouched and the government is
courting investors to take them up.

Notable among them is RwandAir Express, the national carrier, which is
supposed to offload 99 per cent to private investors, Onatracom, which
is seeking to sell 100 per cent and Bank of Kigali, which hopes to
sell the remaining 80 per cent.

RwandAir is borrowing heavily to invest in new aircraft and other
areas with the most recent being the funds government borrowed through
the euro bond.

Onatracom, the oldest transport company in the country and the only
public one, has been struggling with heavy losses due to mismanagement
of funds.

"The privatisation campaign was put in place to promote private sector
participation, especially in business and operations, in terms of
expansion and value addition," said Naphtal Kazoora, the acting head
of assets and business management department at RDB.

For the past five years, Rwanda's economy grew at an average of eight
per cent, save for last year when it declined to 6.5 per cent,
attributed to the aid cuts of 2012. However, the government is
projecting a growth of 11.5 per cent by 2020 and the private sector is
the key driver.

Mr Kazoora added that, with high appetite for investors in most
sectors of the economy, the target is not overambitious. However, the
local private sector is still not as competitive as its regional
counterparts and the government is still the biggest employer.

Most vibrant

The tea sector is the most vibrant and successful in terms of
privatisation, with most tea estates sold and more lined up for sale
than in any other sector.

In 2012, Rwanda Tea Investment (RTI) took control of Mulindi and
Shagasha tea factories. The firm, formed by UK-based investors,
controls 60 per cent of Shagasha and the government 10 per cent and
the remaining 30 per cent is owned by farmers.

In Mulindi, Rwanda's oldest tea factory, RTI owns 55 per cent and
farmers the remainder.

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[AfricaWatch] Rwanda: Peacekeeping heroics could be misleading about the role of RDF

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Peacekeeping heroics could be misleading about the role of RDF

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By Frank Kagabo

Posted Friday, February 14 2014 at 21:12

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A contingent of Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) currently stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR) has received plaudits for standing out among the peacekeepers there.

A prominent blogger attributed some rare heroics to the soldiers. The blogger claimed that the French troops, also stationed in the CAR, were hogging most of the limelight on some missions largely carried out by the RDF contingent. It is well known that the RDF ranks have had a historical loathing of the French military and political establishment.

When this information was coming out, the RDF was also, according to some reports, being praised by a US military official as being the most competent peacekeeping force in the world.

Yes, the whole world! Cynics will, of course, dismiss this, saying that it's the usual diplomatic speak of US officials bent on promoting their nations influence by massaging some egos here and there.

Since 2004, peacekeeping has become an integral part of the RDF and also the Rwanda National Police (RNP). Participating in these well funded missions in Darfur, South Sudan, Haiti and now CAR, has paid off in a manner that would not have been imagined a decade ago.

Getting selected for a tour of duty in Darfur or South Sudan is, for a member of the forces, a prestigious achievement worth eagerly looking forward to.

A good number who have been in these missions have transformed their circumstances significantly. Junior officers have been able to construct homes, in part because of participating in these missions, and also by taking advantage of their credit scheme.

Many can attest to the fact that it has always been an uphill task for people working in government as civil servants, teachers, police officers and soldiers to own houses.

At the time of the end of the genocide, we are told that soldiers had celebrity status and took the hottest girls and had street credentials with the most respect in drinking joints.

As things settled down and the economy got going again, their paltry salaries could not match the high expectations that go with being popular. And the spell they had over the rest of society, thanks to their bravery and war tales, waned as the realities of a cash economy set in.

Then came the UN peacekeeping missions and those who participated in them had their social glory restored.

If the heroics of the RDF that have been described are anything to go by, it goes without saying that they are a highly motivated lot that looks forward to these missions.

On another level, the RDF apparently remains a coherent force that is led by a homogeneous elite of officers that has a shared world view and experiences.

These are men who participated in the 1990-94 campaign for power and a handful of mid-level officers that joined after the struggle. Many observers had expected to see a fissure in the RDF when a number of its historical first- and second-tier commanders were demobilised or fled to exile. However, this never materialised, showing that it largely remains united behind its leadership.

Although the RDF comes across as a highly professional and disciplined force, many critics of the current establishment continue to point out that the homogeneity of its leadership, and their shared life experiences as returnees of '94, is its major weakness.

That, as such, it does not, at least at the leadership level, reflect the social composition of the country.

Civil authority

More so, it is noted that RDF is loyal to the ruling party and its leadership first, with some of its senior leaders participating in meetings at the RPF Secretariat. And that this prevents it from being a truly national army. However, this would be to ignore the historical evolution of the RDF.

Therefore, looking at the heroics observed abroad, there would be temptation to think that this is an army with a long and established culture of being subordinate to civil authority and committed to keeping the peace and in barracks.

But it is likely that the RDF will still be highly involved in deciding who runs the country. Even more likely is that a person without a history from this army stands a very slim chance of taking the reigns of this nation in the near future.

Frank Kagabo is an Erasmus Mundus graduate student of journalism, media and globalisation at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Swansea University, the UK, specialising in war and conflict reporting. E-mail: frank2kagabo@yahoo.com; Twitter: @kagabo

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[RwandaLibre] Rwanda: Peacekeeping heroics could be misleading about the role of RDF