Radio Ubumwe : Ikiganiro na Major Callixte Sankara wa FLN-MRCD 19/07/2018
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Rwanda: le président Kagame est sur le qui-vive - Le Soir Plus
http://plus.lesoir.be/168565/article/2018-07-17/rwanda-le-president-kagame-est-sur-le-qui-vive?noCookies=1Le président Kagame n'est pas homme à plaisanter avec la sécurité du Rwanda. Lors de la sortie d'une nouvelle promotion de 180 jeunes officiers formés au camp Gako (où se trouvent 400 militaires américains…), il a rappelé que son armée, bien formée, était préparée à faire face à « toute situation inattendue »…
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Kagame's Rwanda Has Less Electricity Than Somalia — And Much Less Than Haiti And Eritrea.
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.
The database from the Global Tracking Framework led by the World Bank and International Energy Agency provides an insight into Rwanda's electricity situation. Part of Rwanda's reality is shown in Figure 1. As indicated, countries such as Haiti, Somalia, and Lesotho have higher electricity access rates than Rwanda.
FIGURE 1 — Comparative Electricity Access
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
When it comes to cooking, however, the distinction between rural and urban access to electricity disappears.. The overwhelming majority of Rwandans depends on solid biomass for cooking:
"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."
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
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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-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”
-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».
-“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.”
-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”