[RwandaLibre] U. S. State Department official pledges energy investment in Rwanda

 

U. S. State Department official pledges energy investment in Rwanda

English.news.cn 2014-02-28 07:20:34 

KIGALI, Feb. 27(Xinhua) -- A U. S. State Department official is in
Rwanda to seek investment opportunities, especially in energy.

Elizabeth Littlefield, head of the U. S. State Department Overseas
Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), arrived in the East African
country Thursday, promising to woo more investors for power
development, the top challenge and opportunity in her eyes.

OPIC provides U. S. investors with debt financing, political risk
insurance and support for private equity investment funds.

The power sector, she said, is clearly the biggest challenge and the
biggest opportunity. "So, we see investors that are interested to
invest in hydropower and geothermal, and even in wind, solar, and
biogas," she told the media in the Rwandan capital Kigali.

Rwanda's power production stands at 110 megawatts with only 16 percent
of the population having access to electricity.

The country targets to produce at least 563 megawatts by 2018 from
various energy sources, including methane gas, peat, solar and biogas.

Apart from the Rwandan energy sector, American entrepreneurs have also
engaged in coffee and tea processing, forestry and agriculture
investment management, and in humanitarian services.

OPIC has invested 26 million U.S. dollars in five projects in Rwanda,
including the tea processing and exporting company Sorwathe and Rwanda
Trading Company, a coffee processing group.

Rwandan Finance Minister Amb. Claver Gatete said his country's
environment is open to investors and encouraged OPIC to keep
supporting investments into the country.

Littlefield, who has toured different companies with American
interests in Rwanda, praised the progress made by the African country
in improving investment environment. "We know that this country is
doing extremely well on all the indicators of being a good environment
to bring investors in," she said.

She described Rwanda as a place where many countries throughout the
region look to how to create a One-Stop-Shop in getting business
licenses and other services.

Editor: Yamei Wang

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[RwandaLibre] Is Evode Uwizeyimana a prodigal son?

 

The Untold Stories: Is Evode Uwizeyimana a prodigal son?

http://www.therwandan.com/ki/files/2012/08/RDI-300x200.jpg
Evode Uwizeyimana aiming for the top job

Watching an Empire Program on Aljazeera TV hosted by Marwan Bishara,
he describes Hollywood as the world's place where Americans'
perception of the US and its culture is shaped; you don't fail to see
Me Evode playing the same role. According to Mr. Marwan, Hollywood is
shaping people's perceptions of the US and world history.

The Parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15:11-32 where Jesus illustrated
how sinners can come back to God

"There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father,
'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property
between them. "Not long after that, the younger son got together all
he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth
in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe
famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went
and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to
his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods
that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Therefore the long trek from Rwanda to Canada might have been too long
for Me Evode to spend what he had and he is genuinely playing the
prodigal son to come back and ask for forgiveness as he appeared
yesterday in most of the Rwandan media. On the other hand Me Evode
knows very well how the Media shaped him and made him a movie actor in
the legal theater. Indeed, Evode might be playing the same tactics to
induce the appetite of the RPF to renewal his contract which is now 3
months away to expire or to get a permanent employment.

Photo: RDI members with Evode Uwizeyimana prior to his departure
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Whichever way, Evode is playing a cat and mouth game, he is being
watched by his game mates and at a right place and time he will never
know what will hit him. There is a saying that If you are 50 and you
keep reasoning like somebody who is 20, then the 30 years are not only
wasted but leaves a lot to be desired. Does Me Evode reflect on the
history and may be the path of RPF on the journey of consolidating
power? A good example is a testimony of Mr Abdul Ruzibiza on how
mistakes by both the Rwandan Government and the RPF led to the Rwandan
genocide of 1994. Ruzibiza having narrated in his book Rwanda:
L'Histoire Secréte and later tried to retract what he had said both in
his book and in the international media like BBC and VOA ,he forgot
that he was being watched by his play mates in the Kigali playing
field.

Cat Mouse game

No sooner had he played the games of cat and mouse than the co-players
on the opposite side had exterminated him, the rest is history. Does
Me Evode remember the way he described the entire RPF leadership as "a
gang of bandits" who disregard the rule of law? Indeed, he said that
it is one of the reasons that made him leave Rwanda when he was a
judge. On one occasion in the case of the brother (Rugigana Ngabo) of
the former Rwandan army Chief Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa he described the
Rwandan legal system as people who are controlled by the remote
control from the President's Office who will only use political reason
rather than the legal reason.

RPF establishment knows very well the venom of Me Evode he injected in
the Rwandan people which is had to treat, besides the status quo of
the violations of Human Rights, lack of judicial independence,
extra-judicial killings, suffocation of the media, and incarceration
of the political opponents of the regime in Kigali. Despite the
rhetoric of repentance by Me Evode, he defiantly defended his
opposition to the regime in Kigali, he argued that his position was
constructive but he quickly added that if it was not well perceived by
(RPF) then he begs forgiveness. This sounds defiance not only to the
people who delve into the Hollywood theatrical staged political movies
but also to the RPF who knows very well how dangerous people or those
perceived to be should be given the dose of eternality. But the
History of RPF is clear; it's not necessarily what you do but what you
are perceived to be, the likes of Muvunanyambo, one of the soldiers
released from the prison during the Ruhengeri attack by the RPF in
1991 or Cpt. Frank Tega one of the RPF comrades were killed not for
what they had done but what they were perceived to do.

This is just a tip of iceberg, but as we approach the end of the
tenure of the Kagame regime many people will disappear especially
those perceived to harbor butterfly colors or those perceived to
switch sides like billboards, in fact many political assassinations of
many Rwandan politicians like Emmanuel Gapyisi, a prominent political
leader from the south and vice president of the MDR party at the time
and other selected murders nationwide like businessmen, mayors,
parliamentarians, and leading up to the assassination of Gatabazi,
Bucyana, and finally President Habyarimana are a vindication of what
is waiting for many politicians who not only oppose the RPF regime
but those perceived to be potentially capable to give RPF and Kagame
a bloody nose in the elections of 2017.

Whether Evode is playing the prodigal son or just opportunistically
trying to reap in both fields remains to be seen, but what is clear
though, he is being monitored every inch of his movements and Jack
Nziza or Dan Munyuza at any given opportunity would they perceive him
to be a potential threat he will be dealt in the same way many
Rwandans have been dealt with.

Jacqueline Umurungi
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[RwandaLibre] Kerry voices U.S. dismay at anti-gay law to Uganda's Museveni

 

Kerry voices U.S. dismay at anti-gay law to Uganda's Museveni

WASHINGTON Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:21pm EST

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(Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni this week to convey U.S. unhappiness at an anti-gay
law in Uganda and tell him it will complicate ties between the two
countries, the State Department said on Friday.

The new law strengthened existing punishments for anyone caught having
gay sex, imposing jail terms of up to life for "aggravated
homosexuality" - including sex with a minor or while HIV-positive. It
criminalized lesbianism for the first time and made it a crime to help
individuals engage in homosexual acts.

"Secretary Kerry expressed the United States' deep disappointment in
the Ugandan government's decision to enact the anti-homosexuality
bill," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said of the call, which
took place on Thursday.

"The secretary noted that the decision complicates the U.S.
relationship with Uganda," the spokeswoman added in her written
statement, although she said that Kerry did not threaten any specific
sanction by the United States in response.

Homosexuality is a taboo in most African nations and illegal in 37,
including Uganda, where it has been a crime since British colonial
rule. However, such laws are seldom enforced.

On Wednesday, Kerry described the new law as "atrocious" and
Museveni's signing it as "flat-out morally wrong." He also likened it
to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany and racial discrimination in
South Africa during the apartheid era.

The United States gave more than $485 million in aid to Uganda in the
year ended on September 30. The bulk of the funding went to health
programs and security, including military training.

(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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[RwandaLibre] Uganda: 18 Ambassadors Condemn Anti-Homosexuality Law

 

18 Ambassadors Condemn Anti-Homosexuality Law

AllAfrica.com - 6 hours ago

As Uganda continues to take in the backlash following the enactment
and signing into law of the Anti Homosexuality Act, The Observer
continues to bring you the latest news on this and other stories.

Within the last few minutes, the European Union Head of Delegation in
Uganda Kristian Schmidt has released a terse statement in which
eighteen ambassadors and high commissioners representing western
countries condemn the new law.

Earlier, the World Bank announced that it was withholding $90m meant
for the health sector as it "reviews" the situation.

Below is the EU statement in full and the signatories below it.

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned and disappointed about the
enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

We strongly believe that all humans share common indivisible rights.
The Anti-Homosexuality Law contradicts this universal principle and
the Ugandan commitment to protect the fundamental human rights of all
of its citizens.

We would like to remind the Government of Uganda of its constitutional
and international human rights obligations. Having ratified the
African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, as well as the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Uganda is
obliged to guarantee the human rights infringed by the
Anti-Homosexuality Law.

Signed by:

Urban Andersson, Ambassador of Sweden

David Angel, Canadian High Commissioner

Alison Blackburne, British High Commissioner

Dónal Cronin, Chargé d'Affaires of Ireland

Stefano A Dejak, Ambassador of Italy

Scott H. DeLisi, U.S Ambassador

Klaus Dieter Düxmann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

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[RwandaLibre] Uganda accuses World Bank of blackmail over anti-gay law

 

Uganda accuses World Bank of blackmail over anti-gay law

World | Agence-France Presse | Updated: February 28, 2014 23:17 IST

Kampala: Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after
the lender stalled a $90 million loan over the east African nation's
adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.

"World Bank is a multi-lateral institution that should not blackmail
its members however small," government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said on
Twitter.

The World Bank announced on Thursday that it was blocking the loan,
which was intended to help Uganda strengthen its health care system.

Earlier this week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed off on one
of the world's toughest anti-gay laws despite warnings from his
Western allies.

Museveni capped his defence of the law - which could see homosexuals
jailed for life and requires people to denounce them - with a lurid
description of his particular revulsion to oral sex.

"We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the
development objectives would not be adversely affected by the
enactment of this new law," a World Bank spokesman said.

Opondo argued in another tweet that "this so-called 'cut' is attempted
blackmail to set Ugandans against their government."

Museveni has been in power for 28 years, a record in East Africa.

The move follows action by Norway and Denmark to freeze or change aid
programs for Uganda and blunt criticism from the United States and
Sweden.

US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the new law as akin to
anti-Semitic legislation in Nazi Germany and apartheid in South
Africa.

But Opondo replied by accusing the West of attempting to impose its
values on Africans.

"Why does the West criminalise polygamy but allow homosexuality if
indeed they are defending (freedom of association)," he said.

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