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Sweden to fund $6.8m three-year peace-building programme in Rwanda

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Aegis Trust

The Swedish Embassy in Rwanda today announced funding for an ambitious new Rwanda-wide peace-building programme.

The Rwanda Peace Education Programme is designed to counter behavioural risk factors for genocide by promoting social cohesion, pluralism, personal responsibility, empathy, critical thinking and action to build a more peaceful society.

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Rwanda Bulletin des Prix Juin 2013

Le haricot est la denrée alimentaire la plus consomée dans toutes les régions du Rwanda. Le maïs, le manioc, la pomme de terre, la patate douce at la banane sont aussi importants. Le haricot et le maïs sont normalement cultivés dans tous les districts, la pomme de terre est prédominante au Nord et à l’Ouest du pays et la banane à l’Est.

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Rwanda Price Bulletin June 2013

Beans are the most common staple commodities across all regions in Rwanda. Maize, cassava, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and bananas are also very important. Beans and Maize are cultivated generally in all districts of the Country, Irish potato mainly in Northern and Western parts of the Country and Banana in Eastern parts. Staple food prices are usually lower in JanuaryFebruary, after season A, and in July-August, following the season B harvest. Prices are higher in October-November and May-June during the lean periods.

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48 Rwandan refugees return from Orukinga camp in Uganda

On June 12, 2013, The Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (MIDIMR) received 25 families composed of 48 individuals who repatriated from Orukinga camp in Uganda.

The returnees included 19 children, 15 women and 12 men. Most of them had spent more than 19 years in exile after they fled the country in 1994 during the Genocide against Tutsis.

As they crossed Gatuna border in the Northern Province of Rwanda, they said they felt extremely tranquil considering the warm welcome by MIDIMAR and UNHCR officials.

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Visite du responsable de l’equipe de l’USAID Gimbuka Program au district de Gicumbi dans la province du Nord

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Caritas

Mercredi 12 juin 2013, le Responsable de l’équipe de l’USAID Gimbuka Program, M. Jean Ntakirutimana, a effectué une visite au district de Gicumbi dans la province du Nord où il s’est entretenu avec le maire, M.Alexandre Mvuyekure, la vice-maire chargée des Affaires sociales, Thérèse Mujawamariya, et le responsable du Joint Action Development Forum (JADF), M. Anastase Nduwayezu. A ces entretiens a également participé M. Eric Rukundo, l’agent de la Caritas diocésaine de Byumba chargé du renforcement des capacités au niveau du district.

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Prosecutor of UN Rwanda genocide tribunal urges cooperation to catch roaming fugitives

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UN News Service

11 June 2013 – With nine men linked to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda still on the run, the Prosecutor who would help to try them is today urging Member States to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal and its successor body to track down and arrest the fugitives.

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Repatriation: the politics of (re)-constructing and contesting Rwandan citizenship

Authors: Kelly O'Connor

UNHCR recently announced that the refugee status of all Rwandans who fled the country between 1959 and December 1998 will cease in June 2013. The declaration follows almost ten years of active lobbying by Rwanda and other host countries to end the Rwandan refugee situation.

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Promoting adult literacy in Rwanda - Over 5,000 complete adult literacy training in Gisagara

By Jean Pierre Bucyensenge

This story originally appeared in The New Times.

More than 5,600 adults have completed adult literacy training in Gisagara District.

The course was spearheaded by the Pentecostal Church of Rwanda, with support from Global Communities under the USAID Ejo Heza project.

Speaking at the award ceremony, the Minister for Internal Security, Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, urged the trainees to put the acquired skills to good use so that they benefit the community.

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A new future for Christivine

Muriel Mac-Seing, Handicap International’s HIV/Protection technical advisor, just came back from a mission in Rwanda in April 2013. She met with Christivine, a young deaf girl and rape survivor. She tells us about her story.

“Christivine is a 14 year old deaf adolescent. She, her parents, twin brother and two sisters are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the neighbouring country of Rwanda. Since last year, they are now residing in Gisenyi, Rwanda, whereby her father is working and she and her siblings are going to school.

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More Rwandan refugees from Burundi opt for voluntary repatriation

On Tuesday June 04, 2013, twenty-six Rwandan refugees from Burundi returned home. They were received by the officials from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugees affairs and the UNHCR in Rwanda.

Those returnees included two among those who were part of the delegation that visited Rwanda earlier last April through “Come and See, Go and tell” program. After realizing that the country is safe and they had been told lies, they returned in the camp in Burundi with conviction to sensitize their fellow refugees to return home.

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Rwanda Price Bulletin May 2013

Beans are the most common staple commodities across all regions in Rwanda. Maize, cassava, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and bananas are also very important. Beans and Maize are cultivated generally in all districts of the Country, Irish potato mainly in Northern and Western parts of the Country and Banana in Eastern parts. Staple food prices are usually lower in January-February, after season A, and in July-August, following the season B harvest. Prices are higher in October-November and May-June during the lean periods.

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Rwanda Food Security Outlook Update May 2013

A near-average season 'B' harvest is expected in June

KEY MESSAGES

• In the Western and Eastern Congo-Nile zones, as well as the Eastern Semi-Arid Agro-Pastoral zone, the lean season began earlier than normal due to below-average season 'A' harvests in January/February 2013. As a result, poor households are engaging in atypical coping strategies and will face Stressed (IPC Phase 2) acute food insecurity until the next harvests in June.

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Rwanda Bulletin des Prix Mai 2013

Le haricot est la denrée alimentaire la plus consomée dans toutes les régions du Rwanda. Le maïs, le manioc, la pomme de terre, la patate douce at la banane sont aussi importants. Le haricot et le maïs sont normalement cultivés dans tous les districts, la pomme de terre est prédominante au Nord et à l’Ouest du pays et la banane à l’Est. Les prix des denrées alimentaires sont généralement bas en Janvier-Février après les récoltes de la saison A, ainsi qu’en Juillet-Aout après les récoltes de la saison B.

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Le Comité de pilotage du projet de sécurité alimentaire de Kamonyi a estimé le projet en bonne voie

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Caritas

Vendredi 24 mai 2013, le Comité de Pilotage du projet de Sécurité Alimentaire de Kamonyi (SAK), financé en partenariat avec l’Union Européenne (90 %) et la Caritas Rwanda (10 %), s’est réuni à la paroisse de Kamonyi pour une évaluation à mi-parcours de ce projet dont l’échéance ira jusqu’en 2015. Ce Comité de pilotage, présidé par le Secrétaire Général de la Caritas Rwanda, l’Abbé Oreste Incimatata, compte comme membres :

Mme Séraphine Mukankusi, chargée du suivi du projet à la représentation de l’Union Européenne ;

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La Caritas Rwanda à octroyé 320 porcs aux paysans pauvres économiquement actifs du district de Kamonyi

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Caritas

Vendredi 24 mai 2013, la Caritas Rwanda a organisé une cérémonie de distribution de 320 porcs aux paysans pauvres du district de Kamonyi dans le cadre du projet de Sécurité Alimentaire de Kamonyi (SA K) financé en partenariat avec l’Union Européenne. Le projet SAK - Caritas & Union Européenne 2010-2015 - œuvre dans trois secteurs du district de Kamonyi dans la province du Sud, à savoir les secteurs de Mugina, Nyamiyaga et Gacurabwenge.

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Femmes et enfants ont le droit d'être en sécurité, en tout temps et en tous lieux, dit Ban à Kigali

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UN News Service

23 mai 2013 – Lors de l'inauguration d'un centre d'excellence pour la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux enfants, à Kigali, au Rwanda, Ban Ki-moon a rappelé jeudi le droit de ces derniers d'être en sécurité, en tout temps et en tous lieux, « par temps de guerre ou de paix, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de leurs maisons, à l'école, qu'ils soient riches ou pauvres ».

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Rwandan 50,000 returnees expected ahead of June 30 deadline

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EastAfrican

By Joram Muhoozi Rwanda Today

Posted Friday, May 17 2013 at 18:45

In Summary

  • The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is working with the government to establish shelter and boost livelihoods for some returnees expected to be back in the country before the clause comes into effect.

As the UN Cessation Clause comes into effect some Rwf2 billion has been earmarked to support Rwandan refugees who are set to return to their motherland.

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Peace-building in Rwanda goes mobile

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Aegis Trust

15 May 2013 – From this week, the Aegis Trust’s peace-building education programme in Rwanda will no longer be limited to the Kigali Genocide Memorial; it’s going mobile – starting in Rubavu, Rwanda’s Western Province, where it is being hosted by Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle (VGN), with support from GIZ (the German Society for International Cooperation), 13 May – 3 June.

Profiled by the London Guardian in March, the programme is changing attitudes and behaviour not only among participating students, but also among their peers.

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Securité alimentaire au Bugesera : un nouveau lot de 60 vaches distribuées aux pauvres economiquement actifs

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Caritas

Lundi 13 mai 2013, la Caritas Rwanda a organisé, dans le cadre du Projet d’Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire au Bugesera (PASAB II), une nouvelle distribution de 60 vaches données à des pauvres paysans économiquement actifs choisis par la population dans 14 secteurs administratifs du district du Bugesera. Cette distribution porte à 510 le nombre de vaches distribuées par le même projet depuis 2009, dont 108 provenant des bénéficiaires qui, comme le stipule le contrat, doivent remb ourser en donnant de leur côté aux pauvres de leur groupe le premier-né de leurs génisses.

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Satellites boost new crop insurance programme in Rwanda

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Sun, 12 May 2013 11:30 PM
Author: Aimable Twahirwa

RUSATIRA, Rwanda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Rwandan government has introduced a crop insurance scheme for farmers, backed up by satellite weather stations to monitor the precise impacts of drought and heavy rains on farming.

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