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Fr Thomas NAHIMANA gives lecture on Nonviolent Conflict Resolution

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thomassss“Lessons in Nonviolent Conflict Resolution” lecture and discussion to be held at Southwestern 

Coos Bay, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College is pleased to host “Lessons in Nonviolent Conflict Resolution”, a lecture and discussion being given by Thomas Nahimana, a Rwandan, Catholic priest. The lecture, with a question and answer period to follow, will be held on March 16, 2016 beginning at 7 pm in the Hales Center for the Performing Arts on the Coos campus of Southwestern, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay. The program is free and open to all in the community.

Thomas Nahimana believes that peaceful conflict resolution and true reconciliation are primarily based on Gandhi and Tolstoi’s principles of nonviolence philosophy (ahisma/satyagraha). These principles are very useful in resolving conflicts at all levels: inter-personal, family, school, community, national and international levels. Moreover, these nonviolence principals can be used not only as a philosophy but also as a strategy and a eans to achieve political and social change.

Participants will learn about “Our Three Attitudes” towards conflict and violence in order to avoid and better meet the challenges of the “spiral of violence”.

Thomas Nahimana is a Rwandan, Catholic priest born in 1971. He grew up in Rwanda and experienced very hard moments of civil war and genocide (1990-1994). He then devoted his life toward peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation. He launched and monitored the training of 2500 Peace Artisans and Reconciliation Mediators in the Cyangugu Catholic Diocese.

Mr. Nahimana studied in Rwanda and France. He holds degrees in Theology (Bachelors), Law (Masters) and he is finishing his dissertation for a PhD of Philosophy. He holds a diploma as a Nonviolence Trainer delivered by the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR).

Since December 2005, Thomas has been living in exile in Normandy France where he mainly works in family conflict resolution. In 2013, he and his friends launched a political party, the ISHEMA Party, with nonviolence as a strategy to achieve democratic change in Rwanda. Currently, the ISHEMA Party leads the “New Generation Leadership Movement”. In 2015, Thomas Nahimana was nominated as a presidential candidate by the congress of his party and will soon return to Rwanda in order to register his party and challenge the dictator Paul Kagame in the 2017 presidential elections.


Burundi: Igipolisi cyafashe ‘maneko y’Umunyarwanda’

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Umuvugizi w’igipoli c’Uburundi Pierre NKURIKIYE.

Uwo Munyarwanda igipolisi cemeza ko yafatiwe ku musozi witwa Rushenya muri komine giteranyi, intara ya Muyinga mu buraruko bw’Uburundi.

Hafi y’ikiyaga Rweru yitwa, Cyprien Rucyahintare. Akaba yavukiye i kabare i Bugande mu mwaka wa 1992 nkuko yavyivugiye.Yinjiye igisirikare c’Urwanda 2011. Ubu afise ipete rya caporal.

Umuvugizi w’igipolisi yemeza ko uwo mugabo biboneka ko akiri muto akaba akorera mw’ikambi ya gisirikare y’ahitwa Gabiro. Nawe nyene yavyemeye.

Nyene gufatwa yitwa ariyemerera ko ari umusirikare w’u Rwanda koko mbere akongeraho ko yize n’akazi ko gukora nka maneko.

Cyprien Rucyahintare ariko yivugira ko ariwe yishikanye ku nzego z’umutekano z’Uburundi atigeze afatwa.

160312144327_maneko_rwanda_512x288_bbc_nocredit.jpgUwatawe muri yombi yitwa Cyprien Rucyahintare

Ariko Umuvugizi w’igipolisi, Pierre Nkurikiye, avuga ko uwo musirikare yafashwe n’inzego z’umutekano inyuma y’uko agwa mu minwe y’abaturage. Uwo musirikare yemeza ko yaramaze kuza gukora ako kazi k’ubumaneko incuro zibiri.

Umuvuguzi w’igiporisi aravyemeza nawe avuga ko irya mbere ngo hari mu kwezi kwa gatandatu umwaka uheze aho yaraje kwakira bamwe mu basirikare bari bashatse guhirika ubutegetsi kugira abajane mu Rwanda.

Ico gihe ngo ntivyakunze kuko inzego z’umutekano zari zarikanuye.

Ibi nyene kwagirizwa aravyiyemerera. Incuro ya kabiri ngo yaje gufasha nk’inderetsi abatera ama grenades mu gisagara ca Bujumbura n’abagira ibitero ku miduga y’abategetsi.

Uwo mugabo yemeza ko yinjiye mu gisirikare c’u Rwanda mu mwaka w’i 2011vyamugoye rwose kubwira abamenyeshamakuru abamutwara mw’ikambi ya Gabiro ahavuga ko akorera.

Yemeje y’uko abashaka gutera Uburundi bahabwa inyigisho n’abanya Korea mu makambi atandukanye y’igisirikare yo mu Rwanda.

Aremeza ko ariho abandi basirikare batatu bari mu Burundi muri ico gikorwa nyene co kuneka.

BBC yagerageje kuvugana n’ubuyobozi bw’igisirikare cy’u Rwanda kuri aya makuru y’uko Cyprien Rucyahintare yaba ari umwe mu ngabo z’icyo gihugu, ariko umuvugizi w’ingabo ntiyashatse kugira icyo abivugaho.

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How Cherie cashed in by acting for a ‘war criminal’: Blair’s wife represented Rwandan General accused of ordering massacres

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Trading on his impeccable connections in order to earn millions of pounds, Blair soon discovered that life after Downing Street could be a dangerously grubby business.

So when dealing with corrupt governments and companies, he took care to try to distance himself from any public controversy.

Notably, he initally denied having dealings with Qatar — a corrupt dictatorship that supported extremist Muslim groups, suppressed freedom of the Press and was accused of offering bribes to win the FIFA football World Cup in 2022.cherie

In fact, the Qataris had hired Cherie. Amid some acrimony, she resigned from Matrix Chambers — where she worked as a barrister — after her husband ceased to be Prime Minister.

Like him, she’d established two charities — in her case, the Cherie Blair Foundation For Women and the Africa Justice Foundation — alongside a lucrative money- making venture.

With Omnia Strategy, her new commercial business, she then reinvented herself as a consultant advising Middle Eastern and African governments.

Among those grateful for her help was Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, the wife of a Qatari royal.

In 2009, on her behalf, Cherie bombarded Hillary Clinton, then U.S. Secretary of State, with requests to engage in a woman-to-woman meeting to improve relations between the countries.

After an exchange of 19 emails, Clinton finally agreed.

Cherie was jubilant. ‘When I see what a difference you are making,’ she wrote unctuously to Clinton, ‘it reminds me why politics is too important to be left to the bad people.’

Making millions — for their charities or their swelling bank accounts — is a family business for the Blairs.

With her husband’s help, Cherie made it onto the Albanian payroll — an honour she shared with Alastair Campbell — for advice to prime minister Edi Rama.

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Cherie also represented Rwandan General Karenzi Karake in court following his arrest for on international warrant for ‘war crimes against civilians.

One of the Blairs’ earliest clients was bagged in October 2007.

Cherie had been due to meet the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, who was widely accused of being a mass murderer, to discuss the creation of a justice ministry in his impoverished country.

But she didn’t show up to their planned dinner in London. Instead she explained she had an ‘emergency’. ‘I can’t come,’ she said, ‘but Tony says he’d happily join you.’

At the dinner, Blair set out his stall. ‘You are a man with a vision, a leader I’ve always admired,’ he told Kagame. ‘Now you need advisers to show you how to run a government, and I’m your man.’

Kagame agreed to welcome Blair’s team. In return, he was also introduced to the international circuit of leaders’ conferences across America and in Davos, where Blair presented him as Africa’s ‘Mr Clean’.

No one mentioned the continuing massacre of Hutus in the neighbouring Congo by militia dispatched by Kagame.

Nor did they refer to the systematic theft by Kagame’s armed forces of diamonds and gold from Congo.

The following year, Blair visited Kigali, the Rwandan capital, and was flown home on Kagame’s $30 million Bombardier BD-700 ‘Global Express’.

The cost of the round-trip flight? About £280,000. Rwanda’s 11 million people earn an average daily wage of £1.40.

By the time he returned to Kigali again in 2009, the country was in uproar. Any journalist or businessman who was critical of the government was being beaten up, and a UN investigation was due to report that the President was guilty of genocide in Congo.

Blair’s friend won the Rwanda election in 2010 — but the beheaded corpses of leaders of the small opposition party were found strewn about the countryside.

Blair ignored all this and hailed his protégé’s success.

And what of Cherie? Did she see the report sent to Blair by the U.S. Department of State in 2014, describing the murderous oppression in Rwanda? Did she follow the 2015 Congressional hearings in Washington, which denounced the murder of Kagame’s opponents?

That year, General Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda’s intelligence service, arrived at Heathrow on an official visit.

To his surprise, he was arrested on an international warrant for ‘war crimes against civilians’, issued in Spain.

To resist his extradition to Spain, he hired… Cherie Blair. She told the magistrate that Karake was ‘a hero in Rwanda and they want him home as soon as possible’.

Karake was released on bail of £1 million. Two months later, he was freed on a legal technicality before the charges could be heard, and flew home.

His opponents were shocked. But Cherie, like her husband, was hailed by Kagame as a hero.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3470400/How-Cherie-cashed-acting-war-criminal.html

Rwanda : inzara iravuza ubuhuha mu ntara y’iburasirazuba

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Abaturage  barimo  gusuhuka  berekeza  I  Bugande  kubera  inzara  yibasiye  iyo  ntara. Uretse  iburasirazuba  gusa, nkuko  bigaragalira  buri  wese  utuye  hano  mu  rwa  Gasabo, inzara  irimo  kuvuza  ubuhuha  hafi  impande  zose  z’igihugu  aho  Leta  ya  FPR  ivuga  ko  ayo  mapfa  yatewe  n’izuba  ryacanye  cyane  cyane  mu  Turere  twa  Nyagatare, Kayonza, Kirehe  na  Rwinkwavu   ho  mu ntara  y’uburasirazuba. Andi  mapfa  akaba  yumvikana  mu ntara  y’amajyepfo  mu  bice  by’amayaga   I  Nyanza, Ruhango  na  Kamonyi  basanzwe  bazwiho   kweza  igihingwa  cy’imyumbati, bavuga  ko  imyumbati  yabo  yajemo  indwara  bita   »Kabore ». Bamwe  mu  baturage  batuye  muli  utwo  turere,  dore  ko  n’abakihabarizwa  bavuga ko  ari  ukubura  aho  berekeza, bakaba  baratangiye  gusuhuka  bajya  gushakira  imibereho  hanze  mu  bihugu  by’ibituranyi.

By’umwihariko,dukomeje  Ibiza  biterwa  n’ayo  mapfa  mu  ntara  y’iburasirazuba, ntibyibasiye  abaturage  gusa  ahubwo  n’amatungo  yaho  ntiyorohewe  aho  inka  zipfa  zikabura  abazirya, ugasanga  ziragurishwa  amafranga  ubusanzwe  yakaguze  inkoko  kuko  inka  yapfuye  igura  ibihumbi  bitanu (5.000f)  naho  ikilo  kimwe  cy’inyama  kikagura  200f; izo  ngorane  zose  kuli  ayo  matungo  zikaba  ziterwa  n’ikibazo  cy’amazi  cyabaye  akarande  muli  iriya  ntara  kuva  kera,  aho  amatungo  akoresha  amasaha  arenga  atanu  ngo  agere  ahari  amazi, muri  urwo  rugendo  inyinshi  zigapfira  mu nzira  kubera  kudandabirana,  nazo  zikaribwa  zidapimwe  ariyo  ntandaro  y’ibiciro  byagabanutse, byongeye  kandi  bikaba  bishobora  no  kugira  ingaruka  k’ubuzima  bw’abazirya.

Aborozi  mu  ntara  y’iburasirazuba  bavuga  ko  Ministère  mu  nshingano  zayo  ntacyo  ibamariye  ko  yabatereranye  kandi  bafite  uruhare  rukomeye  mu  iterambere  ry’igihugu, bityo  amatungo  yabo  akaba  yicwa  mu  buryo  bukomeye  kubera  ibura  ry’amazi, bakaba  bashinja  Leta  uburangare  bwo  kutabitaho.Abaturage  twaganiriye  bakomeza  bavuga  ko  nta  mazi  Leta  ya  FPR  yigeze  igeza  ku  borozi  batuye  iyi  ntara  ko  bayaheruka  hakiri  imishinga  y’abaterankunga  yatangaga  amazi  k’uborozi  mbere  ya  1994. Tubibutse  ko  40%  by’inka  igihugu  cyacu  gitunze  bibarizwa  mu  ntara  y’iburasirazuba.

Umuturage  witwa  Burakari  Yohani  ni  umushumba  muli  ako  gace  yagize  ati ’’tubona  nta  ministère  y’ubworozi  ibaho  mu  Rwanda! baratwirengagije  cyane, ati  kera  wabonaga  Leta  ifasha  aborozi  kandi  byari  byiza, yacukuraga  ibyuzi  mu  gihe  k’izuba  ntitugire  ikibazo  aliko  ubu  batuvanyeho  amaboko  nitwe  borozi  tujya  kwishakira  amazi   n’ibindi  byose  birebana  n’ubworozi’’ .

Ministre  Géraldine  ushinzwe  ubuhinzi  n’ubworozi  mu nshingano  ze  nawe  akaba  yiyemerera  ko  ikibazo  gikomeye  ati  aliko  nta mwanzuro  twagifatira  muli  iki  gihe.

Umukuru  w’intara  y’iburasirazuba  Mme  Uwamariya  Odette   we  akaba  asaba  aborozi  bafite  inka  zirembye  kuzigurisha  zitarabapfira  ubusa  kandi  bagahagarara  gitore  mu  gufatanya  na  Leta  gushaka  igisubizo  cy’ayo  mapfa.

Banyarwanda  banyarwandakazi, nkulikije  ibisubizo  by’abo  banyapolitiki  nsanga  Leta  ya  FPR  yarahisemo  kwicisha  inzara  abaturage   ku mpamvu  z’inyungu  zayo  za  politiki, bityo  abanyarwanda  bakaba  bari  bakwiye  guhumuka  kuko  igihe  cyo  kubaho  kiracyahari.

Banyarwanda  banyarwandakazi, mu  gihe  abo  baturage  bugarijwe  n’ayo  makuba  yose  wibaza  kuli  budget  itagereranywa  imaze  iminsi  ikoreshwa  mu  ngirwamatora  atarangwamo  indorerezi  nimwe  ituruka  mu mahanga! ukwongeraho  n’ingendo  za  Prezida  Kagame  adasibamo  mu  mahanga  icyo  zimariye  abanyarwanda! ubundi  umutware  w’urugo  iyo  asanga  ibintu  bicika  niho  agerageza  kujya  iyo  bweze  akagira  nicyo  atahukana  kirengera  urugo! kuli  Prezida  Kagame  we  si  uko  aba  agiye  kwishyilira  ubwenge  ku  gihe  ngo  arebe  uko  guteknica  bihagaze! Ni  akumiro  pe!  Leta  ya  FPR-KAGAME    sinzi  icyo  yaba  itegereje  ngo  ibise  abanyarwanda!

Mugire  amahoro.

Byanditswe  kuwa  27/02/2016, na :
A.BEN  NTUYENABO, KIGALI-RWANDA

http://www.amakuruki.com/20160228-rwanda-inzara-iravuza-ubuhuha-mu-ntara-yiburasirazuba

Paul Kagame Is Facing Serious Economic Challenges According To The World Bank, IMF and His Own Officials

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In its Country Report No. 16/24 dated January 2016, the IMF offers some bad economic news for Rwanda. The bad news are mainly centered on three things:

  • Imports continue to grow;
  • Exports are shrinking;
  • Kagame’s prestigious projects are worsening the situation;

Here is what the IMF actually states with regards to King Paul’s economy in January 2016:

“Due to imports growing faster than exports both trade and current account deficits have increased gradually, exacerbated by a trend from external grants to loans. Recent trends in mining contributed to weak exports in 2015 and should continue to do so in 2016… Monetary and exchange rate policies should help contain private import demand, but the purchases and leases of aircraft by RwandAir and imports for the Kigali Convention Center (KCC) will lead to a temporary spike in imports in 2016. Financing for government imports will be provided by donors’ agreement to accelerate 2017 budget support into the second half of 2016, and nonconcessional loans for RwandAir and KCC.”

The table below shows Rwanda imports and exports for selected months in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, according to the IMF data. The red line represents imports while the black line indicates exports. King Paul’s Singapore of Africa looks more like an illusion.

In their letter of the IMF Managing Director Christine Largarde dated December 17, 2015, Rwanda’s Finance Minister Claver Gatete, and Central Bank Governor John Rwangombwa confirmed this grim reality. According to the two, “an unanticipated external shock to Rwanda’s main commodity export has begun to unfold this year. A sharp drop in mineral prices and in global demand for those products has resulted in an unexpected significant loss of export receipts and international reserves of the banking system…”

Gatete and Rwangombwa in their letter to the IMF add more bad news as follows: “Based on export performance for the first three quarters, in particular a halving of mineral export receipts, export projections for 2015 have been revised downward, from US$742 to US$664… The central bank realized the full programmed use of its reserves, which were US$986 million at the beginning of 2015, falling to US$853.4 million by end June. Thanks to some large disbursements of donor budget support that will be moved forward into CY 2015, central bank reserves are expected to meet the end-December program floor of US$ 879 million. However, to sustain imports and activity, commercial banks were also obliged to use a significant amount of reserves. Commercial banks’ NFA of US$ 150.6 million at end December 2014 was reduced to US$92.9 million by end-June and are projected to remain at this level till end December 2015.”

Meanwhile, in its current economic update on Rwanda, the World Bank states the following: “Going forward, the private sector, which is still largely informal, will have to play a bigger role in ensuring economic growth. Poor infrastructure and lack of access to electricity are some of the major constraints to private investment. In addition, reducing the country dependency on foreign aid (30% to 40% of the budget) through domestic resource mobilization is critical.”

In its operational plan for 2011–2016, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has an even gloomier picture. In its own words, despite economic growth rates, “huge challenges remain. 63% of the population live on less than $1.25 a day…. Poverty is largely rural and is geographically concentrated and, as a result of population growth, the number of poor people has reduced only marginally. Inequality is reducing, but it is still high and it is constraining sustainable growth and poverty reduction…Given low levels of international investment and a less-than-vibrant private sector it is not clear how much wealth growth will continue to deliver to a fast growing and largely unskilled population.”

The year 2016 should be interesting for King Paul. Let us watch the tragic drama.

David Himbara.

Inzara iraca ibintu mu turere tumwe na tumwe tw’intara y’u Burasirazuba

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Imirenge imwe n’imwe mu turere twa Kayonza, Ngoma na Kirehe iravugwamo inzara ahanini yatewe n’uruzuba rwacanye biturutse kuri El Nino nk’uko leta y’u Rwanda imaze iminsi ibitangaje. Ubu hamwe na hamwe abaturage bafite aho basuhukira batangiye gusuhuka.

Uruzuba rwinshi nirwo ntandaro y’iyi nzara yatumye abaturage barumbya imyaka yabo bityo abari  batunzwe n’ubuhinzi bibaviramo gusonza abashoboye bafite aho basuhukira barasuhuka.  Ngo abenshi bahungiye iyi nzara muri Uganda abandi bayihungira mu Mutara.

Bamwe mu baturage bo mu murenge wa Rwinkwavu babwiye abanyamakuru ko bafite ikibazo cy’inzara kubera kurumbya.

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Martha Ndererimana w’imyaka 60 utuye muri uyu murenge ati “Inzara yaratwishe bamwe barasuhutse bagiye Buganda abandi bagiye mu Umutara gupagasa mbese ubuzima ntabwo”.

Mugenzi we witwa Muhirwa Deo ati “Turahinga ariko niyo bimeze bikagera igihe cy’ururabo (ibishyimbo)bigahita byuma, ubu nuko twe tudafite aho dusuhukira tuba natwe twaragiye”.

Ku rundi ruhande ubuyobozi bw’intara y’u Burasirazu buremeza aya makuru y’inzara ariko bugasaba abahuye n’inzara  kwihangana bagahagarara gitore mu gihe hagishakwa izindi ngamba zo kuyihashya.

Odeta

Umuyobozi w’iyi ntara Madame Uwamaliya Odette yabwiye Umuseke ko iki kibazo gihangayikishije Intara gusa ngo hakaba hagiye gushakwa ingamba zirambye.

Ati “Turabizi ko hari ibice binini byahuye n’izuba ryinshi ariko nakubwira ko ubu aricyo kibazo turiho kuri iyi saha. Turimo kureba uko twagikemura ku buryo burambye hatunganywa ibishanga hakaboneka amazi ahoraho, gusa twari twagerageje guha ibiribwa abari bashonje cyane(bamwe)”.

Guverineri Uwamaliya agaya bamwe mu baturage bahungiye mu bindi bihungu, ngo bari bakwiye guhagarara gitore bagafataniyiriza hamwe nk’abanyarwanda hagashakwa igisubizo cy’iyi nzara.

Iki kibazo cy’amapfa cyugarije abatuye cyane cyane mu mirenge ine y’Akarere ka Kayonza ariyo Rwinkwavu, Murama, Mwili na Kabare naho mu karere ka Kirehe aho ivugwa cyane ni mu mirenge ya Nasho na Mpanga, hamwe n’akarere ka Ngoma mu murenge wa Rukumberi.

 

Alphonse Munyankindi / Bwiza.com

Dushyigikiye DR KIZZA BESIGYE, INTWARI izahora iratwa n’ urubyiruko rw’Abaharanira Demokarasi muri Afurika.

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Besigye

Dr KIIZA BESIGYE, Umukandida wa FDC

Twakomeje gukurikiranira hafi akarasisi karanze amatora aherutse kuba mu gihugu cy’abaturanyi cya UGANDA, hari taliki ya 18/2/2016.Twashimye by’umwihariko ibiganiro-mpaka bibiri byahuje abakandida bahataniraga umwanya wa Perezida wa Repubulika : Icyambere cyabaye taliki ya 15/1/2016, icyakabiri kiba ku itariki ya 13/2/2016. Twaribwiraga tuti wabona igihugu cya Uganda giciye agahigo kikaba intangarugero muri demokarasi, abaturage bagasubizwa uburenganzira bwabo bwo kwihitiramo abayobozi bashatse binyuze mu matora adafifitse. Twarishukaga ngo wabona Perezida KAGUTA Museveni umaze imyaka 30 yose ku butegetsi noneho yibutse rya jambo rikomeye yavuze mu mwaka w’1986 ngo » Icyorezo gikomeye kizahaje Afurika si abaturage b’ibihugu ahubwo ni abaperezida bihambira ku butegetsi mu buryo buteye isoni « . Twari twaheranywe n’inzozi twihenda ngo n’ubwo Museveni yahindaguye itegekonshinshinga rya Uganda kenshi kugirango arambe ku butegetsi, ubu noneho nk’umukambwe wabonye ibipfa n’ibikira yashyira mu gaciro akereka abanya Uganda n’isi yose ko inyota y’ubutegetsi nayo igira iherezo.

Twarihendaga.

Nk’uko bigaragarira buri wese, Museveni yiyatse amahirwe yo gusezera ku butegetsi mu nzira yari kuzamuhesha icyubahiro mu minsi itari myinshi asigaje kuri iyi si, none ahisemo kwiyandikisha bidasubirwaho ku rutonde rw’abakuru b’ibihugu badashobotse, barangwa n’ikinyoma gusa, bubakira byose ku kwikunda, igitugu n’iterabwoba, badashishikajwe n’inyungu rusange, batunzwe no gusahura ibya rubanda, bahonyora uburenganzira shingiro bw’abenegihugu, mbese bene babandi bazahora bibukirwa ku mahano y’urukozasoni yaranze ubutegetsi bwabo.

Mu gutekinika amatora yo mu 2016 , mu kogera uburimiro ku mukandida DR KIIZA BESIGYE no guhohotera abo muri Opozisiyo , abarasa, abakubita, abafungira ubusa… Museveni yeretse urubyiruko rwa Uganda ndetse n’urw’Akarere kose k’Ibiyaga bigari ko nta cyizere na gito bakwiye kongera kugirira aba bayobozi bafashe ubutegetsi bamaze kugarika ingogo ! Ahubwo Museveni abaye nk’uhagamariye urubyiruko rukunda Dr KIIZA BESIGYE kurushaho kwisuganya no guhagurukana umuriri bagahangana bagashyirwa bahangamuye ubutegetsi BWIBA AMAJWI izuba riva, bugasuzugura ibyifuzo nyakuri by’abenegihugu.

M7VSDRBESIGYE

Dr Besigye (ibumoso) na Kaguta Museveni

Muri make, ibidakorwa Perezida Museveni ariho akora i Bugande muri iki gihe, bimutesheje agaciro bidasubirwaho ndetse birasa n’ibitangije ibihe bidasanzwe bya Revolisiyo ya rubanda itazabura guhitana umukambwe Kaguta Museveni ndetse n’abandi banyagitugu nka we bo mu Karere.

Nanone kandi byumvikane ko ibiri kubera mu gihugu cya Uganda bifite igisobanuro n’amasomo menshi arenga kure imbibi z’icyo gihugu . Umuryango mpuzamahanga wo warangije kurunguruka umunyagitugu Museveni no kumukura ho amaboko. Ariko igiteye inkeke kurushaho ni uko Urubyiruko rw’ibihugu bigize Akarere ka Afurika y’Uburasirazuba (EAC) rwarangije kumva neza ko ari ngombwa kwitabaza INTWARO kugira ngo bariya bategetsi bigize INDAKOREKA n’IBIGIRWAMANA bashobore kwigizwayo no gushyirwa mu mwanya bakwiye .

Umwanzuro

KAGAME NA SEWABO

Kaguta Museveni na Kagame Pahulo (iburyo)

Nkatwe twiyemeje guharanira gufasha Abanyarwanda kugera ku mpinduka nziza bakeneye dushyize imbere inzira y’amahoro , turareba tugasanga ibiriho kubera i Bugande bigenura urudutegereje! Niba mu mpera z’umwaka wa 2015, Perezida Pahulo Kagame yarariye isoni akagerageza guhindura Itegekonshinga ( n ‘ubwo byakozwe uko atabishakaga!)kugirango azagwe ku butegetsi, nta cyemeza ko mu matora ya 2017 azibuza kugenza nka Sewabo KAGUTA Museveni ndetse no gukora ibirenzeho kugirango akunde anige ijwi rya rubanda itakimukeneye, bityo akomeze ategeke abatamushaka.Niyo mpamvu rero abifuza kwitangira impinduka nzima mu Rwanda dukwiye gukomeza urugendo nta mususu ariko tukanakura isomo ku biri kubera i Bugande maze tukarushaho kunoza intego n’ingendo kugira ngo tutazatungurwa! Ndongera guhamagarira cyane cyane urubyiruko rw’u Rwanda, ari abari mu gihugu no hanze yacyo, kwitabira  » « RASSEMBLEMENT ANTI-TROISIEME MANDAT » kugira ngo duhamye « Stratégies » zikwiye guhangamura ingoma y’igitugu y’Agatsiko kiyemeje kuduhindura Indorerezi n’Abagereerwa mu gihugu cyacu.

 

Turashima UBUTWARI bwa Dr BESIGYE n’urubyiruko rwa Uganda rumushyigikiye kandi tukaba tubifuriza ko bakomeza umutsi bagaharanira uburenganzira bwabo batitaye ku bikangisho bya Perezida Museveni kandi ntibakangwa ubugome bwose bashobora kagirirwa. Abafaransa babivuze ukuri ngo : « A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire ». Tubahanze amaso kandi turabashyigikiye.

Padiri Thomas Nahimana,
Umukandida w’Ishyaka ISHEMA na Nouvelle Génération mu matora ya Perezida wa Repubulika yo mu mwaka wa 2017.

Uganda elections: Like Kagame in Rwanda, Museveni sets a poor example for African democracy and governance.

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President Yoweri Museveni displays his inked finger after casting his vote during presidential elections on 18 February. Photograph: James Akena/Reuters

Yoweri Museveni has had a good run. Having seized power in Uganda in 1986, he has held the presidency ever since. As guerrilla leader turned politician-statesman, Museveni fitted the late 20th-century leadership profile that predominated in post-colonial Africa. Where once the heinous dictatorship of Idi Amin held sway, the Museveni era brought a democratic reformation. Where once chaos reigned, his strong grip on the fledgling state brought stability and, for many Ugandans, a degree of economic security and gradual social progress.

It is a pity Museveni is jeopardising all that now. By grabbing at a fifth consecutive term at the age of 71, while security forces simultaneously oppress his rivals, beat their supporters and disrupt voting, he risks tarnishing a legacy of achievement that, though modest, might have ensured him a respected place in Uganda’s history. He just cannot let go of power, it seems. He may thus come to be remembered for less creditable reasons.

The disconnect between Uganda’s past and present is obvious. The average age of the country’s 38 million people is 15. Most Ugandans were not even born when Museveni took office. The priorities of this electorate include jobs, education, free speech and open debate, an end to corruption and engagement with the world. They barely know the old man in the State House. His outlook and prejudices, including his notorious anti-gay record, belong to another age. These new citizens take the stability he established for granted, while increasingly balking at the means used to maintain it.

Kizza Besigye, who apparently came second to Museveni in last week’s presidential election, was briefly arrested shortly before the vote. He has already promised a campaign of “defiance” if, as seems certain, he deems the polls not free and fair. Opposition rallies have been disrupted, social media shut down and independent news organisations intimidated and harassed. There appear to have been serious irregularities in the opposition strongholds of Kampala and Wakiso, where voting was delayed or did not proceed at all. On Friday, police raided Besigye’s party headquarters, detaining him again for specious reasons.

Uganda has been here before. Protests after the previous presidential election in 2011 produced a violent security crackdown. Given the apparent margin of the president’s victory, stemming from his traditional, strong support in rural areas where 80% of Ugandans live, and given the extensive state security apparatus – 150,000 military, police and auxiliaries were deployed during the polls – it seems unlikely at this stage that Uganda will suffer the sort of lethal meltdown witnessed in nearby Burundi after elections last year. Besigye and the other leading opposition candidate, Amama Mbabazi, a former prime minister sacked by Museveni, will certainly strive to avoid the sort of extreme divisions seen in South Sudan.

But if the situation deteriorates, and given Museveni’s high-handedness, it is possible that Uganda will face the sort of long-running, damaging post-election instability seen in neighbouring Kenya in 2007 and 2013. Addressing a rally in eastern Uganda last month, Besigye indicated his Forum for Democratic Change party would continue to challenge what he characterised as a complacent, corrupt presidency for life. Besigye lampooned Museveni’s famous slogan celebrating Uganda’s steady progress. “I have not met someone as cynical as Museveni,” he said. “This massive poverty all over the country, he calls it ‘steady progress’. When you go to a hospital and there are no drugs, ‘steady progress’. All the roads are bad, ‘steady progress’.” As Kenyans might testify, making a mockery of a humourless hardman such as Museveni, a latter-day Daniel arap Moi, is a dangerous game.

Museveni’s clinging to power would not matter so much if he were offering a fresh programme mapping Uganda’s road ahead. Instead, he offers more of the same. By dismissing Mbabazi, a respected party technocrat once seen as his heir, he squandered the chance of an orderly transition within the ruling National Resistance Movement. By failing to quash suspicions that he may promote his wife, Janet, or son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as successor, he risks accusations of dynasty politics like the Mugabes in Zimbabwe (or the Bushes and Clintons). Like another eternal president, Paul Kagame in next-door Rwanda, Museveni sets a poor example for African democracy and governance. By obstructing Uganda’s changing needs and aspirations with his grimly immovable presence, he does the nation a disservice.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/21/observer-view-presidential-elections-uganda-museveni