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245,000 est le nombre connu des réfugiés vivant sur le sol congolais

Un camp de réfugiés près de Goma, dans l’est de la RDC, en 2012.REUTERS/James Akena

Pour la première fois, les réfugiés rwandais ont été identifiés et enregistrés. Le Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés estimait jusqu’à présent que le nombre de réfugiés rwandais dans le monde était de 100 000 personnes. Mais ils sont déjà presque 245 000, rien qu’au Congo, à s’être présentés pour se faire enregistrer. C’est le chiffre auquel est parvenu la Commission nationale congolaise des réfugiés qui, avec le soutien du HCR, a réalisé ce recensement.

Sans surprise, c’est dans le Nord-Kivu que se trouvent la plupart de ces réfugiés. Ils sont environ 199 000 dans cette province, et 42 000 au Sud-Kivu. Mais on en retrouve aussi dans le Katanga, au Kasai oriental, dans le Maniema, en Equateur et encore dans une moindre mesure à Kinshasa. Héritage de l’histoire puisque c’est en plein génocide de 1994 que ces populations ont traversé la frontière devant l’avancée des troupes du FPR aujourd’hui au pouvoir au Rwanda. Puis après l’incursion de l’armée rwandaise au Congo, elles ont fui vers l’intérieur du pays.

Beaucoup n’ont jamais connu le Rwanda

Pour avoir plus de détails sur cette étude et notamment la répartition par sexe, âge, il faudra encore attendre la fin de la compilation des résultats, explique la Commission nationale congolaise des réfugiés. Pour l’instant, une certitude : beaucoup, parmi ces populations, sont des jeunes qui n’ont jamais connu le Rwanda.

Un sentiment demeure au sein de cette communauté : les deux tiers de ces 245 000 personnes disent ne pas souhaiter retourner dans leur pays. Une proportion qui pourrait évoluer, explique la Commission nationale des réfugiés, à l’issue d’une campagne de sensibilisation au retour dans lequel sera impliqué le gouvernement rwandais. Kigali ayant demandé depuis longtemps la clause de cessation du statut de réfugiés pour tous les Rwandais vivant à l’extérieur du pays. Depuis 2001, le HCR dit pour sa part avoir rapatrié environ 135 000 Rwandais vivant au Congo.

Ce recensement intervient alors que la pression internationale augmente pour obtenir le désarmement des FDLR, les rebelles hutus rwandais, dont certains leaders sont accusés par Kigali d’avoir participé au génocide de 1994. Les FDLR se présentent comme les protecteurs de ces populations rwandaises réfugiées et estiment que sans ouverture de l’espace politique au Rwanda, elles ne pourront pas rentrer dans de bonnes conditions.

Jointe par RFI, Berthe Zinga, coordinatrice de la Commission nationale pour les réfugiés (CNR) explique l’importance de ce recensement pour ces réfugiés rwandais.

Il était important que l’on fasse cet enregistrement et eux attendaient aussi d’être enregistrés et surtout d’exprimer leurs choix concernant, soit le rapatriement volontaire soit demeurer en RDC.

Source: http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140820-rdc-refugies-rwandais-recenses-nord-kivu/?

U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction in Africa Sets Stage for Peace and Development

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Since 1993, the United States has partnered with 31 nations across the African continent to save lives and prevent injuries through conventional weapons destruction programs that safely clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in countries struggling to recover from armed conflict. The U.S. works with regional governments to dispose of excess small arms, light weapons, and munitions and secure remaining weapons stocks from potential diversion and illicit proliferation. Our $342 million investment in conventional weapons destruction across the African continent has saved lives as well as set the stage for humanitarian aid and development assistance.

Humanitarian Demining

U.S. support, along with support from our international partners, helped Nigeria and Burundi to declare themselves mine-free in 2011, and Uganda to declare itself landmine impact-free in 2012. With more than $53 million in U.S. aid, Mozambique, once among the world’s most landmine-affected nations, is also on track to declare itself mine-free by the end of next year.
Current U.S.-funded humanitarian demining programs include projects in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.

Securing Small Arms and Light Weapons

The U.S. Government assists African partners in securing or destroying surplus, obsolete, or poorly-secured conventional arms and ammunition, including man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).
Since 2001, the United States has funded the destruction of over 250,000 small arms and light weapons (SA/LW), and the unique marking of over 350,000 more to improve tracking and accountability in 24 African nations.
The United States has invested $2.2 million to purchase weapons marking machines in support of the Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa (RECSA), a 15-nation regional initiative to address small arms proliferation. RECSA is based in Kenya and also works in Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, DRC, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. RECSA has marked more than 350,000 SA/LW with this equipment, and Rwanda and Seychelles have finished marking all police equipment.
In the Sahel, the United States is working closely with Niger and other regional partners to address increased security challenges from SA/LW trafficking in the aftermath of the 2011 conflict in Libya. The United States has invested almost $1 million to help Niger right-size its SA/LW and munitions stockpile and improve physical security of arms storage sites, and plans to expand training and support efforts with countries in the region. These efforts will contribute to U.S. peace and security efforts through increased national capacity to secure SA/LW and work toward reductions of weapons available for illicit trafficking.

Since 1993, the United States has invested more than $2.3 billion in aid to more than 90 countries for conventional weapons destruction. To learn more about U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction programs, including humanitarian demining, check out the latest edition of our annual report, To Walk the Earth in Safety.

Thousands of Kenyans gather for rally, day after attacks

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Thousands of Kenyans rallied yesterday for an anti-government demonstration in the capital’s central park amid heavy police presence, with political and ethnic tensions high following weekend attacks in which over 21 were killed. PHOTO | NMG

Nairobi, Monday. Thousands of Kenyans rallied today for an anti-government demonstration in the capital’s central park amid heavy police presence, with political and ethnic tensions high following weekend attacks in which over 21 were killed.

Opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga has organised the rally to address what he says are major government failures, including worsening crime and insecurity, rising living costs, impunity, corruption and allegations of ethnic favouritism in government appointments.

Police were searching and screening supporters as they entered Nairobi’s Uhuru park, or “Freedom” in Swahili, an AFP reporter said.

The rally, the culmination of a series of countrywide demonstrations, is held on the July 7 anniversary of protests for multi-party democracy in the 1990s, a date heavy with symbolism and known commonly as “Saba-Saba” , or “Seven-Seven” in Swahili.

Police say they have deployed 15,000 officers to ensure the rally passes off peacefully, with the country already on high alert fearing attacks by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab gunmen, who have vowed revenge for Kenya’s military presence in Somalia.

The Al-Shabaab claimed twin attacks in Kenya’s coastal region on Saturday night in which at least 21 were killed, the latest in a series of killings, although police blamed the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.

The Al-Shabaab also claimed responsibility for attacks last month at Mpeketoni. Survivors reported how gunmen speaking Somali and carrying Al-Shabaab flags killed non-Muslims.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, however, denied that the Al-Shabaab were involved and instead blamed “local political networks” and criminal gangs, saying victims had been singled out because of their ethnicity. (AFP)

Source: http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Thousands-of-Kenyans-gather-for-rally–day-after-attacks/-/1840340/2376062/-/u8v8c0z/-/index.html

Rwanda: l’étrange affaire du chanteur Kizito risque de déstabiliser le Rwanda

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Le chanteur Kizito Mihigo répondant à la presse le 15 avril à Kigali / AFP

Le chanteur, rescapé du génocide, prône la réconciliation. Et pourtant, le pouvoir de Kigali l’accuse de haute trahison. Tentative d’éclairages.

Kizito Mihigo, un chanteur populaire au Rwanda est au centre d’une affaire bien troublante. Le 15 avril, il est arrêté, en compagnie de trois autres personnes, dont un journaliste. Le site News of Rwanda rapporte que le chanteur est accusé de terrorisme, d’atteinte à la sûreté de l’Etat et de trahison. Le site d’informations avait ajouté que le chanteur «fait l’objet d’une enquête pour avoir préparé des attaques à la grenade contre le gouvernement».

L’annonce de l’arrestation de cet artiste et, surtout, des accusations portées contre lui, suscitent l’émoi et le doute au sein de la population. Kizito Mihigo est un artiste apprécié dans le pays. Comme le rappelle le quotidien belge Le Soir,«depuis son retour au Rwanda en 2011, il était devenu une véritable vedette, non seulement à cause de la popularité de ses chansons, mais aussi à cause de la fondation qu’il avait créée, vouée à la paix et à la réconciliation».

L’artiste est un orphelin qui a perdu sa famille dans le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda, en 1994. Rescapé, il a suivi des études de musique à Bruxelles, financées, selon des indiscrétions du Soir, par le président Paul Kagamé qui accuse aujourd’hui le chanteur de gospel de terrorisme et surtout de vouloir le tuer.

Ces accusations surprennent, d’autant plus qu’elles sont en totale contradiction avec l’engagement humaniste de Kizito Mihigo et l’œuvre de réconciliation à laquelle il s’emploie à travers sa fondation pour la paix et ses chansons.

Pourtant, l’affaire est en train de prendre une autre tournure. Vendredi dernier, lors d’une audience de son procès, le chanteur confirme des aveux qu’il avait déjà longuement fait devant la presse.

«J’accepte les accusations. Mais que les choses soient claires, j’ai fait ces crimes lors de conversations. Je n’ai ni acheté de grenades, ni donné de l’argent», a-t-il indiqué dans des propos rapportés par RFI.

Plusieurs observateurs voient ces aveux comme une manœuvre du pouvoir en place. Le blog The Green Frog croit par exemple savoir que les accusations portées à l’encontre de Kizito Mihigo ne tiennent pas la route.

«Comment est-il possible pour un chanteur d’attaquer un gouvernement, et surtout d’assassiner un président qui possède le système de sécurité le plus efficace du continent?», s’interroge The Green Frog.

De la même façon, les aveux du chanteur confortent la thèse d’une affaire montée de toute pièce, ajoute, pour sa part Umuhuza. Ce blog consacré à la réconciliation du Rwanda affirme que l’affaire est louche. Il s’agit d’une«tentative maladroite du clan Kagamé pour distraire l’opinion rwandaise et internationale sur les déchirements au sein même de l’ethnie tutsi qui domine le pouvoir depuis 1994», peut-on lire sur le blog.

Pour Umuhuza, quatre éléments incitent à prendre à être prudent: l’étrange«disparition» du chanteur peu avant l’annonce de son arrestation, les aveux devant la presse avec large diffusion dans les médias officiels et sur les réseaux sociaux, un tribunal «non compétent» et un «avocat qui se désiste quelques heures avant l’audience».

Colette Braeckman, éditorialiste au Soir et spécialiste de la région des Grands Lacs, estime que cette affaire est, peut-être, le prélude de nouveaux déchirements au Rwanda, nés des jalousies et de rancœurs pas encore apaisées entre Tutsi eux-mêmes.

Sur ce point, Umuhuza explique:

«Le jeune tutsi Kizito Mihigo qui avait tout juste 13 ans en 1994 et qui est réellement un rescapé du génocide contrairement aux autres jeunes tutsi de sa génération qui sont rentrés au Rwanda après la conquête du pays en 1994, ne doit pas faire la même lecture de l’histoire que ces autres frères tutsi. Mais lorsqu’il le dit publiquement et que de par sa notoriété, il ose l’exprimer en chanson, il a alors franchi la ligne rouge et est devenu paria dans la “fratrie”.»

La désormais «affaire Kizito» semble donc une affaire interne au clan Kagamé, mais qui risque de déstabiliser à nouveau le pays et la région.

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STAND protests speech by Rwandan president

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By: Catherine Zaw April 29, 2014

Around a dozen members of Stanford STAND, a human rights group, demonstrated outside a Graduate School of Business event featuring Rwandan President Paul Kagame last Friday, in an effort to prompt conversation of and raise awareness about allegedly repressive actions by Kagame’s administration.

According to Jared Naimark ‘14, the STAND students demonstrated at the event because the Stanford chapter of the national STAND organization focuses explicitly on human rights in Sudan, South Sudan, Burma, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda has repeatedly intervened in Congo in recent years.

The group also works with Friends of the Congo, an organization based in Washington, D.C. that works to raise awareness about challenges faced by people in the Congo and to support Congolese institutions.

Demonstrators emphasized, however, that their efforts were not intended to interrupt the procession of the event.

“We [were] not planning to disrupt the event in any way,” Naimark said. “We’re curious to hear what he had to say. The goal is to get information in people’s hands.”

The demonstrators handed out informational factsheets and flyers that detailed human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by the Kagame administration, as well as printed copies of an editorial article that they had published in The Daily that day, according to Melanie Langa ‘16, a member of STAND and one of the demonstrators.

“STAND was interested in changing the dialogue around this event because we felt it wasn’t representative of the whole story,” Langa said. “There are whole stories and perspectives that you can take to this event. Since he’s been president, Rwanda has made many strides and has improved and [Kagame’s] done a good job in a lot of cases and scenarios but it’s also important to recognize that his government has been destabilizing Eastern Congo and because of that we are interested in making sure that side of the story people knew about.”

Scott St. Marie MBA ‘15, one of the student coordinators of Kagame’s address, stated that he thought the STAND students’ presence at the event was beneficial.

“I’m glad that they were there to help broaden our dialogue about Kagame and Rwanda,” St. Marie said. “Rwanda has a tumultuous and complex history, and I’m glad we were able to talk about multiple perspectives.”

In fact, St. Marie later approached the students and ensured that one of the STAND representatives could engage in the audience participation portion of the event. Audience questioning, according to St. Marie, included queries about term limits and whether Kagame has plans to run for a third term.

“We passed out all the flyers we brought and people were very receptive,” Langa said. “I think it was very successful. We got people to think of other issues that we didn’t think would be addressed without some kind of push and we’re contributing to what might be missing from that conversation.”

Nitish Kulkarni contributed to this report

Kizito yifurije Kagame gupfa akwiye gufungwa…uwishe Habyarimana na Ntaryamira we yigaramiye!

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Kizito Mihigo (ibumoso) ni umwe mu Batutsi barokotse jenoside FPR irimo gusonga.

Paul Kagame ( iburyo) aramutse yanze gushyikirana akagwa mu ntambara yaba yizize.

Mu Rwanda ibintu bihabera biteye agahinda kenshi. Kuva tariki ya 7 Mata umuhanzi w’icyamamare kandi ukiri mutoya yafashwe na polisi afungirwa ahantu hatabona, amazwa iminsi itatu ntawe umureba ku buryo rwose urupfu rwari hafi. Amaze kumvishwa ko ashobora no gupfa kandi isi igakomeza igatembera, nibwo noneho yashyizwe kuri tortures zikomeye kugira ngo yemere ibyo aregwa byose. Icy’ingenzi mu byaha aregwa ni uko ngo yifuje ko aho kugira ngo habe intambara mu gihugu imara abaturage, ahubwo hapfa umuntu umwe ari we Paul Kagame.

Iyo ukurikiye neza uburyo bivugwa, usanga Kizito atari we ucura wo mugambi ahubwo uwo mugambi ucurwa na Kagame we ubwe. Muti kuki? Impamvu ni uko iri yicwa rya Kagame rivugishwa amatama yombi n’abantu umuntu atanahamya ko babishoboye (iyo babishobora ntaba yarabamarishije ibiziriko), mu by’ukuri rituruka kuko Kagame yanze imishyikirano. Hashize imyaka myinshi Abanyarwanda basaba ko Paul Kagame yakwemera hakaba imishyikirano hagati y’Abanyarwanda igahuza FPR n’abayirwanya, abihayimana, sosiyete sivile, abahagarariye amashyirahamwe y’abakozi n’imiryango itegamiye kuri Leta kugira ngo tuganire ku mateka yacu nta gucengana. Ibi biganiro bitaziguye kandi bizira ikinyoma nibyo byatanga umurongo nyawo w’ubwiyunge bw’Abanyarwanda. Ikibazo rero cyakomeje kuba ingorabahizi kuko Leta ya Kigali yavuniye ibiti mu matwi ikikomereza urugendo nk’aho ntacyo biyibwiye. Hagati aho kandi niko Abanyarwanda b’ingeri nyinshi bakomeje kwicwa urubozo bagafungirwa ubusa, bagatorongezwa, abasigaye bagahindurwa inkomamashyi n’abagererwa mu gihugu cyabo ubu cyigaruriwe n’agatsiko gatoya k’abasirikare bakuriye mu nkambi z’impunzi muri Uganda ndetse n’abandi birirwaga mu mihanda ya Kampala bacuruza ibiyobyabwenge.

Kuba rero bamwe mu Banyarwanda bumva niba ibiganiro binaniranye wenda hari indi nzira banyuramo ndumva bitabazwa bo, ahubwo bikwiye kwirengerwa n’uwanze ko ibyo biganiro bibaho. Gusa rero na none dukurikije amateka yacu ya vuba, gushoza intambara bamwe bavuga ko ngo izaba ngufiya cyane, tuzi neza ko yamena amaraso y’inzirakarengane.( Niyo mpamvu hari amashyaka nk’ ISHEMA abona intambara idakwiye kugirwa priority). Aha niho Kizito Mihigo atuje yatanze igitekerezo ati aho kwitura inabI izo nzirakarengane , ni kuki uwo wanze ko ibiganiro bibaho atari we wabibazwa ariko abandi bakagira amahoro?

Iki gitekerezo cya Kizito rero nicyo ubucamanza bw’u Rwanda bwahereyeho buyicuranga buyica imirya ngo aha ishyano ryacitse umurizo. Gusa mu byerekeye amategeko, nta kimenyetso na kimwe cyerekana ko Kizito atari kugera nyuma akisubiraho mbere y’uko ibyo biba cyane cyane ko nta n’aho agaragaza uko uwo mugambi uzagenda. Paul Kagame nabimenye. Guhera uyu munsi ashatse yakoresha izo nkomamashyi ze z’abacamanza agafunga u Rwanda rwose kuko Abanyarwanda 75 % bamwifuriza gupfa wenyine aho kwanga imishyikirano maze bikaba byabyara intambara izamara abenegihugu. Ese ubundi byaba bitwaye iki niba umuntu umwe apfuye kugira ngo hakire ubuzima bwa benshi? Kagame nawe yagombye kwishimira kuba yapfa ariko agakiza benshi niba ari wo muti wonyine usigaye. Bityo twamwandika no mu gitabo cy’intwari!

Igitangaje si uko Kagame yapfa, kuko n’ubundi twese ntawe utazapfa. Ikindi hari umuntu w’inshuti yanjye uhora atwibutsa ko no hakurya y’urupfu hari ubugingo. Ariko nanone kwambura umuntu ubuzima bihanirwa n’amategeko. Kubitekereza gusa utabishyize mu bikorwa ntacyo byamutwara akaba ariyo mpamvu bidakwiye kugenderwaho ngo umuntu akorerwe dosiye. Igikomeye ahubwo ni iyo igikorwa cyabayeho. Ku itariki ya 1 /10/1990 umutwe w’inyeshyamba wiyise Inkotanyi ukaba wari ugizwe n’abana bakomoka ku wundi mutwe wari wariyise Inyenzi( Ingangurarugo ziyemeje kuba Ingenzi) wagize igitekerezo cyo kwica abanyarwanda bo mu bwoko bw’abahutu. Ntibyahagarariye ku gitekerezo gusa kuko byashyizwe no mu bikorwa. Uyu mutwe wakoze umugambi wo kurasa Habyarimana ndetse ubishyira mu bikorwa. Sijye ubivuga ahubwo abari bahibereye barabyemeza. Ni ukuvuga ko abagize uyu mutwe ntibabaye ibigwari nka Kizito uvugisha umunwa gusa, ahubwo bo babishyize no mu bikorwa maze ku itariki ya 6 Mata 1994 Habyarimana yicirwa hamwe na Ntaryamira. Ibitekerezo n’imipango byashyizwe mu bikorwa nyamara nta wigeze abatunga agatoki kugeza n’ubu. Iryo yicwa rya Habyarimana niryo ryakuruye iyicwa ry’umubyeyi wa Kizito nyamara nta wigeze avugira Kizito uretse kumwambika ishati bakajya bahora bamubwira ngo “iyo shati ntuyanduze nijye wayiguhaye”! Ubonye iyaba na Kagame yarifurije Habyarimana gupfa ariko ntabikore? Wenda miliyoni z’abantu zapfuye ubu ziba ntaho zagiye.

Si Habyarimana wenyine kandi wishwe. Abasenyeri barishwe kandi ntibishwe n’amagambo yo kuri whatsapp na skype. Impunzi i Kibeho zishwe atari internet ikoreshejwe. Impunzi muri Congo zararimbaguwe biturutse mu mugambi wacuzwe ukanashyirwa mu bikorwa.

Icya ngombwa si ugufunga abana ngo batekereje kandi nyamara wirengagije aho ikiganiro cyaturutse. ” Niba Kagame yanze ibiganiro kuki atari we wakwicwa ariko imbaga y’abantu ikarokoka? Ng’ibi ibyo Kizito yavugaga. Niba Kagame ari umugabo yagombye kumva interuro yose atayiciyemo kabiri. Ikindi akiyemeza gushakra igihugu cyose icyiza dore ko akibifitiye Ubushobozi.

Uko mbibona ndasanga urubanza rwa Kizito rutazoroha. N’ubwo bamugumishije muri polisi amasaha arenze ateganywa n’itegeko ndetse bakamujyana mu rukiko ngo yemere bakamusubiza muri polisi aho ahozwa kuri torture, ubu igihe kirageze ngo ashyirwe muri gereza nk’abandi. Aha niho azajya avanwa ajya kuburana. Nagera imbere y’abancamanza urubanza rugiye gutangira mu mizi, Kizito azasobanura iby’iyicarubozo yakorewe ngo abyemere. Aha ni naho azahakana ibyo bamurega byose maze abe ahaye akazi katoroshye ubushinjacyaha ko kwerekana nta shiti ko Kizito yagize uruhare mu iyicwa rya Paul Kagame ritigeze ribaho! Nanone FPR ishobora kumushyiraho akarimi keza nka ka kandi yashyize ku abhutu bakikorera amadosiye ya jenoside ngo aha bazafungurwa bagera hanze bagasubizwamo. Kizito rero ashobora gushukishwa ko niyemera rwose bazamugabanyiriza ibihano maze agataha agasubira mu muryango. Ariko yibuke ko isura ye yamaze guhindana, uretse Imana yonyine niyo twizeye ko itazamuvaho naho abantu bo ntakibafite 100%. Kizito n’iyo yakatirwa amezi 6 gusa azaba afite ubusembwa bumwambura uburenganzira ku bintu byinshi mu gihugu. Ni yo mpamvu buriya ashatse yabona ko nta mnwanya azaba agifite mu gihugu amaze gufungurwa, keretse revolisiyo ya rubanda iri hafi kuba imufunguye.

Aho gutakaza umwanya bacira urubanza inzirakarengane ngo zatekereje, uwafata uwarashe indege ya Habyarimana, uwishe Abasenyeri i Kabgayi n’impunzi i Kibeho, uwafungiye abantu mu buvumo bwa Mahoko muri Kanama… Abo bose ntibatekereje ngo banavuge gusa ahubwo babishyize no mu bikorwa.

Chaste Gahunde

Secretary Kerry Travels to Addis Ababa, Kinshasa and Luanda

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Press statement

Jen Psaki
Department Spokesperson

Washington, DC

April 25, 2014

Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Luanda, Angola, on April 29-May 5 to encourage democratic development, promote respect for human rights, advance peace and security, engage with civil society and young African leaders who will shape the continent’s future, and promote trade, investment and development partnerships in Africa.

The Secretary’s trip will also highlight U.S. investments in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In Addis Ababa, Secretary Kerry will co-convene the Fourth Session of the U.S.-AU High-Level Dialogue and discuss a range of issues on which we partner with the African Union (AU). Secretary Kerry will meet with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom to discuss efforts to advance peace and democracy in the region, and strengthen important areas of bilateral cooperation with Ethiopia.

In Kinshasa, Secretary Kerry will meet with President Joseph Kabila and will discuss how the DRC government’s progress in neutralizing some of the dozens of dangerous armed groups that victimize the Congolese people can be consolidated and how to best advance the DRC’s democratization and long-term stability, including through a timely and transparent electoral process.

In Luanda, Secretary Kerry will commend President José Eduardo dos Santos for Angola’s leadership of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and encourage the President’s continued personal engagement in the Great Lakes peace process. The Secretary will also discuss bilateral policy and trade issues with Foreign Minister Chikoti.

Secretary Kerry will also be accompanied by Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Russell Feingold, Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth, and Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issue Catherine Russell.

North Korea labels South’s president as ‘crafty prostitute’ after Obama visit

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Tirade against Park Geun-hye hits new low in unusually personal abuse, which analysts say may indicate Kim Jong-un echoing his grandfather.

Barack Obama and South Korean president Park Geun-hye

Barack Obama with the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, in Seoul on Saturday. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters

North Korea has launched a vitriolic attack on the South Korean president, comparing her to “crafty prostitute” in thrall to her “pimp” Barack Obama.

It also described Park Geun-hye as America’s “comfort woman”, a reference likely to enrage many in South Korea, where anger still runs high over the plight of thousands of women who were enslaved in Japanese military brothels during the second world war.

The comments were issued on Sunday by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), which handles cross-border affairs, following the US president’s two-day visit to Seoul. He arrived in Malaysia on Sunday for the penultimate stop on his four-nation tour of Asia.

While Pyongyang is known for its aggressive rhetoric, recent remarks have been unusually personal.

Earlier this month state media ran misogynist articles, including one headlined “We accuse Park the bitch“, labelling her as a lunatic, idiot and “cold-blooded animal” and emphasising the fact that she has never married or had children.

Those remarks were presented in the form of quotes from ordinary North Koreans, while the latest tirade, carried by state news agency KCNA, is presented as a statement from an official body.

It comes days after a homophobic diatribe which described the head of a United Nations commission on human rights in North Korea as a “disgusting old lecher”. Pyongyang was angered by the team’s report, which said it was committing grave and systematic human rights abuseson a scale unparalleled in the modern world.

“What Park did before Obama this time reminds one of an indiscreet girl who earnestly begs a gangster to beat someone or a capricious whore who asks her fancy man [pimp] to do harm to other person while providing sex to him,” North Korea’s CPRK said.

Obama and Park had warned Pyongyang it could face strengthened sanctions if it detonated a fourth nuclear device, after North Korea said it could carry out a new kind of test. Satellite imagery has shown increased activity at a test site.

Those remarks “laid bare her despicable true colours as a wicked sycophant and traitor, a dirty comfort woman for the US and despicable prostitute selling off the nation,” said the CPRK.

It said the trip had shown North Korea was right to have concluded it should deal with the US “by force only, not just talking, and should finally settle accounts with it through an all-out nuclear showdown”.

The committee also accused Obama of being “utterly indifferent to the sorrow of South Koreans” over the sinking of the Sewol ferry, which has left more than 300 people, including many children, missing or dead.

“Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip,” it said.

The US president expressed his condolences and offered South Korea any help required within 24 hours of the disaster. In contrast, North Korea expressed no sympathy until a full week later.

The statement also suggested that Park would be assassinated like her father, the late South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. “Genes remain unchanged,” it said.

But experts do not believe the attacks are propelled by lingering animosity towards her father.

“It’s not so much about her personally, but rather a symbol of a new rhetoric … I think this is an attempt to use the same kind of emotional abuse as [Kim Jong-un‘s] grandfather,” said Tatiana Gabroussenko, an expert on the regime’s ideology and propaganda at Korea University in Seoul.

She said that while North Korea always attacked its southern neighbour’s politicians, the “loud, personalised” tone of recent abuse seemed to echo the approach of the 1950s and early 60s. It might be part of emphasising his likeness to his grandfather, with a return to “proletarian candour”, she said.

“That was something used in Kim Il-sung’s time and applauded; it meant he was ‘one of us’, not an elite intellectual, speaking from his heart,” she added.

John Delury of Yonsei University described the remarks as “a new low point in the misogyny”.

He added that Pyongyang’s “deeply counterproductive” methods showed how ignorant it was of South Korea.

“There are deep fractures in South Korea and a lot of ways that North Korea could manipulate that,” he said.

Using the “comfort women” comparison in particular touched on an extremely sensitive issue, not only insulting Park but also the survivors of the second world war brothels, he noted.

Source: The guardian April 28, 2014.

Kagame has revealed his greates fear: Reconciliation among Hutu and Tutsi

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By: Emmanuel Hakizimana and Gallican Gasana

The alarm clock has been brutal for many Rwandans this Monday, April 14, 2014: Rwandan police had announced the arrest of a young Rwandan renowned musician, Mr. Kizito Mihigo, a young journalist, Mr Cassian and Ntamuhanga a young demobilized Rwandan army (RDF), Paul Dukuzumuremyi.

Beyond the fact that they are survivors of the 1994 genocide Tutsis who were arrested during the commemoration of the 20 th anniversary of the genocide, it is mainly the charges brought against them leaders who spread the excitement and stupor in all Rwandan media.

All three are accused of being involved in organizing terrorist attacks against Rwanda, want to overthrow the government by violence, to plan the murder of members of the government to encourage people to violence and have participated in a network of leading grenade attacks.

He is also accused of collaborating with the FDLR (Rwandan rebels in Congo installed) and the leaders of the opposition organization Rwanda National Congress (RNC).

During their court appearance the next day Tuesday, April 15, police also brought a young woman, Mrs. Agnes Niyibizi, which was presented as their accom.

To silence the voices of reconciliation

Accusations that the Kigali regime door against these young genocide survivors are among the worst he had ever brought against someone and there is reason to wonder why.

On closer inspection, the weight of these charges equaled the extent of their commitment to reconciliation and the magnitude of the fear of Kagame to see Hutu and Tutsi reconcile and fight together against his oppression.

In fact, the young musician Kizito Mihigo began to put his talent to the service of true reconciliation, which is diametrically opposed to the Kagame regime policies.

In a recent song entitled “The meaning of death”, he made two recommendations that have angered President Kagame. First, it recommended to honor not only the victims of the genocide of Tutsis, but also the victims of war crimes, revenge and other attacks in Rwanda or outside the country. Then he considered that human dignity takes precedence over being Rwandans.

It should be noted that this inclusive vision of Mr. Kizito is in perfect harmony with other Rwandan personalities who preached peace and reconciliation, and who paid a heavy price.

For illustrative purposes, it corresponds to that of Ms. Victoire Ingabire, president of the opposition party FDU-Inkingi, currently languishing in prison, having been sentenced to 15 years in prison after trying to run against President Kagame in elections the 2010 presidential election.

In his speech at the genocide memorial in Gisozi, she said: “For us to achieve genuine reconciliation, we need to empathize with the suffering of everyone.”

Similarly, the position of Mr. Kizito agrees with that of Mr. Patrick Karegeya, founding member and former RNC aide to President Kagame, who was murdered in South Africa earlier this year by agents of the regime Kigali.

In his letter to Mr. Douglass E. Coe associate director of the American Fellowship organization, just three days before his assassination, asking for his support in organizing an inter-Rwandan dialogue, Mr. Karegeya wrote: [I]” [/I][I]For a company like ours that has experienced trauma as now, since all our communities were in turn victims and executioners, it is impossible to overstate the issue of forgiveness and grace …… We can not look to the future only if we speak in truth and learn to forgive us. “[/I]

President Kagame has a completely opposite to that of Mr. Kizito, why he tried to stifle his voice position as it did for Ms. Victoire Ingabire, Patrick Karegeya and others he murdered or imprisoned.

Its policy has been to exclude Hutu any form of commemoration; they do not have the right to their cry. Worse, through a government program called “I am Rwandan,” the song refers implicitly Kizito, the Kigali regime calls on all Hutus, even those who were not yet born in 1994, to apologize for crimes conspecifics.

President Kagame also not hesitate to publicly affirm its opposition to the pacifist approach Mr. Kizito. A few days after the release of the song mentioned above, he said that he was not a musician and he was not there to please everybody.

What future for Rwanda?

The drama of these young survivors clear to those who still had doubts that Rwanda will never know peace and reconciliation under the regime of President Kagame.

For him, reconciliation refers to the end of its oppressive power based on the division between Rwandans (Hutu, Tutsi, Twa) and the scapegoat strategy.

Regarding this last aspect, we will remember the serious charges of complicity in genocide made by Kagame against French military and prevented France to send a delegation to the 20 th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide.

Being fully aware of its great responsibility in the crimes committed in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region of Africa since the 1990s, President Kagame is terribly frightened by anything that would bring Rwandans to sit together and establish the truth about their drama.

In this context, the future of Rwanda depend on the choice of orientation of the support, not only from the Rwandans themselves, but also from the international community.

The regime of President Kagame is clearly inconsistent with the peace and reconciliation, this choice could be ambiguous.

Source: http://lautjournal.info

(Note: Translated from French by Jennifer Fierberg)

Affaire Kizito” itangiye kugaba amashami: N’ imiryango y’Abatutsi bahigwa n’Agatsiko itangiye kumenyekana.

Nk’uko twakomeje kubigaragaza, iri kinamico riri inyuma ya “Affaire Kizito” rifite intego za politiki rigamije kugeraho: Gushinga “Dynastie Kagame” no kwikiza Abatutsi n’Abahutu bashyira mu gaciro bakaba batiteguye kuyiyoboka no kuyikeeza. . Nimwisomere iyi nkuru ya rushyashya.net maze mwumve aho FPR ikomeje kwerekeza umukino wayo . Twakomeje kubahanurira ukuntu Abatutsi bahoze mu Rwanda ariko bakaba badashyigikira ibyaha bikomeye n’amafuti ya FPR bagiye kuraswaho urufaya . Abahutu bo ntawe ukibavuga, FPR yarangije kubagira ibyo ifundi igira ibivuzo. Match nibwo yatangira, reka dutegereze aho ibintu bigiye kwerekera . Gusa twizeye ko abantu batazakomeza kwituramira ngo bongere bicwe nk’amatungo kandi babona neza aho icyago kiri guturuka : inyota ikabije y’ubutegetsi ya Paul Kagame n’Agatsiko ke k’Abassajya biyemeje kugarura UBUHAKE mu Rwanda ! (Ubwanditsi bwa leprophete.fr)

Mu Bubiligi Kizito Mihigo yari mu kitwa Ibukabose

Iri n’ Ishyirahamwe ripfobya rigahakana Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, ryigisha ko habayeho na Jenoside y’Abahutu, rikorera mu Bubiligi no mu Bufaransa, IBUKA BOSE iyobowe n’uwitwa Ndagijimana J.M.Vianney, wahoze ari Ambasaderi w’u Rwanda mu Bufaransa muri Leta ya Habyarimana, ubwo byari muri Guverinoma yaguye yarimo n’amashyaka yari muri opposition, MDR, P.L na PSD, akaba yaraje no kuba Minisitiri w’ububanyi n’amahanga aho FPR-Inkotanyi, ifatiye ubutegetsi, nyuma yaje guhunga Igihugu aregwa kunyereza amafaranga muri iyo Minisiteri , asubira mu Bufaransa ariho kugeza ubu akorera bikorwa bya politiki birwanya Leta ya Kigali.Nguwo uwashinze ishyirahamwe IBUKA BOSE, uyu Ndagijimana J.M akaba ari imvange kuko avuka kubabyeyi badahuje ubwoko.

Iyi IBUKA BOSE, igizwe n’igice cy’ Abacitse ku icumu rya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi 1994, baba i Burayi biyomoye kuri IBUKA yo mu Rwanda, bavuga ko ikorera mukwaha kwa Leta ya FPR, harimo Umucikacumu Madame Esperence umugore w’uwahoze ari S/Prefe i Gitarama witwa Syprien, umututsi wishwe muri Jenoside, uyu Esperence yaje kurongorwa nyuma ya 94 na SISI Evariste wari umucuruzi ukomeye mbere ya Jenoside, wiciwe abana n’umugore muri Jenoside, akaba n’umuyoboke wa P.L waje guhungira mu Bubiligi nyuma yo kuva mu bu depite mu Rwanda.

Madame Esperence amaze igihe ari mubanyarwanda barwanya Leta ya Kigali, akaba yarananditse igitabo kirimo ubuhamya bushinja FPR, ko ariyo yishe umwana we witwaga Sheja Richard, ngo wiciwe i Gakurazo n’ Inkotanyi arikumwe n’abasenyeri nabo biciwe aho i Gakurazo.

IBUKA BOSE kandi irimo Dr. Placide Kalisa ukorana na Rusesabagina mugupfobya Jenoside, bafatanyije n’abandi bacikacumu bavanze bagiye bashaka mu bwoko butahigwaga, ari nako bakangurira abasore bacitse ku icumu baba mu Bubiligi no mu Bufaransa kurongora abana babakobwa b’imvange kugirango abo basore ( nka Kizito Mihigo) bazabafashe guhakana Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi bavugaka hari na Jenoside yakorewe Abahutu ikozwe na FPR-Inkotanyi.

IBUKA BOSE ikaba ikorana n’ishyirahamwe ryitwa ABAHUTSI, bivuze abana b’imvange bavutse ku bahutu n’abatutsi, riyobowe n’uwitwa Rutayisire Boniface, rikorera mu Bubiligi no mu Bufaransa, bafatanyije n’ uwitwa Gakwaya, kwigisha Doubre Genocide, bavuga ko habayeho Jenoside ebyiri iy’Abatutsi n’ iy’Abahutu, bibyara zero, bityo ko nta Jenoside yabayeho mu Rwanda, ko idakwiye no kuvugwa, ko icyabayeho ari ubwicanyi busanzwe bwavuye kumujinya w’indege ya Habyarimana yari imaze kuraswa n’abatutsi.

Ishyirahamwe IBUKA BOSE rimaze iminsi rikora inama zikomeye mpuzamahanga, nk’iyabaye tariki ya 01 Mata 2014, yabereye mu Bufaransa ahitwa Colloque Palais du Lexembourg, muri salle ya Monerville, iyo nama yiswe ngo Le Drame Rwandais « La Verite des Acteurs » iyobowe na General Henri Paris, yarimo na Major Micombero J.M, Paul Quiles wahoze ari Ministre wa information mu Bufaransa, ubu ni President dela Mission information Parlementaire sur le Rwanda, yarimo abagize RNC, Dr. Rudasingwa Theogene na Gahima Gerard, yarimo Claire Delponte, Philippe Reyntjens na Henri Weil, yigaga kukibazo cy’ abahutu bapfuye ngo bishwe na FPR, uko bakwiye kwibukwa, ngo hakaba hagiye gukorwa ankete ikomeye izashyira ahagaragara liste y’abahutu bishwe aho biciwe haba Congo no mu Rwanda n’ababigizemo uruhare bari muri FPR, bagatangazwa.

Aya makuru dukura ahantu hizewe avuga ko Abafaransa n’Ababiligi ibi ngo babishoyemo amafaranga atagira ingano ( ama euros) ari nayo umuhanzi Kizito Mihigo yatangiye kuryaho, kugeza naho bamutegetse guhimba indirimbo ivuga Doubre Genocide, « IGISOBANURO CY’URUPFU » no gukorana na RNC.

Uhereye ibumoso Madame Esperence, Kizito Mihigo, na Ndagijimana J.M.V

Kizito Mihigo ni muntu ki ?

Uyu muhanzi Kizito Mihigo abamuzi neza bavugako ari umwana w’umucikacumu wakuriye mu mbuto za Parmehutu, kuko ngo atangira ubuhanzi bwe yari umuririmbyi muto muri Korali ya st. Michel, ngo akaba ari nabyo yari ashoboye gusa, ngo kuko kwiga byari byaramunaniye, Kizito Mihigo amaze kwinjira muri Korali Abanyuramatwi, yatangiye yigana neza kuririmba indirimbo za Matayo Ngirumpatse wayoboye iyi Korali mbere ya Jenoside akaba yari na Perezida wa MRND, iyi Korali ikaba ari iya kera ari nayo yaririmbaga indirimbo za Parmehutu nk’izwi cyane n’indimbo« KARABAYE GAYE » yafatwaga nkiy’ Igihugu muri icyo gihe, iyi Korali ya st Michel ikaba ifite abahanga mukuririmba indirimbo z’ikinyarwanda ni nayo yatsindiye guhimba indirimbo y’igihugu nshya y’ubu.

Kizito Mihigo ngo yinjira muri iyi Korali yaririmbaga mu missa kuri st. Michel, Kizito wari ukiri muto ubwo Inkotanyi zabohozaga iki Gihugu akaba yarahise amenya neza kwigana indirimbo z’ Abanyuramatwi, kubera iyo mpano ye yaje gukundwa n’ Abayobozi basengeraga muri st. Michel, barimo Makuza Bernard wari Minisitiri w’intebe, Kizito akajya ajyana n’Abanyuramatwi kumuririmbira Makuza Bernard iwe murugo igihe habaye umunsi mukuru, abo bayobozi ngo nibo baje kubonera Kizito Mihigo boursse yo kujya kwiga umuziki mu gihugu cy’Ububiligi ayihawe na Perezida Paul Kagame.

Nguko uko Kizito Mihigo yabaye icyamamare yinjira mu buhanzi bw’indirimbo za Jenoside arakundwa cyane mu 2009, ubwo yifashishwaga mukwibuka Jenoside kuncuro ya 15, akajya akomeza kwifashishwa na Leta muri ubwo buhanzi bwe none birangiye agambaniye igihugu cyamukamiye, yinjira mumitwe y’iterabwoba RNC na FDLR, ifatanyije n’ishyirahamwe IBUKA BOSE, ABAHUTSI naba Rusesabagina.

Cyiza Davidson

Source :http://rushyashya.net/itohoza/mu-bubiligi-kizito-mihigo-yari-mu.html