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KAGAME PAUL SWORN IN FOR HIS SECOND TERM
KIGALI - It is now official, President Paul Kagame has officially began his second term of office after being sworn in by the President of the Supreme Court Aloysia Cyanzayire. Ending his oath at exactly 10:51, Kagame received laud applause from the thousands of fans around and outside the National Stadium....Read more
KAGAME WINS WITH 93.08% LEAD
KIGALI - IT is now official, President Paul Kagame, the RPF Inkotanyi candidate in the just concluded Rwanda presidential race, has been declared the winner with a 93.08% lead over his three challengers. The figure is an overwhelm wide margin by far, compared to Kagame’s rivals but a slight fall in his win of 2003....Read more
Commonwealth praises Rwanda elections
KIGALI - The Commonwealth Observer Group has praised the Rwanda elections, saying they were conducted in a peaceful atmosphere. The observers, said in a preliminary report released yesterday that the candidates enjoyed freedom of movement and assembly and that the process was “extremely well administered.”.....Read more
RPF candidate casts his poll, confident of win
KIGALI - The RPF-Inkotanyi candidate, Paul Kagame, was among thousands of Rwandans who turned up in various parts of the country in big numbers to cast their vote in today’s historic polls. The polls are Rwanda’s second post-genocide elections in which Kagame is seeking re-election for a second seven year term. He faces three other challengers, who include a woman and the deputy speaker of parliament......Read more
RPF Inkotanyi campaigns end with confidence of win
GASABO - THE RPF Inkotanyi Party ended its 20-day whirlwind campaigns around the country on Saturday, convinced of an emphatic win in Monday’s polls. Thousands of supporters clad in party colours and relentlessly waving paper flags, thronged the closing rally at Bumbogo grounds in Gasabo district of Kigali City, their morale higher despite the scorching sun....Read more
FPR yasoreje ibikorwa byo kwiyamamaza mu karere ka Gasabo.
GASABO - Mu Rwanda, ibikorwa byo kwiyamamaza bigeze ku musozo. Ni kuri uyu wa 07 kanama burishyaka ryatanze umukandida ku mwanya wa President wa Repuburika rigomba kwamamaza rigombaguhagarika kwamamaza nkuko biteganywa n’itegeko rigenga amatora, rivuga ko amasaha 24 mbere yo gutora nta mukandida numwe ugomba kuba acyiyamamaza cyangwa ngo yamamazwe. ....Komeza Inkuru
Ntanumwe uRwanda rubereyemo umwenda, ni baruhe amahoro..
KIREHE - Ku kibuga cya Ruhuha ahateraniye abantu barenga ibihumbi 85 baje kwamamaza umukandida wa FPR Inkotanyi bafite ijambo bakomeza gusubiramo ariyo ntero yabo” Paul Kagame ni wowe, ni wowe, ni wowe.” nawe akimara kuhagera ati namwe ni mwebwe, ni mwe, ni jye, ni FPR, ni Abanyarwanda....Komeza Inkuru
Ubugesera ni Ubusirimu nta vumbi riharangwa, buzatora uwabibugejejeho.
BUGESERA - Ku kibuga cya Ruhuha ahateraniye abantu barenga ibihumbi 85 baje kwamamaza umukandida wa FPR Inkotanyi bafite ijambo bakomeza gusubiramo ariyo ntero yabo” Paul Kagame ni wowe, ni wowe, ni wowe.” nawe akimara kuhagera ati namwe ni mwebwe, ni mwe, ni jye, ni FPR, ni Abanyarwanda....Komeza Inkuru
Kicukiro kamwe muturere tugize umujyi wa Kigali, kakiriye Nyakubahwa Paul kagame kuri uyu wa 3
KICUKIRO - Kudatatira igihango niyo ntero y’indashyikirwa z’akarere ka Nyaruguru kubw’imihanda bahawe bagendaho badatsikira, bwaki irakembera kubera gahunda ya girinka, ntibagicana igishirira ngo baboneshe ijoro riguye kuko Kagame Paul yabahaye amashanyarazi....Komeza Inkuru
Gicumbi yagaragaje ko FPR Inkotanyi yahereye iwabo
GICUMBI - KKagame yabwiye abanyagicumbi ko bashoje ikivi cy’imyaka 7 bakaba bagiye gutangira ikindi cy’imyaka 7 gifite ibikorwa bikubye incuro 7 ibyambere kandi aha ngo ntibibikubye mu bwinshi gusa ahubwo ngo no mu buziranenge, mu bwiza...Komeza Inkuru
Nyaruguru, imyaka 7, amajyambere azikuba 7,
NYARUGURU - Kudatatira igihango niyo ntero y’indashyikirwa z’akarere ka Nyaruguru kubw’imihanda bahawe bagendaho badatsikira, bwaki irakembera kubera gahunda ya girinka, ntibagicana igishirira ngo baboneshe ijoro riguye kuko Kagame Paul yabahaye amashanyarazi....Komeza Inkuru


Events in Brief Day 7-10

Gisagara.. Nyamasheke... Nyaruguru... Ruhango... Karongi...

125,000 turn up in Rubavu for RPF candidate

RUBAVU- THE western region was fired up on Friday with thousands of RPF supporters who gathered in two locations in Rubavu and Nyabihu districts to support their candidate, Paul kagame.....

URwanda ruzubakwa n’abanyarwanda ubwabo - KAGAME

BUSOGO - Kuruyu wa kane, 22 nyakanga umuhanda Musanze-Rubavu wari wuzuye abantu ibihumbi n’ibihumbi bakereye kujya I busogo ahabereye igikorwa cyo kwiyamamaza cy’umukandida wa FPR Inkotanyi ku mwanya wa Perezida wa Repuburika mu matora yo kuwa 09 kanama 2010......

Kagame commends Musanze on hardwork

BUSOGO - RESIDENTS of Musanze district yesterday received praise for their exceptional hard work from the RPF flag bearer, President Paul Kagame, who said their achievements have benefited the entire country.....

RPF will never let you down - Kagame

MUSANZE- President Paul Kagame yesterday assured residents of Burera in Musanze district that his Party the RPF-Inkotanyi, will never disappoint this country as it has proven in the past......

A winning team is never changed

RULINDO - Should a winning team be changed? That was the question President Paul Kagame posed to residents of Gasiza in Rulindo District, where he took his re-election bid on the second day since the start of the presidential campaigns on Tuesday.......

Kagame faces three challengers in Rwanda election

President Paul Kagame will face three challengers in Rwanda's August 9 presidential elections, the electoral commission has announced........

Thousands turn up for RPF’s inaugural campaign

KIGALI - Amahoro National Stadium was a scene of pomp and colourful mood as thousands of excited supporters turned up for the inaugural RPF party campaigns that kicked off on Tuesday afternoon....

Fastest Internet in Rwanda

Rwanda’s internet fastest in the region: Rwanda among the top three African countries with the fastest internet broadband connectivity and downloading speeds ...

Peace and Security during campaigns Guaranteed

Security during elections guaranteed: The Commissioner General of Police, Emmanuel K Gasana, has assured sustainable security before, during and after the forthcoming Presidential polls ...


Sports Movement to honor President Kagame: The local Sports Movement will today get together to honor President Paul Kagame for his an equaled support towards sport development ...


RPF outlines achievements, unveils campaign plan ...


President Paul Kagame, has called on the world to recognise the important link between broadband technology and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) ...

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100 REASONS WHY KAGAME PAUL SHOULD BE ELECTED

100 reasons why Kagame should be elected”

“ Education
1. Ensuring 9-Year Basic Education for all Rwandan children that will tremendously improve literacy levels in the country
2. A promise to have Universal Secondary Education by 2017
3. Making education accessible by all with no segregations, particularly promoting Girls’ and Special Needs’ education
4. Encouraging parents and communities’ involvement in education
5. Introducing English as medium of instruction in schools to make Rwanda more competitive on the global stage
6. Creating 14 new Higher Learning Institutions, almost tripling Higher Education enrolment in 7 year years
7. Providing scholarships to the best and brightest Rwandan students to pursue their studies in the best universities of Europe and North America;
8. Promising to achieve 100% literacy by 2017 through effective adult education;
9. Introducing technology in schools starting with primary schools under the ’One Laptop Per Child’ program
10. Increasing the number of qualified teachers at all levels of education through effective distance learning and in-service training and remunerating them adequately.
Health
1. Raising the life expectancy in Rwanda from 43 to 53 years;
2. Introducing 6 types of health insurance including the famous “Mutuelle de Santé” resulting in a health insurance coverage of 94% of the population;
3. Introducing universal immunisation programmes;
4. Introducing health awareness programs;
5. Reducing deaths from malaria by 75%
6. Reducing infant mortality by 70%;
7. Reducing HIV infections from 9 percent to 2%;
8. Building a clinic in every sector;
9. Reducing water-borne diseases by 60 percent
10. Ensuring that more doctors and nurses are trained and deployed evenly across the country
Justice
1. TTrying over 1,100,000 cases in the Gacaca court system;
2. Undertaking a complete restructuring of the justice sector;
3. Introducing many laws for different sectors that brings orderliness in State functioning;
4. Releasing over 80,000 genocide convicts safely into the community while ensuring law and order in the society;
5. Making convicted prisoners give back to society through work schemes;
6. Building over 100 new courts of law;
7. Training over 300 new judges;
8. Creating an independent judicially and an independent Judge selection process;
9. PPromoting local mediation services to reduce backlog of court cases;
10. Introducing the commercial courts and streamlining the justice system by merging the administration process;
Agriculture
1. ntroducing crop intensification programme and boosting agricultural production by 10 percent annually;
2. Introducing the cooperative system to buy produce from farmers;
3. Diversifying the crops cultivated through sensitisation
4. Diversifying the crops cultivated through sensitisation;
5. ISignificantly reducing poverty and mal-nutrition through the one cow per family: “the Girinka” programme;
6. Introducing a phone text service that can inform farmers of the latest crop prices
7. Making subsidized seeds and fertilizers available on credit;
8. Making veterinarians more widely spread across the country
9. Introducing irrigation farming
10. Making ‘hunger’ a history in our country
Economy
1. Increasing average earnings of Rwandans from $220 to $560 in 7 years!
2. Strengthening the private sector and streamlining doing business in Rwanda;
3. Increasing the tax base and total revenue collected domestically ;
4. Increasing domestic funding of government to development projects in national budget from 10% to 50%;
5. Promoting transparency by fighting corruption;
6. Diversifying the economy by promoting new sectors like mining and tourism;
7. Diversifying the economy by promoting new sectors like mining and tourism
8. Promoting foreign direct investment to nearly $1 billion annually;
9. Making poverty-reduction the hallmark of economic development;
10. Cutting down on government expenditure through initiatives like reducing on the number of government vehicles;
Security
1. Making Rwanda one of the safest places in the world
2. DDevolving security responsibility down to the local level
3. Reducing crime through local initiatives
4. Professionalising the Army and integrating former hostile elements
5. Fighting impunity and corruption in the army and hence cementing discipline
6. ending Rwandan soldiers and Police officers to keep peace in war ravaged places like Darfur, Haiti, Liberia, etc.
7. Introducing electronic ID cards to all adults
8. Instituting a police force that is disciplined and highly professional
9. Establishing a credit scheme for the Army and Police
10. Making peace with neighbours like Democratic Republic of Congo
Foreign policy 1. Making Rwanda a respected partner in regional and international affairs
2. Improving Rwanda’s relations with former hostile nations like France and DRC
3. Making Rwanda one of the biggest contributors of peace-keepers in the UN
4. Working tirelessly to track and prosecute Genocide suspects
5. Joining the East African Community and the Commonwealth
6. Being one of the foremost advocates of fully integrated EAC
7. Relentlessly promoting Rwanda abroad and expanding her relations to countries such as Australia, Singapore, South Korea, etc.
8. Chairing powerful global initiatives like the UN MDGs and the ITU Broadband Commission and serving on the Advisory board of the World Bank.
9. Creating special friends for Rwanda that have always defended our cause.
10. Refusing to be bullied by the west and always insisting on an equal voice for Africa on the global scene.
Technology
1. Making ICT the main focus of our long-term development
2. Making technology integral to government service provision
3. Supporting the one laptop per child policy
4. Laying thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic cables
5. Connecting all government centers to the internet
6. Abolishing import duties on ICT equipment
7. Building one of the best telephone network systems in the region
8. Strongly advocating for undersea cable to land on EA coastline and now eventually in Rwanda
9. TTurning Rwanda into an influential country on ICT global issues
10. Emphasising on ICTs in our education programs and setting up institutions to oversee this program
Infrastructure
1. Constructing good roads across the country
2. Building communication towers to help link outlying areas
3. Setting up building regulations to improve basic infrastructure
4. Reducing tax on building materials to encourage growth of the industry
5. BBringing electricity to all major areas, with plans to expand it to every village
6. Coming up with a master plan and securing funding for a new international airport
7. Advocating for Isaka railway line which will reduce transport costs
8. Ensuring that Kigali master plan is implemented
9. Building district and sector headquarters nationwide
10. Investing heavily in ICT infrastructure
KAGAME, the man
1. He is a man of principle and values
2. He is pragmatic and ready to make tough choices in the interest of his country
3. He promises and delivers
4. He is patriotic and wants the best for Rwandans
5. He is a visionary and inspirational leader
6. He is intelligent, skilful and innovative
7. He is a humble man who does not value personal gains
8. He is not a man to bully and he is never shaken by circumstances
9. He has a humble background that shapes his character as a down-to-earth leader
10. He is a family man and cherishes family values
“You DO NOT change a Winning Team.”