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South Africa has withdrawn its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated. reuters.com/world/africa/s…

@prince_hoffman @kafredy @Rwandapolice The answer you seek is “ahabugenewe”! If the road is still under construction, it’s unwise to park anywhere.😊

@kafredy @Rwandapolice Menya utasomye neza ibyo navuze

Mwaramutse neza @Rwandapolice , Nashakaga gusobanuza, igihe utwaye ikinyabiziga mumuhanda utarimo ibyapa(umuhanda ukiri gukorwa wa Murambi, Gatenga), ugahagarara kuruhande rumwe rw'uwo muhanda by'akanya gato, ntakinyabiziga kikwegereye kuburyo izindi modoka zikomeza gutambuka, ugashyiramo double clignotant ndetse n'imodoka icyaka. Ese hari ikosa uba ukoze, ko umupolisi yanyandikiye?

#KAJJANSI: Dangers of encroachment; When developments (settlements, kiosks, fences, parking yards and washing bays etc…) invade road reserves and natural drainage channels Stormwater pathways are blocked, Culverts and side drains become silted! Water loses its designed flow path and begins to pond or backflow… #Kajjansi area flooding has not been experienced to these levels! The result is even moderate rainfall overwhelms the system!

𝟓𝟎 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬 ✅About 50 electric buses are expected to be introduced in the City of Kigali by May, in line with the ongoing expansion of dedicated bus lanes aimed at improving public transport. ✅Aubin Rukera, the Chief Executive Officer of Ecofleet Solutions, the state-owned company managing public transport in the city, told The New Times that 20 electric buses will be deployed on Friday, April 24, at the launch of the extended dedicated bus lanes. ✅The 20 buses will operate on four routes where the dedicated bus lanes are being introduced. ✅These include Downtown-Payage-Kanogo-Rwandex-Sonatube-Giporoso (Ku Cya Mitsingi), Sonatube-Kicukiro Centre-Nyanza Bus Park, Downtown-former 1930 Prison-Nyabugogo Bus Park, and Downtown-Gloria Hotel-City Plaza. ✅This comes as the government is implementing various measures to encourage the use of public transport. ✅Currently, buses depart every 10 minutes during peak hours, but with the dedicated lanes, departures are expected to depart every five minutes. ✅Rukera noted that the additional buses will help improve efficiency as the expansion of the dedicated lanes is expected to reduce traffic congestion and increase travel speed. newtimes.co.rw/article/35113/…

Taiwan president cancels trip after African countries close airspace bbc.in/48gYNxr

The massacres committed against the Tutsi in the former Butare prefecture are a demonstration, if further proof was even needed, that the 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda was meticulously planned by the authorities. Therefore, unlike the popular belief in international media, this genocide was not "triggered" by the shot down of any plane or committed out of any "popular anger". The 6 April attack, against the plane of a President seemingly weakened by international pressure, was nothing else than a planned pretext (the missiles that hit the plane were fired from the main barracks of Habyarimana's own army) used by the regime's hardcore extemists to kick-off a preplanned genocide. The extermination of the Tutsi in Butare, which started around 19 April 1994, was only made possible when the whole genocidal government, led by President Théodore Sindikubwabo and Prime Minister Jean Kambanda (both native of Butare), travelled, together with their army and militia, to Butare, a prefecture that had until then resisted to endorse the final solution. The Government dismissed the local Prefect (Governor), Jean-Baptiste Habyarimana nicknamed "Sacré" (translated as sacred/holy, like human life), the only Tutsi prefect in the country. He was arrested, transferred to Murambi, Gitarama, which was the temporary seat of the genocidal Government, where he was killed. In Butare, President Sindikubwabo also summoned the 20 "bourgmestres" (mayors) of the prefecture, urging them to start the killings. The President also went to a local commune (district) in Butare where he publicly called, live on national radio, "to start 'working' and, if need be, get rid of the 'I-don't-care' people", referring to the Hutu who had refused to kill Tutsi. In this context, Jean-Baptiste Habyarimana was obviously not killed alone. His family was in fact completely wiped out. His wife, Joséphine, and his two little angels (all pictured) were also killed during the genocide. Remember, unite, renew. #Kwibuka32

Kabushenga’s Thoughts Doing Fulfilling Things Today, I took a group of people to my coffee farm. It was eclectic mix of those who want to follow in the footsteps of my farming journey and others who simply wanted a weekend out on a farm. I had stopped doing this six years ago. Then I gave a talk on coffee to a Business Fireside Chat at the Bight of Benin Restaurant in Kampala last February. By the end of it, there was a push for me to do this again. I agreed. And so it happened. What we do on these tours is to explain the complexities of farming coffee. I always want to make sure that by the end of it all, there is no illusion about the business of growing coffee. Part of the problem is the positive financial performance of the coffee sector . The perception now is that there is a lot of assured quick and big money to be made. This is false. And when I respond to the curious, I make a point to disabuse them of this misconception. The other way I do this is by giving my visitors a real experience of some the work we do on the fair. So they understand what it actually takes to grow coffee and take it to market. On this occasion I took them through the tedium of picking ripe coffee cherries. After some walking over the whole morning, they only managed a harvest of 6 kgs. They were tired. My point was made. The work of growing coffee to the point where it can be sold, is tough. Eleven years ago this week, I planted the first coffee seedling at @RugyeyoFarmLtd. Over the years I have understood that while coffee farming is an exacting undertaking, it is the one segment of the value chain where most Ugandans can participate for financial return. It is the only opportunity open to us as local Ugandans to generate and capture value. The other segments have prohibitively high financial barriers to entry. Even where public investment is made like Tanzania did in secondary processing of ready to drink coffee, it has only benefitted factory owners or state employees who run the government outfit. Farmer incomes remain unchanged, in fact they bring their coffee green beans for sale in the lucrative market of Uganda. In Uganda, the farmer pockets 85% of the international market price. The way to improve farmer turnover is public investment in farmer ability to get hogs yields and improve quality. This higher turnover will translate into taxable income for the Treasury. Margins can be better if some of the costs like fertilizer and water can be subsidized. This will pay for itself through ability to employ more people. You would think these things would be obvious. But there is the old adage about the prevalence of common sense. So people like me will do what we can. To grow our coffee and mentor those who have the courage to try this. It is the perfect celebration and payback for being a part of this fulfilling coffee farming journey

@nsendula @xtr_africa @mpyana_dacris @PaulKagame @rpfinkotanyi But what is in the video is a refusal/denial, not admission!—Unless of course if you don’t understand the language.

C’est ça l’homme @PaulKagame ! Lorsqu’il est acculé et poussé dans son dernier retranchement, il finit par avouer ses crimes. Je me rappelle cette interview avec Colette Braeckman qui lui demanda, brusquement, pourquoi avec son parti, @rpfinkotanyi, et son armée #APR, à l’époque, il pille les minerais du Congo. Cynique et pince sans rire, il avoua, « Parce que Léopold || l’a fait avant nous. » Source: Colette Braeckman. Les nouveaux prédateurs: politique des puissances en Afrique centrale (Fayard, 2003).

#KWIBUKA_32 : Kagame: Asked Why He Killed Habyarimana, “I Had the Right to Defend Myself, and I Don’t Care” In a tense BBC Hard Talk interview, Rwandan President Paul Kagame directly addressed persistent questions over the 1994 assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, whose plane was shot down over Kigali on April 6, triggering the Rwandan Genocide

🕯️ ‘Kwibuka’ means ‘to remember’. Today we mark the 32nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Zero air conditioning. Just natural light, shaded openings, and generous volumes doing the work. 📍The Umubano Primary School Extension in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 Seven buildings, nine classrooms, all carefully placed on a steep site to serve over 300 vulnerable children—comfortably, without heavy energy demand. Design in Africa doesn’t need to fight the climate… it can work with it. Why are we still defaulting to glass boxes and AC-heavy buildings in our cities? Architects: mass design group

@kyamageroandrew @faith_nabushawo Isn’t it unfair to deduce (or assign) defiance or disrespect from “the way we want”? I think she meant speaking freely, which shld be a good thing. (We ought knw that many dependent women fear to speak their minds since any misinterpretation can be costly)

Madam, dignity does not grow out of defiance, and respect is not a weapon to be used selectively. If the measure of how you speak to a man is what you need from him, then the conversation has already been reduced to transaction, not character. And where character is absent, no amount of independence can replace it. Strength is not in speaking down to others. Strength lies in knowing that your voice carries weight without diminishing another's. Because in the end, how we speak is not a reflection of who we are addressing… It is a revelation of who we have become.

We speak to men the way we want because we're not girls begging for 50k urgently 😁

@Banxza @sejudav Explain these two words in relation to your comment: 1. Iran 2. Destroying.

@sejudav You're drunk, prevent what, Israel is hell bent on destroying Iran, every peaceful avenues have been blocked by Israel and you talk about prevention. Pathetic!

The Intelligence hasn't protected them from destruction, has it? When your energy infrastructure is destroyed, your Scientific research centres, your universities, schools, your water sources, your Population killed, cities reduced to rubble,..... yet you could have prevented it from happening, how can that be a sign of INTELLIGENCE!

Minister Magyezi declines to commission Shs 1.2bn Kumi water project over incomplete works. The Local Government minister said he couldn't commission a project that compromises the safety and health standards of its users observer.ug/news/minister-…

The number of students and staff from that 🦒 university that I meet and that send me messages thanking me for finally bringing their issues to light are so many and it reflects how many are suffering quietly under the suffocation of an institution that thinks it can use its powers of political connection and money to get away with injustices towards its clients. 📌I will be using this image to raise more issues about the GIRAFFE as they come.

@Congo__6 @PatrickMuyaya @DeniseNyakeru @FLOTUS Why would enemy attack a lady without any relevant strategic importance, and in a country where it’s hard to evade the law? It’s doesn’t add up!

Chaque attaque, chaque manœuvre de l’ennemi ne fait que révéler son affaiblissement. Le peuple congolais, uni derrière ses institutions, ne cédera ni à la peur ni aux mensonges. Nous avons choisi la voie de la vérité et de la souveraineté, et rien ne pourra détourner notre marche. »

#RDC : Au sujet des incidents survenus à l’hôtel de la Première Dame @DeniseNyakeru à #Washington : La Première dame séjourne depuis quelques jours à #WashingtonDC à l’invitation de @FLOTUS. Nous sommes en contact étroit avec les autorités américaines pour avoir les détails sur ce qui s’est passé. Nous y reviendrons. Nous sommes dans une phase du processus où nous avons systématiquement détricoté la stratégie du mensonge du #Rwanda. Nous connaissons les méthodes du père et du fils surtout lorsqu’ils sont désespérés. La Première Dame @DeniseNyakeru se porte très bien. #CongolaisTelema !!!! #ToutPourLaPatrie !!!! #BendeleEkweyaTe 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 !!!!

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said in a televised statement on Thursday that a gas contract for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project operated by BP had been found to be one-sided and unfair after a review of strategic contracts. reuters.com/business/energ…

MITOOMA DISTRICT OFFICIALS ARRESTED FOR SELLING GOVT JOBS! This afternoon, @AntiGraft_SH in collaboration with @PoliceUg in Mitooma has arrested several officials from Mitooma District on allegations of selling government jobs and extorting money from job applicants during recent and ongoing Local Government recruitment exercises. The arrested officials include: 1.Mrs. Nakityo Joanita-Chief Administrative Officer, 2.Mr. Mugisha Sadic-District Health Officer, 3.Mr. Tugume Sam Karakuza-Chairperson of the District Service Commission 4.Mr. Nabimanya Richard- Senior Education Officer and others still on the run. Investigations reveal that Mrs. Nakityo Joanita, the Chief Administrative Officer, has repeatedly interfered with the functions of the Service Commission by taking over responsibilities such as scheduling interviews and selecting technical advisors for the commission. Additionally, she directly influenced the scoring of candidates by the Chairperson of the District Service Commission, Mr. Tugume Sam Karakuza. It is alleged that Tugume extorted amounts ranging from UGX 7 million to UGX 25 million from 23 candidates, promising them jobs in the ongoing recruitment. Mr. Mugisha Sadic, the District Health Officer, was found to have engaged in influence peddling to ensure specific candidates were included and scored highly, with two candidates receiving a score of 48 out of 50. He also leaked interview questions and answers to certain applicants to aid their preparations and gain an unfair advantage over others. Mr. Nabimanya Richard, the Senior Education Officer, participated in influence peddling by contacting the Chairperson of the District Service Commission to secure favorable assessments for some education officers during interviews. Other suspects on the run include Mrs. Owarimpa Esther, Parish Chief and LC3 Councillor of Kashenshero Sub-county, Mitooma district who allegedly extorted money from applicants promising them jobs an assurance that was false. Investigations are still ongoing with possible corruption charges soon to be levied upon the suspects in the coming days. The public is called upon to report incidents of extortion during recruitment to the authorities.

Dear @joshjeje2 ,thank you for this question. In the Strategic plan of KCCA we are tackling traffic jam. We plan to introduce Electric buses, engagements with local bus service providers are ongoing.The buses will be deployed along the major corridors. Working with Ministry of Works and Transport (@MoWT_Uganda ), @RailwaysUganda we are double tracking the passenger rail services on available railway corridors but ultimately there one major solution: GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR PRIVATE CARS TO: 1. Walk 2. Cycle 3. Use mass transit i.e MGR,BRT,LRT MGR- Meter Guage Railway From Mukono to Bujuuko BRT - Bus Rapid Transit Mukono to Kampala Gayaza to Kampala Kampala to Kajjansi LRT- Light Railway Transit New Routes to Kira, to Matugga, to Nakisunga with a circular LRT along Northern Bypass and the Southern Bypass When fully implemented ,traffic jam will drastically reduce.

@dexton97 @GTuryamuhereza @cpmayiga Then you don’t know what it means to prosper and the depths of its impact. (Btw, “consumption” is not the only measure of living.)

@GTuryamuhereza @cpmayiga We forget life is meant for living! Why limit yourself when you can afford? To accumulate wealth? That your kids will sell off when your gone?

For one to prosper, one must earn more than one spends. One who earns big but drives expensive cars, may not be able to minimise one's expenditure. Uganda is awash with fellows who believe that an expensive SUV is an acclamation that "they have made it"! One whose profits didn't hit an average of Shs 1b/- in a five-year period shouldn't buy a car exceeding Shs 100m/-. An expensive car takes up a portion of the profits which would be used to grow the business. - #WorkAndProsper

@muhangi_noel @KatushabeJulius How should he have written it—Is it “ni nza”?😊

@KatushabeJulius @KatushabeJulius you also need to learn Runyankole. What is "ninza"? 😅

Banange Mukama wange you haven’t learnt from our previous classes. We don’t begin sentences “Together with my wife,” instead we say, “My wife and I,” or “(Your Wife’s name) and I.” The next time you start a paragraph like that ninza kutuma omuzaire.