Watch Kagame and his Ugandan strategist Mwenda clash about Rwandan economic Performance.

Watch Kagame and his Ugandan strategist Mwenda clash about Rwandan economic Performance.

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Rwanda in the top 10 countries that use child soldiers in the world.

(New York) – The Obama administration should require foreign governments receiving United States military aid to immediately end their use of child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 30, 2016, the US State Department issued a new list of countries implicated in the use of child soldiers as part of its annual Trafficking in Persons report. The list of 10 countries includes Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015. 

© 2015 Sebastian Rich/Corbis/AP Images

The 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act prohibits certain forms of US military assistance to countries that either use child soldiers in their national armed forces or support militias or paramilitaries that recruit and use child soldiers. The president can waive the prohibition for national security reasons. Since the law went into effect in 2010, the Obama administration has issued such waivers in 26 of 33 cases, allowing governments using child soldiers to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in US military aid.
“Many of the governments listed by the State Department receive US military aid year after year despite their continued use of children as soldiers,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “President Obama should make clear that countries using child soldiers are going to lose US military support.”

President Obama must decide by the end of September whether to waive the law’s military sanctions for any of the listed governments for fiscal year 2017.

Iraq was added to the list for the first time this year. The Popular Mobilization Forces, a government-recognized paramilitary force under the prime minister’s command, has recruited children as young as 11 to fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Human Rights Watch has documented that children as young as 15 have been killed while fighting with one of the militia forces making up the Popular Mobilization Forces.

Nigeria was included for the second year in a row, based on the use of child soldiers by the Civilian Joint Task Force, a government-allied force used to fight the armed group Boko Haram. Rwanda, which had been included in 2013 and 2014 but removed in 2015, reappeared after officials recruited child soldiers from a refugee camp. The other countries have been included for at least four years in a row. Several – Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen – have been named every year since the list was first published in 2010.

Afghanistan was omitted from this year’s list, despite evidence that the Afghan Local Police, a government-backed militia engaged in combat operations against the Taliban and other insurgents, recruits and uses children as soldiers.

“The United States has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to support an Afghan militia that recruits and uses children to fight the Taliban,” Becker said. “Afghanistan should also be on this list and subject to military sanctions.”

Afghanistan was excluded because the State Department determined that the Afghan Local Police fell into a gray area not covered by the Child Soldiers Prevention Act. That decision appears contrary to the plain meaning of the law, Human Rights Watch said. The law covers “governmental armed forces or government-supported armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit and use child soldiers.” The Afghan Local Police was established under the Afghan interior minister by presidential decree in August 2010, and according to the US Defense Department, is an “integral part” of the Afghanistan security forces.

“There’s no gray area concerning children and the Afghan Local Police,” Becker said. “The Afghan government has failed to rein in the militia’s recruitment of children while the US turns a blind eye.”

In 2015, President Obama gave full or partial waivers to four of the five countries listed that were scheduled recipients of US military aid. Withholding at least a portion of US military aid would provide foreign governments with an incentive to curb child recruitment, Human Rights Watch said.

“President Obama should take a much harder line, and insist that countries that receive US military aid end their use of child soldiers,” Becker said. “Unconditional military aid sends a terrible message that the US knowingly supports countries that use children to fight.”

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Who Taught You to Hate Yourself - Malcolm X

Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to, so much so that you don’t want to be around each other? No, before you come asking Mr. Muhammad does he teach hate, you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God gave you. We teach you to love the hair that God gave you.

We don’t steal, we don’t gamble, we don’t lie and we don’t cheat. That also deprives the government of revenue because you can’t get into a whiskey bottle without getting past the government seal. You can’t buy a deck of cards without getting past the government seal. Here the white man makes the whiskey then puts you in jail for getting drunk. He sells you the cards and the dice and puts you in jail when he catches you using them. So he’s against us because we fix it where he can’t catch you any more. We take the dice out of your hands and the cards out of your hands and the whiskey out of your head.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. And as Muslims the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to respect our women and to protect our women and the only time a Muslim really gets real violent is when someone goes to molest his woman.

We will kill you for our woman.



I’m making it plain, yes. We will kill you for our woman. We believe that if the white man will do whatever is necessary to see that his woman gets respect and protection then you and I will never be recognized as men until we stand up like men and place the same penalty over the head of anyone who puts his filthy hands out to put in the direction of our women.

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Jay Z's Top 10 Rules For Success

Jay Z

He's an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur.

He's one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America.

He's one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records, while receiving 21 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations.

Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers ever, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006.






He co-owns the 40/40 Club, and is the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the former president of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and founder of Roc Nation.

He has a net worth of 550 million USD.

He's Jay Z and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.



1. Get involved in things that you love
2. Be yourself
3. Find inspiration
4. Life is about balance
5. Don't give up
6. Be Different
7. Believe in your genius-level talent
8. Follow your instincts
9. Collaborate with others
10. Mentor and give back

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Video: Which Is The Real Kigali?

President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, is always showcasing his capital city, Kigali, as the safest and cleanest in Africa and beyond.

On arrival at international airport in Kigali, plastic bags are taken away from visitors and Rwandans. This is said to be a sign of cleanliness and environmental protection.
All this is propaganda. The real Kigali is something else – slums and dangerous open sewers that kill people during the rain season.

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In Pictures, Kigali Experiencing Increase of Street Children In Numbers.Who Cares?

Kigali is peaceful today because the street children are still children. Today they are begging, practically requesting their donors to willingly handover the loose change in their possession. When the sense of frustration develops, they may use ‘reasonable force’ so to say in police speak.

Throughout the year, hundreds of men, women, and children—many of them street children, commercial sex workers, or street hawkers—were detained unlawfully, without charge or trial, in very poor conditions in an unrecognized detention center commonly known as Kwa Kabuga, in the Gikondo area of Kigali. Many were beaten by police, or by other detainees in the presence of police.

Although no official statistics have been collated, it is estimated by various NGO’s that there are between 10,000 and 15,000 children who live on the streets in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Most of these do not actually sleep on the streets at nighttime, because there is a high risk that they will be killed, or beaten. Many live in underground big pipes, or share a small mud hut with some older street children.

Rwandan authorities have come under fire for forcibly rounding up hundreds of street children in the capital, Kigali, ahead of an African leaders summit.
Below are few images of Kigali steet Children and the video of Human Rights Watch World Report 2015 - Events of 2014

Numbers of street Children in Kigali in Increasing, 

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Barack Obama's Top 10 Rules For Success

He's the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.

He's a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.

He defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

He's Barack Obama and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.


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1. Move the ball forward
He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.

2. Have hope
He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004.

3. Don't get complacent
He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

4. Stay Focused
He received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary

5. You can't do it alone
After a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2008, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination.

6. Commit to something bigger
He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

7. Stop making excuses
Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

8. Don't take yourself too seriously
He was reelected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

9. Stick to your plan
He normalized U.S. relations with Cuba.

10. Follow your passion
He spearheaded discussions that led to the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change

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Rwanda to mechanize 50 per cent of agriculture land by 2020

In a bid to boost agriculture and fight hunger and poverty among poor rural farmers, Rwanda targets to adopt mechanization on 50 percent of agriculture land by 2020, according to the ministry of agriculture top official.

Rwandan agriculture remains substantially undercapitalized, with extremely low levels of mechanization contributing to agricultural productivity far below the level achieved in other parts of the developing world.

Tony Nsanganira, Rwanda state minister in charge of agriculture told reporters on Saturday that the idea of mechanization is to increase agriculture productivity.

“Agriculture contributes 35 percent of GDP of our national economy. Most industries depend on agriculture produce. Industries contribute 20 percent to the GDP. We need mechanized farming to reduce a trade deficit of 1 billion U.S. dollars incurred by the country while importing food stuffs,” he said.

Nsanganira urged all stakeholders in agriculture mechanization sub-sector to invest massively in agricultural machines because they play a key role in total factor productivity in farming.

“It is common knowledge that agricultural mechanization is a key and almost indispensable pillar for making farm operations efficient and productive.”

Currently, 18 percent of agriculture land in Rwanda is under mechanization, and plans are under way to increase it 25 percent by next year, according to the ministry of agriculture officials.

“Modern agriculture in Rwanda would be impossible without advanced machinery solutions along the entire agricultural value chain,” Nsanganira noted.

The ministry had taken the initiative to purchase several farm machines including tractors, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, and power tillers.

Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) says that agriculture mechanisation in the country has not yet been fully exploited by farmers and the private sector.

The initiative is, therefore, being viewed by sector analysts as a big step toward achieving the second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS II) objectives, besides boosting productivity and creating more 200,000 off-farms jobs.

EDPRS II gives priority to rural development, especially creating of more off-jobs to transform the country into a middle-income economy.

According to Louis Butare, director general RAB, the country needs more investors in the agriculture sector especially in the areas of mechanization.

“If agriculture remains dependent on primitive technologies and implements like the hoe, it will be difficult for our country feed the teeming population, and play a significant role in the international market for value-added agricultural products,” he said. – Xinhua

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Rwandan Youth For Change a movement that emerged in response to the grave violations of Human Rights in Rwanda.

Rwandan Youth For Change (RY4C) is a movement that emerged in response to the grave violations of Human Rights in Rwanda. This movement is meant not only for Rwandan Youths but for anyone who wishes to be part of this struggle for Freedom, Justice and Democracy.

RY4C acknowledges that Rwandans have suffered and that they are still suffering from all kinds of killings, oppression, living in exile and from other violations of Human Rights such as Right to life, to family, freedoms of speech, thinking and many more. Rwandans (condemned to remain silent, held like prisoners in their own country) found themselves in between the International Community which privileges its economical interests and a dictatorial regime. The world heard about the Rwandan tragedy but most of it had remained untold. We believe it is time for every Rwandan to take his/her responsibility and do something about it.

RY4C is not a political party but a movement that is devoted to bring awareness. Through conferences and social networks wants stimulate young boys and girls to have a critical mind. Here is a forum which provides you with information, analyses, critics related to Rwandan politics. You shall find images, texts, videos and links meant to inspire you to be the change you want to see. RY4C promotes, supports and coordinates, if necessary, all initiatives of those who want change in Rwanda.

We encourage you to create NGOs, videos, blogs, etc. to bring CHANGE in Rwanda. Thus, If you are passionated by music, sports, arts or you are an expert in any other domain we encourage all of you to use your knowledge wherever you are, as a contribution to a better Rwanda.


For advices and further support, please contact us at Rwandanyouthforchange@gmail.com

We are looking forward to working with you all.

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words — Here Is Kagame's Primary Schools In Rwanda

Early schooling matters most for children;Attending a good pre-school and primary has more impact on children's academic progress than their gender or family background, researchers claimed today.
Every child should get quality education.

The future of our country depends upon the children of today. We must remember that the little child depends more on his teacher than the advanced student does on his professor. A teacher plays an important role in shaping the future of a student. We should have competent teachers who are interested in the education process. Unfortunately, in Kagame's Rwanda, is the opposite.

Take a look at St. Vincent de Paul Primary School that is located at Rugera in Nyabihu Rwanda.

Students of St. Vincent de Paul Primary School

Classrooms of St. Vincent de Paul Primary School

Over populated classrooms of St. Vincent de Paul Primary School

Dust coming into Classrooms at St. Vincent de Paul Primary School

Over populated class room with more than 140 students at St. Vincent de Paul Primary School

Therefore, Dear, Pro Paul Kagame Regime, Primary education is the basic and foremost right of every child.Its availability and provision is the responsibility of a state. Primary education brings awareness among the masses, opens avenues for opportunities as well self-advancement and improvement and reduces chronic and inter-generational poverty. As a first step in the creation of welfare and just society, universal primary education is an absolute pre-requisite for sustainable development.

Every single child that means girls as well as boys should be able to complete full course of primary education. The Pictures shows how the Current Governemnt of Rwanda has failed to offer primary school education to Rwandan Children. What do you see here Mr Kagame?

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