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Learning from Burundi: Lessons for Post-War Development and Reconstruction | Africa UP Close
Burundi has one of the world’s youngest and poorest populations. What follows draws from two passages in a recent publication, Adolescents and Violence: Lessons from Burundi, published in May 2013. The first sheds light on what I found in rural and urban Burundi. The second lists twelve lessons (or insights) that I drew from field research in Burundi, which promise to apply directly to other post-war development and reconstruction contexts.
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Le ex-combattants femmes trouvent moyen de subsistance et acceptation au Burundi - World Bank - YouTube
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S’il y a une « qualité » qu’il faut reconnaître à notre justice, c’est sa capacité à sélectionner les criminels à poursuivre, cette amnésie de certains épisodes et acteurs de nos tragédies. Pourquoi Gatumba et oublier Bugendana, Buta, Teza … Et l’on pourrait même remonter plus loin dans notre triste histoire : 1993, 1988, 1972, 1969 … La liste est loin d’être exhaustive malheureusement.
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Le dernier serment de Charles Ndizeye| Iwacu
Les points obscurs de notre histoire ne s’arrêtent pas aux conflits ethniques entre les Bahutu et les Batutsi. Les Batwa et les Baganwa ont eu aussi leur part. Aujourd’hui, j’aimerais m’arrêter sur un document exceptionnel rédigé par Charles Ndizeye à l’adresse de son père le roi Mwambutsa IV
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Rumonge : les paysannats de Mutambara divisent | Iwacu
Des habitants de Mutambara qui avaient fui le pays en 1972 réclament les terres de paysannat qu’ils exploitaient depuis longtemps. Leurs occupants soutiennent que c’est l’Etat qui les y a installés, en « détenteurs ». Il en va de même des anciens, qui y furent installés par le même Etat, eux aussi en détenteurs. L’administrateur communal les renvoie à la Commission Nationale des Terres et autres Biens (CNTB) mais le code foncier désigne explicitement une autre commission-la Commission Foncière Nationale – de création récente, pour arbitrer tout litige qui naîtra de l’application de l’article unique du code foncier qui dispose sur les paysannats. Regards perplexes sur une situation complexe !
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Agathon Rwasa : « Que Pierre Nkurunziza se repose pour bien s’occuper de ses fermes, de sa brasserie et de ses stades »| Iwacu
Selon l’ancien chef rebelle, un plus un égal deux, et non trois. Il s’interroge où le pouvoir Cndd-Fdd est en train de conduire le peuple s’il balaie d’un revers de la main tous les textes légaux. Il exhorte la direction de ce parti à être prudente et sincère
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Bujumbura rural : que la lumière soit à Mageyo ! | Iwacu
Peres Niyonsaba, 30 ans, électromécanicien, a produit de l’énergie hydraulique (5 KW) dans la zone Mageyo en commune Mubimbi. La population, surprise, se réjouit et voit le développement à l’horizon.
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Is Burundi’s peacebuilding process under threat? | Pambazuka
A draconian law passed recently is symptomatic of a larger concern: a shrinking of political space in the country and continued human rights violations that jeopardise the fragile peacebuilding process
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RD Congo : Concertations nationales, un forum de trop ? | Syfia
Les concertations nationales congolaises qui démarrent le 7 septembre font courir la société civile et les partis politiques, dont certains ressuscitent pour l'occasion, espérant faire partie du gouvernement d’union nationale à l’issue de ces assises. Tous visent un partage des postes lucratifs plutôt que des solutions innovantes pour le pays.
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Sud-Kivu : Le cercle vicieux du surendettement | Syfia
Bon nombre de ceux qui s'endettent auprès de coopératives d'épargne et de crédit du Sud-Kivu pour, disent-ils, "améliorer leurs affaires" gaspillent cet argent dans des dépenses inutiles. Pour le rembourser, ils doivent alors recourir à d'autres crédits... Un cercle vicieux sans fin…
- Western analysts all too often take a distorted and reductionist approach to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Kai Koddenbrock, who analysed more than 50 policy papers for a study published in the journal International Peacekeeping in November 2012.
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So full that detainees are handcuffed on windows | Rising Continent
On Tuesday September 17th, 2013 we reported about the 40 Rwandan students who were highhandedly taken into custody by the police in Kigali. Luckily some 20 were released the same day, but for the rest of the group people were still unaware of where they were detained.
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Rwandan elections: Safe and sorry | The Economist
MANY things were in doubt when Rwanda held parliamentary elections on September 16th, but not the outcome. Paul Kagame, the president, said before votes were counted that he had “no reason to believe” in anything but overwhelming victory. His Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) won with 76%.
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PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME 'Rwanda has its own problems' | ALJAZEERA TV - YouTube
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Paul Kagame, l'homme fort du Rwanda (partie 1) | France24 - YouTube --- Paul Kagame, l'homme fort du Rwanda (partie 2) | France24 - YouTube
tags: rwanda parliamentary elections F24 debate
Six millions de Rwandais étaient appelés aux urnes ce lundi pour élire leurs députés. Un vote sans surprise. C'est le parti de Paul Kagamé (FPR) qui devrait de nouveau rafler la mise. L'occasion de nous arrêter sur ce pays qui vise une croissance à 2 chiffres, mais qui bride l'opposition. C'est aussi un pays qui soutient les rebelles du M23, dans l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo. Alors que l'Occident pense à punir Bachar al-Assad, faut-il en faire de même à l'égard de Paul Kagame pour les exactions en RDC ? Nos invités : Jacques KABALE, Ambassadeur du Rwanda en France, Faustin TWAGIRAMUNGU, Président de Rwandan Dream Initiative, Antoine GLASER, Journaliste, écrivain, Florent GEEL, Directeur du Bureau Afrique de la Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme.
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Kagame's Rwanda. Rwanda is an island of growth and stability nearly two decades after the genocide, but at what price? On the day of legislative elections that Paul Kagamé's RPF were sure to win, François Picard’s panel argues over the Rwandan president’s legacy and his degree of responsibility for the fighting in neighbouring Congo. George KAZOLIAS, Senior News Producer, RFO/AITV Gérard PRUNIER, Author, "Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide & the Making of a Continental Catastrophe" René CLAUDEL MUGENZI, CEO of London Centre for Social Impact Simone Schlindwein, Great Lakes correspondent, German Newspaper TAZ Albert RUDATSIMBURWA , Political Analyst. Director and Senior Editor, Contact Fm
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Rwanda: A democracy in the making? | Al Jazeera
Over five million Rwandans are casting their ballots in parliamentary elections where candidates from 11 parties are running for 80 seats, with 24 seats reserved for women. A debate between Anasthase Shyaka, Filip Reyntjens, Kris Berwouts
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Ten days after her critique of Jeffrey Gettleman’s Paul Kagame profile had became a viral hit throughout Africa, Communications Director to Rwanda’s President, Yolande Makolo, shifts her attention to Al Jazeera’s decision to cast the controversial Filip Reyntjens as an expert on the Rwanda.
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Rwanda Promesses électorales : incompréhensions et mensonges | Syfia
Tout a été promis par les candidats aux élections législatives rwandaises, qui se sont tenues le 16 septembre, pour s'attirer les votes des électeurs. Mais la plupart de ces promesses ne relèvent pas du mandat des députés et ne seront donc, à coup sûr, jamais mises en œuvre. Des duperies dénoncées par la société civile.
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These elections had very little to do with democratic political competition. People couldn’t even elect individual candidates. They voted for parties who will appoint the MPs representing the people. Most critics of the current Rwandan regime consider the results of these elections as hardly relevant because they took place in an entirely controlled political environment. I don’t agree with that. I think the results are relevant. Of course, the elections will not reveal anything about the power balance between political parties, visions or strategies. But they were not meant to do that. They might, however, tell us something about the power balance within the RPF. Kagame’s regime has, on several occasions, been under heavy fire in recent years and this has caused a lot of internal tensions.
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Rwanda: les deux vainqueurs des législatives | le carnet de Colette Braeckman
Pour la troisième fois depuis le génocide de 1994, six millions d’électeurs rwandais ont été appelés aux urnes le 16 septembre, afin de départager les 410 candidats qui se présentent aux élections législatives.
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Rwanda : Cotiser pour l'électrification ne suffit pas pour être branché | Syfia
L'absence d'électricité dans certaines zones rurales du Rwanda ralentit le développement des communautés. Pour pallier ce problème, la population n’hésite pas à aider l’Etat dans ses efforts par la voie des coopératives d’électrification. Mais la fée lumière ne leur arrive pas toujours.
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Samputu gets standing ovation at TEDx conference - The New Times Rwanda
Kora award-winner and world peace ambassador, Jean Paul Samputu is back from Hague, Netherlands where he delivered a powerful speech about forgiveness to an audience of over 3 million people worldwide at the just concluded TEDx conference.
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ADF rebels: My abduction, camp life and escape | New Vision
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels are back in the news. They are said to be conscripting children as young as five years, according to a video clip the Uganda People's Defence Forces released recently. But way back on Saturday August 16, 1997, the ADF rebels abducted students of St. John the Evangelist Minor Seminary, Kiburara, Kasese district. BRIGHT ANTHONY MALERE was one of them. He recounts the harrowing experience and his escape from captivity
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Nepal and many other countries have made important progress toward achieving universal primary education, as part of their commitment to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But because the goals are not grounded in a human rights framework, make no reference to an inclusive and non-discriminatory approach, and have no specific goals or targets for people with disabilities, this group has been left behind as development has moved forward. The problem is not limited to education. Worldwide, people with disabilities are excluded from development activities and deprived of the benefits of development. For example, in northern Uganda, we interviewed numerous women with disabilities but found only one woman with who had benefited from government development projects mandated to support farmers with disabilities and other marginalized groups. Most women with disabilities we interviewed were not even aware that the programs existed.
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The first findings of a project that aims to help low-income communities benefit more from living near Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where conservation priorities can impose limits on their livelihoods has dispelled perceptions that poor people who live closer to the park pose a danger to wildlife conservation efforts.
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Today we announce the winners of this year’s Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders competition. Out of 244 applications, from 54 countries, an international group of experts have found four of the most exciting and innovative peacebuilding organisations from around the world.
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Le chant joyeux d'une ancienne esclave de l'Armée de résistance du Seigneur | UNHCR
La voix forte et claire de Monique* s'élève au sein d'une petite chorale animée et composée de jeunes, à l'extérieur d'une église dans la ville reculée de Dungu au cœur de l'Afrique. Elle et ses amis répètent la messe de dimanche en tapant des mains et en dansant. Mais, il y a à peine quatre ans, la jeune fille de 18 ans ne chantait ni ne dansait. Elle pensait qu'elle allait mourir.
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As the ink dries on a 3.6 million dollar agreement between Uganda and the World Bank to support the country’s preparations for REDD, some analysts are pessimistic over the mechanism’s potential. REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) was formally agreed to at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Bali, Indonesia in 2007. REDD is intended to reward the preservation of forests with carbon credits which can be sold to polluting companies in the North wishing to offset their harmful emissions. (REDD+, agreed later, extends the concept beyond forests and plantations to include agriculture.)
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Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the LRA’s involvement in ivory trade. This was sparked off by the Enough report ‘Kony’s ivory’ released in June, which described the LRA’s ivory activities in Garamba Park, North-Eastern DRC. The report was followed by a range of articles highlighting how ‘tusks fund terror’; and further elaborated in other reports. All of these highlight how the LRA “gains vital resources through its participation in the illegal ivory trade” – as the Enough report summarized (p.11). Yet, narrowing down the ivory problem in and around Garamba Park to the LRA is problematic for several reasons. Most importantly, in order to effectively address the ivory issue, it is crucial to understand the functioning of the commodity chain in and around Garamba Park. Below I discuss a few basic points about this commodity chain, based on ongoing field research, in order to contextualize the LRA’s engagement in ivory.
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Mix of old and new helps cut child deaths in Uganda | UNICEF
The 2013 Progress Report on Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed shows that major progress has been made in lowering child mortality in all regions of the world and at all levels of national income. Nonetheless, even bigger gains are needed if the world is to meet Millennium Development Goal 4 – reducing under-5 mortality by two thirds by 2015. UNICEF’s Web series on A Promise Renewed focuses on some of the successful and innovative programmes that have helped save the lives of millions of children around the world. A blend of tradition and innovation has helped make a drastic difference in the survival rate of Ugandan children, over the past generation.
