Binti Nuru Omari aliyeibuliwa. Ndugu na majirani waliofika kumtazama Nuru. RwandAir acquires new aircraft RwandAir has added another brand new aircraft to its fleet. A second dry leased Boeing 737-700 NG brand new Aircraft from Germany landed at Kigali International Airport 3:05pm local time yesterday. The aircraft will replace the second Boeing 737-500 which has served for about 20 years, according to John Mirenge, CEO RwandAir. “The arrival of this aircraft means that our fleet is now standing at two owned Boeing 737 – 800NG, two owned CRJ900NG, two dry leased Boeing 737-700NG and one wet leased DASH8,” Mirenge noted. He added that the aircraft will help consolidate the newly launched flight routes in Africa but also enable the airline to reach further places, including southern Europe. “Our vision as an airline is to make sure that we operate aircrafts not exceeding six years and above,” Mirenge said. Silas Lwakabamba, the Minister for Infrastructure, commended the national flag carrier for its contribution towards the country’s economic development.
“Everybody should be proud of this airline because of the contribution its making for us, especially on trade promotion, tourism and aviation industry; many airlines are coming here partly because of the success story of RwandAir,” Lwakabamba said. He reaffirmed government’s support to the aviation industry. “We are not only giving Kigali International Airport a vigour facelift but are also doing what we must do to ensure that Bugesera Airport is ready by 2017. This will not only support Kigali International Airport but also boost our aviation industry.” Recently, RwandAir opened a new route to Accra Ghana. It also operates international flights to Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, Entebbe, Uganda, Bujumbura, Burundi and Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro and Mwanza in Tanzania. The airline also flies to Johannesburg, South Africa, Dubai, Libreville and Brazzaville. It is also planning to start flights to Juba in South Sudan, as well as Douala in Cameroon and Abidjan, Ivory Coast this year, according to Mirenge.
The next delivery is expected to arrive February next year according to the airline officials. President Jacob Zuma visited former President Nelson Mandela in hospital in Pretoria today, 27 June, and was informed by the medical team that Madiba’s condition has improved during the course of the night. He remains critical but is now stable. MTHATHA, Jun 28 – As Nelson Mandela fights for his life in hospital, his relatives are pitted against each other in a legal battle, reportedly over where members of the family should be buried. On Friday, sixteen members of the Mandela family brought an urgent application to a regional court, reportedly to force Mandela’s grandson Mandla to return remains of family members to a plot in the ancestral village where Mandela has said he wants to be buried. “I have been instructed by the 16 family members including (daughters) Makaziwe and Zindzi to take action against Mandla,” the family lawyer Wesley Heyes said. “The sheriff hooted and called Mandla on his phone, which was not answered,” said one of the Mandela lawyers David Smith.
The hastily removed graves belonged to Mandela’s eldest son Thembekile who died in 1969, his nine-month-old infant Makaziwe who passed away in 1948, and Mandla’s own father Magkatho who died from an AIDS related illness in 2005. Saturday, June 29 at 0935 EDT Taswira Kutoka IKULU:Rais Mahinda Rajapaksa wa Sri lanka Atua Nchini Ed Miliband's speech to to Women in Advertising and Communications London Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:Conclusion No Joke: White House Defends Obama Family’s $100 Million Trip To Africa As A “Great Bang For Our Buck”… President Obama’s $100 million trip to African offers “great bang for our buck,” the White House said Friday. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes defended the cost of Obama’s upcoming trip to South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania, which could cost taxpayers as much as $100 million. He said the White House doesn’t determine the cost of security, and argued traveling to the often overlooked region would help the U.S.
“Frankly, there will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa, because when you travel to regions like Africa that don’t get a lot of presidential attention, you can have very long-standing and long-running impact from the visit,” Rhodes said. The White House spokesman added that “the president’s not going to retreat from an entire continent on terms of the cost.” Several advocacy groups have called on U.S. President Barack Obama to focus on more than just economic development while on his trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Thanks to all those who responded to our call for help. Hear more about our own and others’ work tonight at 6pm at Crossroads Women’s Centre whenLegal Action for Women launches their newly revised Self-help Guide for Asylum Seekers and their Supporters. We hope you can make it! By Vision ReporterUganda, Kenya and Rwanda have agreed to construct a railway line from Kenya to Uganda and extend to Rwanda. Joint Communique by President Uhuru Kenya, President Yoweri Museveni and President Paul Kagame by State House Kenya
The Presidents resolved to introduce an East African Identity Card as well as fast tracking of the political integration. “The Three Heads of State have undertaken to speed up the process,” Kutesa said. The UK has banned the issuance of travel visas to tuberculosis (TB) patients from Uganda because of the high incidence of the disease as identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Sadati Sserunjogi, a medical officer at IOM, confirmed that they were screening Ugandans for tuberculosis before allowing them to apply for the visas.“We are the ones doing the screening in Kampala,” he said.A notice on the UK border agency under the Home Office website states: “From 30 June 2013, residents of Uganda, who wish to come to the UK for more than six months, must be tested for tuberculosis before applying for a visa. If you plan to come to the UK for less than six months, you do not need a TB test.”Officials at the UK visa application centre in Kampala on Tuesday said this was one of the measures of preventing the spread, but did not state if UK was experiencing a rise in TB cases attributed to immigrants.
The officials, who requested not to be quoted as they are not authorised to speak on behalf of the UK government, said those found to be having the disease will have to be treated and be subjected to another test to show that they are free from TB before applying for the visa.The new procedures will apply to about 100 countries, mainly in Africa, which include Rwanda, Tanzania, Sudan, Burundi and Kenya.The procedures, issued last month, apply to countries where incidence of the disease is above 40 per 100, 000 people (WHO’s threshold for high incidence).The pre-testing for the disease will go on in the affected countries for the next 12 months.Rukia Nakamate, the health ministry spokesperson, said they were not aware that Uganda’s tuberculosis incidence was alarming.“We have just received fresh reports on all diseases and there isn’t any upsurge in cases of TB,” she pointed out. It’s from GE Focus Forward, and it follows a group of doctors who inject a six year-old cancer patient named Emma with the HIV virus.