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September 12th to 26th September 2023
Rwanda
The UK will launch a series of education initiatives in Rwanda during a three-day visit by a Foreign Office minister.
Andrew Mitchell will announce two measures aimed at strengthening education in Rwanda.
Under the UK’s new Girls in Rwanda Learn (Girl) program, he will sign a seven-year partnership with Unicef that focuses on keeping girls in school who are at risk of dropping out and supporting children with disabilities.
Rwanda’s president declared he will run for a fourth term next year, saying that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the past lifting of term limits to extend his rule. President Paul Kagame made the announcement in an interview with the French-language publication Jeune Afrique published Tuesday.
The 65-year-old Kagame has been president since 2000 and was declared the winner of the previous election in 2017 with more than 98% of the vote. He has been the de facto leader since Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Theofrida Maginga, a PhD candidate at the African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) at the University of Rwanda (UR) specializing in Embedded Computing Systems is in the advanced stages of developing a ChatGPT-powered Swahili chatbot that will help smallholder farmers detect crop diseases quickly and easily.
Dubbed ‘Mkulima GPT’, it will integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to support farmers with useful agricultural information in a culturally-sensitive manner. It is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was developed in collaboration with Dr. Jimmy Nsenga, an affiliated honorary lecturer at the ACEIoT.
Kenya
A Korean maritime institute has signed a deal to train more than 400,000 Kenyans in Korea.
The agreement between the Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology (KIMFT) and Pioneer International University (PIU) Kenya aims to prepare trainees for employment within Korean maritime organisations, offering a monthly salary exceeding Sh100,000.
KIMFT President Park Jinsoo led a delegation of stakeholders representing maritime organisations from Korea in the signing of the agreement at PIU's Murang’a campus.
President William Ruto spoke Wednesday at a ceremony establishing diplomatic ties with the Caribbean nation. Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, attended. Henry requested the immediate deployment of such a force a year ago.
“As the leading nation in the U.N.-backed security mission in Haiti, we are committed to deploying a specialized team to comprehensively assess the situation and formulate actionable strategies that will lead to long-term solutions,” Ruto said.
South Africa
The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management said it was advised by the SAWS of severe weather warnings from Sunday afternoon. A Yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms leading to localized flooding or flash flooding has been issued for the Central Karoo, northern Cape Winelands, southern West Coast, and the City of Cape Town. A Yellow level 2 warning for wind and waves leading to difficulty in navigation has been issued for the Cape Point and Cape Agulhas.
Lebanon’s army said it has fired tear gas at Israeli forces over the border in response to smoke bombs fired at its troops, though Israel has said Lebanon started the confrontation.
Tensions have flared along the frontier for the past several months, with rockets fired at Israel during flare-ups of Israeli-Palestinian violence and members of the heavily armed Lebanese group Hezbollah or its supporters facing off with Israeli forces.
“Elements of the Israeli enemy violated the withdrawal line and fired smoke bombs at a Lebanese army patrol that was accompanying a bulldozer removing an earthen berm erected by the Israeli enemy north of the withdrawal line, the blue line, in the Bastra area,” the Lebanese army said in a statement on Saturday.
Nearly a week after a cease-fire agreement between warring factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp brought a fragile peace, hundreds of displaced residents see no immediate prospects of return.
Some have lost their houses, while others do not trust that the calm will hold. For many, it's not the first time they have been forced to flee their homes.
Among them is Munira Abu Aamsha, 63, who left the camp near the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon with her family, ducking from alleyway to alleyway under a rain of bullets.
Malawi
Since early morning, social media has been spreading claims about the death of Tembo Jr. Tembo has been in hospital in Lilongwe for a week but his hospitalization was only announced to the media by his family yesterday. Tembo, aged 91, was admitted in an unnamed hospital in the capital city.
Malawi police confiscated the large containers from refugees and asylum-seekers on suspicion they contained rifles, ammunition, and counterfeiting machines for criminal activities.
The Malawi government started the forced relocation of refugees to the country's only refugee camp, Dzaleka, in May of this year. Authorities said the relocation was in line with the government's policy that prohibits refugees from staying outside the camp. The government also said by staying outside a designated camp, the refugees were posing a threat to national security.
According to Nyirenda, the vacancy rate in government healthcare service facilities now stands at 51 percent.
He disclosed that low funding has affected their operations in provision of quality healthcare services in the country.
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