[Rwanda Forum] President Samia to meet Kamala Harris at White House - The Citizen

President Samia to meet Kamala Harris at White House - The Citizen

President Samia to meet Kamala Harris at White House

Thursday April 14 2022
Samia, Kamala

The two are expected to meet at the White House in Washington DC on Friday this week. PHOTO | COURTESY

Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu is in the United States for two-week official visit where she expected to meet the Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington DC.
Although details are not clear yet on when the two will meet, but their meeting is among things that are on her schedule while in the US.
The head of the state who left the country on April 12, was seen off by the Vice President Phillip Mpango at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA). She arrived in Washington on Thursday April 24 where she was received Tanzania ambassador to US, Elsie Kanze, SADC envoys and diaspora.
When Samia assumed the office in 2021, therefore, becoming the first the first woman to hold that office, Kamala congratulated her saying the United States was ready to strengthen ties between the two countries.
Kamala, the first woman and first person of color to serve as US vice president, made the comment in a posting on Twitter.
"Sending best wishes to @SuluhuSamia following her swearing in as Tanzania's new President - the first woman to hold the office. The United States stands ready to work with you to strengthen relations between our countries," she wrote.

Also, she is expected to address global financial leaders at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings in Washington on April 23, 2022.

Among other things Samia will launch the Royal Tour documentary in New York on April 18.
The Royal Tour documentary was shot in Tanzania and will be used to market the country's tourist attractions to a global audience, with the hope of reviving the tourism industry that was greatly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Following the initial launch in New York on April 18, the film will also be launched in Los Angeles on April 21, Dar es Salaam on April 28, and later in Zanzibar.
Details about her schedule while in the US, other than these, were not readily available.
Trade between the two countries was $462 million in 2019 whereas US foreign direct investment (FDI) in Tanzania was $1.5 billion in 2019, a 5.2 percent increase from 2018, according to U.S. government data.



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[Rwanda Forum] Sanctions : la Chine prépare ses arrières, CNOOC, le géant de l'énergie chinois, solde tous ses actifs en Amérique du Nord

Sanctions : la Chine prépare ses arrières, CNOOC, le géant de l'énergie chinois, solde tous ses actifs en Amérique du Nord

Sanctions : la Chine prépare ses arrières, CNOOC, le géant de l'énergie chinois, solde tous ses actifs en Amérique du Nord

Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir! Pékin va réduire sa dépendance à l'Occident, comme l'illustre la démarche de CNOOC, le géant pétrolier et gazier chinois, qui va céder toutes ses participations en Grande-Bretagne, au Canada et aux États-Unis, révèle l'agence Reuters. Menacée à son tour de sanctions pour son soutien à la Russie, elle-même soumise à un embargo occidental depuis son invasion militaire en Ukraine, Pékin veut éviter que certains de ses actifs ne fassent l'objet d'une confiscation à l'étranger.

Non seulement la Chine a refusé de condamner l'opération russe mais entend entretenir des bonnes relations avec la Russie, dont les hydrocarbures et autres matières premières l'intéressent pour assurer son approvisionnement.

En acquérant le producteur canadien Nexen en 2012 pour 15,1 milliards de dollars, CNOOC, qui a le statut d'une entreprise d'Etat, s'était hissé parmi les grands producteurs mondiaux d'hydrocarbures.

220.000 barils équivalent pétrole par jour

Les actifs de l'ex-Nexen - le nom a disparu en 2019 pour être intégré à la marque CNOOC - comptent des participations dans des champs off shore en mer du Nord, dans le gaz de schiste du nord-est de la Colombie-Britannique, dans l'exploration d'hydrocarbures de schiste au large de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ou encore dans le parc éolien de Soderglen dans le sud de l'Alberta, au Canada. Aux États-Unis, CNOOC possède des actifs dans les bassins onshore Eagle Ford et Rockies shale, ainsi que des participations dans deux grands champs offshore dans le Golfe du Mexique, Appomattox et Stampede. La production cumulée s'affiche à environ 220.000 barils équivalent pétrole par jour (boed), selon les calculs de Reuters. En dehors de la Chine, CNOOC est présent dans une vingtaine de pays.

En mars, Reuters avait déjà indiqué que le géant chinois avait donné mandat à Bank of America pour préparer la vente de ses actifs en mer du Nord, qui comprennent une participation dans l'un des plus grands champs du bassin.

En octobre dernier, son retrait de la Bourse de New-York avait été finalisé. CNOOC comptait parmi les entreprises chinoises que l'administration Trump avait ciblées en 2020, car contrôlées par l'armée chinoise. Elle devrait être cotée à la bourse de Shanghai ce mois-ci, pour pouvoir continuer à se financer.

Pour autant, CNOOC ne renonce pas à se développer à l'international. La major chinoise va chercher à acquérir de nouveaux actifs en Amérique latine et en Afrique, et va donner la priorité au développement de nouveaux projets offshore au Brésil (où elle coopère avec Petrobras et Shell), en Guyane (avec Exxon et Hess) et en Ouganda et Tanzanie (avec TotalEnergies), selon les sources citées par Reuters.

Une nouvelle configuration de la mondialisation

CNOOC compte parmi les cinq plus importantes compagnies pétrolières du pays, avec CNPC, Sinopec, Yang Chang Petroleum et Sinochem Group, avec des actifs détenus hors du pays.

La rivalité avec les Etats-Unis, qui a pris une nouvelle dimension avec les sanctions occidentales contre la Russie, pourrait aboutir à une nouvelle configuration de la mondialisation tant sur le plan diplomatique que commercial. Cette perspective pousse la Chine à sécuriser son approvisionnement vital pour son développement économique.

Ainsi, le pays consomme de plus en plus de pétrole. Après 13,1 millions de barils par jour (mbj) en 2021, elle devrait brûler 15,7 mbj en 2022 (+ 9,1%), selon le dernier rapport mensuel de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE). Et même si elle a augmenté sa production locale (voir graphique), celle-ci reste largement insuffisante pour couvrir les besoins, notamment de produits  pétroliers.

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production chinoise de pétrole

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C'est l'une des raisons qui va pousser la Chine, mais aussi l'Inde et d'autres pays asiatiques, à développer les achats de pétrole russe, d'autant que ceux-ci sont vendus avec une décote.

Urgence de trouver un débouché pour la Russie

Pour le moment un tel mouvement d'ampleur ne s'est pas encore concrétisé, note l'AIE au regard des données de février et mars. "Il reste à voir si les acheteurs asiatiques pourront absorber le brut russe et les produits pétroliers qui étaient achetés par l'Europe et sont interdits aux États-Unis, au Royaume-Uni, au Canada et en Australie. Sans une réallocation complète, la Russie pourrait devoir arrêter une production de pétrole supplémentaire avec des conséquences potentielles à plus long terme pour l'approvisionnement mondial", explique l'AIE, qui anticipe une baisse de 1,5 mb/j en avril puis près de 3 mb/j en mai de la production russe.

De fait, l'urgence à trouver un débouché  à ses importations d'hydrocarbures s'impose d'abord à la Russie plus qu'à ses clients asiatiques. La Chine, elle, qui est sous la pression de Washington, est en train de tirer les premières leçons du conflit ukrainien et commence à se préparer, au cas où.



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[Rwanda Forum] Re: Le criminel revient toujours sur le lieu de son crime.



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On Apr 14, 2022, at 9:42 PM, chris walters <cwalters28739@hotmail.com> wrote:

[Rwanda Forum] Re: Umupolisi ahitanye umunyonzi n’umugenzi icyarimwe. Ubuse yabahoye iki? Sobanukirwa>>> – AMASHYUZA



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On Apr 14, 2022, at 9:32 PM, chris walters <cwalters28739@hotmail.com> wrote:

[Rwanda Forum] Re: Rwanda-UK: Scandale. Trafic d'êtres humains contre impunité et pour enrichissement sans cause

Un génocidaire vrai africain?


On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:12 AM, Zac Biampa
<zac.biampa@yahoo.fr> wrote:
Scandale de Boris Johnson plus ridicule que son prédécesseur Tony Blair officiellement Conseiller mais en réalité Patron de Kagame depuis 1994. Tout cela au dos et au mépris de la population du  Rwanda et de tous les vrais africains.




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[Rwanda Forum] UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear? - BBC News

UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear? - BBC News

UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear?

By Lucy Fleming
BBC News

A road in Kigali, RwandaGetty Images

Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.

Everyone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it "one of the world's safest nations".

Take the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat "in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert".

But underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.

Walk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.

People holding beer bottlesGetty Images

Spying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars

Those deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.

"It does looks like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country," Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.

On the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".

One Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.

Driving school and languages classes

Any camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.

The country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).

People at the UN-run Gashora site in Rwanda 2019AFP

The UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on

They have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France, and Belgium.

The UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.

But when Denmark announced last year that was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.

"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable," it said last August.

Africa already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees "often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries", it said.

Wrong called it a "cynical and amoral deal".

"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda," she said.

Unlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - "so that they can resettle and thrive", as the home secretary put it.

It is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take "tens of thousands in the years ahead".

Out of Kigali, Wrong says it is a "poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees".

YouTubers prosecuted

No-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.

Last month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.

Critics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on which the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.

Paul Rusesabagina in 2021Reuters

Paul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence

After the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.

But in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.

His daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: "Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.

"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people."

A Conservative love affair

The reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.

President Paul Kagame visits the Gahanga Cricket Oval, during the official inauguration, on 28 October 2017AFP

President Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017

"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price," says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.

Last year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on "humanitarian grounds". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.

Western nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.

The UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.

The former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.

A cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of the art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.

Some see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.

But Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion

"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents," Yolande Makolo told the BBC.

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[Rwanda Forum] Rwanda to host asylum-seekers, migrants to UK - The Citizen

Rwanda to host asylum-seekers, migrants to UK - The Citizen

Rwanda to host asylum-seekers, migrants to UK

Thursday April 14 2022
Aslylum seekers

The number of people crossing the English Channel has risen sharply this year. PHOTO | GETTY IMAGES

Kigali.Rwanda has inked a multi-million-dollar deal with Britain to host asylum-seekers and migrants to the UK, the East African country announced Thursday, as part of the British government's bid to crack down on illegal migration.

"Rwanda welcomes this partnership with the United Kingdom to host asylum seekers and migrants, and offer them legal pathways to residence" in the African nation, Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta said in a statement released during a visit by British Home Secretary Priti Patel.

The announcement came hours before a scheduled speech by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlining his government's plan to tackle illegal migration and small boat crossings of the Channel.

Johnson was elected partly on promises to curb illegal immigration, but his term has so far been marked by record numbers of Channel crossings. 

The deal with Rwanda will be funded by the UK to the tune of up to 120 million pounds ($157 million, 144 million euros), with migrants "integrated into communities across the country," according to the statement released by Kigali. 

"This is about ensuring that people are protected, respected, and empowered to further their own ambitions and settle permanently in Rwanda if they choose," said Biruta.

It has been reported previously that the UK hopes to outsource the processing of migrants to countries such as Ghana and Rwanda.



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[Rwanda Forum] Re: Police Discover Skull Inside Nairobi-bound Bus from Rwanda

Muri Bus ya compagnie yitwa TRINITY yari ivuye i Kigali igiye I Nairobi umunyarwanda yafatanywe ibihanga bitatu by'abantu ku mupaka wa K...

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