Sheilla Mbabazi

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[Marie Kresbach Kabera ✝️🇷🇼🇩🇪🙌🏽 @MarieKresbach]

I understand that a city's image should be well preserved. However, this can only happen if a certain group is not ignored, a group for whom this image no longer has any meaning and whose survival mechanism is paramount.

The image could be preserved, but then this particular group would choose a different strategy for survival, which could also pose a major problem. This would create a vicious circle and an endless struggle that cannot be resolved.

Umuti wabyo could be, I will an example of other countries who managed this problem issue well. Bangkok/ Singapore:

1.The city can officially designate certain streets or squares for street vending. Examples: Special "street food zones" Permanent market areas. Temporary evening markets. This has advantages: Abazunguzayi benefit from planning security. The city appears clean and organized .
Visitors see this as part of the culture( NOTE THAT TOURISTS MIGHT BE ATTRACTED TO PRECISELY that "SOMETHING DIFFERENT". As someone who enjoys traveling, I experience this quite often. ) Practical examples include organized night markets in Bangkok and street food areas in Singapore.

2. Simple and affordable licenses:

Many street vendors work informally because the permits are too complicated. Cities can: Offer affordable vendor licenses. Enable simple online registration. Offer short training courses (hygiene, waste disposal) This way, vendors remain legal and the cityscape remains tidy.

[Nelly Mukazayire @nmukazayire]

Waramutse Rwanda!

What a week, what an experience! History has been made and What a pride and priviledge to be a Rwandan today!
Deep Gratitude to your Excellency @PaulKagame for your visionary leadership that has put Rwanda on a global stage where we can host @UCI_cycling and benefit from the business of sports like the rest of the world. The journey continues...

We say thank you to the entire Local Organising Committee( LOC), Volunteers who worked day and night , the Rwandan professional conference organisers( PCOs) who set up all the beautiful infrastructures, the exhibitors in Fan zones and the DJs, Artists who kept the ambiance at a high note.

Special thanks to you spectators from @CityofKigali (Abafanaaaa👏🏾), you pulled out and made all this special! Your smiles, cheers, dances and support through out the week was simply Rwandaful!

Twikomereze Imihigo, twubake u Rwanda rutubereye kuko dukwiye ibyiza maze Rweme no kwisi hose🇷🇼

[IGCP @IGCP]

Still about the #gorilla month, stay with us & learn more about the incredible #mountaingorillas through our daily quiz!
The quiz starts tomorrow and in each answered question lies information about these gentle giants!
Are we ready?
#SecuringtheFutureforMountainGorillas

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

When President Félix Tshisekedi supported and armed the FDLR genocidal force, which he embedded in his own army, Belgium saw it but did nothing about it.

When President Tshisekedi publicly and repeatedly promised to overthrow the government of Rwanda and to bomb Kigali without setting boots on the ground, Belgium heard it loud and clear but remained silent.

When President Tshisekedi spent billions of dollars in heavy weaponry, including attack drones and fighter jets, to achieve his proclaimed goal, and when he put in place a military coalition made of local militias, FDLR genocidal force, Burundian and SAMIDRC forces, as well European mercenaries, for the same purpose, Brussels was fully aware but didn't act.

When the FARDC and its criminal militias persecute and kill, in broad daylight, the Congolese Tutsi in North Kivu, the Banyamulenge in South Kivu and the Hema in Ituri, Belgium is informed to the fullest but chose to look the other way.

And when the Belgian Foreign Minister claims that his country wants "a professional suspension process that preserves the gains of our longstanding cooperation for the benefit of the Rwandan people", this is not only pure neocolonial narrative, but also hypocrisy.

First, it's not the Kingdom of Belgium that takes care of the well-being of the Rwandan people but the Government of Rwanda itself.

Second, if Belgium was working for the "benefit of the Rwandan people", it would not be running around the world putting pressure on all our partners to end the development cooperation intended for that very "Rwandan people".

Third, Rwanda and History know too well how the Kingdom of Belgium usually behaves when it comes to defending the Rwandan people.

I rest my case.

[Sheilla Mbabazi @call_me_Sheilla]

It’s time for Africans to wake up. We must fight for each other, not against each other. Our true liberation starts with unity, self-reliance, and a refusal to be pawns in a game designed to keep us divided and dependent. #AfricanUnity #Leadership

[Sheilla Mbabazi @call_me_Sheilla]

@PaulKagame ‘s love for Rwanda & his vision for Africa are undeniable. Rwanda rose from the ashes of 1994, rebuilding stronger than many African nations with functional systems, strong leadership at every level, top-tier infrastructure, & real progress. Yet, instead of learning,

[Sheilla Mbabazi @call_me_Sheilla]

Either way, the result z the same. Africa remains trapped in modern colonialism deep rooted & systemic We celebrate ‘independence’ while stil being controlled economically, politically, & even mentally Hw free r we if we can’t define our own destiny without external interference

[African Stream @african_stream]

UAE’S AFRICAN LAND GRAB

There's a new scramble for Africa few are talking about. Countries are buying up huge swathes of the continent’s forests to off-set their own carbon footprints. And UAE is one of the biggest buyers. The Middle East petrostate aims to be a net-zero nation by 2050 and has snapped up African forests covering the size of Great Britain. But this sell-off comes at a huge cost for local populations.

According to NGO, Fern, millions of people depending on Africa's wildlife havens for their livelihood, are having their rights violated and sold off to a foreign entity. Meanwhile, major oil and gas producers of the world get to 'whitewash' their image as polluters. They can also make millions by selling their stake in forests to other polluting nations in the form of ‘carbon credits’. Ahmed Ghoneim looks at the dirty game being played in Africa as the world strives to go green.

[🇷🇼 @Vee_1400]

The overpricing of everything is ruining the Kigali experience. One day we will wake up and Kigali will be only affordable to expats and European tourists because it's clear that the locals have no place in this Kigali we are creating. Just sad.

[Book Therapy @Book_therapy223]

Big facts

[Sheilla Mbabazi @call_me_Sheilla]

@Kolie_Yola This episode 🙌🏾😂😂😂😂😂

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

“Reconciliation itself comes with a cost, which is why it is often so difficult to achieve. Hundreds of thousands of people deserved to go to jail for life, or even hanged, by any measure of justice. But we had to find a way to repair those people and make them part of society again. We abolished the death penalty. We therefore had to ask the survivors of genocide for the impossible, in order to restore our nation. To swallow their anger and bitterness. To live together again with those who they had watched murder their loved ones, as their own children flourished. I could not ask anything of the perpetrators.
Only the survivors had something left to give: Their forgiveness. It is the practice of reconciliation, in matters large and small, which creates and recreates healthy nations, and turns strangers and enemies into a family of citizens. That is Rwanda’s constant work, today and every day.” President Kagame | U.S. National Prayer Breakfast Gathering.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

me: why did my alarm not go off ?

my alarm:

[Jenni @hashjenni]

The biggest joke on earth is that computers are asking us to verify that we are humans.

[Violet. @vee_symone]

People with childlike excitement, I hope you never lose your sparkle.