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  • EGYPT Gets First Civilian President

    Egypt now has the first civilian head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the country’s modern Army.

    Mohammed Mursi has been sworn in as the country’s first civilian, democratically elected president at a historic ceremony in Cairo.

    Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, took the oath before the Supreme Constitutional Court.

    He promised to respect the constitution and the rule of law, and to protect the people of Egypt.

    He is now due to speak at Cairo University before going to an army base for the handover from military rule.

    On Friday, he undertook a symbolic swearing-in before crowds gathered in Tahrir Square to protest against decrees issued by the country’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf).

    Mursi said he would insist on being given the full powers of a president, and added: “The revolution must continue until all its objectives are met.”

    His administration will try to ease the military out – knowing that in overt confrontation the military is the one with the guns, says regional analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.

    But the Mubarak regime is still largely intact and many in it will not work with the president, he says.

    Mursi took his oath of office about an hour later than scheduled at the constitutional court – not as originally planned at the parliament, which was dissolved by the Scaf last week.

  • DRC Army, FDLR Plot Attacks on Rwanda

    In a new twist of events the Congolese Army has allegedly renewed its cooperation with the FDLR rebels based in Eastern DRC aimed at launching terror attacks on Rwanda soil.

    The Rwandan government on Thursday accused Kinshasa of renewing cooperation with the genocidal forces.

    An official in the Rwanda President’s office Yolande Makolo was quoted saying, “Two FDLR political cadres, travelling on Belgian passports, are currently in Rutshuru in North Kivu to meet the FDLR command and convince them to resume cooperation with the Congolese army.”

    The men have been identified as Faustin Murego and Joseph Nzabonimpa, both residents in Belgium.

    Also their passport numbers on which they are travelling have been revealed.

    The two men are said to have flown into the Ugandan capital, Kampala aboard Egypt Air flight and then made their way to the North Kivu Provincial capital Goma, with the help of DRC intelligence agents.

    Makolo explained that an official in DR Congo’s North Kivu province, where the commander of the Rwandan Hutu rebel group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) is based, is tasked with persuading the FDLR to resume cooperation with the DRC army and to “plan terror attacks on Rwanda.”

    The DRC government has in the past weeks accused Rwanda of backing a mutiny in the east of the DR Congo.

    About Faustin Murego and Joseph Nzabonimpa

    Murego was a lieutenant in the former Rwandan army and now lives in the Belgian city of Liege, Makolo said.

    Nzabonimpa was also an officer in the former Rwandan army and now lives in Brussels, where he works in IT, she said.

    Still according to Makolo, North Kivu Governor Julien Paluku asked the UN mission in DRC to fly the two men to Walikale, a town deep in the forest, so they could meet FDLR commander Sylvestre Mudacumura.

    The UN refused and so Mudacumura sent a lower ranking officer Pacifique Ntawunguka to meet them.

    “The meeting took place … and they decided to resume cooperation,” Makolo said, adding that the two had given Ntawunguka $100,000 to give to Mudacumura.

    Meanwhile, DR Congo on Thursday urged Rwanda to stop fuelling conflict in the east, after a UN report found that Kigali officers had assisted a mutiny there.

    “We demand that the Rwandan authorities prevent their officers from continuing to fuel the war in Congo,” government spokesperson Lambert Mende said.

    “We ask them to unconditionally dismantle networks, stop recruitment and supplies feeding the nefarious forces in Congo,” the spokesman said at a press conference.

    Kigali has vehemently denied accusations it had been helping a mutiny in the eastern DRC by former rebels who had been integrated into the army but defected again this year.

  • Tony Blair Wants To Be Prime Minister Again

    The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed that he would like to be Prime Minister again.

    The former Labour premier, who left Downing Street in a huff in 2007, said he would now do a better job than during his 10 years in power because of what he has learned since leaving frontline politics.

    However , this is not the first time that Blair, who is accused of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, has confessed he would like to return to No 10.

    Blair, (59) admitted his prospects of a comeback — which would be the first since Harold Wilson reclaimed Downing Street in 1974 after losing a general election in 1970 — were ‘not very likely’.

    In an interview with the London Evening Standard: “I am seeing a lot of the world and I have learned an immense amount in the past five years.

    “One of my regrets is that what I have learned in the last five years would have been so useful to me. Because when you see how the world is developing you get a far clearer picture of some of the issues our country is grappling with.”

    Asked directly if he would do the job again, he said: “Yes, sure, but it’s not likely to happen is it.”

    Blair also said his successor, Gordon Brown, had condemned Labour to defeat by ditching the New Labour policies that got him elected three times.

    He accused Brown of having him ‘forced out’ of power, saying he would have liked to have stayed in the job but left to avoid a ‘bloody battle’ with Brown’s supporters.

    Looking back to the day of his resignation, he said: “I didn’t want to go but I felt that I had to.

    “The only choice would have been to have fought a very bloody battle internally which I thought would damage the country as well as the party.”

    Blair suggested that in some ways he is better equipped now to be PM than he was during his time in Downing Street. “I have learned an immense amount in the past five years,” he said.

    “One of my regrets is that what I have learned in the last five years would have been so useful to me.

    “Because when you see how the world is developing you get a far clearer picture of some of the issues our country is grappling with.”

    Blair said that it was ‘inevitable’ that Labour would go down to defeat in the 2010 general election after it became clear that, under his successor Gordon Brown, it did not know whether or not it wanted to stick to the New Labour agenda he had mapped out.

    He predicted that the Liberal Democrats will struggle at the next election, scheduled for 2015, and urged Miliband to stick to the centre ground.

    Despite the upheavals caused by the financial crash of 2008 — which he admits he did not foresee —Blair said Labour would be wrong to shift to the left.

  • Woman Catches Husband Raping Daughters

    In Zimbabwe a man was allegedly caught red handed by his wife, raping his two daughters aged six and seven.

    The 46-year-old man is now being charged with six counts of rape. He denied the charges when he appeared before regional court.

    He was remanded in custody to July 11.

    He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.

    Prosecutor Valery Ngoma alleges that sometime in January this year, the man followed his daughters to the bush where they had gone to fetch firewood.

    He reportedly told them to carry the firewood home before ordering the six-year-old daughter to remove her clothes.

    Without any suspicion, the little girl complied and he raped her while her sister watched. After raping the younger girl, the man ordered the elder sister to lie on the ground and also raped her.

    When the children returned home, they reported the abuse to their mother who confronted her husband but he denied the allegations.

    In February, the accused arrived home from a beer drink and found his wife away.

    He then summoned one of his daughters to his bedroom before locking the door from inside and raped her.

    On April 10, the man noticing that his wife was busy watering the garden called the seven-year-old behind the house and raped her once.

    On May 15, the man ordered the girl to accompany him to a nearby bush to collect wild fruits. He raped the minor and ordered her not to tell anyone, it is alleged.

    It is the State’s case that the following month, the man who was sleeping with his wife in their bedroom sneaked out and went to where his children were sleeping.

    He sneaked into the blankets in which one of the girls was sleeping before raping her. However, this time his wife caught him red-handed while abusing the girl.

    She reported the case to the police, leading to his arrest.

  • Two Arrested over Forged Vehicle Documents

    Two Fuso trucks have been impounded and by Police in Rusizi district for using forged certificates and stickers.

    The two suspects are also being held to help in investigations aimed at tracing all people that are connected to this crime.

    The incident happened June 27 when two men were arrested in connection with using counterfeited certificates and stickers on their trucks (Registration numbers RAA 918 X and RAA 685 Y as shown in photo).

    The suspects and trucks were brought at the Motor Vehicle Inspection Center at Remera where it was confirmed that the certificates and stickers on the two trucks were not genuine compared to the ones at the center.

    The arrest of the two men came after Police suspected possible counterfeiting and use of MIC documents in the country but the law enforcer had not yet identified any clear evidence.

    Initially, certificates and stickers are issued by the Motor Vehicle inspection Center (MIC) as a confirmation that a particular vehicle has been inspected by the center and thus allowed to make movements on roads.

    Superintendent Rafiki Mujiji, the MIC commanding Officer condemned the criminal act saying that Police will not tolerate such people who tarnish the good image of the center.

    “We have done all possible to ensure our customers get the best services. We introduced a third lane to reduce the time customers used to spend here waiting for their vehicles to be inspected,” Supt Mujiji said.

    One of the arrested suspect names withheld for investigation purposes denies any responsibility in forging the certificate and sticker.

    He claims, he gave Rwf 210,000 to a friend who promised to get him the documents as quick as possible. “I wanted to get my truck back to work and that is why I accepted to give him this amount of money,” the suspect said.

    “I was surprised when police officers arrested me weeks later accusing me of using forging documents,” he (suspect) said.

    If found guilty, the three are likely to be sentenced between 5 and 10 years and pay a fine up to Frw 100,000 according article 193 of the Rwandan penal code.

  • Police & Immigration Officials Trained on Human Trafficking

    Officials from National Police and Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration have received training aimed at equipping them with skills on identifying, investing and responding to cases of human trafficking.

    The three day training took place at Top tower hotel in Kigali to help over fifty participants benefit from skills such as differentiation between internal and external trafficking, the human trafficking process, and offence of trafficking, human trafficking investigations and identification of human trafficking.

    Participants acquired knowledge on protocol to prevent, suppress and punish human trafficking especially women and children.

    They also gained skills on protection of victims of trafficking in person, cooperation and other measures of human trafficking.

    Madame Agnes Igoye a facilitator from Uganda said the human trafficking is the recruitment, transporting transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of a threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation.

    Superintendent Steven Rukumba, the director of training in Rwanda national police said human trafficking is a crime that all persons must cooperate in fighting against it.

    The training was organized by a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in collaboration with International Organization for Migration.

  • Worried About Hair Styling?

    Planning your wedding gets heavier as the D-day approaches. The dress, the shoes, the decorations all drive you crazy.

    You won’t worry about your hairdo anymore because here are some simple hairstyles that will make you look fresh, elegant and beautiful on your wedding day.
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    Here is a nice, natural, beautiful African look (afro). You need to just comb trough, put some hair spray and a gorgeous flower (natural or artificial it depends on your tastes and choices).
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    Healthy long curls just do it! They give you a fresh looking appearance. Your face is completely displayed. Accomplishing this hairstyle is very easy and not time consuming.
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    Are you wearing braids? Well and good, braids can be as chic as any unbraided hair once they are well arranged and well tied. This is another easy, purely African way to go that also goes for dreadlocks.
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    If you like a Chignon, this is suitable for you. Very simple and prestigious.

    No more stress when it comes to the right hairdo to go for on your wedding, these are only few in hundreds and their simplicity will just be a complement to your fabulous wedding.

  • Anti Bashir Protests Sweep Through Khartoum

    In Nothern Sudan political tension is high as Protests broke out as planned following Friday prayer’s in different parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum as well as two regional towns amid reports of severe crackdowns by police and security forces.

    The demonstrations first brokeout in Wad Nubawi Mosque in Khartoum’s sister-city of Omdurman where around 300 protesters including members of the Ansar sect of the opposition National Umma Party (NUP) started chanting slogans calling for the downfall of the government as soon as the prayer ended.

    Witnesses said that police forces supported by plain clothed security agents fired heavy teargas and rubber bullets on the protesters inside the mosque.

    Activists say that the protests are currently spreading across other parts of Omdurman, including Ombada area.

    Simultaneously, protests erupted in Al-Haj Youssef and Shambat neighbourhoods in Khartoum North, also known as Bahri, where activists say police and security agents are firing heavy tear gas and arresting protesters.

    Activists are also reporting that demonstrations erupted following Friday prayer in the central market in Kassala town in the eastern region as well as in Al-Obayid town in North Kordofan State.

    The current protest movement in Sudan started two weeks ago as the government moved to implement a set of anti-austerity measures including cuts of fuel subsides in order to make up for what officials say is a budget deficit of $2.4 billion US.

    Since then, the protests have been widening with protesters across several parts of the country burning tires, blocking roads and chanting slogans calling for the downfall of the government.

  • Girl Killed, Body Dumped at Cemetry

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    A body of a young lady aged approximately 20 was found laying lifeless at Kimisagara cemetery at Sangwa, Kimisagara sector in Nyarugenge District of Kigali city.

    On Thursday morning a passerby Umazekabiri Venuste,discovered the body and immediately notified local authorities and Police.

    By press time, the name of the deceased had not yet been established.

    Ndaziramiye Icyeza a local official in the area in charge of information said that, before the young lady could have been raped before meeting her death.

    He added that condoms were littered near the body and that her skirt had been torn indicating there was struggle.

    “Also at the scene of crime, there were clothes, body lotion,” Ndaziramiye said suspecting that she could have been killed at the scene and not killed from somewhere and later dumping her body at the site.

    Nyabyenda Vincent,a local official in Sangwa area where the crime was committed said, “ its not the first time such an incident has occurred in the area”.

    He added that this is the third case of a young lady killed in the area yet all were not residents or known in Sangwa, “it has always been difficult to determine their places of origin”.

  • 7 Die On Spot in Accident

    Seven People including a three months old baby died on the spot on Thursday June 28 in an accident that occurred along Bugarama-kamembe road at about 7:45 AM.

    The accident involved a saloon car (taxi Voiture REG: RAA 485 T) and a cargo truck (REG: RAB 825B).

    Eye witinesses said the cause of the accident was largely due to overspeeding and the fact that both vehicles tried to dodge potholes on the road.

    All seven that died were occupants of the Taxi car but the passengers in the truck were unharmed apart from the turn-boy who got traumatized and currently receiving specialized attention at Gihundwe hospital.

    The truck driven by Bushenge Emmanuel, was speeding from Kamembe heading towards Bugarama.

    Abantu barindwi barimo n’umushoferi wari utwaye imodoka isanzwe ikora akazi ka Tax voiture, yavaga mu Bugarama yerekeza i Kamembe nibo baguye mu mpanuka y’imodoka.

    The dead were said to be travelling to Gihundwe hospital to be treated for various conditions in the ongoing Army WeeK medical services Outreach to the community.