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  • Mourinho sets Wayne Rooney 48-hour deadline

    {{Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has given Wayne Rooney 48 hours to decide if he wants to leave Manchester United and move to Stamford Bridge.}}

    United insist Rooney is not for sale and he was outstanding as the sides played out a goalless draw on Monday.

    “The person that started the story has to finish the story. For the good of everyone it is time to finish the story,” said Mourinho.

    “One way or another he has to say ‘I want to leave’ or ‘I want to stay’.”

    He suggested the 27-year-old striker himself was the catalyst for Chelsea’s move saying “he told someone very important in his career” that he wanted to leave United.

    Asked how long he was prepared to wait before moving on to other targets – with Anzhi Makhachkala’s Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o understood to be the alternative – Mourinho replied: “Twenty-four hours, 48 hours.”

    He added: “If you look at a manager like me, a club like us and the people who work at the club with me, we are not silly enough to try and get a player from a big club that doesn’t want to sell.

    “We are not silly enough to try something if somebody didn’t start it.”

    He added: “After that, if he wants to leave he has to say – or if he has decided now he doesn’t want to leave any more then he has to say.”

    The former Everton forward was given huge support throughout by United’s fans and indeed Chelsea’s supporters who want him to switch to Stamford Bridge.

  • Turkey’s ‘standing man’ wins German award

    A Turkish choreographer who gained international fame by standing motionless for hours during protests that swept the country a few months ago, is to be honoured with an award in Germany.

    Erdem Gunduz, 34, who earned the epithet of “standing man” for his passive protest against the redevelopment of Istanbul’s Gezi Park, will be honoured for his “courageous commitment to freedom of expression and human rights” with the M100 Media Award.

    On the night of June 17th, Gunduz put his hands in his pockets, and stood still and silent for eight hours.

    Within hours his passive resistence had gained attention on the internet, prompting hundreds to join him in his silent vigil.

    “With his silent protest, he became the icon of peaceful resistance and has been emulated around the world,” said the jury of journalists, which will present the award on September 5 at Potsdam, just outside Berlin.

    “His weapon is creativity, his trademarks are courage and perseverance. That is what you need to promote free speech and human rights,” said Potsdam mayor and M100 chairman Jann Jakobs.

    The M100 award is presented annually to someone who panellists believe has helped safeguard freedom of expression and promoted democracy.

    Last year it was awarded to European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi. Previous recipients were Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who drew controversial pictures of the Prophet Mohammed, and the former French foreign minister and founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres, Bernard Kouchner.

    aljazeera

  • Kyrgyzstan boy dies of bubonic plague

    {{Doctors in Kyrgyzstan have said a teenage boy has died of bubonic plague, but that an epidemic is not likely.}}

    The death of the 15-year-old herder was confirmed on Monday, several days after his death in the Karakol regional hospital.

    Health ministers said the boy, from the small mountain village Ichke-Zhergez in eastern Kyrgyzstan, died last Thursday after being diagnosed with bubonic plague, which is carried by rodents and caused millions of deaths throughout Europe in the 14th century.

    “After a meeting of doctors, he was diagnosed with bubonic plague,” a statement said.

    His body was cremated and remains were buried with special precautions.

    “We suspect that the patient was infected with the plague through the bite of a flea,” Tolo Isakov, a ministry official who heads the sanitation department, said in Bishkek on Monday.

    The oriental rat flea carries the bubonic plague after biting an infected rodent and may then pass the disease to a human.

    Officials have dispatched two teams to the area to “catch, exterminate, and study rodents,” Isakov said.

    He said the last recorded case of bubonic plague occurred in Kyrgyzstan 30 years ago.

    wirestory

  • Croatia clashes with EU over extradition law

    {{Zagreb could face legal action for failing to apply EU extradition law, the European Commission said on Monday, weeks after Croatia became the bloc’s newest member.}}

    The small Adriatic state became the 28th member of the European Union on July 1, marking a recovery from years of war after Yugoslavia collapsed in the 1990s.

    Days before entry, Zagreb changed its laws to prevent authorities from extraditing suspects of crimes committed before 2002, when EU rules were changed, potentially protecting veterans from Croatia’s 1991-95 independence war from facing inquires elsewhere in the EU.

    The Commission has accused Zagreb of contravening EU rules and said its top officials would meet next to discuss whether punitive action should be taken.

    “The fact that Croatia’s national legislation has been changed a few days before accession to contradict EU law is really not a minor issue for us,” a spokeswoman for EU justice chief Viviane Reding told a news briefing.

    “This infringement of EU law goes to the very heart of European judicial cooperation.”

    Reding has said measures could include some cuts in financial aid to Zagreb – Croatia is due to receive billions of euros in the next seven years in funds meant to bring living standards closer to EU average.

    The Commission may also introduce a monitoring mechanism to check Croatia’s efforts in complying with EU rules. Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the EU in 2007, face similar EU scrutiny over their progress in fighting corruption, and governments there view such measures as embarrassing and unnecessary.

    EU governments could also use the dispute over the European Arrest Warrant as an excuse to delay discussions over bringing Croatia into Europe’s passport-free Schengen travel zone, which Zagreb said was its next priority.

    Croatia’s opposition HDZ party, which ruled the country in the 1990s and between 2004-2011, has accused Zagreb’s leftist-led government of tweaking EU rules to protect former Croatian intelligence chief Josip Perkovic.

    The official had worked for communist Yugoslavia’s secret service, the UDBA, and led intelligence services after Croatia became independent, and now faces charges in Germany over the 1983 murder of a Yugoslav dissident in Bavaria.

    Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has denied any connection with the German case and says Croatia only sought to exercise the same privileges as its EU peers.

    EU members could request exemptions from the European Arrest Warrant before 2002, but the Commission says that only applies to states that were in the bloc at the time.

    Croatia could have asked for exemptions when it was negotiating its entry to the European Union, but did not do so.

    wirestory

  • US warns Assad over ‘undeniable’ chemical weapons attack

    {{The United States put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on notice on Monday that it believes he was responsible for using chemical weapons against civilians last week in what Secretary of State John Kerry called a “moral obscenity.”}}

    “President (Barack) Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world’s most heinous weapons against the world’s most vulnerable people,” Kerry said in the most forceful U.S. reaction yet to the August 21 attack.

    Speaking after U.N. chemical weapons experts came under sniper fire on their way to investigate the scene of the attack, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the use of chemical weapons was undeniable and “there is very little doubt in our mind that the Syrian regime is culpable.”

    Kerry said Obama was consulting with allies before he decides on how to respond.

    “What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world,” Kerry told reporters.

    “The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard, it is inexcusable. And despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable.”

    Military chiefs from the United States and its European and Middle Eastern allies met in Jordan for what could be a council of war, should they decide to punish Assad, who has denied using chemical weapons and blamed rebels for staging such attacks.

    Many hundreds of people died in Damascus suburbs in what appears to have been the worst chemical weapons attack since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein fatally gassed thousands of Kurds in 1988.

    U.N. investigators crossed the front line from the center of the capital, which remains under Assad’s control, to inspect the Mouadamiya suburb, one of at least four neighborhoods hit by the poison gas before dawn last Wednesday.

    The United Nations said one vehicle in its convoy was crippled by gunshots fired by “unidentified snipers.” The team continued on after turning back for a replacement car.

    Syrian state television blamed rebel “terrorists” for the shooting. The opposition blamed pro-Assad militiamen.

    “I am with the team now,” a doctor who uses the name Abu Karam told Reuters by telephone from Mouadamiya. “We are in the Rawda mosque and they are meeting with the wounded. Our medics and the inspectors are talking to the patients and taking samples from the victims now.”

    Wassim al-Ahmad, an opposition activist, said members of the Free Syrian Army umbrella rebel organization and the opposition’s Mouadamiya Local Council were accompanying the inspectors on their tour of the suburb.

    “The inspectors are now examining victims being treated at a makeshift hospital in Mouadamiya and are taking blood samples from them,” Ahmad said.

    {reuters}

  • Sony Music International signs Rwandan singer Somi

    {{Last week, internationally acclaimed soul-jazz vocalist and songwriter Somi signed to Sony Music’s newly relaunched historic jazz imprint Okeh Records, making her the first East African artist to join the major label’s roster.}}

    This news follows the ambitious singer’s recent return from an 18-month creative sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria. Originally from East Africa, Somi was raised in Illinois, USA and currently resides in New York City.

    Driven by her own curiosity and the fiery energy of the West African metropolis, Somi’s first release on the major label will be an album she calls “The Lagos Music Salon” – a collection of profound story-based songs inspired by her time in Nigeria.

    Sony will release the new album in early 2014 as the highly anticipated follow up to Somi’s critically-acclaimed last studio album, If the Rain Comes First (ObliqSound, 2009) which featured her legendary music mentor Hugh Masekela as a special guest and which both debuted at #2 on the Billboard World Music charts and landed in the Top 20 Soul/R&B albums on Amazon.com.

    Not only an accomplished musician and performer, Somi is an arts scholar and cultural activist who holds a Master’s Degree in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and who has earned the distinction of being named a TED Global Fellow, an inaugural Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fellow, a recognized songwriter at the American Society of Composers and Publishers, and a recipient of numerous international arts grants.

    She is also the founder of New Africa Live, an award-winning non-profit organization committed to “carving out a cultural space of belonging for contemporary African artists through events that entertain, educate, and create awareness of the value of African culture in a globalized world.”

    Somi’s full name is Laura Kabasomi Kakoma. She is the daughter of the late Dr. Ibulaimu Kakoma and Mrs. Elizabeth Nyarubona Kakoma; Somi is half mnyarwanda, half mutooro.

    {{High praise for Somi:}}

    “Superb!” – Vogue Magazine

    “All elegance and awe…utterly captivating!” – Billboard Magazine

    “[Somi] glistens with the sheen of an almost impossibly perfect cosmopolitanism!” – The Boston Globe

    “At the forefront of a new roster of African artists … effortlessly blends her global and sonic experiences.” – Essence Magazine

    “Prodigious musical chops employed in the service of some savvy songwriting. [Somi] unites the familiar with the exotic… A potent brew from the first sip to the last drop!”– NPR All Things Considered

    “A world music luminary!” – The New Yorker

    “One of the most promising voices of emerging African artists.”
    – New York Daily News

  • Man Kills Wife over Adultery Claims

    {{Police at Kiramuruzi is holding a man who allegedly sliced his wife to death on Monday at Gakenke Cell in Gatsibo district.}}

    Without wasting time, Augustine Bugingo cut his wife Mukakarangwa into pieces and later handed himself to the Police station at Kiramuruzi.

    Neighbours say Bugingo had previosuly served 10 years in prison for genocide crimes and was later released.

    But since his return home, he has been accusing his deceased wife of having an intimate affair with another man while he was serving prison sentence.

    Some neighbours say they had tried to reconcile the couple telling Bugingo that there wasnt any man that had taken his wife however, Bugingo didnt heed.

    Nkundabera Joseph, the Nyamarebe village leader where the couple resided told IGIHE that he was local authorities were aware of couples problem but had no capacity to settle their grievances.

    The deceased had five children including three girls and two boys.

  • US Congressional Delegation Commends Rwanda’s Leadership

    {{President Paul Kagame on August 25, received a congressional delegation of six Republican senators and their spouses who were on a four-day visit to Rwanda.}}

    During their meeting with President Kagame, the senators commended Rwanda’s economic transformation.

    Senator Roy Blunt from Missouri said:
    “Twenty years of progress is impressive. The story we will tell is one of a country that has the commitment to develop on its own.”

    Senator Johanns of New England described Rwanda as an example in the region:

    “It never ceases to amaze me how one person with a vision can make a world of difference. We all admire immensely what you have done for your country.”

    Senator Barasso of Wyoming commanded Rwanda for the ongoing drive to always achieve more:

    “What we are seeing is optimism, confidence and sense of urgency from people who want to get things done. “

    Thanking the senators for their visit, President Kagame explained that the lessons of Rwanda’s history serve as a key motivation to shape a brighter future:

    “Nineteen years ago, we hit the bottom. We couldn’t sink lower. The only way to go was up. This is the journey we are on. What you have seen comes out of our attempt to be good students of history, good shapers of our future. With the kind of devastation we inherited, we have to ask ourselves, if we don’t do our best and meet the expectations of our people, what will all the suffering have been for?”

    President Kagame added that Rwanda’s aim is to progress in partnership with other African nations:

    “We are the people who should allow ourselves and other to enjoy the freedom that everybody, anywhere in the world, wants to enjoy. In some places this has been taken for granted. For us it’s a struggle that continues. We don’t just struggle for ourselves, we struggle for other Africans. We want everyone to believe they can also achieve it. We want to live in peace with others. Our prosperity as Africans is intertwined”

    During their four day stay in Rwanda, the congressional delegation visited an HIV treatment facility at the Kicukiro Health Center, the Peace Plan- an inter-religious health program launched by Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Chuch, the Kigali Memorial Centre, the Rwanda Trading Company and had the opportunity to visit the rare mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park.

  • Rwanda Defends Trilateral Agreement

    {{Rwanda has defended the recent (June 2013) trilateral deal between Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda which critics said sidelined Burundi and Tanzania.}}

    The three leaders while in Kampala Uganda, agreed to fast-track a joint railway line project, oil pipeline, adoption of national identity cards as travel documents, as well as establishment of a single tourist visa, and a single customs territory.

    Rwanda’s minister of East African Affairs, Jacqueline Muhongayire,said, “For the three countries to go trilateral, it means our presidents were forward-looking. Our citizens need tangible benefits from EAC integration and faster.

    That’s why they decided to come together and implement the projects most of them already outlined in the Common Market protocol.”

    The three leaders agreed to construct a railway line valued at $3.5 billion that will connect Mombasa-Kigali and Kampala.

    Leaders from the three countries are expected to meet this week in Mombasa, Kenya, to deliberate on the modalities of jointly mobilising funds to finance the projects.

  • Rwandan Peacekeepers Decorated in South Sudan

    {{Rwandan Battalion (Rwanbat2) of the RDF Land Forces and a contingent of 85 Air Force personnel serving under United the Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) were recognised in a medal award ceremony held at the weekend in Juba.}}

    Raisedon Zenenga, the deputy special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Political Affairs in UNMISS, presented and decorated medals to the Rwanda officers in recognition of their exceptional service under the UN mission for the past eight months.

    He thanked Rwanda for contributing troops to UNMISS and lauded “a commendable job the peacekeepers have been doing for the past eight months.”

    “He commended the peacekeepers for their professionalism, commitment, discipline, maintaining good relations with the People of South Sudan and with the entire UNMISS staff,” reads a statement from RDF.

    The UN official commended the RDF peacekeepers for their valuable contribution in restoring peace and security in Jonglei, one of the most volatile states in South Sudan, the statement reads.

    The ceremony was attended by senior UNMISS officials, military and police components and members of Rwandan community in South Sudan.

    The first Rwandan air force personnel who completed their tour of duty in UNMISS are expected to arrive in the country tomorrow.

    {Newtimes}