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  • Putin Warns US Against one-sided Syria Action

    Putin Warns US Against one-sided Syria Action

    {{Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has warned the US against taking one-sided action in Syria, but has also said that Russia “doesn’t exclude” the possibility of supporting a UN resolution authorising military strikes.}}

    He says that such an endorsement would require “convincing” evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s government used chemical weapons against citizens.

    He also says the currently available evidence does not fulfil this criteria.

    In a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press news agency and Russia’s state Channel 1 television, Putin said it would be “absolutely absurd” for Assad’s forces to have used chemical weapons at a time when they were in the ascendency in the conflict.

    “From our viewpoint, it seems absolutely absurd that the armed forces, the regular armed forces, which are on the offensive today and in some areas have encircled the so-called rebels and are finishing them off, that in these conditions they would start using forbidden chemical weapons while realising quite well that it could serve as a pretext for applying sanctions against them, including the use of force,” Putin said in the interview, released on Wednesday.

    Figures vary regarding the alleged chemical weapons attack on August 21, with the US government saying that 1,429 people were killed by poison gas in the attack, and aid agencies putting that number at closer to 355.

    Assad’s government has blamed the attack on the rebels, and a UN inspection team that examined the attack sites near Damascus is awaiting lab results on soil and tissue samples.

    “If there are data that the chemical weapons have been used, and used specifically by the regular army, this evidence should be submitted to the UN Security Council,” added Putin.

    “And it ought to be convincing. It shouldn’t be based on some rumours and information obtained by special services through some kind of eavesdropping, some conversations and things like that.”

    He also cited experts who believed that the current evidence “doesn’t look convincing”, and raised the possibility that the armed opposition had “conducted a premeditated provocative action trying to give their sponsors a pretext for military intervention”.

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  • Somali President Escapes Unhurt From Ambush

    Somali President Escapes Unhurt From Ambush

    {{Somalia’s president has escaped unhurt from an ambush on his military-escorted motorcade that the armed group al-Shabaab said it carried out.}}

    President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was approaching the port town of Marka, south of the capital Mogadishu, when al-Shabaab rebels said they fired rocket-propelled grenades at the convoy.

    Local police commander Abdikadir Mohamed confirmed Tuesday’s attack to the Reuters news agency and said the president arrived safely at Marka, 90 km from the capital. There was no immediate comment from the president’s office.

    The attack underscores the apparent ease with which al-Shabaab rebels can infiltrate areas under the control of Somali government forces and African peacekeepers and strike at the heart of government.

    They have continued to launch guerrilla-style attacks and kidnappings in the city despite being largely pushed out by Somali and African forces two years ago.

    “The president narrowly escaped. We are waiting for his return,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s spokesman for military operations, said.

    The rebels said they killed several soldiers and destroyed two armoured vehicles from the motorcade that was under escort by African Union and government troops.

    Al-Shabaab abandoned Marka and other urban strongholds last year under military pressure from advancing forces loyal to Mogadishu.

    Source: Reuters

  • Sudan Lifts Threat to Block South Oil Exports

    Sudan Lifts Threat to Block South Oil Exports

    {{Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s president, has held bilateral talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum to discuss the outstanding issues that remain following secession in 2011.

    As a result of the meeting, Bashir lifted a threat to block South Sudan’s oil exports. The two sides also agreed to implement a peace deal signed last year.}}

  • Radio Rwanda Gets New Boss

    Radio Rwanda Gets New Boss

    {{Rwadio Rwanda has a new Manager Aldo Havugimana who was formerly managing radio Isango star.

    Havugimana told IGIHE that he will transform programming at the national broadcaster owing to his vast experience in radio broadcasing.

    He previously served as managing director at Radio Salus and Isango Star radio.}}

  • Gen. Kazura Meets Chadian President over Mali Crisis

    Gen. Kazura Meets Chadian President over Mali Crisis

    Gen. Jean Bosco Kazura the commander of he United Nations Stabilization force in Mali MINUSMA last week met with the Chadian Prime Minister Joseph Djimrangar Dadnadji during which the two discussed security situation in Mali.

    The two leaders discussed new strategies that would ensure longlasting peace and security in Mali.

    Malian troops are credited for securing peace in Mali which paved way for recently held presidential elections.

  • Woman Arrested for Killing own Baby

    Woman Arrested for Killing own Baby

    {{Police in Musanze district have arrested a woman for allegedly killing her tot after giving birth.}}

    Louise Uwizeyimana, 25, a resident of Rugeshi cell, Mukamira sector of Nyabihu district, purportedly committed the inhuman act on Sunday at about midnight.
    She had visited a friend in Busogo Sector in Musanze at the time she committed the criminal act.

    According to Police investigations, Uwizeyimana sneaked out of the house and went to a pit latrine, where she gave birth to a baby boy. She then killed it and tried to dump it in a pit, but failed. The incident was reported to police by the suspect’s friend, after she found the tot hanging on the pit hole.

    Uwizeyimana, who argued that she committed the act after the would-be father denied ownership of the pregnancy, escaped shortly after committing the act but was arrested in Nyabihu. She is currently held at Busogo police station.

    The Northern region police spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Francis Gahima, condemned the act, and said that she will be charged with infanticide.

    Infanticide, which is killing of own biological or adopted child, is punishable with a life sentence under article 143 of the penal code.

    “This is not only a deliberate and organised crime punishable by the law, but also a shameful action of killing own baby,” CSP Gahima said.

    He advised girls to have protected sex, if they cannot abstain, and to plan when to have a child.

    Some mothers, he observed, kill their babies claiming they are not in position to look after them or after falling out with their would-be fathers.

    “Killing a baby is not the solution. It’s not only a crime, but also a sin. There are many ways of supporting such a child, including the government support, if you are not in position to give it basic necessities,” he explained.

    source : RNP

  • Nyagatare: 2 Children Killed in Heavy Storm

    Nyagatare: 2 Children Killed in Heavy Storm

    {{As the rainy season starts, two children have reportedly been killed in a storm that devastated Musheri Sector,Nyagatare district in the Eastern Province.}}

    The heavy rain poured over the weekend also severely injuring four people and destroying property including 67 buildings and 30 hectares of Banana plantation.

    Musheri Sector official Dens Habarugira, told media that relief efforts were underway from the Ministry of Disaster Management and refugee Affairs. “Stakeholders are assessing the damage. They will soon come to the aid of the affected people,” he said.

    Habarugira added,“We must intensify the campaign to plant trees, so that they may act as wind breakers in the future. In the mean time, we urge residents to shelter the affected people as we look for solutions.”

    Residents in the hardly hit area fear food shaortage and called for quick help from the government.

  • Man Swallowed 90palets of Cocaine, Smuggled to Tanzania

    Man Swallowed 90palets of Cocaine, Smuggled to Tanzania

    {{A man swallowed 90 palets of cocaine and smuggled it into Tanzania from Brazil, the Tanzanian High Court heard on Monday.}}

    Pedro Alfredo Chongo, alias Salum Shaaban, had 90 pellets of cocaine in his stomach when he was arrested at Julius Nyerere International Airport, shortly after arriving on a Qatar Airways flight on April 4, 2011, State Attorney Veronica Matikila told Lady Justice Grace Mwakipesile.

    She said the accused defecated the pellets on 13 occasions over five days.

    Chongo developed serious abdominal complications after passing 65 pellets in a police cell at JNIA and was rushed to Muhimbili National Hospital, where he released 25 pellets.

    “A day after his arrest he began complaining of severe stomach pains. Police took him to Muhimbili Hospital, where he passed more pellets,” Ms Matikila told the court.

    Chongo was discharged from hospital after doctors confirmed that he no longer had drugs in his stomach. A sample of the substance passed by Chongo was taken to the Chief Government Chemist for analysis, and it was confirmed to be cocaine.

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  • Uganda Parliament Speaker Endorsed for Commonwealth Job

    Uganda Parliament Speaker Endorsed for Commonwealth Job

    {{The Commonwealth Parliament Association has endorsed Speaker Rebecca Kadaga for the position of the chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians International.}}

    Ms Kadaga said she expects to win the race and that winning brings enormous opportunity for women in “Uganda, Africa and the across the world”.

    “The question of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) presidency is very important for Uganda because it gives me and the country an opportunity to speak on the international forum for Africa and for the women movement across the world on especially matters of democracy, good governance and easy access to social services and good leadership for the women,” she said.

    The endorsement means that Ms Kadaga has the backing of all the 48 delegates with voting rights come the Wednesday contest with Australia’s Lisa Baker for the position.

    By Monday, there were 86 voters out of which Africa has 48 voters, Asia four, Australia one, Britain has 13, Canada seven, Caribbean 10, The Pacific five, South East Asia five. India is not represented.

    NMG

  • Kenya Assembly in ‘special sitting’ to Pullout of ICC

    Kenya Assembly in ‘special sitting’ to Pullout of ICC

    {{Kenya’s National Assembly has been recalled for a ‘special sitting’ this Thursday to discuss a Motion that seeks Kenya’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.}}

    A gazette notice issued by Deputy Speaker Joyce Laboso says the sitting has been convened in accordance with Standing Order 29(3) of the National Assembly.

    “It is notified that a special sitting of the assembly shall be held in the National Assembly Chamber in the Main Parliament Buildings, Nairobi on Thursday, 5th September 2013 at 2.30pm,” the notice says.

    The purpose of the ‘special sitting’ will be to consider a Motion relating to the membership of the Republic of Kenya to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

    The sitting comes as Deputy President William Ruto prepares to travel to The Hague for the opening of his trial set for September 10.