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{The Security Council has last week extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) until 31 March 2015.}

Unanimously adopting resolution 2147 (2014), the Council decided that the renewed mandate would also include MONUSCO’s Intervention Brigade — “on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent or any prejudice” — within the authorized troop ceiling of 19,815 military personnel, 760 military observers and staff officers, 391 police personnel and 1,050 formed police units.

Rwanda’s representative at the United Nation has expressed hope that MONUSCO mandate extension would revive efforts by the Mission and its Intervention Brigade to neutralize the armed groups that sustained the threat against eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and his own country.

He reminded the Security Council that FDLR were under sanctions for having perpetrated the 1994 genocide in his country and continued to promote ethnic-based killings.

The group had destabilized the region for 20 years, and there were ongoing reports of widespread rape, killings and the use of children as soldiers and slaves, he said.

He went on to state that FDLR held hostage those refugees hoping to return to Rwanda, and had recently perpetrated grenade attacks against innocent civilians in public markets and bus stations, mostly in Kigali.

The text adopted by the UNSC expressed concern over the group’s continuing free movement throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he noted, adding that it also reiterated the Council’s commitment to eliminate the threat posed by the “genocidal movement” as part of a comprehensive plan to address and permanently eliminate insecurity.

Rwanda steadfastly supported regional peace, stability and prosperity through its national, bilateral and regional commitments, he emphasized.

{{Today March 31, the First Lady and Chairperson of Unity Club Mrs Jeannette Kagame will launch the Saemuel Zero Hunger Communities (SZHC) “Isano Ishamitse Ubukire” projects and the Technical and Vocational Education & Training school Community Centre, in Cyanika Nyamagabe District.}}

The aim of the Zero Hunger Communities project is to support Nyamagabe district to achieve food security and improve living standards of its population. Some of the activities envisioned to improve livelihoods are: to train people on income-generating activities, provide infrastructure such as classrooms, homes for vulnerable households in Munyinya and Birambo villages; construction of terraces on 103.76 hectares which were previously unfertile; construct a multipurpose community centre for the population.

The SZHC is a three -year pilot project funded by the Republic of Korea through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). It is implemented in partnership with an NGO known as Good Neighbors, Nyamagabe District, Cyanika sector and Unity Club.

Unity Club was created in 1996; it is made up of past and present government leaders and their spouses. The First Lady of Rwanda, Mrs. Jeannette Kagame is the President of Unity Club. The objective of the club is to unite and reconcile Rwandans and promote peace.

{Mpore Sylvere. He is suspected of chopping off the neck of the teenage girl ‘Bella’. Call {{0788311324}} to give any information that might lead to the arrest of Suspect. The suspect also is known as Hora Sirivesitiri, Mpore Siriveri and Hagumamahoro Sirivani. He hails from Gisagara district in the Southern Province. His parents are Sematamana (father), Uwimana (mother)}

{{Rwanda National Police has released the photo of a prime suspect in the brutal murder of a teenage girl wase Simbi Shalom bitaga Bella aged 12 years.}}

Popularly known as ‘Bella’ the teenage girl was allegedly killed by Mpore Sylvere who had been working as a house keeper at the deceased’s home for about 14years located at Nyamirambo cell in Nyarugenge sector.

Mpore who is now 31 years was working in the same home even before Bella was born.

However, on Wednesday, March 26th, Mpore chopped off the neck of Bella who later died on the way to the hospital carried by her brother. Bella was buried on Saturday and until now her killer has remained elusive.

By publicly exposing the photograph of Mpore Sylvere-the prime suspect in the murder of Bella, Police is calling upon the public to assist in the arrest of the suspect by providing information on his whereabouts.

{{How Mpore Planned Bella’s Murder}}

According to ACP Theos Badege the RNP Head of Criminal Investigations Department (CID), on Wednesday morning after Bella’s parents had left for work, Mpore is said to have beaten one of the children in the home as was confirmed by neighbours.

When Bella’s parents returned home, they were informed of Mpore’s beating of one of the children in the home. Mpore was later expelled and left with all his items.

However, Mpore returned in the evening and was asked by other house keepers why he had returned yet he had been expelled. Mpore is said to have told them that he had returned to seek forgiveness from Bella’s parents.

Neighbours say it’s not the first time Mpore had been expelled and returned to be forgiven. So this made other housekeepers to allow him back into the home to wait for Bella’s parents.

It is said that during his short stay at home after returning, suspect Mpore removed the security bulb and also asked one of Bella’s sibling to turn up the Volume on the Television set in the living room a sign that he had planned of the murder.

When Bella’s parents were back home, they sent Bella to a nearby kiosk to buy some items, and on her way, she was attacked by Mpore who cut off her neck.

Other housekeepers heard noise of someone yelling for help outside and rushed to find out but found Bella profusely bleeding.

Bella was rushed to CHUK hospital but died on the way.

{Photos of Bella’s Burrial on Saturday at Rusororo cemetry. Her brutal murder has shocked the family and entire nation. All photos by Umuseke}

{{Twenty-one of the world’s top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers.}}

While many internet users face attacks via email designed to steal personal data, journalists were “massively over-represented” among such targets, said Shane Huntley, a security software engineer at Google.

The attacks were launched by hackers either working for or in support of a government, and were specifically targeting journalists, Huntley and co-author Morgan Marquis-Boire said in interviews.

Their paper was presented at a Black Hat hackers conference in Singapore on Friday.

“If you’re a journalist or a journalistic organization we will see state-sponsored targeting and we see it happening regardless of region, we see it from all over the world both from where the targets are and where the targets are from,” Huntley told Reuters.

Both researchers declined to go into detail about how Google monitors such attacks, but said it “tracks the state actors that attack our users.” Recipients of such emails in Google’s Gmail service typically receive a warning message.

Security researcher Ashkan Soltani said in an earlier Twitter post that nine of the top-25 news websites use Google for hosted email services. The list is based on traffic volumes measured by Alexa, a web information firm owned by Amazon.com Inc.

California-headquartered Google also owns VirusTotal, a website that analyses files and websites to check for malicious content.

{{Tip of the iceberg}}

Several U.S. news organizations have said they have been hacked in the past year, and Forbes, the Financial Times and the New York Times have all succumbed to attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-government hackers.

Huntley said Chinese hackers recently gained access to a major Western news organization, which he declined to identify, via a fake questionnaire emailed to staff.

Most such attacks involve carefully crafted emails carrying malware or directing users to a website crafted to trick them into giving up credentials.

Marquis-Boire said that while such attacks were nothing new, their research showed that the number of attacks on media organizations and journalists that went unreported was significantly higher than those made public.

“This is the tip of the iceberg,” he said, noting a year-long spate of attacks on journalists and others interested in human rights in Vietnam, including an Associated Press reporter. The attacks usually involved sending the target an infected email attachment masquerading as a human rights document.

While many of the world’s biggest media players have been targeted in these attacks, small news organizations, citizen journalists and bloggers were also targeted, Huntley said, noting hacking attacks on journalists in Morocco and Ethiopia.

The problem, Marquis-Boire said, was that news organizations have been slower than other businesses in recognizing the threat and taking action.

“A lot of news organizations are just waking up to this,” he said.

Many journalists are now taking individual action to protect their computers and email accounts, he said.

“We’re seeing a definite upswing of individual journalists who recognize this is important.”