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  • FDLR, ADF-Nalu, M23 problem is still too strong despite recent progress

    FDLR, ADF-Nalu, M23 problem is still too strong despite recent progress

    {The UN envoy in DRC, Martin Kobler, has said that military pressure on FDLR rebels must be applied so their fighters have no choice but to come out of the bush and surrender.}

    Kobler was yesterday briefing the Security Council about the recent development in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Earlier this month, Rwanda expressed its concern over the fact that UN peacekeepers MONUSCO (UN Stabilization Mission in Congo) showed no sign of commitment in the fight against the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) operating freely on Congolese territory.

    “We want to see the FDLR issue finally resolved. Unfortunately no sign is shown by MONUSCO to fight against the rebels” said Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and spokesperson of the Government Louise Mushikiwabo.

    Speaking to the Security Council, Martin Kobler cautioned that the Rwandan Hutu group FDLR, and the Islamist Ugandan group, Allied Democratic Forces – or ADF — also posed a serious threat to Congolese civilians

    Apart from FDLR, Kobler warned Monday that despite progress, the presence of armed groups in the country’s east is still too strong.

    U.N. envoy Martin Kobler said the momentum must be kept up against M23 and other rebel groups in eastern Congo.

    In a briefing to the U.N. Security Council, Kobler said the international community should not tolerate any military reemergence of the M23.

  • Market report for Monday 13th January, 2014

    Market report for Monday 13th January, 2014

    {Yesterday on RSE, the market activity was lower compared to the last Friday trading session. The total turnover for the day was Rwf 6,492,500 from BoK counter which recorded three transactions of 26,500 shares traded at Rwf 245 and Bralirwa counter was quiet.}

    Both BoK and Bralirwa share price remained unchanged from last Friday’s closing price of Rwf 245 and Rwf 840 respectively. KCB shares last transacted at Rwf 185 while NMG and Uchumi Supermarket shares last transacted at Rwf 1,200 and Rwf 175 respectively.

  • Uganda police deports Motor thief to Rwanda

    Uganda police deports Motor thief to Rwanda

    Through collaboration between Rwanda- Uganda police and the public, 28-year old Kazungu Godfrey was arrested and handed over to Rwanda police after being suspected of stealing a motor cycle with number plate RC 49IL.

    According to information from Nyagatare district police, the motor cycle was stolen last Sunday 12th January 2014.

    After its disappearance the police was immediately informed and investigations started immediately to search for the criminals.

    According to the police Boss in Nyagatare district, CSP Rutayisire Etienne the arrest of the criminal was not only through the collaboration between the police from the two countries, but also support from the people.

    He also urged people not to engage themselves in such crimes of stealing, but engage themselves in hard work and also inform the police about all activities aimed at creating insecurity around the country.

    Currently the suspect is under arrest at Nyagatare police station.

  • Rwanda warns whoever joins hands with the FDLR to become a terrorist

    Rwanda warns whoever joins hands with the FDLR to become a terrorist

    {PS Imberakuri, the unregistered party which operates in Rwanda has decided to join hands with the FDLR rebels to cause changes of authority in Rwanda.}

    PS Imberakuri, which was launched by Bernard Ntaganda currently in jail, announced it was officially joining hands with FDLR, whose leadership and ideology was responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

    In a statement signed by the first vice president of PS Imberakuri, Bakunzibake Alexis, says the party and FDLR militia group also decided to form what they called the Common Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FCLR-UBUMWE).

    Referring to the statement also FDLR will just put down their arms and form the opposition political party grouping PS Imberakuri and FDLR to become FCLR-Ubumwe.

    However, speaking to reporters in Kigali yesterday, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Munyeshyaka Vincent, said that FDLR will continue to be FDLR and whoever joins such terrorist group immediately becomes a terrorist.

    Munyeshyaka said “We have all information, we did our investigation and found that the so called leaders of PS Imberakuri who signed the statement are nowhere in Rwanda”
    He added that FDLR is a terrorist group as it is known in many other bestiality acts including to throw grenades in Kigali.

    He warns whoever joins FDLR to immediately become a terrorist.

  • Rwanda: December 1993, France delays troops withdrawal to support Genocidal regime

    Rwanda: December 1993, France delays troops withdrawal to support Genocidal regime

    {December 1993, French soldiers under “operation Noroît” officially withdrawn from Rwanda. Deployed in October 1990 in response to a request for support of Rwandan President Habyarimana, this operation went far beyond the mere protection of European citizens and allowed the Rwandan regime to maintain the power until the implementation of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.}

    In a diplomatic cable dated December 14, 1993, the French ambassador to Rwanda, Jean-Michel Marlaud explained this withdrawal as a sign that France is committed to compliance with the Arusha peace accords.

    Indeed, these agreements between the Rwandan government and the RPF impose the “withdrawal of foreign troops” from Rwanda. But this withdrawal occurs more than one year late, since it was supposed to be done by August 1992. In fact, a cease-fire in March 1991 already provided for the withdrawal, two and a half years earlier…

    The delay was not trivial because in the meantime, Noroît operation, was the mission to protect foreign nationals, however it served to reinforce the Rwandan regime, including forming the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and providing them with information. In addition, in February and March 1993, Noroît conducted the fantasy operation to stop an RPF offensive, which, according to the French members themselves, is a course that French army “would not have to go”.

    During this operation, the French have “controlled indirectly” an “army of about 20,000 men”: the forces of the Rwandan regime then routed. According to President Habyarimana himself, using the France “was essential to prevent a military victory of the RPF.”

    The Telegram of Jean-Michel Marlaud, cited above, also refers critics of Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana “that Noroît was in Rwanda to defend the only president” Habyarimana.

    In December 1993, the genocidal project is already underway: anonymous FAR officers warn, in a letter to the UN mission, the existence of a “Machiavellian plan of President Habyarimana” following which massacres “are getting ready and should extend to all parts of the country starting with the so-called high-concentration regions of Tutsi […] This strategy is aimed at convincing the public that it is ethnic unrest and thus encourage the RPF, as was the case in February 1993, to violate the cease-fire, which would serve as a pretext for the widespread resumption of hostilities. ” According to the letter, the elimination of favorable political leaders to peace agreements is planned especially the Prime Minister.

    At the same time, the distribution of weapons to civilian militias by FAR continues. This strategy, referred to as the “civil defense” by Rwandan officials clearly shows the method of formation of armed groups in the population.

    Finally, the withdrawal of French forces in December 1993 is not complete, since dozens of military advisers remain in Rwanda. But a note of the Belgian intelligence dated on December 23, 1993 states that “several other military [French] be stationed in civilian” and shall specify a group of 13th RDP and continues to circulate “in uniform.” At the end of 1993, France did not always respect the peace agreements and continues to support the scheme that was organizing the genocide against Tutsi.

  • CAR army returns to barracks as fighting ends

    CAR army returns to barracks as fighting ends

    {The interim president of the violence-wracked Central African Republic has declared that “the party is over” after weeks of deadly sectarian violence as deserting troops and police returned to duty.}

    Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet, speaker of the country’s provisional parliament and interim president, vowed on Monday that the “anarchy” that has gripped the country would be swiftly brought to an end.

    He also issued a stern warning to warring fighters from the mostly Muslim Seleka group and the anti-balaka Christian fighters set up to oppose them.

    Speaking at a police headquarters in the capital Bangui, he said: “To the ex-Seleka, to the anti-balaka and the lovers of looting, I’m giving you a severe warning: The party is over.”

    Nguendet, whose parliament has been charged with finding a new transitional president within two weeks, declared: “The chaos is over, the pillaging is over, the revenge attacks are over.”

    The return of soldiers and police to duty was another encouraging sign for the Central African Republic after weeks of horrific sectarian violence including reports of cannibalism.

    Sunday night was “particularly calm” with no reports of looting, according to residents contacted by AFP news agency.

    The troops, many of whom had fled their units for fear of being killed, heeded a call from chief of staff General Ferdinand Bomboyeke to return to barracks by Monday.

    “They came in very large numbers and they’re still coming,” Colonel Desire Bakossa, who supervised the registration, told AFP.

    “They answered the general’s call. It’s a relief. It’s a very good sign.”

    Similar centres have opened in Bangui for police to register after many of them deserted too.

    Nguendet said the police, completely absent from the streets of Bangui in recent weeks, would be “redeployed within 72 hours and would take part in the disarmament process” under way in the city.

    “I’m very happy to see again my brothers in arms,” said adjutant Jacky-Morel Gbabja, who fled his unit in December to take shelter with his family.

    Nguendet’s speech came the day after scenes of reconciliation in the southern Bangui neighbourhood of Bimbo as rival fighters struck a truce and embraced.

    The interim president also went to the airport where some 100,000 people were sheltering to urge them to return home.

    Ten months of violence have displaced a fifth of the country’s population, and the sectarian flare-up has killed more than 1,000 people in the past month alone, despite a French military intervention and the presence of an African peacekeeping force, MISCA.

    France has deployed 1,600 troops in the country to support MISCA, which is meant to have up to 6,000 troops but has not yet reached 3,500.

    Source:
    Agencies

  • Libya’s deputy industry minister shot dead

    Libya’s deputy industry minister shot dead

    {Libya’s deputy industry minister, Hassan al-Droui, was shot dead during a visit to his hometown of Sirte, east of Tripoli, security and hospital sources said.}

    The identity of the shooters was not immediately known, but the official’s death was the first assassination of a member of the transitional government since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s government in October 2011.

    Droui was killed near Mekmdas market in central Sirte after evening prayers on Sunday, media coordinator for the Tripoli Security Directorate, Essam Naas, confirmed to local newspaper, Libya Herald.

    “Hassan al-Droui, the deputy minister for industry, was killed by unknown attackers overnight, during a visit to his native city of Sirte,” a security official told AFP news agency.

    “Unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets on Mr Droui in central Sirte,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

    An official at the city’s Ibn Sina hospital confirmed the deputy minister’s death and added that he had suffered bullet wounds to several parts of his body.

    Droui was a former member of the National Transitional Council, the political arm of the rebellion that brought an end to Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.

    He was appointed deputy minister for industry by the transitional government’s first prime minister, Abdelrahim al-Kib, and kept his job when Ali Zeidan took over.

    Droui’s hometown, which lies on the Mediterranean coast about 400 kilometres east of the capital Tripoli, was the last government bastion to fall into rebel hands in 2011.

    Aljazeera

  • Ronaldo tipped to take Ballon d’Or honours

    Ronaldo tipped to take Ballon d’Or honours

    {After years living in the shadow of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to lift the 2013 Ballon d’Or at today’s award ceremony in Zurich, pipping the Argentine and Franck Ribery in the process.}

    National team coaches and captains as well as journalists from around the world have voted for the winner, with an initial 23-man shortlist being reduced to three last month.

    Messi is a contender to win the trophy for a fifth successive year, but few are talking about the Barcelona star this time, with Bayern Munich’s Ribery hoping his remarkable season at club level gives him the edge against the goalscoring exploits of Real Madrid and Portugal’s Ronaldo.

    According to Daily Nation News, this year’s prize has been marred by a voting controversy, after the original November 15 deadline was extended by Fifa and co-organisers France Football magazine “on account of an insufficient number of votes having been received”.

  • Mediators meet South Sudan’s rebel leader

    Mediators meet South Sudan’s rebel leader

    {Mediators pressed for a ceasefire in South Sudan as government troops fought for control over the last rebel-held town.}

    Envoys from the United States and South Sudan’s neighbours met on Saturday with Riek Machar, the former vice president who heads the rebel forces that have been fighting government troops for the past month, the rebels said.

    “The American Special envoy to South Sudan and Sudan, Donald Booth together with [regional] mediators travelled to an undisclosed location in South Sudan to meet Dr Riek Machar,” said a statement signed by Machar’s former press officer Miyong G Kuon.

    There were unconfirmed news reports that mediators would meet President Salva Kiir on Monday.

    The meeting with Machar comes as talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa appear to be stalling. Mediators for the East African regional bloc IGAD have been trying to incorporate the proposals of both sides into a draft ceasefire document.

    Fighting erupted in South Sudan on December 15. Kiir accused Machar of attempting a coup, while Machar in turn accused Kiir of using the coup accusation as an excuse to carry out a purge.

  • France’s first lady hospitalized after report of Hollande’s affair

    France’s first lady hospitalized after report of Hollande’s affair

    {The first lady of France, Valerie Trierweiler, has been hospitalized since Friday following allegations that President Francois Hollande has been having an affair with a French actress, a top member of Trierweiler’s staff said.}

    Patrice Biancone, head of Trierweiler’s Elysee office, told CNN, “She needed rest. We are hoping that she will leave the hospital at the beginning of this week.”

    He said that the first lady entered a hospital after allegations surfaced in the French tabloid Closer linking Hollande romantically to actress Julie Gayet.

    “We all know why she went in after the story came out,” said Biancone, clearly making the link between the revelations of the magazine and Trierweiler’s hospitalization.

    Trierweiler and Hollande are not married but live together, and she makes official state appearances. They met when she was a reporter for Paris Match magazine, a publication she still works for.

    Hollande, 59, left his longtime common-law wife, Segolene Royal — the mother of his four children — for Trierweiler, 48, before the 2012 presidential election.

    Closer reported Hollande had been slipping out of the back door of the Elysee Palace and hopping on a motor scooter driven by a bodyguard to Gayet’s apartment. The magazine also reported the bodyguard brought croissants to the apartment one morning.

    Hollande has not denied the affair but has threatened legal action.

    Le Parisien first reported Trierweiler has been hospitalized since Thursday. The paper said the full story will appear in Monday’s edition.

    CNN