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  • Al-Shabaab Kills 2 Kenyan Soldiers in Ambush

    Al-Shabaab Kills 2 Kenyan Soldiers in Ambush

    {{Two Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed in the early hours of Monday after their convoy was attacked by suspected Al-Shabaab militants.}}

    Several other soldiers were reportedly injured during the incident.

    The soldiers were transporting food from Hindi, near Lamu, to Ras Kamboni military camp.

    Lamu East OCPD Samuel Obara confirmed that the two officers were killed by a group of about 10 militants who ambushed them.

    “Their vehicle got stuck at Milimani between Mangai and Basuba, about 21 kilometres from Hindi, where an exchange of fire ensued,” he said.

    Nation

  • Libya Parliament Approves Cabinet

    Libya Parliament Approves Cabinet

    {{Libyan premier Ahmed Miitig’s proposed cabinet Sunday won a vote of confidence in the embattled interim parliament, amid an atmosphere of lawlessness aggravated by power struggles between politicians and militias.}}

    Mr Miitig’s cabinet is been due to replace that of Abdullah al-Thani, who resigned last month for security reasons, and as a rogue general gains support for an assault against Islamist militias in the east of the country.

    “The vote of confidence was obtained by 83 votes out of 94 lawmakers present,” MP Mohammed Laamari said.

    The General National Congress elected Islamist-backed businessman Miitig, 42, in a chaotic vote in early May, days after gunmen stormed the GNC to interrupt an earlier ballot.

    He is Libya’s fifth and youngest prime minister since longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled and killed in a 2011 uprising.

    Miitig is due to lead a short transitional period until legislative elections are held on June 25, and the new parliament will replace the GNC and form another cabinet.

    Sunday’s vote of confidence had been postponed from Tuesday by the GNC at Miitig’s request because he wanted more time to present a government of national unity in a bid to extract the country from a simmering political and security crisis.

    The GNC has been unable to hold meetings since May 18, when an armed militia group from the western town of Zintan attacked the parliament building in Tripoli to demand the suspension of the body.

    The same group repeated its threat on Saturday, saying that the GNC had no “legitimacy,” forcing the interim parliament to convene Sunday’s meeting in a former royal palace in the capital.

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  • Egypt Votes Amid Tight Security

    Egypt Votes Amid Tight Security

    {{Millions of voters are casting ballots across Egypt to choose a new president, for the second time in two years.}}

    A huge security operation has been mounted by police and the military, amid fear of attacks by militants seeking to disrupt the polls.

    Former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year, is standing against left-wing candidate Hamdeen Sabahi.

    Mr Sisi is forecast to win by a comfortable margin.

    The elections are being held across two days, with unofficial results expected hours after polls close.

    Shortly after polls opened, Mr Sisi cast his vote at a polling station in Heliopolis, Cairo, amid a throng of reporters and spectators.

    “The Egyptians are coming out to write their history and chart their future,” said the 59-year-old, dressed in a dark suit and tie.

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  • Deadly Train Crash in North India

    Deadly Train Crash in North India

    At least 20 people are feared dead after a passenger train derailed and hit a stationary goods train in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, officials say.

    Six coaches of the Gorakhdham Express went off the rails and ploughed into the freight train at Chureb railway station on Monday morning.

    Rescuers are searching through the mangled coaches, with reports saying a number of people are trapped.

    The train was travelling from Gorakhpur town to Hisar in Haryana state.

    “A medical train with doctors and paramedics has reached the site of the crash,” railway spokesman in Delhi Anil Saxena told the BBC. “We’ve also sent machines to cut the coaches to reach the passengers who are still trapped.”

    “My condolences to families of those who lost their lives in the Gorakhdham express tragedy. Prayers with the injured, Narendra Modi, who takes over as India’s prime minister later on Monday, tweeted.

    “Spoke to the Cabinet Secretary. Asked him to take an overview of the situation and ensure timely assistance to those injured,” he added.

    India’s railway network operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 18 million passengers every day.

    There have been numerous train accidents in recent years, killing hundreds of people.

    In December, 26 people died in a fire which engulfed a carriage of the Nanded-Bangalore Express while it was travelling through southern Andhra Pradesh state.

  • Mali Says 50 Soldiers Killed in Kidal Fighting

    Mali Says 50 Soldiers Killed in Kidal Fighting

    {{Fifty Malian soldiers died this week during a failed army attempt to seize the Tuareg separatist northern town of Kidal, the West African country’s defense minister said on Sunday.}}

    The fresh fighting on Wednesday, the worst since the government and separatist groups signed a preliminary peace agreement last year, threatened to sink struggling peace talks to end a long cycle of Tuareg uprisings.

    “In terms of toll, we have recorded 50 deaths unfortunately,” Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said on Malian state television, adding that 40 others were wounded in the failed operation.

    Maiga had previously said that 20 soldiers were killed in the combat and 30 were wounded.

    The Malian army launched the assault on Kidal after clashes broke out last weekend during a visit to the town by new Prime Minister Moussa Mara.

    The Tuareg separatist and the government agreed to a deal brokered by the African Union and the United Nations on Friday to permanently cease fire, exchange prisoners, restart peace talks and accept an international investigation into Wednesday fighting.

  • Shakira’s New Hit ‘Dares’ World Cup 2014

    Shakira’s New Hit ‘Dares’ World Cup 2014

    {{As the World Cup fevers gains momentum, Shakira has propelled a new dance hit with high techno tempo. The hit has been named ‘Dare, La La La’, its danceable and a sing-along.}}

    Football fans around the globe will have a hit to associate with during the soccer celebration season.

    Several other artists have also produced various hits including singles and colabos however, Shakira’s DARE song has gained more than 18Million visits on Youtube making it the most watched world cup 2014 hit.

  • Two Men Arrested Over Illegal Distillation

    Two Men Arrested Over Illegal Distillation

    {{Police in Bugesera District, on May 24, discovered a plant distilling illicit liquor commonly known as Kanyanga and arrested two people in connection with the act.}}

    The suspects identified as François Nshimyiryejo, 31, and Pascal Ukubereyimfura, 30 were unearthed in a Police operation conducted in Ngeruka sector following a tip-off by area residents.

    They were apprehended red-handed distilling the illicit gin in Nshimyiryejo’s house in Karambo village of Gihembe cell.

    The duo is currently detained at Ruhuha Police Station as investigations continue.

    Police also discovered 14 gerry cans full of various illicit brew, a drum and two pipes, all used in the production of kanyanga and 15 litres of the gin, which they had already finished distilling.

    Senior Supt. Bénoit Nsengiyumva, Eastern region Police Spokesperson thanked members of the public who provided information that led to the arrest of the suspects and urged them to continue with the collaboration to combat drug-related crimes.

    “We have said it time and again that drugs such as kanyanga, chief waragi, cannabis and others are illegal and punishable under the Rwandan penal code, and we will not tire until even the few still remaining are arrested to face justice for their criminal acts,” SSP Nsengiyumva said.

  • 5 Killed, Dozens Injured in Nyabugogo Accident

    5 Killed, Dozens Injured in Nyabugogo Accident

    {{Unspecified numbers of people have lost their lives and several seriously injured in an accident involving a heavy duty truck that lost control after its breaking system collapsed.

    The truck was loaded with chunks of soil however; its breaking system malfunctioned and rolled from Kobil Gas station at Muhima up to Nyabugogo knocking down pedestrians and crashing several properties along its way until it overturned at Nyabugogo at a spot popularly known as ‘Kwa Manu’.

    An eye witness told IGIHE that the truck had instantly killed five people and injuring several others along the way.

    The incidence brought business in the area to a standstill as Police and other security personnel sealed off the entire area to conduct rescue operations. Several injured people were rushed to hospital.}}

  • Gen Kiir Solicits Immediate Deployment of Regional Forces

    Gen Kiir Solicits Immediate Deployment of Regional Forces

    {{South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has called for the immediate approval and deployment of a regional deterrence and protection force to end ongoing violations of the cessation hostilities agreement signed with his former deputy turned rebel leader, Riek Machar.}}

    President Kiir made the appeal at the swearing-in ceremony of South African president, Jacob Zuma who was recently re-elected for a second term in office, in Pretoria on Saturday.

    Accompanying Kiir is a minister in his office, Awan Guol Riak, and several military officers and presidential aides in a trip many say would be an opportunity for the South Sudanese delegation to engage with other African leaders.

    “This is an important function for us to attend because our delegation headed by the president will hold sideline meetings with other leaders and representatives of different governments from across the continent and the world,” Riak told journalists on Friday at Juba international airport prior to departure.

    “It will be an opportunity for us to solicit support from these leaders to settle this current conflict. Most of the leaders attending the inauguration of the president, Jacob Zuma, are people with especial attachment or connection with our problems,” the minister added.

    A presidential aide also accompanying president Kiir told Sudan Tribune on Saturday that more than 40 foreign leaders were in attendance at the ceremony, including the presidents of Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Somalia, as well as the vice-presidents of several African nations.

    The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the president had held sideline meeting with a number of key African leaders in which he stressed that pro-Machar rebel forces would continue to commit ceasefire violations.

    “He (Kiir) made it abundantly clearly that the rebels of Riek Machar would never respect [the] cessation of hostilities [agreement] unless a deterrence and protection force is deployed to secure and provide protection during the movement of the monitoring and verification team to track down and report independently the side violating or failing to implement the agreement,” the aide told Sudan Tribune on Saturday from Pretoria.

    The aide said president Kiir had also held talks with Zuma during with he asked for the South African president’s support at the African Union to consider deployment of a foreign force.

  • French Troops Clash with ex-Seleka Rebels in CAR

    French Troops Clash with ex-Seleka Rebels in CAR

    {{French troops on Saturday reportedly clashed with former Seleka militants northeast of the Central African Republic’s capital, a photographer said.}}

    The photographer said that at least five people were injured in the confrontation in the rebel stronghold of Bambari, 300 kilometres northeast of Bangui. Four of the victims were reportedly rebels.

    The Central African Republic slipped into chaos last year after the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels deposed president François Bozizé in a March coup.

    The Seleka group officially disbanded after seizing power, but some of its former members launched a campaign of killing, raping and looting, prompting communities in the Christian-majority nation to form vigilante “anti-balaka” militias, some of which are now seeking revenge on the country’s Muslim minority.

    Both the UN and France have warned that the crisis in the impoverished country risks degenerating into genocide and ethnic cleansing.

    Since last year, France has deployed a total of 2,000 troops to support an African Union force of 6,000 peacekeepers to try to restore calm in the restive nation.

    france24