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  • Namibian Woman Kills Child Burns Remains on BBQ

    Namibian Woman Kills Child Burns Remains on BBQ

    {{A teacher has been accused of killing her 26-year-old disabled daughter and burning her remains on a BBQ.}}

    Charred body parts of the dead woman – named as Magdalena Nunyango Amunyoko – were allegedly found in the ‘braai’ stand at the family home.

    Ms Amunyoko was reportedly born with a condition which restricted her body functions and left her bedridden.

    Neighbours in the town of Ongwediva, Namibia, claim the disabled woman was hacked to death with a machete before her remains were burned on the BBQ.

    Her wheelchair and other possessions were also burned.

    Gruesomely, her head survived the fire and could still be seen in the BBQ, the Namibian newspaper reports.

    Her mother, a teacher at a local school, has reportedly been arrested and is being held in a hospital’s psychiatric ward.

    The killing is believed to have been carried out at around 6pm on Friday with the body discovered the following morning by one of the suspect’s sons – who called the police.

  • 3 Arrested for Attempting to Bribe Police Officers

    3 Arrested for Attempting to Bribe Police Officers

    {{Three drivers were arrested separately by Police in Rwamagana district for allegedly attempting to bribe officers who were on duty along Rwamagana-Kigali highway, after they were found violating traffic regulations.}}

    The suspects are identified as Olivier Majyambere, Ernest Habyarimana and Jean Bosco Ndikumana.

    The trio had been found without driving licence, their vehicles not insured and had no mechanical inspection certificate.

    The suspects tried to offer a bribe of between Rwf2, 000 and Rwf5, 000 to bail

    The suspects are among the five drivers who were found driving without a licence and vehicles had no insurance.

    Also intercepted are six motorcycles which also had no legal documents like insurance, owners lacked licence and were not wearing helmet.

    The Rwamagana district Police Commander, Supt. Richard Rubagumya said this was an operation conducted to crackdown on road traffic offenders, especially those operating in remote parts of the district.

    He warned drivers against violating traffic rules and trying to bribe police officers to continue with committing traffic offences.

    He also disclosed that they intend to conduct road safety awareness among road users, especially drivers.

    RNP

  • Study Shows Half of Graduates in EAC Unprepared for Job Market

    Study Shows Half of Graduates in EAC Unprepared for Job Market

    Half of university graduates in East Africa are ill-prepared for the job market.

    A study conducted by the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) and the East African Business Council (EABC) to establish employers’ perceptions of graduates shows that more than 50 per cent of university graduates are half-baked as they lack basic workplace proficiencies.

    This means university students are graduating without attaining basic and technical skills required in the job market, denying the five East African Community (EAC) economies the quality human capital that they need to grow.

    “Universities in the East African region are producing a theoretical, unskilled and unpractical labour force,” Mayunga Nkunya, executive secretary of IUCEA, told an EAC higher education quality assurance forum in Arusha last week.

    “Employers told us that graduates lack self-confidence at work, they can’t translate the knowledge they got in universities into work and they normally wait to be told what to do.”

    NMG

  • Salama Song Could be Gain Popularity

    Salama Song Could be Gain Popularity

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    {{Its a new song that would gain popularity. It has strong Club Dance taste}}

  • Lt.Mutabazi & Co-Accused Frustrate Court Again

    Lt.Mutabazi & Co-Accused Frustrate Court Again

    {{Lt. Joel Mutabazi and co-accused Joseph Nshimiymana have today frustrated Military high court in Kanombe after the two refused to pronounce themselves on charges against them.}}

    In the previous hearing, court had granted three months to the accused in order to carefully study the law in relation to their rights before the hearing would continue.

    The two co-accused are jointly charged and separately with deserting the military, terrorism, formation of an armed group, spreading rumours with the intention of inciting the public to rise up against the state, murder, crimes against the state, illegal possession of a firearm and attempt to harm the person of the President.

    Lt. Mutabazi told court that he cannot pronounce himself on the charges because his arrest and detention were conducted illegally.

    For Joseph Nshimiymana a.k.a ‘Camarade’ formerly working for FDLR rebel movement and also accused of executing a grenade attack at Kicukiro last year, neither denied nor admitted to the charges against him.

    Nshimiymana observed that court judges were trying him with all Law books closed thus advised them to listen to prosecution and make judgments based on prosecution submission.

    This prompted Judges to order Nshimiymana be ejected out of court and returned later after five minutes.

  • Former Israel PM Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

    Former Israel PM Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

    {{A Tel Aviv court on Tuesday sentenced Israeli ex-premier Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for accepting bribes linked to a major property development in Jerusalem, media reports said}}.

    Broadcasting live from the court, Israel’s main radio stations said Judge David Rosen handed Olmert six years of jail time and a fine of a million shekels (Sh25mn) over his involvement in one of the country’s worst-ever corruption scandals.

    The 68-year-old, who was convicted six weeks ago on two charges of taking bribes, is the first former prime minister of Israel to face jail time for corruption.

    “He held the most important and central position and ended up convicted of contemptible crimes,” the judge said in passing the sentence.

    “A public official who accepts bribes is tantamount to a traitor,” he said. READ: Olmert could face graft charges.

    Following a two-year trial, Olmert was convicted on March 31 of bribes to the tune of 560,000 shekels (now $160,000/116,000 euros) with the judge also saying he had committed perjury.

    The trial, which included 16 defendants and took place over two years, was linked to the construction of Jerusalem’s massive Holyland residential complex when Olmert served as the city’s mayor.

    In 2010, Olmert was named the key suspect in the so-called Holyland affair on suspicion he received hundreds of thousands of shekels for helping developers get the construction project past various legal and planning obstacles.

    The towering construction project, which dominates the city’s skyline, is seen as a major blot on the landscape and widely reviled as a symbol of high-level corruption.

    {{- ‘Not a regular criminal’ -}}

    Wearing a royal blue shirt and khaki chinos, Olmert looked tired and subdued as he entered the court room.

    Rosen described Olmert as “very smart” and “personable” but said he and a fellow city official also convicted of receiving bribes had worked to “line their own pockets” were “not regular criminals”.

    Olmert was fifth in line to be sentenced, with three earlier defendants convicted of giving bribes, receiving lower sentences than demanded by the prosecution.

    But the city’s former engineer, who like Olmert accepted bribes, was handed seven years of jail time.

    In July 2012, a Jerusalem court found Olmert guilty of breach of trust but cleared him on two more serious charges related to the alleged receipt of cash-stuffed envelopes and multiple billing for trips abroad.

    He was fined $19,000 and given a suspended jail sentence for graft.

    The conviction related to favours that Olmert granted a former colleague while serving as trade and industry minister.

    The Haifa-born politician was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003, after which he served as a cabinet minister, holding the trade and industry portfolio as well as several others.

    He became premier in 2006, leading the centre-right Kadima party into government, but resigned in September 2008 after police recommended that he be indicted in several graft cases.

  • Stratex &Thani Start New Firm for East African Assets

    Stratex &Thani Start New Firm for East African Assets

    {{UK-based Stratex International has unveiled plans to set up a new company in partnership with Thani Emirates Resources Holdings for its East African asset}}

    The company said that the new firm will be a vehicle for growth in the Arabian Nubian Shield and Afar region.

    Stratex will own 40 per cent of the new business, once it has divested certain assets.

    Stratex executive director David Hall highlighted that the UAE-based Thani had extensive business knowledge and relationships in the region.

    “We believe that with Stratex’s technical expertise in exploration and the regional influence of Thani, this new company will provide the mechanism for achieving the new company’s objective to become one of the leading mineral resource developers in the region,” said Hall.

    “The new company will initially focus on drilling the Pandora epithermal system in Djibouti as well as advancing key projects in Egypt that show potential for large Sukari-like gold deposits, as well as a range of other deposit-types with large-scale gold and copper potential. “

    Following the deal, Thani will vest the Wadi Kareem and Hodine concessions, previously worked with AngloGold Ashanti, where a non-JORC resource of 520,000 ounces has already been defined at the Hutite prospect.

    Stratex will vend in its Blackrock concession in Ethiopia where around 10,000 metres of drilling has confirmed the presence of epithermal gold mineralisation.

    africanreview

  • Peacekeepers Hurt in Mali Land Mine Blast

    Peacekeepers Hurt in Mali Land Mine Blast

    {{Three United Nations peacekeepers were injured on Tuesday when their vehicle hit a landmine in the northern Malian town of Kidal, a spokesperson for the UN mission said}}.

    Olivier Salgado said the blast occurred near the UN base in Kidal.

    The injured peacekeepers are from Senegal and would be flown to Gao, the main base for French military operations in Mali, for treatment, he said.

    French troops last year drove al-Qaeda-linked Islamists from positions they occupied across northern Mali and UN troops have deployed. But the militants have regrouped and are stepping up attacks against international forces.

    Thousands of UN peacekeepers have been deployed, but the vast northern desert zone remains tense.

    A French soldier was killed in the zone last week when an explosive device went off under his vehicle.

    France plans to keep 1 000 troops in Mali and another 3 000 elsewhere in the Sahel-Sahara zone as it restructures its forces to tackle Islamist militants.

    Reuters

  • Cyber Experts Warn Against Iranian Hackers

    Cyber Experts Warn Against Iranian Hackers

    {{Iranian hackers have become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated, moving from disrupting and defacing U.S. websites to engaging in cyber espionage, security experts say.}}

    According to Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company FireEye Inc (FEYE.O), a group called the Ajax Security Team has become the first Iranian hacking group known to use custom-built malicious software to launch espionage campaigns.

    Ajax is behind an ongoing series of attacks on U.S. defense companies and has also targeted Iranians who are trying to circumvent Tehran’s Internet censorship efforts, FireEye said in a report to be published on Tuesday.

    Many security experts have said that Iran is behind a series of denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted the online banking operations of major U.S. banks over the past few years.

    “I’ve grown to fear a nation state that would never go toe-to-toe with us in conventional combat that now suddenly finds they can arrest our attention with cyber attacks,” Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit on Monday.

    Security experts say Iranian hackers stepped up their campaigns against foreign targets in the wake of the Stuxnet attack on Tehran’s nuclear program in 2010.

    The Stuxnet computer virus is widely believed to have been launched by the United States and prompted Iran to ramp up its own cyber programs.

    agencies

  • Jordanian Envoy Freed After Libya Kidnap

    Jordanian Envoy Freed After Libya Kidnap

    {{Jordan’s ambassador to Libya has been freed after being abducted by gunmen in the capital, Tripoli, last month.}}

    Fawaz al-Itan was released unharmed and was on his way home on Tuesday, Jordanian officials said.

    The kidnappers had reportedly demanded the release of a Libyan Islamist militant in exchange, but it is unclear whether this was granted.

    Diplomats have been the targets of a number of abductions in Libya in recent months amid continuing instability.

    The central government has struggled to assert its authority over the armed groups and tribesmen who helped end Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year rule in 2011.

    {{‘Doing well’}}

    Mr Itan was kidnapped in the Libyan capital on 15 April when masked gunmen shot at his car, wounding the driver.

    Libyan state media quoted Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, as saying he was already on his way back to his homeland after his release on Tuesday.

    “The ambassador is doing well and he is now making his way back to his country,” Mr Judeh was quoted as saying.

    He gave no further details about the circumstances of the release.

    Investigators earlier said the kidnappers had demanded the return of Mohamed Dersi, a Libyan militant who was jailed for life in 2007 for plotting to blow up an airport in Jordan.

    wirestory