{{A shallow quake measuring 6.1 magnitude struck off Papua new Guinea’s Bougainville Island on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning issued.
The tremor, centered 110 km (68 miles) southwest of the town of Arawa on Bougainville, was just 1 km (0.6 miles) deep.
The region has been rocked by numerous strong earthquakes in recent weeks, the strongest measuring magnitude 7.5 on April 19.}}
{{Nigerian police offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who can give credible information leading to the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels.
Last month’s mass kidnapping by militant group Boko Haram in the remote northeastern village of Chibok triggered an international outcry and protests in Nigeria, piling pressure on the government to get the girls back.}}
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{{While the National football team Amavubi waits for a coach within this week, Casa Mbungo Andre, AS Kigali coach and Mashami Vincent, the APR FC coach will be on the coaching bench in friendly games against Botswana which is scheduled for 10th May.}}
In a conversation with IGIHE, the vice President and spokesperson of Rwanda Football Federation Kayiranga Vedaste said that as the National Team is getting ready for playoff games, they have chosen both of them to give their contribution.
Casa Mbungo Andre and Mashami Vincent will work closely in the selection of players as well as coaching that match against Botswana.
Kayiranga said, “they have been chosen ahead of their performance in the league, we gave them the responsibility to select the team and to prepare the African cup playoffs game”.
Rwanda football governing body (FERWAFA) has recently informed that the contract of Eric Nshimiyimana, the former Amavubi’s coach expired in April, 2014.
Casa was the assistant coach for the under 20 national team, and has been replaced by Hitimana Thiery former Rayon Sports team manager.
Amavubi U20 is in preparing a playoff match against Gabon scheduled for 11th May, in under 20 cup of Nations which will take place in Senegal in 2015 .
{{President Kagame today arrived in Abuja to attend the 24th World Economic Forum.
Themed “Forging Inclusive Growth, Creating Jobs” this year’s forum brings together more than 1,000 business leaders and government officials from across the world to discuss innovative structural reforms and investments that will create jobs and ensure sustainable growth across Africa.}}
President Kagame will begin the day with the “Free to Travel” session, which will explore ways to remove barriers to travel of goods, services and people in order to increase intra-African trade and talent mobility.
President Kagame will end the day with the Grow Africa initiative panel – a platform seeking to accelerate investments and transformative change in agriculture on the continent.
Speaking on Rwanda’s role at the World Economic Forum, Finance Minister Gatete emphasized the potential to forge partnerships for ensuring sustainable growth:
“Over the last decade Rwanda has made great economic strides and, today, our country has one of the best environments for business on the continent.
But as we look to make the next step in our journey – and aim to become a middle-income country by 2020 – this forum presents a great opportunity for us to speak to experts and investors from around the world, and promote the economic prospects Rwanda presents.”
On the second day of the forum, President Kagame will address the opening plenary “Unlocking Job Creating Growth.” The session will discuss sustainable growth and practical ways to address the challenge of job creation across the continent.
Hosted by President Goodluck Jonathan and the World Economic Forum, the two day meeting will be attended by 15 heads of State and government, including Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang and President Kenyatta of Kenya.
{{Motorcycle taxi operators have been warned against violating traffic rules, which lead to a high number of road accidents in the country.}}
Addressing over one thousand motorcyclists operating in Kigali on Tuesday, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations, Dan Munyuza said that despite several awareness, several operators ride without licence and still do not wear helmets which in most cases result into deaths in case of an accident.
Most accidents registered in the country are caused by motorcycles, according to police reports, due to bad maneuvers and failure to respect traffic regulations.
He urged them to operate in cooperatives, wear reflector jackets, helmets and observe discipline in their profession.
He also disclosed that each operator will soon be given a performance card, where their traffic offences will be recorded and which will be a baseline to revoking their licence.
Fidele Ndayisaba, the Mayor of the City of Kigali also cautioned the operators against over loading, not respecting traffic lights and refusing to stop when asked by officers, which he said is an act of indiscipline and unprofessional conduct.
During the event held at Nyamirambo stadium, Tigo donated about 1000 reflector jackets to cyclists operating in Kigali.
{{Over 63 people have died in Kenya this week and dozens more are sick after consuming toxic alcohol, police and hospitals said Wednesday.}}
“So far, we have 63 dead,” police spokesman Masood Mwinyi told local media. Hospital sources said dozens more were receiving treatment.
“What we are trying to establish is the origin of this brew. Investigations are under way and samples will be taken to ascertain where and how it was prepared,” said police spokeswoman, Zipporah Mboroki.
The towns worst affected are close to the capital Nairobi and elsewhere in the centre and the east of the country. In some areas the alcohol was bought from licensed bars and in others it was sold on the street in the slums, officials said.
Deaths from toxic alcohol are relatively common in Kenya, with similar cases making the headlines every year.
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The one-time White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment has broken her long silence in the media.
In Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, 40, writes that she deeply regrets the fling.
The president “took advantage” of her, she writes, though she describes their relationship as consensual.
In 1998, Republicans failed in their effort to oust him from office on the grounds he had lied about the affair.
But with Mr Clinton’s wife Hillary said to be mulling a 2016 run for the presidency, the Lewinsky matter has re-emerged in US political discourse, in part because Republicans are eager to wield it against her.
In an advance excerpt from the article released by Vanity Fair, Ms Lewinsky writes she hopes to reclaim her story and says she is still recognised every day and sees her name thrown about in pop culture and the news media.
“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton,” she writes.
“Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”
Ms Lewinsky writes that she suffered abuse and humiliation after the scandal broke in 1998, in part because she was made a “scapegoat” to protect the president.
“The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me,” she wrote.
“And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”
Since leaving the Clinton administration, she worked briefly as a handbag designer and as the host of a US reality dating show.
Ms Lewinsky then moved to London for a graduate degree, but said she has had difficulty gaining employment in the US because of her past.
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{{The virtual-reality Oculus Rift headset has been put to a novel use by the Norwegian army – helping soldiers to drive tanks.}}
By mounting cameras on the outside of the tank, soldiers were able to create a 360-degree feed to the Oculus headset, worn by the driver.
The device – still just a prototype – is much cheaper than conventional military camera systems.
But the picture quality is not yet good enough for operational use.
The army began testing the headset in 2013 and in April of this year tried out the latest iteration of the hardware.
“It is a partial success,” project leader Maj Ola Petter Odden told reporters.
“The concept is sound, but the technology isn’t quite there yet. The picture quality is good for 10-15m [30-50ft] – but after that it is difficult to distinguish details, for example whether an opponent is carrying a weapon.”
Now he plans to wait until next year for further tests.
“There will be better hardware and we can test it again then,” he said.
The virtual-reality headset hit the headlines when Facebook bought the company behind it – Oculus VR – for $2bn (£1.1bn) in March.
To date neither has said much about what they plan to do together, but this week Oculus VR chief executive Brendan Iribe talked about hopes “to build a one billion player MMO”.
Massively multi-player online games (MMO) using virtual reality (VR) would be the “holy grail” for the technology, he told delegates at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
Facebook’s large audience would help make such a platform possible although such an enormous player base would require a much larger network than existed currently, he said.
And while Oculus is starting off with a big focus in gaming he said that a lot of where VR would go in the next decade would be about “face-to-face communication and social”.
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{{Roger Federer’s wife Mirka has given birth to their second set of twins.
Federer, 32, pulled out of this week’s Madrid Masters tournament on Tuesday as the Swiss world number four chose to be with his wife for the birth in Zurich.}}
“Mirka and I are so incredibly happy to share that Leo and Lenny were born this evening,” tweeted Federer, who will likely miss next week’s Rome Masters.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion already has four-year-old twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva.
Federer, whose older sister Diana also has twins, is expected to return to tennis at the French Open, which starts on 25 May.
The 2009 champion at Roland Garros has not missed a Grand Slam tournament since 2000.
Federer, who won the last of his Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 2012, last played three weeks ago when he lost to countryman Stanislas Wawrinka in the final of the Monte-Carlo Masters.
In Madrid on Tuesday, third seed Wawrinka, the Australian Open champion, lost 1-6 6-2 6-4 to Austrian qualifier Dominic Thiem, while fifth seed David Ferrer beat fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 6-3.
Spain’s Nicolas Almagro needed 11 match points to beat Andrey Golubev 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 7-6 (7-4) and set up a second-round match against Britain’s Andy Murray on Wednesday.
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{{A Thai court found Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of violating the constitution on Wednesday and said she had to step down, throwing the country into further political turmoil, although ministers not implicated in her case can remain in office}}.
The decision is bound to anger her supporters, but the survival of her government could take the sting out of protests they had planned for the weekend and may make confrontation between pro- and anti-government groups less likely.
Yingluck has faced six months of sometimes deadly protests in the capital, Bangkok, aimed at toppling her government. The anti-government protesters failed to achieve their aim in the street but turned to legal challenges to remove her.
But there appears no end in sight to Thailand’s dysfunctional status quo, putting a further strain on the tourism-led economy which could be heading towards a recession, with protesters still pushing for political reform before any new elections are held.
The judge who delivered the verdict said Yingluck had abused her position by transferring the National Security Council chief to another post in 2011 so that a relative could benefit from subsequent job moves.
“The accused was involved in the transfer of Thawil Pliensri from his position as National Security Council head,” the judge said, adding that was done in order for Priewpan Damapong, a relative, to “gain a new position”.
“The accused acted for her own political benefit … The transfer wasn’t done for the benefit of the country,” he added.
Yingluck denied wrongdoing when she appeared in court on Tuesday. She was not present on Wednesday and her spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
It was not immediately clear if she could appeal or if she faced other penalties apart from having to stand down, or if she faced a ban on participation in politics.
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