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  • Mayweather Outpoints Maidana to Remain Unbeaten

    Mayweather Outpoints Maidana to Remain Unbeaten

    {{Floyd Mayweather outpointed a game Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas to unify the welterweight division and remain unbeaten in 46 professional fights.}}

    Mayweather, who is now the WBC and WBA champion, was the red hot favourite but Maidana showed tremendous commitment and dominated the early exchanges.

    But having weathered the Argentine’s thunderous start, American Mayweather assumed control in the middle rounds.

    One judge scored the fight 114-114, the other two 117-111 and 116-112.

    “It was a tough, competitive fight,” said the 37-year-old Mayweather, who has now only stopped one opponent in seven years.

    “I normally like to go out there and box and move. But he put pressure on me. I wanted to give the fans what they wanted to see so I stood and fought him.

    “I couldn’t see for two rounds after the (accidental) head butt (in round four). After I could see again it didn’t bother me. That’s what champions do, they survive and adjust.”

    Maidana, who hit Mayweather with more punches than anyone before, called for a rematch, saying: “I won the fight. He didn’t fight like a man. He never hurt me with a punch, he wasn’t that tough.”

    While judge Michael Pernick’s card made it a majority rather than a unanimous decision, his verdict seemed greatly at odds with what had transpired.

    And while Maidana insisted he had been cheated, five-weight world champion Mayweather was in a different class for most of the contest, landing with 54% of punches thrown.

    {wirestory}

  • Opposition Leader Wins Panama Presidential Elections

    Opposition Leader Wins Panama Presidential Elections

    {{Opposition leader Juan Carlos Varela has won the presidential election in Panama with almost 40% of the votes.}}

    Mr Varela, who is currently the vice-president, had distanced himself from outgoing President Ricardo Martinelli.

    Correspondents say Mr Varela has taken credit for Mr Martinelli’s economic success, but has promised a cleaner, more transparent government.

    The president’s preferred candidate, the governing party contender Jose Domingo Arias, came second.

    {{‘May God help us’}}

    President Martinelli had actively supported the campaign of Mr Arias, 50, and the leader’s wife Marta Linares was the candidate’s running mate.

    Critics said his support for the Arias-Linares team was an attempt by Mr Martinelli to hold on to the reins of power.

    Under the Panamanian constitution, presidents are obliged to step down after one term and are banned from running for the two following terms.

    BBC

  • Nigerian Militants Admit Abducting School Girls

    Nigerian Militants Admit Abducting School Girls

    {{Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in April.}}

    About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the Nigerian government.

    “I abducted your girls,” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video obtained by media.

    Meanwhile, a woman who helped organise protests over the abduction has been detained, her fellow community leaders say.

    Naomi Mutah took part in a meeting on Sunday called by the president’s wife, Patience Jonathan. Shortly afterwards, she was taken to a police station.

    A presidency source quoted by reporters said Ms Mutah had been detained for allegedly and falsely claiming to be the mother of one of the missing girls.

    But one of her fellow protesters told Reporters Ms Mutah was calling on the authorities to “bring back our daughters” in the broader sense of “daughters of Nigeria”.

    “They are so clueless,” Lawan Abana said.

    The girls were abducted on 14 March from their school in Chibok, in the northern state of Borno.

    {agencies}

  • World Facing Polio Health Emergency

    World Facing Polio Health Emergency

    {{The World Health Organization has declared the spread of polio is an international public health emergency.}}

    Outbreaks in Asia, Africa and Middle East are an “extraordinary event” needing a co-ordinated “international response”, the agency says.

    It recommends citizens of affected countries travelling abroad carry a vaccination certificate.

    It says Pakistan, Cameroon, and Syria “pose the greatest risk of further wild poliovirus exportations in 2014.”

    {{‘Ongoing risk’}}

    “The conditions for a public health emergency of international concern have been met,” said Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director General.

    He was speaking after last week’s emergency meeting in Geneva on the spread of polio which included representatives of the affected countries.

    “The international spread of polio to date in 2014 constitutes an ‘extraordinary event’ and a public health risk to other states for which a co-ordinated international response is essential,” the WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee said in statement.

    “If unchecked, this situation could result in failure to eradicate globally one of the world’s most serious vaccine preventable diseases.”

    The WHO also lists Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia and Nigeria as “posing an ongoing risk for new wild poliovirus exportations in 2014.”

    It is only the second time in the WHO’s history it has made such a declaration, the first being during the swine flu pandemic of 2009, the BBC’s Imogen Foulkes in Geneva reports.

    She says the polio virus is endemic in just three countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. But attacks on vaccination campaigns in Pakistan in particular have allowed the virus to spread across borders.

    Syria, which was polio free for 14 years, was re-infected with polio virus from Pakistan.

    Refugees are still pouring out of Syria, to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and checking whether all of them have been vaccinated will be impossible, our correspondent says.

    {{wirestory}}

  • Man Detained Over Forged Driving Licenses

    Man Detained Over Forged Driving Licenses

    {{Police in Nyagatare district apprehended a man for allegedly forging and selling of provisional and definitive driving licence.}}

    The suspect (names withheld) a resident of Nyamikabu cell in Gatunda sector was apprehended yesterday following information provided by the would-be victim, Police said.

    He was found in possession of two fake licences and four national identity cards of other people he was allegedly trying to help acquire the driving documents.

    He is currently detained at Nyagatare Police Station as investigations continue.

    The suspect confessed to the crime adding that he was working with other people.

    “Interested candidates would pay Rwf150, 000 for a licence,” the suspect said.

    SSP Beniot Nsengiyumva, the Eastern region Police Spokesperson said they are still searching other people connected to this ring.

    SSP Nsengiyumva warned against trying to acquire driving licence through illegal channels.

    “People will be conned by such individuals by selling them fake licence and in one way or another, these forged documents will also be detected and they will also be arrested as accomplice. I advise all those seeking a driving licence to go through proper channels, which have been made easier and brought closer to them,” Supt. Nsengiyumva noted.

    He thanked those who provided the information on the illegal act and called upon members of the public not to fall prey of such conmen and report them to the nearest concerned authorities or call a traffic toll-free line 113.

    RNP

  • Mbuyu Twite Demands Frw40M to Sign New Contact With Yanga FC

    Mbuyu Twite Demands Frw40M to Sign New Contact With Yanga FC

    {{Mbuyu Twite whose contract expired on 20th last month is keen to sign a new contract in his club

    However, the player is seeking over Tshs 80Million (aprox Frw40M), but the money he wishes to get from that new contract is being criticized by the club ‘leaders including the head coach.}}

    Tanzania’s Yanga club current coach Hans Pluijm has criticized the African players of lacking commitment after getting all their money from the signed deal, and has proposed to the clubs’ authorities not to give all the money to players who sign new contracts because the remarks he made were that it affects their performances.

    Hans said that players must be given a part of their wage at the beginning, and the rest must come in the middle of the signed contract.

    There are speculations that Mbuyu is being sought after by Azam Fc, the rival of his current club as it has got the signatures of Didier Kavumbagu(Burundian striker) and Frank Domayo.

    Yanga Africans board is currently working to resolve the matter because it might affect them as there is another player who is willing to leave including their goalkeeper Deo Munishi known as Dida.

    Mbuyu Twite started playing for Yanga in 2012 from Rwanda’s APR FC.

    Yanga Africans won the Tanzanian football championships 24 times and has also won Cecafa Kagame cup 5 times.

  • Newspaper Says CIA and FBI Active in Ukraine

    Newspaper Says CIA and FBI Active in Ukraine

    {{Dozens of U.S. intelligence agents are involved in the Ukrainian government’s struggle against pro-Russian separatists in the country’s embattled southeast, Germany’s best-selling newspaper said.}}

    In a report published Sunday, German tabloid Bild said Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are advising the interim Kiev government on how to stifle the growing unrest in the country.

    Citing German security officials, the Bild report said there are currently dozens of U.S. secret services agents who have been tasked with helping the interim government of acting acting President Oleksandr Turchynov counter separatist rebellions in the country’s east, set up a security system and fight organized crime.

    U.S. analysts have also reportedly been assigned with the specific task of tracking down the fortune of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Bild said.

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the U.S. was determined to help Ukraine find billions of dollars it says were stolen by Yanukovych and his aides.

    All U.S. agents in Ukraine are working from Kiev, with none of them on the ground in the eastern Ukrainian cities that have seen recent outbreaks of violence, Bild said.

    The report was prominently cited by Russia’s main news outlets, as apparent confirmation of U.S. involvement in Ukraine, allegations that gained forced in mid April when CIA director John Brennan traveled to Kiev. The White House said at the time Brennan’s trip had been a routine visit.

    Russia and the U.S. have been embroiled in back and forth accusations of having a hand in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine between pro-Russian and government forces, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov openly blaming recent clashes in the Black Sea port city of Odessa on Kiev and the West.

    “Kiev and its Western sponsors are practically provoking the bloodshed and bear direct responsibility for it,” RIA Novosti quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as telling reporters.

    The Bild article appeared hours after a team of OSCE observers, among them four Germans, returned home after being held hostage for more than a week by separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

    {A woman pictured above holds a banner saying “The Kiev junta carries out the U.S. scenario” outside a town administration building in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.}

  • Russia Wants Ukrainian Government & Rebels to Negotiate

    Russia Wants Ukrainian Government & Rebels to Negotiate

    {{Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin has said the Kiev government needs help to establish a dialogue with pro-Russian activists in southeastern Ukraine and that steps would soon be taken to bring this about.}}

    “It appears that without external help the Kiev authorities are not capable of establishing such a dialogue,” Karasin told Rossiya-24 television on Sunday.

    He said a Ukrainian military operation, aimed at retaking rebel-held territory, was in breach of an agreement signed in Geneva last month that was intended to defuse the crisis.

    “In the coming days, new efforts will be taken … to sit the Kiev authorities and representatives of the south-east at the negotiating table,” Karasin said.

    {{He gave no further details.}}

    Kiev and Moscow blame each other for unrest in the southern city of Odessa, where at least 42 people were killed on Friday in a street battle between supporters and opponents of Russia.

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry agreed in a telephone call on Saturday that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should play a bigger role in reducing tension.

    {Above..Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin attend a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.}
    {themoscowtimes}

  • US Asks Kabila not to Seek 3rd Term

    US Asks Kabila not to Seek 3rd Term

    {{The United States urged Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday to stick to its constitution that sets terms limits for the president, as speculation grows that Joseph Kabila may seek a third term.}}

    Highlighting an issue that exists in several African countries where leaders have sought to extend their rule beyond constitutional limits, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $30 million in aid aimed in part at ensuring “credible” elections in 2016.

    Kabila has not announced his intentions for the 2016 poll but, with his political fortunes sharply improved after last year’s defeat of the M23 rebel group, there are growing opposition fears he might try to remain in power.

    “(Kabila) has an opportunity which he understands to be able to put the country on a continued path of democracy,” Kerry told reporters after talks with the Congolese leader in Kinshasa.

    Kerry stressed that the legacy of Kabila, who in 2006 won Congo’s first democratic elections since independence but was heavily criticized over fraud-tarnished polls five years later, must go beyond security gains.

    “I believe it is clear to him that the United States of America feels very strongly – as do other people – that the constitutional process needs to be respected and adhered to.”

    “We’re a country with term limits. We live by them … and we encourage other countries to adhere to their constitution,” he added.

    Kerry did not explicity say Kabila should not seek a third term, but U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region Russ Feingold, made the point clear.

    “President Obama, when he was here last year made a very important statement: What Africa needs is not strong men but strong institutions,” Feingold told reporters travelling with Kerry on his tour of Africa.

    “One of those strong institutions is a credible method of executive succession, executive term limits.”

    The speculation in Congo is hardly an exception. There is widespread public expectation that Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaore and Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza will seek constitutional changes in order to stay in power.

    Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has also refused to rule out running for a third term when his mandate expires in 2017.

    Kerry said the $30 million in U.S. aid, which was expected to be delivered mostly to non-governmental organizations, would support elections as well as recovery and reconstruction programs in the remote and conflict-hit east.

    A U.S. official said Washington reserved the right to withhold funds if the process were not transparent and credible.

  • 20 Families Desperate After Their Homes Demolished

    20 Families Desperate After Their Homes Demolished

    {{ {Twenty families in Rwankuba Village Gasharu Cell in Kinyinya Sector of Gasabo District are in desperate mood after local authorities ordered the demolition of their houses, which officials claim had been built without construction permit.} }}

    The affected families who spoke to IGIHE on condition of anonymity said that officials have previously directed them to construct their houses in that area and three years after, officials have issued a decree to demolish all the houses there leaving them homeless.

    It is reportedly said that residents have been also asked by local authorities to pay fees so that their houses are not demolished.

    Residents told this website that in order to construct a house at that site it was compulsory for the house owner to bribe local leaders an amount of money ranging from Rwf 200,000 up to Rwf.400, 000.