{{Police at Kinigi sector in Musanze district has detained Bigega Gabriel 64 on charges of illegally hunting wild game in Virunga national park.
Bigega was found in possession with 15kilograms of Antelope meat. The antelope was killed using a trap in collaboration with Hagumimana who later escaped arrest by park guards.
The suspect admitted to police that he was aware that hunting was illegal saying that in the past year they have killed over 6 animals using traps.}}
{{Burundi’s Judiciary is making adjustments to the sector aimed at strengthening its independence.}}
The country’s Ministry of Justice and Attorney General with technical and financial support of the United Nations Office in Burundi (UNOB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) in Bujumbura has organized, a workshop to study plan Development capacity Building of the High Council of Magistrates of Burundi (CSM).
The workshop is planned for 5th June.
The activity is within the scope of support for professional development and strengthening of the independence of the judiciary in Burundi.
Two consultants have been hired to conduct a needs assessment for capacity building and developing an operational plan for capacity building of the Council of the Judiciary in Burundi.
Participants will together analyze in depth the operation of the MSC, to define a plan to strengthen its capabilities in the pursuit of goals set out in the sectoral policy document of the Ministry of Justice 2011-2015.
{{Rwanda has been hailed for her upcoming accession to the Hague convention on protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.}}
The congragulatory message was echoed by U.S. Special Advisor for Children’s Affairs, Ambassador Susan Jacobs while she met with Inyumba Aloisea, Minister for Gender and Promotion of Family.
They two also discussed Rwanda’s child protection initiative that has been approved by the Cabinet. Minister Inyumba and Ambassador Jacobs first met in early May when they discussed child protection at the Christian Alliance for Orphans conference in California.
Susan Jacobs is the Special Advisor for Children’s Issues. She was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Bureau of Consular Affairs and previously served as the Bureau’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.
From 2000-2003 she was the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Ambassador Jacobs graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was a Regents Scholar, and later studied at Georgetown University Law School and the George Washington University.
{{Congolese forces (FARDC) and the Mai Mai militia clashed early morning Sunday in the resort of Kanyihunga-Bulambo located in the community of Bashu in the territory of Beni in North Kivu.}}
The FARDC commander based in Beni, Colonel Eric Ruhorimbere, confirmed the clashes saying six militiamen were killed and one captured.
The clashes started from 2:30 (local time), when the FARDC launched an attack against the positions Mai-Mai, according to sources in the area.
After an hour of fighting,the Mai Mai abandoned their positions fleeing to the town of Soma, in the Rwenzori.
Col. Ruhorimbere said that situation was under control of the army adding that four AK47 rifles were recovered by the Armed Forces of the DRC. He gave no figures of casualities on the side of the regular army.
This assessment was however confirmed by local sources and civil society, noting that the Mai-Mai captured is a child of thirteen.
Mai Mai militiamen attacked, Tuesday, April 24 around 2 am, the military camp Ozacaf Armed Forces of the DRC located in the center of the town of Beni.
They were repulsed by loyalist forces. The fighting lasted about twenty minutes, wounding three, including two women and a child who was in the camp, according to Col. Ruhorimbere.
{{Rwanda government announced plans to sign a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Vanoil Energy Ltd, the Canadian oil exploration firm before the next phase of exploration begins.}}
However,Rwanda’s geologists , Ministry of Natural Resources and Vanoil say wouldn’t speculate insisting that to speculate on the facts would only cause anxiety among the people.
The oil exploration results are expected this month. Based on seismic studies, hopes are high that the country has oil deposits.
In 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia -Vanoil Energy Ltd. (“Vanoil” or the
“Company”) announced that it had executed an extension to the Technical Evaluation Agreement (“TEA”) with the Rwandan Ministry of Natural Resources for Vanoil’s exclusive 1,631 square kilometre oil and gas license in the Kivu Graben Basin.
The highly prospective Kivu Graben is on the same rift trend with the Albertine Graben where at Lake Albert, Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil have stated that they have found 1.5 billion recoverable barrels of oil; a significant discovery that many believe may represent only a small portion of the enormous potential of the area.
It is the intention of the Company and the Minister of Natural Resources of Rwanda to conclude a Production Sharing Agreement (“PSA”) before the end of 2011.
Vanoil also confirms that the Syracuse University has received permission from the Rwandan Ministry of Natural Resources to commence a 2D Seismic study of Lake Kivu on behalf of Vanoil.
This program will assist in identifying the areas of greatest hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Lake Kivu Graben. Additionally, the 2D Seismic study is to demonstrate the similarities between Lake Albert and Lake Kivu and to establish drill targets in and around Lake Kivu on Vanoil’s concession.
Dal Brynelsen, President, commented: “Since the first Technical Evaluation Agreement signed in October of 2007, Vanoil has worked closely with the Rwandan Government to develop and enter into a PSA. We are pleased to see that our efforts will be rewarded shortly.
In addition, we are very pleased to secure the technical expertise of the Syracuse University who have provided seismic data for oil and gas discoveries on Lake Albert and recent exploration activities on Lake Turkana as well for Vanoil on Lake Kivu in 2010”.
{{Canada has withdrawn from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in protest over Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s recognition as a tourism ambassador by the world body.}}
This follows the presentation of an open letter to President Mugabe and his Zambian counterpart Michael Sata last week after they signed a tripartite agreement to co-host the UNWTO general assembly in Victoria Falls in August next year.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister John Baird told his country’s House of Commons that the Zimbabwean leader’s appointment “symbolises what is wrong with the UN”.
He said Canada would withdraw from the UNWTO this month.
But the UN body insisted President Mugabe had not been made an ambassador as claimed, in a statement released on Thursday
“The receiving of the Open Letter implies no legal commitment or official title attribution to the country or the recipient,” the agency said.
President Mugabe’s alleged appointment has also dominated world news headlines, with many newspapers saying the 88-year-old leader was not fit for the role, because of his human rights record.
He is currently under US and European Union travel ban for alleged electoral fraud.
{{Four men have been arrested by Police in Ngoma district in connection with theft of a motorcycle belonging to Bonaventure Karuranga.
On 1 June, Karuranga was allegedly ambushed on his way home. He was stopped and beaten sustaining minor injuries before they fled with his motorbike.
The arrest of the goons was made possible following shared information from residents that identified them. The motor cycle was later handed back to the owner.}}
{{A Plane has crashed into a building in Nigerias Commercia Capital Lagos. Over150 passengers are feared dead.
“It was a Dana (airline) flight out of (the capital) Abuja to Lagos with about 153 people on board,” Nigeria’s head of civil aviation Harold Demuren said.}}
Residents said the plane had been coming in low, making a loud noise, when it slammed into the residential area.
“It was flying low with a lot of noise for about five minutes before it crashed into the residential area,” one resident said. “It then burst into flames.”
A spokesman for Nigerian airline Dana confirmed one of its planes was involved in the crash but could not immediately provide further details.
Thick smoke rose from the area near the Lagos airport and flames could be seen coming from the building.
Asked if anyone likely survived the crash he said, “I don’t believe there are any survivors.”
Lagos State police spokesman Joseph Jaiyeoba told local media that the plane went down in the Iju neighbourhood on the mainland of the city where the bulk of the city’s population lives.
Hundreds of residents swarmed the area to see what had happened.
“I can confirm that one of our planes crashed today on the outskirts of Lagos,” Tony Usidamen told local Media. “We lost communication with the aircraft. We are going to issue an official statement.”
Nigeria has a spotty aviation record, though Dana has been considered to be a relatively safe domestic airline. It began flights in 2008 and had been operating up to 27 daily flights.
Dana Air started operating in November 2008 and today is one of Nigeria’s main airlines, flying a fleet of MD-83 aircraft, according to information on its website.
Its aircraft make daily flights between Abuja, Calabar, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Uyo.
Lagos, the largest city in Africa’s most populous nation, is home to an estimated 15 million people. Built around a lagoon on the Atlantic coast, it is thought to be the largest city in Africa.
This latest incident came after another plane crash on Saturday night in the capital of the nearby West African nation of Ghana, which saw a cargo plane overshoot a runway and hit a passenger bus, killing at least 10 people.
The Allied Air cargo plane had departed from Lagos and was to land in Accra.
{{Two Rwandan Women are being detained at a Police station in Rubavu district being investigated for allegedly illegally importing Marijuana from DRCongo and distributing it to different parts in Rwanda.}}
The suspects have been identified as Umutoni Shakira and one Uwamahoro. They were arrested at Barinda’s home located at Rugerero sector in posession with two bags of marijuana of upto 70Kgs.
Sources say Barinda and his wife who have also escaped are highly suspected of providing market for purchase of the narcotics from DRCongo.
Umutoni is suspected to be dealing with the Barinda’s and she was arrested in posession with the narcotics. While Uwamahoro is suspected of distributing the narcotics to other parts of Rwanda especially Kigali city.
Police sturnly warns citizens engaged in consuming,selling and distributing narcotics saying such is a serious crime punishable by the law.
{{Police at Nyamata, Bugesera district is holding Akimana Jean Claude suspected of aiding a young woman to carryout an abortion.}}
The lady who hadnt been identified by press time said, she willingly asked Akimana to help her with aborting. She is a student at a highschool in Nyanza district.
She added that her new boyfriend had asked her to abort the baby promising to marry her in return. The father of the baby was a different man.
However, Akimana says he didn’t help the young woman to abort but was only admnistering medication to contain her excessive bleeding condition.
Early Sunday morning, the local defence official Rucyahana Théogene bagiye visited Akimana’s home where they found the young woman. It was discovered that She was staying at Akimana’s home without being registered at the Mudugudu and also a coctail of drugs were found in the house.
Akimana told Nyamata Police he didn’t intend to help the young woman in carryingout the abortion but he was contacted by other people who brought the lady to his place because he had previously been training as a nurse although he droppedout.
Akimana further told police that the lady had been brought to his place by other people who claimed that this lady had faulty menstration cycle characterised by overbleeding.
However, the lady said, she was taken to Akimana to carryout an abortion because the new boyfriend had insisted that he wouldnt marry her if she contained the pregnancy of another man. She was allegedly more than four weeks pregnant.