Kioo17 Journal

Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: President Paul Kagame’s former bodyguard has been assassinated by gunmen in Cape Town South Africa. Rwandan high commissioner to SA Vincent Karega confirmed that Camir Nkuruziza was a metered taxi driver who was hijacked on on the corner of Hugo and Milton roads in Goodwood around 5pm. Karega said the hijackers put Nkuruziza in the backseat of the car and sped off before he was killed in the crossfire in the shootout with the police. “Probably they wanted to take the car … Maybe they wanted to take him somewhere it is dark or so and dump him. I don’t know,”   Karega said. Ugandan news site New Vision reported Nkuruziza was Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s former bodyguard before he became a government critic. The publication suggested he was assassinated instead of a victim of crime. Karega believes the article is an attempt by Uganda to discredit the Rwandan government. “Any opportunity for them is a political weapon.”...

California, U.S:  When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world’s tiniest surviving micro-preemie, who weighed just 8.6 ounces (245 grams) when she was born in December. The girl was born 23 weeks and three days into her mother’s 40-week pregnancy.  Doctors told her father after the birth that he would have about an hour with his daughter before she died. “But that hour turned into two hours, which turned into a day, which turned into a week,”  the mother said in a video released by Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. More than five months have passed, and she has gone home as a healthy infant, weighing 5 pounds (2 kilograms). The baby’s family gave permission to share the story but wanted to stay anonymous, the hospital said. They allowed the girl to go by the name that nurses called her: “Saybie...

Washington D.C, US: Shocking footage has emerged showing a man on fire in a popular tourist area, close to the  White House. In the horrific clip the man can be seen walking around calmly while police desperately attempt to put out the flames in Ellipse Park yesterday (Wednesday, 29 May). According to reports, the identity of the man is not yet known but the horrific incident occurred less than a mile from the White House, Washington D.C. It's claimed the man set himself on fire and sustained 'life threatening' injuries as a result. It's said a helicopter and multiple Fire Department vehicles attended the scene within minutes. Speaking to CNBC, eye-witness Alina Berzins, said she had been visiting the National Mall with two of her cousins from Bolivia when she saw the man. The 17-year-old said: "He starts running and then we saw him covered in flames. "He started to walk. Cops started coming to the area and he collapsed. Everyb...

Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday cut the number of cabinet ministers from 36 to 28, in a move he said would tackle the country’s “bloated” government and improve efficiency. Half the new ministers are women, making South Africa one of the world’s few gender-balanced governments. Ramaphosa announced his new cabinet after he led the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party to victory in elections earlier this month. He took office last year after the ousting of graft-tainted Jacob Zuma, who had expanded the number of ministerial posts in an alleged attempt to strengthen his patronage network. “To promote greater coherence, better coordination and improved efficiency, we (are) reducing the number of ministers from 36 to 28,”  Ramaphosa said in televised address to the nation. “This is a significant move of downscaling our state. Many people believed our government… was bloated and this was agreed right a...

London, UNITED KINGDOM: Rules created by UK Prime Minister Theresa May mean that anyone over the age of 16 can be slapped with a fine that could rise to an eye-watering £2,500 if they cry at home If your crying annoys the neighbours you could be in a lot of trouble Under rules designed to protect people's quality of life, people caught crying at home could face an astonishingly large fine. And it's not just crying - arguing, moving furniture, wall banging and more can all see you slapped with a "Community Protection Notice". Worse, it's not just a theoretical threat, with a freedom of information request submitted by The Sun finding that in Newcastle-Under-Lyme a notice was issued to one person to not "create any wailing, jabbering, crying and hammering on the wall type noises" following a complaint by a neighbour. The penalty for breaching it is a £100 on the spot fine, rising to a maximum of £2,500 if you dispute it in court an...

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia Prime Minister. Ethiopia has overtaken Ghana as Africa’s fastest growing economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. Ghana – the second-biggest economy – is expected to experience a 6.3 per cent gain this year, the IMF’s World Economic Outlook released on Tuesday shows. The figure is lower than the 8.9 per cent forecast in October, and is also less that the raised 7.4 per cent estimate for Cote d’Ivoire and the prediction for Ethiopia, which was held at 8.5 per cent. Commodities including oil, gold and cocoa are the mainstay of Ghana’s US $43 billion economy, which surged 8.5 per cent last year as the Sankofa crude field started up in May. Ghana’s growth booms and busts have been closely linked to oil since it became a producer in 2010. Ethiopia, whose gross domestic product is almost double Ghana’s, has drawn investors including General Electric Co., Johannesburg-based Standard Bank Group and hundreds of Chinese compani...

Nigerian cosmetologist, Pela Tonye Okiemutie, ‘the bleaching expert’. His cosmetological miracles include his own personal journey through bleaching, as well as helping many. Abuja, NIGERIA: According to one estimate, more than 70 million people in Nigeria use skin-lightening products regularly, making Africa's most populous country the capital for skin bleaching. Some women reject the trend, saying their natural dark skin is beautiful. But, Nigeria remains a huge market for skin-whitening products. Twenty-five-year-old Nigerian model and actress Goodness Ben visits a cosmetic shop in Abuja. She wants to be famous and says bleaching her skin could increase her chances at getting more movie roles. "Yes this is Nigeria, a fair skin is business. In the movie industry most times the director wants you to like glow, in fact you should be camera friendly. You know most times dark people tend to...will I say resist? But they are more beautiful and catchy when they co...

Harare, ZIMBABWE: Ugandan 'People Power' founder, singer and Kyadondo East legislator Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine’s invitation to attend the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) conference turned into nightmare after he was arrested by security personnel. The singer who had been invited by MDC chairperson Nelson Chamisa as a key note speaker at the event in the city Gweru, Zimbabwe, was rounded off by Zimbabwe security personnel at Robert Mugabe International Airport as soon as he touched down on Saturday. Bobi, who was in company of his spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, were arrested at the airport and detained for over two hours. “True, he was detained but released,”  a Zimbabwean Journalist confirmed to Nile Post. MDC spokesperson Jacob Mufume, also confirmed the arrest of Bobi Wine by Zimbabwe security personnel. “He was detained for over an hour, he will narrate his own ordeal,”  Mufume said, adding that; ‘ MD...