Rwanda: FDLR Rebels Arrested in Western Province

Nyamasheke — Police authorities in Kagano Sector, Nyamasheke District in the Western Province are holding ten people alleged to belong to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).Nyamasheke District Police Commander (DPC) Superintendent Wilson Ntaganda confirmed the arrests saying they were made by police and army authorities in separate operations made over the weekend.The culprits include Sarafina Uwamahoro, 25, Daniel Simbizi alias Coffi, , ganuwera Itangishaka, 20, and Fabien Ndungutse and six others whose names were not yet known by press time.

Mugabe Blocking Deal, Say Britain, U.S.

Major Western powers have given up on President Robert Mugabe ever agreeing to share power in Zimbabwe.Mugabe had become an “absolutely impossible obstacle” to power-sharing, a senior British government minister said on Monday.Mark Malloch-Brown, Britain’s minister for Africa, agreed in a radio interview with remarks made by his American counterpart, Jendayi Frazer, who told a news conference in Pretoria on Sunday that the power-sharing deal signed by Zimbabwe’s political leaders in September could work, “as long as Mugabe is no longer the president.”