Sources say that Nemeyimana, on the night of July 23, 2024 staked to drink 13 bottles of the local brew that had been bought for him. Unfortunately, after consuming 11 bottles he accepted defeat and decided to go home only to be discovered dead on the roadside.
It is suspected that his death resulted from the effects of excessive quantities of the brew. The incident occurred in Rugerero Village, Muhambo Cell, Cyumba Sector.
An eye witness who spoke on condition of anonymity narrated that Nemeyimana was reportedly seen at a bar that night, where he accepted a bet from a 24-year-old acquaintance to drink 13 bottles of Nesha.
'After consuming 11 bottles, he began to feel weak and chose to go home. He was later found lying dead on the roadside near a church,' the eye witness said.
SP Jean Bosco Mwiseneza, spokesperson for the Rwanda National Police in the Northern Province has said that individuals suspected of any involvement in Nemeyimana’s death have been apprehended.
“An investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of death. Two individuals suspected of being responsible have been taken into custody and handed over to the Byumba RIB station,” he stated.
SP Mwiseneza urged the public to report any potential risks to safety promptly. The deceased’s body has been taken to Byumba Hospital for an autopsy.
Donald Trump's campaign on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the vice-president Kamala Harris, accusing her 2024 campaign of violating federal campaign finance laws by replacing Joe Biden's name with her own to take control of his campaign funds.
The complaint, filed by the Trump campaign's general counsel, David Warrington, argued that the Biden campaign could not rename its committee from 'Biden for President' to 'Harris for President' once Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, and roll over $91m.
'This is little more than a thinly veiled $91.5m excessive contribution from one presidential candidate to another, that is, from Joe Biden's old campaign to Kamala Harris's new campaign. This effort makes a mockery of our campaign finance laws,' the eight-page complaint said.
'Federal candidates are prohibited from keeping contributions for elections in which they do not participate,' it added. 'Biden for President 2024 has shown no intention to properly refund or re-designate the general election funds it has already received. This makes them all excess contributions.'
Whether the complaint generates traction with the FEC remains unclear, but the Trump campaign has been looking for any way to slow down the momentum Harris has been able to generate with voters and donors after she quickly became the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The strategy, according to people familiar with the matter, has included opening new legal battles to try to prevent Harris from accessing Biden's funds, although the complaint on Tuesday stopped short of a lawsuit.
Warrington made that explicit request to the FEC in the complaint, asking the agency to enjoin the transfer. And if the FEC were to deem the transfer unlawful, the complaint said, it would ask the FEC to consider issuing a fine or making a criminal referral to the US justice department.
The Harris campaign has viewed the FEC complaint as a spurious legal effort to throw sand in their gears, noting that the Biden-Harris committees have always been authorized committees for either Biden or Harris, according to a person familiar with the thinking.
And in a statement, the Harris campaign noted that they had raised $100m in donations in the 36 hours since Biden withdrew from the 2024 race, adding: 'Baseless legal claims â” like the ones they've made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections â” will only distract them.'
The complaint, earlier reported by the New York Times, also argued that Harris taking over Biden's remaining campaign funds amounted to an excessive unlawful contribution given that 'Biden for President' was not an authorized committee for the Harris campaign.
'If Mr Biden will not seek the Democratic party's nomination, then he will never participate in the general election and all general election contributions received by Biden for President are excessive and must be disposed of,' the complaint said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied reports that emerged last week that he was planning to donate $45m a month to a Super Pac focused on getting Trump elected.
On Tuesday, Musk appeared on Jordan Peterson's show, where he said the claim was 'simply not true'. 'I am not donating $45m a month to Trump,' he said.
'Now what I have done is that I have created a Pac or Super Pac or whatever you want to call it,' he said. It is called the America Pac.'
Super Pacs, short for Political Action Committees, are independent political organisations to which donors can give unlimited amounts of money, while donations to individuals or non-Super Pacs are capped.
After the Peterson interview, Musk replied on X to a clip from the interview saying, 'Yeah', and to another tweet referencing the reports saying, 'Yeah, it's ridiculous. I am making some donations to America PAC, but at a much lower level and the key values of the Pac are supporting a meritocracy & individual freedom. Republicans are mostly, but not entirely, on the side of merit & freedom'.
The denial comes days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, endorsing his vice-president Kamala Harris, who now has enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination in August.
Also on Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the Super Pac was being staffed by former aides to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign. 'The Super Pac has acquired an air of mystery in the Trump orbit, with other outside groups largely in the dark about its plans,' the Times reported.
But the aides, Generra Peck, who initially managed the DeSantis campaign, and Phil Cox, a former head of the Republican Governors Association, 'may help legitimize it within the Republican establishment as it aims to become one of the leading groups on behalf of Mr Trump.'
'The intent is to promote the principles that made America great in the first place,' Musk said on Peterson's show. 'I wouldn't say that I'm for example Maga,' he added, referring to the Trump catchphrase. 'I think America is great. I'm more M-A-G, make America greater.'
Musk did not clarify how much he intends to donate to the Pac.
The America Pac has already been backed by some of Musk's friends and allies in the tech world, the Times reported, including Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded the software company Palantir with Peter Thiel, a major political donor to Trump's newly named vice-president pick, the Ohio senator JD Vance.
Balloons carrying rubbish sent by North Korea have fallen on the compound of South Korea's presidential office, according to the Yonhap news agency.
Other South Korean media reported the balloons caused no damage. AFP reported that the balloons prompted Seoul to mobilise chemical response teams. Yonhap gave no further details.
It is the first time the South Korean presidential compound in downtown Seoul, which is protected by scores of soldiers and a no-fly zone, has been directly hit by any of the thousands of trash-carrying balloons launched by Pyongyang since May.
'The chemical, biological and radiological [warfare] response team has safely collected the trash balloons,' the presidential security service told AFP.
'After investigation, results have confirmed ⦠no danger or contamination of the object.'
South Korea's military earlier said North Korea had sent up more balloons likely carrying rubbish, and the North Korean balloons were flying north of Seoul on Wednesday morning after crossing the border.
It was North Korea's 10th such launch since late May. The more than 2,000 huge balloons so far have dropped wastepaper, scraps of cloth, cigarette butts and even manure on South Korea. North Korea has said it was responding to South Korean activists scattering political leaflets across the border via their own balloons.
If North Korea used a timer or any other device to deliberately drop the balloon on a key facility like the presidential office, it would invite a strong response by South Korea, observers said. The security service refused to disclose whether President Yoon Suk Yeol was at the office at the time. Yoon's office earlier said he had no official schedule on Wednesday.
The resumption of the balloon flights comes after South Korea boosted its frontline broadcasts of K-pop songs and propaganda messages across the rivals' heavily armed border.
The tit-for-tat, cold war-style campaigns between the Koreas are inflaming tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the rivals threatening stronger steps and warning of grave consequences.
Experts say North Korea considers South Korean civilian leafleting activities a major threat to its efforts to stop the inflow of foreign news and maintain its authoritarian rule. In furious responses to past South Korean leafleting, North Korea destroyed an empty South Korean-built liaison office in its territory in 2020 and fired at incoming balloons in 2014.
The North's balloons have not caused major damage but have raised concerns among people worried North Korea could drop hazardous materials like chemical and biological agents.
South Korea said on Sunday it was ramping up its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts from its loudspeakers at all major sites along the land border because North Korea was continuing launches of trash-carrying balloons. South Korea last Thursday restarted its loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in about 40 days in retaliation for North Korea's previous balloon activities.
Observers say South Korean propaganda broadcasts can demoralise frontline North Korean troops and residents. In 2015, North Korea fired artillery rounds across the border in anger over South Korea's restart of propaganda broadcasts, prompting the South to return fire.
Kamala Harris vowed on Tuesday that Americans were 'not going back' to the 'chaos' of the Donald Trump years, as she made her campaign trail debut in battleground Wisconsin with just over 100 days left before the election.
In an fiery speech a day after securing enough Democratic delegates to win the party's nomination, the vice-president sought to frame the contest against Trump as a choice between starkly different visions for the country, casting his as regressive and backward-looking and hers as optimistic and forward-looking. 'Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law or a country of chaos, fear and hate?' she asked, drawing roaring applause and chants of 'Kamala' â” reflecting an enthusiasm that has eluded Democrats in recent months.
As Harris arrived in Milwaukee, the two most powerful Democrats in Congress, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, threw their support behind Harris during a joint press conference in Washington DC.
'Democrats are moving forward stronger and more united than ever before,' Schumer told reporters on Tuesday, adding that he had seen a 'surge of enthusiasm from every corner of our party' since Joe Biden's decision to withdraw from the presidential race and endorse his vice-president.
In short order, Harris consolidated support among the party, ending weeks of internal drama following Biden's calamitous debate performance last month that exacerbated voters' concerns about the 81-year-old president's fitness to serve another four years â” and a discussion over who could replace him if he bowed out.
Fears of a messy contest for the nomination never materialized, as members of Congress, party activists, labor leaders and would-be rivals lined up behind Harris. The campaign â” which she inherited from Biden â” was renamed, and has raised an astonishing $100m in 36 hours.
At the rally on Tuesday, Harris drew a sharp contrast between herself, a history-making prosecutor, and Trump, the first president ever to be convicted of a felony.
'I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,' she said to roaring applause. 'So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type.'
She added: 'I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.'
During a visit to campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, Harris acknowledged that the last few weeks had been a 'rollercoaster' but sought to project calm and a sense of continuity. She announced that Jen O'Malley Dillon would continue to lead the campaign and that Julie Chávez Rodriguez would remain in her role as campaign manager.
Promising a 'people-powered campaign', Harris told supporters in Milwaukee that 'building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency'. She also vowed to stop Republicans' 'extreme abortion bans', saying that Democrats 'trust women to make decisions about their own body'.
Supporters hold signs for Harris during a campaign event in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Photograph: Jeffrey Phelps/EPA
Tuesday's event was scheduled even before Biden dropped his bid for the presidency, but took on renewed resonance as Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket at an extraordinary moment in American politics.
Just days before, Republicans left their party's convention in Milwaukee, projecting confidence about their prospects in November after nominating Trump just days after he survived an assassination attempt, along with his running mate, the 39-year-old senator from Ohio, JD Vance. As Democrats called on their party's leader to step aside, Republicans emerged energized and united.
Surveys taken since Biden's withdrawal have shown a nail-bitingly close contest, with Harris running marginally stronger than Biden was against Trump. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday found Harris opened up a small two-percentage-point lead over Trump.
On Tuesday, the Trump campaign's pollster Tony Fabrizio circulated a memo warning of a 'Harris Honeymoon' that would see a temporary rise in public opinion before Republican attacks on her begin to sink in. While acknowledging 'the situation we find ourselves in today is totally uncharted territory', he insisted the 'fundamentals of the race stay the same' and Trump remains in a strong position to win in November.
Danielle Butterfield, executive director for Priorities USA, one of the largest liberal Super Pacs, said Biden's decision to end his re-election bid had given Democrats an opening to turn the contest into a referendum on the former president.
'Without an incumbent on the ticket, we believe we have a renewed chance to make this election about the future,' she told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday. The group's data showed Harris was exciting key Democratic constituencies, especially among Black and Hispanic voters and young people.
Republicans quickly pivoted to the vice-president. Trump has already assailed Harris, a former California senator, as 'dangerously liberal', part of Republicans' effort to tie her to Biden's record on the economy and immigration, the Democrats' weakest issues. This week, House Republicans were weighing whether to bring to the floor a resolution condemning her handling of the border as vice-president, even though her mission was to address the 'root causes' of migration, not immigration policy.
'She's the same as Biden but much more radical,' Trump said on Tuesday, on a call with reporters, aimed at hammering Harris over border security and immigration. 'She's a radical left person and this country doesn't want a radical left person to destroy it.'
'That's all he's got?' Harris's husband, the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, said of Trump's attacks during a visit to a reproductive rights clinic in McLean, Virginia, earlier in the day. There, he raised Trump's legacy of appointing the conservative justices who ended the constitutional right to an abortion, which he said paved the way for a 'post-Dobbs hellscape'.
Wisconsin is considered one of the 'blue wall' battleground states that is critical to the Democrats' hopes of winning the White House in November. Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 and four years later Biden clinched the state.
'The path to the White House goes through Wisconsin,' Harris told the raucous crowd.
By the time Harris took the stage in Milwaukee on Tuesday, the high school where she spoke was standing room only. A campaign official said organizers received so many requests to attend the event that they were forced to find a larger venue at the last minute.
'I'm glad Joe Biden is passing the torch,' said Sue Fearson, a longtime Democratic party voter who said she had been worried about what might happen if Biden stepped down â” but warmed to the idea once it seemed clear Harris would take over at the top of the ticket.
'I'm trying to be in the moment,' said Kami Graham, a 51-year-old secretarial worker who attended the rally. 'I feel confident and excited. She knows what to do and she will get the young vote that the Democrats need.'
For Olivia Della Rosa, who is 18 and votes absentee from Brazil, the 2024 presidential election will be her first opportunity to vote.
'It's very exciting,' said Della Rosa, who attended the rally with her grandmother, who lives in Milwaukee. 'I can't wait for the debate â” I'm looking forward to Harris bringing down the hammer.'
The Government, through Rwanda Development Board (RDB), has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Rio Tinto Minerals Development Limited for the exploration of lithium, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other associated metal deposits in the country.
According to RDB, the goal of this partnership is to align with Rwanda’s strategic objectives to develop its mining sector as a key driver of economic growth. It is a remarkable step forward in advancing Rwanda’s contribution to the global green energy transition.
Francis Gatare, Chief Executive Officer at RDB, has expressed delight in partnering with Rio Tinto on the groundbreaking project.
'This collaboration elevates Rwanda’s standing in the global mining industry and promises substantial economic and technological advancements for our country. We are dedicated to supporting this endeavor and ensuring its success,' he stated.
The initiative will initially focus on the early stages of regional exploration, utilizing innovative technologies and modern exploration methodologies. The program will begin by collecting and interpreting high-quality data collection using advanced geological, geochemical, and geophysical techniques.
This venture brings on board Rio Tinto’s extensive global mineral exploration experience to blend with local expertise, setting new standards in Rwanda’s sustainable and responsible mining practices.
Francis Kamanzi, CEO of the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB), expressed confidence that the partnership will advance Rwanda’s mining industry, making it a major economic enabler and contributor to sustainable development.
'With this remarkable partnership, we look forward to blending our local expertise in mining with Rio Tinto’s global experience to leverage our mineral resources potential and enhance our geological capabilities,' he noted.
Dave Andrews, Head of Rio Tinto Exploration, expressed commitment to working with the Government of Rwanda to explore the country’s geological potential.
This strategic partnership follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between both parties in January 2024 for the exploration and mining of lithium in Rwanda’s Western Province.
Last year, Rwanda launched a three-year exploration campaign as part of a strategy to modernize the mining sector. This strategy aligns with other key areas, including mineral extraction and beneficiation, mineral value addition, and mineral trading. The mining sector contributes about 3% to Rwanda’s GDP and employs more than 72,000 people.
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational corporation, holding the position of the world’s second-largest metals and mining company.
Through the Kenya Media Sector Working Group, journalists carrying placards with messages such as ‘Shoot Not the Messenger’ brought business to a standstill as they marched across Nairobi streets to deliver their petition to the police.
In the petition, the members of the press listed several demands including accountability for illegal shooting, beating, abduction, and harassment of journalists by state operatives.
They demanded immediate prosecution of rogue police officers including the one who shot a journalist in Nakuru.
The journalists also castigated the government over threats to shut down media houses covering the anti-government protests that continue to be witnessed in the country.
'Today, we have appropriated our rights as citizens and professionals to gather and express our anger over police brutality against journalists, threats to shut media houses, and other primitive strategies by state organs and agencies, politicians, and their ill intentions bent on curtailing the hard-won freedom of expression and media,' the journalists said.
Journalist shot
Catherine Wanjeri Kariuki, a journalist working with K24TV, was shot four times by police during an anti-government protest on July 16, 2024. Medics confirmed that three rubber bullets were lodged in her thighs, with one of them causing a serious injury.
Narrating her ordeal at a Nakuru hospital where she was admitted, Wanjeri told local media recently that she was being targeted by the police alongside other journalists for covering the anti-government protests.
“Nobody would convince me that I was not a target, it is not the first time I have been targeted. I had been hit by a teargas canister but I did not report nor escalate the matter. I just showed my colleagues the scar on the same leg that I was shot at,” she recounted.
In the same week, veteran journalist and newspaper columnist Macharia Gaitho was violently arrested while driving around Nairobi with his son. However, the police later freed the scribe without charge, terming the arrest a case of mistaken identity.
Recently, the Communications Authority of Kenya cautioned the media against broadcasting content pertaining to the ongoing protests, arguing that airing such content violates the Constitution.
Citing violent protests that have resulted in the loss of lives and destruction of property, the authority said the media is mandated with the critical role of maintaining public order and sensitivity.
Through the Kenya Media Sector Working Group, journalists carrying placards with messages such as ‘Shoot Not the Messenger’ brought business to a standstill as they marched across Nairobi streets to deliver their petition to the police.
The MPs were reacting to horrific scenes witnessed as security forces clamped down on demonstrators who had planned a peaceful demonstration demanding for the resignation of the Speaker, Rt Hon Anita Among over corruption allegations.
On Tuesday early morning, a security blanket rolled over Kampala as Uganda Police Force and Military deployed hundreds of personnel in what authorities described as a precautionary measure to avoid law breakers from disorganizing the city.
During plenary sitting, security services had deployed heavily outside Parliament preventing demonstrators from accessing the premises in a planned Anti-Corruption march.
In downtown Kampala, the army deployed armored vehicles and heavily-armed personnel to patrol the streets resulting in over 60 demonstrators being detained at various police stations in Kampala, according to local media reports.
This did not go well with some MPs who accused the speaker of selectively applying the law when it comes to public demonstrations.
Hon Joel Senyonyi, the Leader of Opposition and MP for Nakawa West Constituency asked the Deputy Speaker Rt Hon Thomas Tayembwa why the “protesters” against people pursuing the censure motion against corrupt Parliamentary officials are well received while those demanding the resignation of his boss are stopped.
'When protesters against corruption in Parliament and other entities want to come to Parliament, they are brutally arrested but when those against people pursuing the censure motion against corrupt Parliamentary officials show up, they are well received. These double standards must stop, peaceful young people should be listened to,' Senyonyi said.
The security deployments and eventual arrests follow the youth’s declaration to hold a peaceful demonstration against corruption in government, especially Parliament
The youth are calling for the resignation of the top leadership of Parliament and reduction of lawmakers’ salaries and allowances.
Several protesters were arrested and detained at various Police Posts as they held placards condemning corruption in government.
Meanwhile, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) has set up a team of lawyers to secure bail for the arrested protestors.
Led by Bernard Oundo, the President of ULS, lawyers from the Legal Aid Project of ULS are already at Jinja Road Police Station to secure bond for the detained protesters.
'They have been told to wait for a while. All the stations where the protesters have been detained have already been visited by our lawyers from the Uganda Law Society to represent them. The Law Society is more than ready to assist in the provision of legal aid,' Oundo said.
The Uganda Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice Mariam Wangadya has advised government to present those arrested during the ongoing anti-corruption protests before the Courts of Law within the stipulated time.
Wangadya also asked government to consider releasing those arrested without any charge, and implored security agencies to exercise their mandate within the realms of the law.
The youth are calling for the resignation of the top leadership of Parliament and reduction of lawmakers’ salaries and allowances
In a new wave of protests, the angry citizens took to the streets alleging that the Kenyan government planned to sell the country’s main airport to foreign investors.
Despite a police warning issued on Monday evening, the youth made an effort to enter the national airport on Tuesday morning to protest using the slogan ‘OccupyJKIA’.
The youths erected barricades along the road leading to the airport in Embakasi, paralyzing transport.
Police were forced to lob tear gas canisters into the air to disperse the demonstrators and clear the road leading to the busy international airport.
Due to the anticipated protests, the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and national carrier Kenya Airways had advised passengers to arrive at JKIA at least four hours before their flights because of enhanced security checks.
The protests come a day after Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi denied plans to sell JKIA.
Mudavadi told the National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee that the sale of such a high-value asset can only be done after public memoranda and approval by parliament.
'The airport is not on sale. This is a public asset, a strategic asset. If it was going to be sold, you can only do it after a full public process that parliament endorses,' Mudavadi told MPs on Monday.
Mudavadi, however, noted that there are plans to expand the airport and build a new terminal.
'The Kenya Airport Authority (KAA) must look at its investment programme very carefully, make sure that everything is transparent. So that during the expansion process of the second terminal, let it be done through the legal process so that everybody knows what is going on,' he added.
The anti-government protests began last month with calls for President William Ruto to withdraw a bill that sought to introduce additional taxes on Kenyans. However, despite the withdrawal of the bill and even the dissolution of his Cabinet, the protesters changed course and are now demanding the President’s resignation.
Over the weekend, the Kenyan Head of State vowed to crack down on the youthful protesters, saying 'enough is enough'.
President Ruto said on Sunday that going forward he will ”protect the nation” saying he had already given everybody a chance to air their views.
“I dropped the Finance Bill, I called them to come to the table and talk to me, they refused and asked me to go to X, I went there but they ran away,” Ruto said.
“I have called them for talks but they have refused saying they are faceless and formless.”
According to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC), the protests have so far claimed 50 lives. At least 20 of the victims were shot dead when angry protesters stormed Parliament buildings in Nairobi shortly after the passing of the Finance Bill on June 25 2024.
Police were forced to lob tear gas canisters into the air to disperse the demonstrators and clear the road leading to the busy international airport.
The incident occurred this month at a rally in Pennsylvania, where a gunman nearly succeeded in bringing down the 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
The resignation follows increasing bipartisan pressure and investigations by lawmakers and an internal government watchdog into the agency’s handling of Trump’s security.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Cheatle admitted to 'significant' security lapses but resisted calls for her resignation. 'I think I am the best person to lead the Secret Service at this time,' she stated.
Speaking to the media, House Speaker Mike Johnson deemed the resignation “overdue” and emphasized the need to restore public trust in the Secret Service.
Cheatle, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, initially insisted she would not step down following the shooting.
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned following Trump assassination attempt.
