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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will create a new town named after Patrice Lumumba, its assassinated post-independence prime minister, the government said on Tuesday. Lumumbaville will be formed from settlements near the birthplace of the revered politician in the remote province of Kasai Oriental. "We're going to provide financing so the population can live in a real urban setting," spokesman Lambert Mende said. "We're also hoping for some tourism as well as it is near Lumumba's birthplace. ...
By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, promised the International Criminal Court on Tuesday he and the president would cooperate despite calling their charges over election violence the result of a "conspiracy of lies". Ruto was attending a pre-trial hearing in The Hague, where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta face charges of orchestrating clashes in which some 1,200 people were killed five years ago after a presidential election. "The new Kenyan administration ... ...
KIGALI (Reuters) - Police in Rwanda said three people were killed and an unknown number were feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed on Tuesday in a town in the northeast of the central African country. The building collapsed in the afternoon in Nyagatare, some 100 km northeast of the capital Kigali, and rescuers were scrabbling to find survivors, police said. "We think between 30 to 50 people were working on the building when it collapsed. We are continuing our rescue operations now," police spokesman Theos Badege said. ...
By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn helped to open a new bank in the world's youngest nation, South Sudan, on Tuesday, a low-key return to the international stage for the former IMF chief brought down by a sex scandal. The former French finance minister, who has battled a blizzard of lurid allegations over his private life since the 2011 scandal, was a guest speaker at the opening of the National Credit Bank in South Sudan's capital, Juba. ...
By Swati Pandey and Harichandan Arakali MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - A breach of security at two payment card processing companies in India that led to heists at cash machines around the world has reopened questions on the risks of outsourcing sensitive financial services to the Asian nation. Global banks that ship work to be processed in India, either in-house or to big IT services vendors, were already under pressure to step up oversight of back-office functions after a series of scandals last year. Last week, U.S. ...