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South Africa expels Rwandan diplomats

11 марта, 2014 / By Armoured Cars / In security

South Africa has expelled three Rwandan diplomats in connection with an attack on the home of an exiled Rwandan dissident, diplomatic sources say.

Rwanda responded by ordering out six South African envoys, officials said.

The moves come after armed men raided the Johannesburg home of Kayumba Nyamwasa, a Rwandan former chief of staff, earlier this week.

Lt Gen Nyamwasa, an exiled critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was not at home.

However, the property was ransacked and a computer and some documents were taken.

The child refugee who built business empire — Ashish Thakkar

11 марта, 2014 / By Armoured Cars / In security

While many successful entrepreneurs have come from difficult backgrounds, few have faced the horrors that Ashish Thakkar and his family went through.

Mr Thakkar, who today is the founder and boss of the pan-African Mara Group conglomerate, was 12 years old when he and his parents and sister fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

After sheltering with more than 1,200 other terrified people at a hotel in Rwanda’s capital (the one at the centre of the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, the Hollywood movie about the genocide), they were able to get on a flight out of the country.

«Fortunately we came out alive,» says Mr Thakkar, now 32. «But unfortunately my parents lost everything they’d built up between 1972 and 1993.»

China urges Malaysia to intensify search for flight MH370

11 марта, 2014 / By Armoured Cars / In security

China has urged Malaysia to «step up its efforts» in the search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that disappeared on Saturday.

Malaysia said it was widening the hunt, after days of searching found no trace of the plane or the 239 people on board — most of whom were Chinese.

Rescue teams from nine countries will now scour areas stretching from the Malacca Strait to the South China Sea.

Beijing-bound flight MH370 vanished shortly after it left Kuala Lumpur.

Relatives of the missing passengers have been told to prepare for the worst.

Assad forces now using starvation as weapon of war in Syria

11 марта, 2014 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Starvation tactics against civilians are being used as a weapon of war by the Syrian government, the human rights group Amnesty International says.

A new report says at least 128 refugees have died at the besieged Yarmouk camp in Damascus as a result.

It says thousands of people still trapped there face a «catastrophic humanitarian crisis».

Amnesty says families have been forced to forage for food in the streets — risking being killed by snipers.

There were reports of fresh fighting on the edge of the camp last week.

UK economy set to hit pre-recession peak by summer

11 марта, 2014 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The size of the overall UK economy will this summer overtake the peak level it was at before the 2008 financial crisis, a business lobby group says.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) thinks the second quarter, starting in April, will see GDP exceed the level seen at the start of 2008.

In upgraded forecasts, it estimates economic growth will be 2.8% this year — up from its earlier estimate of 2.7%.

But it also warns of an «unacceptably high» level of youth unemployment.