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South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was, yesterday, elected the new chairperson of the African Union Commission, beating incumbent Gabon’s Jean Ping, who occupied the office in 2008.

Kigali-based lawyers have welcomed the bid to establish a court that will try African cases, saying the continent needed such a court to deal with African cases instead of transferring them to the International Criminal Court in Hague.

Unless a well defined transport policy is put in place, challenges of public transport in the country will not completely be solved, private operators have cautioned.

The Chairperson of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, has said that if the continent is to eliminate malaria, an additional funding of $3.2 billion should be invested in universal access to life-saving tools in the next three years.

Former United States President, Bill Clinton, is scheduled to arrive in Rwanda on Wednesday for the launch of Butaro Cancer Centre.

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Francois Kanimba, has tabled before Parliament a bill determining the regulation of petroleum trade in the country.

The Teachers’ Savings and Credit Cooperative, Umwalimu Sacco, has revised upwards its budget for this year, a development that will see Rwf19 billion distributed to its members in loan facilities from the earlier budgeted Rwf 13 billion.

Health experts have called on the general public to seek early cancer tests as early detection can help in its treatment.