The Rwandan meteorological agency has warned of heavy rains throughout this month.

He said rescue activities in remote areas were under way with the number of victims likely to go up. He said the main roads in the province, including the new road snaking along Lake Kivu, “are not usable because of landslides”. “Many houses collapsed on people, the provisional number of those who have died is now 55 and many injured,” governor François Habitegeko said. The Rwandan public broadcaster, RBA, reports that 109 have so far died, 95 of those in the western province and 14 in the northern province.Įarlier, the governor of the country's western province had told the BBC that at least 50 had died after heavy rains pounded the region “all night”. The death toll from landslides and floods in Rwanda has now risen to more than 100 amid heavy rains in the country, the authorities have said. Rwanda Broadcasting Agency Copyright: Rwanda Broadcasting Agency Heavy rains are forecast to continue in May Image caption: Heavy rains are forecast to continue in May It was said to note that although Ecowas “stands against” the crime for which Ekweremadu had beenĬonvicted, it “believes that lessons have been learnt”. Letter by the Ecowas Speaker addressed to the chief clerk of the Old Bailey criminal court in London. Parliament has also written a letter to the UK authorities seeking The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, describedĮkweremadu as a 'good man' with no prior convictions, while pleading for leniency. Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical 'middleman' wereĬonvicted in March for organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to

Mercy” over the sentencing of a Nigerian politician found guilty of organ

In Nigeria have appealed to the UK justice authorities to “temper justice with Met Police Copyright: Met Police Senator Ike Ekweremadu was convicted in March Image caption: Senator Ike Ekweremadu was convicted in March

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