A prominent radio journalist and author of a book on Bulgaria’s gangsters was shot and killed yesterday in Sofia. The journalist, Bobi Tsankov, was killed in broad daylight and two other men were wounded, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told the Focus News Agency. The formal process of consulting the Zimbabwean people on a new constitution is to begin next week. But civic groups for weeks have been training activists to educate communities about the new charter and how to propose ideas for it. The coordinator at the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association, Olivia Gumbo, says her group wants a people-driven document. “We are talking about the right to participate in the governance issues, the right to vote, the right to speak out your view and also the freedom of association,” she said. Minister for Constitutional Affairs Eric Matinenga is to administer the process. He says 70 teams of 25 people each will hold popular consultations in each of the country’s 210 voting districts. “We are in the process of bringing into place a supreme law which we can all be proud of and which is going to govern us in a way which is different to what we have experienced,” he said. The teams will report their findings to 17 commissions specializing in a wide range of issues, such as human rights, elections and the justice system. These commissions are then to draft the document, which will be submitted to the people in a referendum. A new constitution is part of a power-sharing agreement between President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF Party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The accord brought the two former rivals together in a unity government last February. It was meant to end months of confrontation after controversial and sometimes violent elections in 2008. The new constitution is to lead to fresh elections within two years. But the process has been delayed by partisan antagonism and a lack of funds. A stakeholders’ conference in July to prepare for the process was disrupted by unruly delegates and was only held after the leaders intervened. Uganda’s oil-rich Bunyoro kingdom is boosting ties with the Libyan government as the country prepares to start oil production in the next couple of years, kingdom officials said Wednesday. They said the King of Bunyoro, Gafabusa Iguru, traveled at least four times to Libya since last year and attended the inauguration of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as African Union chairman in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, last February. “The relations between Bunyoro and Libya have been greatly entrenched since last year. Libya is already financing a number of projects in the kingdom including a big hospital and various schools,” an Ugandan security official said. The Libyan embassy in Ugandan couldn’t comment immediately. Ford Mirima, the spokesman of the Bunyoro kingdom told Dow Jones Newswires that it is in the interests of Bunyoro and Uganda as whole to forge cordial relations with Libya based on its expertise in the oil industry as the country prepares to start oil production. “Our King as the head of cultural leaders in Uganda is a friend of Gadhafi and they have met several times,” he said. The kingdom is also in talks with the central government about the sharing of oil revenue once production starts. The kingdom wants the Ugandan parliament to include a clause detailing the sharing of revenue between the central government, local authorities and the kingdom in the new oil legislation, due to be tabled by the middle of this year.