Election observers flag ‘massive irregularities’ as Congo rules out re-run, opposition plan protests
The team of Moise Katumbi, one of Tshisekedi’s main challengers, has ruled out using legal channels to contest results, asserting that state institutions were committed to tipping the vote in the president’s favour. The CENI denies this.
South African playwright and creator of Sarafina! Mbongeni Ngema, 68, killed in a car crash
Ngema was killed in a head-on accident while returning from a funeral in a rural town in Eastern Cape Province, the family said in a statement on Wednesday. The celebrated playwright was a passenger in the vehicle.
So inefficient is Uganda government that the president has the luxury to decide when you can die on Kampala-Jinja Road
It is the president who decides whether or not Jinja-Kampala Road, which has become a principal killer road, to be or not be made passable.
Kenya’s economy grows by 5.9 per cent as inflation eases to 6.6 per cent in December
The East African country’s economy has been among the fastest-growing on the continent in recent years, but a heavy debt load and a weakening currency have emerged as potential problems.
Vatican greenlight to Catholic priests to bless gay unions elicits strong rejection in Africa
Pope Francis has hit back against the criticism and what he called inflexible ideological positions that hinder the Church from moving forward. But in many African countries, such as the continent’s most populous one, Nigeria, even having a same-sex relationship is outlawed and often punishable by long jail terms.
Uganda urgently needs pragmatic economics as Museveni’s idea of wealth creation is a fleeting daydream
Unfortunately, this is turning Uganda into a potentially and actually security and peace poor or deficient country well into the future. One consequence, yet to rear its head, will be destruction of what we now call islands of development, transformation and progress.
Academia, academics are in a flux at African universities as mediocrity outpaces meritocracy
Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theatres, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.
Iran executes three men and a woman it accuses of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence
Iran has accused Israel of carrying out several attacks on facilities linked to its nuclear programme and of killing its nuclear scientists over the past years. Israel has neither denied nor confirmed the allegations. In August, Iran accused Israel of being behind “one of the largest sabotage plots” targeting its defence industry and the production of missiles.
Betting intellectual power for academic capital: A walk in shadows of Uganda’s lost generation under Museveni
Ultimately, employment of the education enterprise is based on technical know-how, not professionalism. People who are employed on the basis of technical knowhow are constrained by lack of necessary skills. They have no capacity to implement anything professionally.
Dilemma reigns in GOP after two states bar Trump from primaries amid domino effect fears
Trump is already being prosecuted for the attempt to overturn his 2020 loss that culminated with January 6, but Section 3 doesn’t require a criminal conviction to take effect. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed to disqualify Trump, claiming he engaged in insurrection on January 6 and is no longer qualified to run for office.
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