Uganda’s ritualistic coronation and Gun Power: How soldiers elect Museveni and Electoral Commission endorses decision
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s personalist party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), has served since 1986 more to stupefy Ugandans into believing that they are participating in the politics of the country, yet its role has emerged to be legitimising presidential power at the expense of genuine power.
Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
Minister: Kenya is on verge of passing Strategic Goods Control law to combat risk of biological weapons
Biological Weapons Convention remains the cornerstone of global and regional efforts to prevent the development, production and use of biological weapons, and to promote the peaceful application of biology for sustainable development.
How fallen reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley became political, ideological threats to US resulting in CIA assassinating Marley
Then came 1980s when the foundations of the Berlin Wall looked shaken and East and West Germany looked to be healing longstanding ideological rifts. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), then led by Mikhail Gorbachev, began tumbling like a house of cards. The disintegration of USSR for some time appeared like the ultimate dissipation of communism. There would be no more threat to US cultural, military and ideological hegemony.
Editors renew calls for journalist protection, reforms in tandem with rapid technological growth
The forum cited recent incidents during which more than 20 journalists were injured while covering protests, with some deliberately targeted. Cases such as that of Catherine Njeri, who was shot while on duty and the unresolved disappearance of journalist Eric Isina were highlighted.
Kenyan civil societies want independent probe by ICC of election atrocities in Tanzania
Scores went missing, prompting fears that they may have been killed by the political bodies dumped in mass graves as may be the case with hundreds – civil society allege thousands – with Tanzanians suspected to have been buried in unidentified graves.
