While Uganda is generating and exporting violence to Congo, its adherence to universal human rights needs serious questioning
The list below is all Universal Declaration of Human Rights given to humanity by the United Nations General Assembly. All universal human rights below are commonly known as 30 basic human rights that must be respected and protected by the law. When the UN said thse human rights must be...
Welcome to artificial intelligence that’s likely to turn East African universities into ‘knowledge dinosaurs’
Some critics are worried about machine learning. One writer has recorded that 50 per cent of all AI researchers are worried about the impact of AI on thinking and reasoning of those using AI. Indeed, one has written about quest to reclaim what makes us human: thinking, reasoning, values, virtues, consciousness, emotional responses, love, ethics, morality and feelings.
Central politicians say Raila’s loss in African Union Commission chairmanship election has given the country a sense of oneness
Raila was among two other candidates who had presented their names for consideration for the AUC chairperson’s post. The other two were Madagascar’s former Foreign Minister Richard James Randriamandrato and his Djibouti counterpart Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
While Uganda is generating and exporting violence to Congo, its adherence to universal human rights needs serious questioning
Regarding the Right to Asylum Uganda today is reputed to be the most open country to refuges in Africa and the third in the whole world as a ready destination for refugees. Most of Uganda’s refugees come from the violence-ridden countries of the Great Lakes Region and Nile Basin Region. Some critical thinkers have reasoned that this may be explained by the fact that the dominant rulers of Uganda were themselves refugees and, therefore, show a lot of empathy towards refugees.
Rising Artificial Intelligence uptake firms up Kenya’s reputation as the ‘Silicon Savannah’
JHub currently has 32 ongoing projects across various sectors, including agriculture, health and education, with most initiated in April last year. The hub aims to complete at least 15 of these projects by the end of 2026.
Kenya’s wildlife tourism nucleus lays out plans to broaden range of products for more earnings
David Kinyangi, a Director at the State Department of Tourism, underscored the importance of public participation in the preparation of the two documents and assured the residents that their views would be incorporated in the final document.
Kenya invests more in infrastructure to maximise earnings from Lake Victoria’s blue economy potential
According to the State Department for Blue Economy Principal Secretary Betsy Njagi, the projects that kicked off countrywide in earnest were set to transform the Lake Victoria Basin’s economic landscape.
South African scientists’ research on promising HIV vaccine cut short US president’s aid freeze
Several other mRNA-based HIV vaccine candidates worldwide have reached clinical trials. BRILLIANT is unique in being Africa-led, aiming to develop capacity for producing vaccines in Africa.
Assassination cited in killing of world’s first openly gay Muslim imam as South Africa promises probe
Police have not established a motive for the killing, but political parties and LGBTQ+ organisations say Hendricks was targeted because he started a mosque in Cape Town for gay Muslims and called for members of the LGBTQ+ community to be welcomed into Islam. Homosexuality is forbidden in the Islamic religion.
UN accuses Rwanda-backed rebels in east Congo of killing children, Uganda joins fray in Bunia
M23 is the most prominent of more than 200 armed groups vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that’s critical for much of the world’s technology. The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighbouring Rwanda, according to UN experts.
