Food security: African Union working on long term plan to raise cropland, cut further imports
A statement issued at the Pre-African Union Extra-Ordinary Summit on Post-Malabo CAADP Agenda media briefing by Maj-Gen David Kasura-Kyomukama, cites statistics that show Africa spends $100 billion – mainly on cereals – while $16 billion goes to fat and oil imports.
Passenger plane flying to Russia from Azerbaijan crashes in Kazakhstan, many feared dead
Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.
Election violence erupts in Mozambique after election court ruling, at least 21 killed
Footage circulating on various social media platforms showed protesters burning and looting shops in the capital Maputo and the city of Beira, where some city officials were reported to have fled the city.
Attack on Haiti’s largest hospital raises fresh questions over UN delay in reinforcing Kenyan-led mission
A spokesperson for the mission, led by Kenya, said after shooting began that its personnel had not been invited to the
conference and it had sent in reinforcements. The national police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Why critical thinking and alternative analysis pursued by Ugandan academics are key to questioning existing orthodoxies in East Africa
At the end 2017 the staff of the CSGMC delivered a critical paper on Transboundary Water Governance for Inclusive Development and Environmental Sustainability in the Nile Basin at the first Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) Summit. The summit, organised by the NBD, was held Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda on November 29-30, 2017.
Sudan suspends participation in global hunger-monitoring system on eve of famine report
In a letter dated December 23, the government’s agriculture minister said the government is halting its participation in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system. The letter accused the IPC of “issuing unreliable reports that undermine Sudan’s sovereignty and dignity.”
Sources reveal China plans record $411 billion special treasury bond issuance next year
China’s 10-year and 30-year treasury yields rose 1 basis point (bp) and 2 bps, respectively, after the news. The planned special treasury bond issuance next year would be the largest on record and underscores Beijing’s willingness to go even deeper into debt to counter deflationary forces in the world’s second-largest economy.
While Southern Africa voters vented their anger via the ballot, in West Africa it was barrel of the gun
In Namibia, the candidate of the long-governing South West Africa People’s Organization or SWAPO — 72-year-old Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah — made history by becoming the country’s first female president.
Religion in Uganda: When indigenous African God died, Ugandans hurriedly installed White and Arab Gods who they can’t access
Indigenous African spiritual beliefs are not bound by a written text, like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Indigenous African religion is primarily an oral tradition and has never been fully codified; thus, it allows itself to more easily be amended and influenced by other religious ideas, religious wisdom, and by modern development.
Spiritual colonialism, neocolonialism, conquests: How globalisation turned Ugandans into marionettes and they embraced it gleefully
In Uganda these different colonialisms have been revamped under NRM rule, thereby reversing the independence and development of the country and enhancing the country’s entrenchment in the global debt trap, with the ruling now unable to tick without borrowing from the local and global money markets or attaching the country wealth and natural assets to the creditor countries.
