Uganda’s dependency syndrome: How President Museveni vacuum-cleaned 48m Ugandans, then twisted them into marionettes
Let’s encourage people to become independent minded rather than depend on others to think for them. If all thinking emanates from one person there is danger of such phenomenon sinking everyone in the abys of disaster and tragedy, which may last for ages.
Islamic State attacks Somalia’s Puntland military base, claims it killed 22 soldiers
Captain Yusuf Mohamed, an officer in Puntland’s counter-terrorism forces, said on Tuesday that nine suicide bombers had been killed and several soldiers had been injured, near the town of Dharjaale in the Bari region.
23 Congolese military officers handed death sentences for cowardice to boost discipline in army
Overall 24 soldiers stood trial. In addition to those handed death penalties, four received 2-10 year sentences, six were acquitted and one’s case was deferred for further investigation.
Kenya’s biosafety authority kicks off campaign for GMO maize against backdrop of steep ignorance
NBA Acting Director of Biosafety Research and Compliance Josphat Muchiri confirmed the authority’s readiness for the exercise in the listed counties, adding that the campaign would be expanded to cover all maize-producing regions in Kenya.
Statistics office says Kenya’s inflation went up in December but remains within targeted margin
The Central Bank of Kenya cut its benchmark lending rate by a larger-than-expected 75 basis points to 11.25 per cent on December 5
Opposition MP among protesters arrested in Kenya as youths vow to force President Ruto to end abductions
President William Ruto on Saturday said the government would stop the abductions so that young people live in peace.
Street protests resume in Kenya to press for unconditional release of youths abducted by police
Initially aimed at overturning proposed tax hikes, the demonstrations eventually evolved into a movement that cut across Kenya’s traditional ethnic divisions, becoming the biggest threat to the incumbent President William Ruto’s government.
Ugandans are so psychologically beaten that they believe China assembles plastic rice and eggs
One thing is true. If there can be fake rice and fake eggs, there can also be fake water melon, fake Avocado, fake banana, fake mango and fake everything which could find their way into supermarkets and markets as unscrupulous people try to maximise dishonest income from unaware customers. And there are unscrupulous people everywhere on the globe; not only in China.
Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies
Anthropomorphic (i.e. the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal or object) positions about material cultures, offering relational theories (such as the new animism and the new materialism) that allow indigenous religious materialities to reveal new understandings about the ontological and other potentialities of so-called “things”.
Government critics in Kenya are now an endangered species as human rights groups worry over abductions
In October, nine European envoys raised concerns over enforced disappearances and urged Ruto to ensure justice. The envoys spoke after four Turkish nationals were abducted from Kenya and repatriated despite registering with the UN as asylum seekers, citing threats to their lives back home.
