Uganda commissions largest hydropower plant to generate 600 megawatt that cost $1.7 billion
President Yoweri Museveni said his government aimed to ensure access to “cheap, reliable, affordable electricity.” Karuma is the second hydropower plant China has financed in Uganda in recent years.
Memorial service held for 21 pupils who died in Kenyan school fire, cause of blaze still unknown
Kenya has a sad history of school fires. There were more than 60 cases of arson in public secondary schools in 2018, according to most recent data in a parliamentary report. It is not yet known what caused the fire at Hillside Endarasha Academy, but researchers say many similar fires have been started by students protesting harsh discipline and poor conditions.
New Amnesty report details how Kenyan police in plainclothes fired at Nairobi unarmed protesters
More than 50 people were killed in months-long protests over a controversial finance bill, creating President William Ruto’s biggest crisis since taking office in 2022. Ruto abandoned the legislation in June and sacked almost his entire cabinet.
Ugandan electorate pay price for voting in MPs bereft of decorum and revel in intellectual vacuum
When the good brains turn into merchandise for political ‘business’, what remains of the bad? When the good ceases to speak reason, what happens to the bad? When the good brains out their brains on market stoles, what happens to the bad? When the hunter turns into the hunted, what happens to the non-hunted? When educated elites turn into big time thieves, what happens to the petty street thieves? When the intelligent opposition assimilated by the ruling clique, what happens to the tenet of checks and balances? Is there still parliamentary democracy? Isn’t Uganda back to one party rule?
Ethiopia and Somaliland on high alert as Egyptian warship delivers more arms to Somalia
Somalia has called the Somaliland deal an assault on its sovereignty and says it wants all Ethiopia’s troops to leave at the end of the year unless Addis Ababa scraps the agreement. Egypt has, meanwhile, offered to contribute troops to a new peacekeeping mission in Somalia, the African Union said in July, although Cairo has not commented on the matter publicly.
Kenya’s largest telecoms operator raises $117 million with local sustainability-linked loan
The four participating banks in the transaction are KCB, ABSA, Standard Chartered Kenya and Stanbic, Safaricom said, adding that Standard Chartered acted as the lead arranger and bookrunner.
Tanzania slips back into dark days as main opposition leaders are arrested for planning protests
President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who is serving out the late President John Magufuli’s term after he died in office in 2021, including the unbanning of rallies, but the recent killing of Kibao, which she was quick to condemn, sparked outrage.
Refugee economy: How Uganda’s ‘small minds’ swapped heart and soul of Pearl of Africa for political capital
If President Tibuhaburwa Museveni agrees with his son that he steps down whenever that will be possible, then automatically the leader of PLU will be elected [resident of Uganda, whether Ugandans like it or not. Universal suffrage will be a thing of the past. The right of Ugandans to choose will be no more. This is a gigantic plot against Uganda and the indigenes of Uganda. It will the last nail in the coffin carrying the disempowered Ugandans.
Uganda President Museveni’s son abandons bid to succeed father, tells youth to back him in 2026
Human rights activists and his political opponents including pop star turned politician Bobi Wine have long accused Museveni of using security forces to jail, intimidate or torture opposition supporters. Museveni denies such accusations.
Booming construction industry in Somali capital Mogadishu pushes the poor and vulnerable to margins of society
The urbanisation free-for-all has a social cost, discriminating as it does against those living on the margins of society – the displaced and the urban poor. They lack documentation and legal protections, and, as land values increase, there has been a related rise in forced evictions in a city where those with money and clan backing can act with impunity.
