Trouble with Uganda: We abuse land because as a community we regard it as our entitlement, therefore can defile it
Environmental racism, then, is a critical term that highlights environmental framings which disproportionally negatively affect people of colour (Dickinson, 2012) and advantage whites (Bullard, 2001). Environmental apartheid and environmental racism imply absence of environmental justice. People are pressed to the margins of nature where the ecology is unfriendly and hardly enjoy ecological health.
Adani fraud: Flights grounded at Kenya’s main airport as workers protest award of tender to Indian firm
The Kenya Airports Authority said in a statement that it was “engaging relevant parties to normalise operations” and urged passengers to contact respective airlines to confirm flight status.
Karma returns: Kenyan hospital announces death of man accused of setting Ugandan Olympic athlete on fire
Rebecca Cheptegei former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, died at 7:50 p.m. (1650 GMT) on Monday, said Daniel Lang’at, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret in western Kenya, where Cheptegei was also treated and died.
Tanzanian opposition official is plucked out of bus, beaten to death and body doused with acid
Acid attacks are not unusual in Tanzania, where some opposition figures in the past have been physically assaulted or even shot.
Financial Times: Kenyan court halts Adani takeover of the East African nation’s international airport
The proposed takeover spurred protests when it was revealed in July and the Kenya Aviation Workers Union also opposed the plans, which it argued would lead to job cuts and employment of foreigners.
It’s likely ancient civilisation of humanity began at the source of River Nile in Busoga, Uganda, not Egypt
Indigenous peoples are and regard themselves as guardians and stewards of nature. Moreover, they invariably recognise linkages between health, diet, properties of different foods and medicinal plants, and horticultural/natural resources management practices – all within a highly articulated cosmological /social context (Hugh-Jones, 1999; Posey, 1999). The Basoga, therefore, should be seen in this light is vis-à-vis Budhagali falls. The Falls were a critical element in what can be called the sacred balance of the Basoga with nature.
Kenya finance minister John Mbadi says government will seek public views on laws to fix economy
Mbadi, who initially said he would revive some tax hikes in the abandoned finance bill before rowing back after a public outcry, ruled out the restructuring of the country’s debt.
Investment in Uganda is euphemism for thievery as presidents Museveni and Kagame chaperon the looters
Uganda’s new generation of materialistic leadership is today dominated by people who spent five years in the bush (1981-86) robbing banks, cooperative unions, et cetera. They are now brazenly looting Uganda’s natural resources and depleting the national treasury by allocating taxpayers’ money to themselves and to preferred so-called investors who are predominantly foreigners from India and China.
Was Jomo Kenyatta Ugandan? Scholars trace Kenya’s founding president’s ancestry to a Musoga woman called Katundu, who gave Gatundu its name
There is, however, another narrative of Jomo Kenyatta’s ancestry, which asserts that Kenyatta belonged to Soga culture and was thus a Musoga of the Chwezi Igaga clan, to which Prince Byaruhanga Ndahura, the founder of the Busoga Kingdom at Nnenda Hill, and His son Wamara Byaruhanga Ndahura, the first King of Busoga, belonged. According to a credible story, Kenyatta’s father was called Katagiro. Katagiro was engaged in a spear fight with some of his classmates over a “beautiful” woman called Katundu in a place called or close to Nsambya, near the location of Ikumbya Primary School, in Luuka County in present- day Luuka District.
Kenyan pathologists, morticians start identifying bodies of pupils who died in school dormitory fire
Eighteen boys aged between 10 and 14 are known to have died and 27 were hospitalised after the Thursday night fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary school, but 70 others are still unaccounted-for.
