As Kenyan police in Haiti lament about salaries and equipment, US is planning UN peacekeeping force to fight gangs
The US is mulling a UN peacekeeping operation in Haiti as one way to secure funding and staffing for a Kenya-led mission deployed to quell gang violence in the Caribbean country, a top US diplomat said on Wednesday. Brian A. Nichols, US assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, spoke hours...
Kenya private sector business picks up as country puts behind impact of tax protests on economy
In June, President William Ruto discarded the government’s finance bill for the year, which contained tax hikes estimated to be 346 billion shillings ($2.69 billion), following deadly street protests.
Linking Busoga, Buganda and Luhyia kingdoms: East Africa’s most advanced indigenous nations in lacustrine region ravaged by colonialism
The similarities between the Luhyia and Basoga may suggest that there existed a powerful and extensive nation in this part of the Lake Victoria basin that Arabs and white colonialists interfered with, thereby interrupting its political, social and economic transformation and progress, despite the fact that it was part of the Kitara Empire (Kwayera, pers. comm) of the Chwezi. As I will show elsewhere in this treatise, the area was very rich in minerals – both gold and rare earth minerals. In fact, Buganda sub-imperialism benefitted a lot from this wealth.
US-based Climate Rights International urges banks and insurers to withhold funding for Uganda’s oil development
The report is the first of its kind to detail serious allegations against CNOOC, one of a number of partners in the project. Based on dozens of interviews, it cites forced evictions, inadequate or non-existent compensation for land and other assets, coercion and intimidation in land acquisition, loss of livelihood and sexual violence.
Fears of assassination attempt on Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine after police shoot, injure him
Ugandan police said in a statement that Wine had been advised against holding a street procession when he left a private event in Bulindo. According to the statement, Wine “insisted on proceeding and closing the road, leading to police intervention to prevent the procession.”
Football: Kenyan-born former South Sudanese refugee Mabil is ‘stronger’ mentally to play again for Australia
Although popular in the dressing room and boasting nine goals from his 33 Socceroos appearances, Awer Mabil battled through a confidence-sapping stint at Spanish club Cadiz in 2022-23 where he barely played before being loaned off to Sparta Prague.
Demoralised Kenyan police contigent in Haiti questions salary delays, slow equipment delivery
While the United States has contributed $369 million in money, equipment and services, a UN fund only has about $68 million, leaving it over $150 million short of the estimated $589 million needed for the first year’s operations.
Disempowerment: How postcolonial regimes turned Basoga, Baganda in Uganda and Luhyia in Kenya into serfs
Most writings on Busoga have created the impression that there was no Busoga before about 300 years ago. But Busoga is a water rich area with a large part of Lake Victoria within its territory, and the source of the longest river in the world – the Nile – which is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible (Amos 8:8: Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.) has its source in Busoga. It is important to ask: Why should such an area at the source of the Nile not have a prehistory but Egypt at the mouth of the Nile has a prehistory?
Director of Public Prosecutions says Kenya wanted in US for killing girlfriend has been extradited
The preliminary investigation showed Mbitu had left her workplace and travelled with Kang’ethe to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he lived, the prosecution in Kenya said during the extradition case hearing.
Ugandan marathon runner Cheptegui burnt after being doused with petrol by boyfriend
The 33-year-old Rebecca Cheptegui, who finished 44th in Paris, has a house in Kenya where she stays when she trains in the country.
