At least a dozen killed, some 20,000 people displaced by floods in Kenya as wet season sets in
The East African country has seen thousands of people killed by flooding in previous rainy seasons, mostly in the lake regions and downstream of major rivers.
Uganda: Where poverty and opulence coexist uneasily and NRM hawks use them as raw material to oppress the citizenry
The kind of oppressive attitudes and behaviours are backed up by the institutional arrangements. This helps to clarify the confusion around what some claim to be “reverse racism”.
Uproar over efficacy of its Covid vaccine forces Moderna to pause plans to build factory in Kenya
The drugmaker said it had taken more than $1 billion in losses and write-downs related to the cancellation of previous orders from Africa.
Death of two migratory ‘super-tuskers’ prompts Kenya to raise red flag over Tanzania’s wildlife hunting
The killing broke an unofficial moratorium on hunting elephants near the Kenyan border. The ban was agreed in 1995 after an outcry over the shooting of four Kenyan elephants on the Tanzanian side in 1994, conservationists said, although the prohibition did not set out detailed regulations.
How tax in Uganda is a tool of exploitation, poverty generation, dominance and oppression
Material poverty gets worse if it is dominated by what is called intellectual poverty. When intellectual poverty is allowed to proliferate throughout society from bottom to top and throughout leadership and governance from top to bottom, there is inadequate intellectual capital and power to address the complex issues generated by an impoverished environment, populace, leadership and governance of a country. Everything to do with development, transformation and progress becomes a gigantic lie. Taxes are wasted. Investment in anything does not yield benefits to the taxpayers. Those who are supposed to use the taxes to develop social services and infrastructure target them for personal aggrandisement and/or enrichment.
Ethiopia’s rights body calls for investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure
Daniel Bekele, head of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, called for “a prompt, impartial and full investigation by both the Oromia regional and Ethiopian federal authorities to hold perpetrators to account.”
Three Tanzanian soldiers serving under SADC die in mortar near their camp in eastern Congo
President Felix Tshisekedi of Congo blames neighbouring Rwanda for providing military support to the M23, an allegation Rwandan officials no longer deny after the US earlier this year described the group as backed by Rwanda.
Tutsis: Rwanda President Kagame expresses concern over US caginess on 1994 genocide
President Joe Biden issued a statement on Sunday, saying, “We will never forget the horrors of those 100 days, the pain and loss suffered by the people of Rwanda, or the shared humanity that connects us all, which hate can never overcome.”
In Uganda, we were militarily conquered, occupied, controlled and now dominated by guerrillas who claim to have liberated us
Perennial military slogans, songs and celebrations yearn in year out and perennial lie that we experienced liberation are also perennially concealing the truism that we are under conquest, occupation, domination and rule by people who came from elsewhere and captured our instruments of power.
Kagame blames the world’s inaction as Rwanda marks 1994 genocide with lingering scars
The killings were ignited when a plane carrying then-President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down over Kigali. The Tutsis were blamed for downing the plane and killing the president. And became targets in massacres led by Hutu extremists that lasted over 100 days. Some moderate Hutus who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority were also killed.
