Concerns rise in Tanzania after opposition implicates telecoms firm and state in illegal mining data
Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu addresses a press conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on September 25, 2024. Credit: Reuters
Kenya MPs prepare to deputy president in move seen as having President Ruto’s blessings
On Sunday, Mr Rigathi Gachagua told reporters that any impeachment motion would require Ruto’s assent. “Without the president’s go-ahead, the motion cannot reach parliament. If it reaches parliament, it is the president who has authorised it.”
Revival time: Model makers in Madagascar bringing history’s long-lost ships back to life
Madagascar has hardly any shipbuilding tradition despite being the world’s fourth largest island. So, Le Village’s own story is one of endeavour.
Rwanda’s military and M23 rebels accused of shelling displaced people camps in Congo
Congo alleges that Rwandan forces have been involved in aggression and war crimes in the east and US and UN experts accuse it of giving military backing to M23. Rwanda denies the claim, but in February admitted that it has troops and missile systems in eastern Congo to safeguard its security, pointing to a buildup of Congolese forces near the border.
Congo and Rwanda face-off in regional court over breaches of sovereignty, looting of natural resources in former’s east
In the lawsuit, Congo seeks to hold Rwanda accountable for violations including atrocities against civilians and breaches of international law, and also secure reparations for the victims of these alleged crimes.
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.
