Retracing how Banyarwanda arrived in Uganda as refugees, turned it into their ‘colony’ with Museveni as president
The exodus of Banyarwanda continued through the 1930s and 1940s but this time as economic immigrants. They were coming in search of economic survival by way of casual labour and settled in Buganda, Ankole, Busoga, Kigezi, Tooro and Bunyoro. They worked on fields of agriculture, construction, local government, industries, ginning, cattle herding, forestry, fishing, Kilembe Copper Mines, sugar and cotton plantations in Busoga, etc.
Musevenism: It’s time Ugandans asked themselves how and why they hawk their sovereignty for beautiful Rwandese women
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni is highly gifted in the art and science of deception. Although this is a requirement if one wants to be a successful politician, the president excels in its deliberate use to subdue detection that he deliberately uses untruth to rule. Nobody or institution has not tasted his deceptions or untruths.
Not in Jesus’ name: Kenya starts to hand over to relatives bodies of 429 followers of a doomsday cult
The Kenya Human Rights Commission last week said police failed to act on reports that could have prevented the deaths in the remote Shakahola area. Several reports had been filed at police stations by people whose relatives had entered the forested area.
Climate change: Schools to reopen in South Sudan after two weeks of extreme heat
South Sudan in recent years has experienced adverse effects of climate change, with extreme heat, flooding and drought reported during different seasons.
On the mend: Kenya Airways rakes in $80 million to record first operating profit since 2017
The airline expects to receive an additional cargo freighter soon and it will receive another Boeing 737-800 passenger jet by the third quarter of this year to boost capacity, Kilavuka said.
Hazardous textile waste: Kenya’s secondhand clothes traders oppose EU ban on used clothes export
The EU exported 1.4 million tonnes of used textiles in 2022, more than twice as much as in 2000 according to UN trade data. Exports to developing countries can lead to pollution when clothes that cannot be resold end up in dumps, the EU has said.
4 people, including 3 police officers, die after an IED explodes near police station in northern Kenya
The latest attack followed another one on Sunday in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County, where two police reservists were also killed. The area has a forest that has often been the site of security operations because it’s a known hideout of al-Shabab militants.
Rwandan woman Anitha Ingabire’s epic story of rising above adversity through courage, grit
Ingabire’s inspiring journey is a sign of triumph over adversity. The completion of her beautiful house in Kigali sends the message that perseverance can indeed conquer obstacles. She currently works as an architectural engineer and real estate agent.
Refugee ration cuts in Uganda risk long-term social damage as host nation mulls border closure
Increasingly threadbare aid budgets mean many of the 1.5 million refugees in the country – one of the world’s largest refugee-hosting nations – are now receiving less than 40 per cent of their basic survival rations, while others are getting less or nothing at all.
Father to son: When Ugandan Ogre is eating his children only his Brat and hangers-on get nod into the kraal
In my book Political and Leadership History of Uganda: From British Colonial Era to Movement Era, which has been in the press since July 2023, I unequivocally state that the political trajectory of Uganda will be determined, not by the genuine citizens of Uganda but by three men: Lawyer Nobert Mao (no relation the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba (from last week the Chief of Defense Forces, CDF) and Tibuhaburwa Museveni (still the president of Uganda, 38 years since capturing the instruments of power through the barrel of the gun on January 25, 1986). The three, I wrote, will strategise together to de-enfranchise Ugandans, transfer the power of selecting a president of Uganda to parliament and ensure that the current president, retains power, not through the popular vote but through the members of parliament who to date profess NRM.
