Kenya terms KDF joint patrols with South African army in eastern DR Congo ‘significant development’
What the Kenya’s Ministry of Defence termed “a significant development” saw soldiers from the East African country part of a joint patrol with colleagues in arms from South Africa on the Beni-Eringeti main supply route (MSR) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Congolese component of the Kenyan patrol...
Fountain of reason: Revisiting Uganda’s Age of Enlightenment when it was revered as the Pearl of Africa
Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society. Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society.
Kinshasa raises alarm yet again over Rwandan aggression as 2.3m people uprooted from homes
UN experts have also accused Rwanda of supporting the rebel force, and in July, the EU condemned the country’s military presence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Why ecological science should be a priority for Africans and their policy makers in 21st century
When I say leaders, I don’t mean political leaders, although what they do and say while blaming the people at the periphery of society, is the main reason why nature has deteriorated. Decayed and collapsed nature is now violating our very existence and survival everywhere on the globe.
President Museveni is adept at choosing opponents, Bobi Wine seems set to tough it out with his son Muhoozi
The president was certainly not sleeping, although acting normally: loving his son the same, only disarming him while coming close to him, and even making him the best man in his recent 50-year marriage. anniversary.
Are Allied Democratic Forces rebels an Islamic outfit or a bunch of rapists masquerading as mujahidin?
the public wrongly perceived FRONASA, RPF and NRA rebels to be Muslims, which was not true. People like Haji Abdu Nadduli were few in the rebel ranks. The overwhelming majority were Rwandese and Ugandan Christians. It was a good strategy. It earned the rebels enormous sympathy and moral and financial support domestically and internationally, although they were also strongly supported by the Anglo-American axis of global power
Why I returned to Dadaab: Kenya has been a kind host…my situation has been a journey from fear to freedom
I hated the insecurity in Mogadishu. I was making decent-enough money working as a freelance journalist and filmmaker – more than I could ever earn in Dadaab. But you can’t stay indoors: You have to be out and about on the streets, and with that comes risks.
Is Uganda’s Only-Bull-in-the-Kraal finally metamorphosing from ‘No-Changist’ to ‘Changist’?
Very early in his reign, the President Museveni made it clear that he had captured political power through the barrel of the gun to stay in power as long as he possibly could when he said, “a mere piece of paper cannot remove me from power”, adding, ” I am a quarter pin of a bicycle. I came in by knocking and can only leave by knocking”.
Congolese soldiers kill over 40, injure 56 during crackdown on demos against UN peacekeepers
Unverified footage posted on social media showed soldiers piling bodies into a lorry and driving them through Goma in a convoy. The head of the local branch of the International Red Cross in Goma, Anne-Sylvie Linder, said her clinic had received a high number of people with serious stab and gunshot wounds after the protest.
Ruling clique itching for constitutional moment in Kenya as hints to repeal presidential term limits emerge
Kulundu likens the evolving political and constitutional scenario in Kenya to the period shortly after the Russian revolution between 1917 and 1924. During the period political idealist and lawyer Vladimir Lennin rode to power promising to retool governance by disbanding the nobility (dynasty in Kenyan political lingo) and co-opting the serfs (read: hustlers).
