American arrested in Kenya charged in US court for attempt to aid al Shabaab after Israel attack
Nasr travelled from Egypt to Kenya “bent on joining and training with al Shabaab,” prosecutors said.
Governance by deception: Does grubby Museveni have to cling to discredited top-down economic model to rule Uganda?
Everything is deception. The sale of public assets by the NRM/A was deception. It was stated the aim was to enhance efficiency but instead they ended up in the hands of government functionaries and their fronts, usually Indians.
Election observers flag ‘massive irregularities’ as Congo rules out re-run, opposition plan protests
The team of Moise Katumbi, one of Tshisekedi’s main challengers, has ruled out using legal channels to contest results, asserting that state institutions were committed to tipping the vote in the president’s favour. The CENI denies this.
So inefficient is Uganda government that the president has the luxury to decide when you can die on Kampala-Jinja Road
It is the president who decides whether or not Jinja-Kampala Road, which has become a principal killer road, to be or not be made passable.
Kenya’s economy grows by 5.9 per cent as inflation eases to 6.6 per cent in December
The East African country’s economy has been among the fastest-growing on the continent in recent years, but a heavy debt load and a weakening currency have emerged as potential problems.
Uganda urgently needs pragmatic economics as Museveni’s idea of wealth creation is a fleeting daydream
Unfortunately, this is turning Uganda into a potentially and actually security and peace poor or deficient country well into the future. One consequence, yet to rear its head, will be destruction of what we now call islands of development, transformation and progress.
Academia, academics are in a flux at African universities as mediocrity outpaces meritocracy
Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theatres, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.
Betting intellectual power for academic capital: A walk in shadows of Uganda’s lost generation under Museveni
Ultimately, employment of the education enterprise is based on technical know-how, not professionalism. People who are employed on the basis of technical knowhow are constrained by lack of necessary skills. They have no capacity to implement anything professionally.
African Union troops exit from Somalia continues with handover of Qorilow base to national army
This was the fifth military facility handed over as part of the second phase of the ATMIS troop drawdown.
Piracy off Somali coast is on the on the rebound, but a full scale return is unlikely, experts say
Following previous threats, local authorities, experts and organisations tracking piracy globally warned that Somali pirates retained the capacity to launch attacks. This is also the current assessment of the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre, which acts to suppress piracy and armed robbery at sea.
