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).
Cairo announces Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are set to resume negotiations over a disputed dam
Construction work takes place, at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia on June 28, 2013. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations on August 27, 2023 over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary, officials said. credit: AP
Stewed in militarism, is Uganda planning to deploy army and bombs to combat next wave of locust invasion?
At the moment we have no category of people known as locust experts. We have to train Ugandans to become locust experts. It is not enough to have insect (entomology) experts or ecologists or environmentalists or conservationists. These are important to have but cannot effectively manifest as locust experts.
Transition of Museveni from barter trade advocate to running ruthless mafioso of Uganda Inc
If you talk of business crime, intellectual crime, academic crime, cybercrime, political crime, economic crime, ecological crime and environmental crime, virtually all those involved belong to President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s new middle class. They are found in the army, police, cabinet, legislature, judiciary, business, education, health, politics, you name it.
History repeats itself: Just as revolutions eat their own children, Ugandan political parties are in self-annihilation
More recently, the infiltration of the opposition parties by the ruling party NRM using money as the tool with which to divide them and deplete them of their memberships and leaderships has gained currency. We have seen top leaderships of the oldest parties – DP and UPC – giving in to NRM via what they have called cooperation agreements with the Movement.
President Museveni tells off World Bank over funding cuts to arm-twist Uganda to accept homosexuality
In response to the World Bank’s decision, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs Okello Oryem queried the consistency of the move compared to other countries.
Uganda’s eating chiefs: A look at a presidency infested with hounds who ravage the Treasury, then vomit on shoes of the poor
If Ms Kamya felt a bit uncomfortable with President Museveni’s public emasculation of her efforts to fight corruption in Uganda, she actually came off quite lightly, compared to her counterpart anti-corruption CEOs elsewhere in Africa, who have been publicly humiliated and summarily hounded out of office long before the end of their tenure, the very moment these anti-corruption chiefs started stepping on the toes of some crooked members of the political establishment.
Embracing indigenous knowledge is key to resilience in northern Kenya, not donor project box-ticking
eople in the drylands have a long-established repertoire of ways of responding to a difficult environment. This is not just a pattern of passive “coping” but an active process of deliberate, well-planned response – a well-tuned strategy of living with uncertainty.
Rwandan horrors: Was genocide was part of a political programme of vengeance directed against Hutu?
Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the Great Lakes Region of Africa over the past four years. Most of them were innocent civilians massacred by armies or militias or decimated by disease or starvation as they fled from danger. These horrors can be traced to intense struggles overpower...
Revisiting heart-wrenching story of how three Kenyan celebs killed mother of three and pauperised her bright sons
Consequently, Quincy Timberlake, Joseph Hellon and Esther Arunga became the talk of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. They were the envy of many a youth and looked set for bigger things in the thriving communities of Christians and politicians. Church and politics have never been strange bedfellows. They have symbiotic relationship and cohabit – even if illicitly and the result parallels the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
