Sociology of Uganda’s elites: President’s pork-barrel politics ensures scholars are beholden to him
One distinguishing feature of our elites is that they are greedy and selfish and believe only today and now matters. They are not so futuristic in their thinking; meaning that they do not factor future generations in their equation and are more oriented towards exploiting goods and services, conquering nature and the anti-conservation attitude is almost universally developed amongst them as is the attitude that they are modern.
Kenya postpones border reopening in response to increased terror attacks by Somali insurgents
On June 13, eight Kenyan police officers were killed in Garissa, an eastern county along the border with Somalia, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. On June 24, five civilians had their throats cut in an attack in Lamu, another county on the border. Some were beheaded.
Kenya’s President Ruto tightens screw on media as says his minister trades vulgarity with ‘his freedom of expression’
In 2012 when Ruto and President Kenyatta were indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity committed during the 2007 General Election, there were fears that he had retained hitmen who hunted down and eliminated journalists he believed had incriminating evidence the international court would have used to nail them. These claims, however, have never been proved although a number of journalists disappeared without trace during those heady days.
Re-ethnicisation of Uganda, suppression of opinion have rigged the Pearl of Africa into East Africa’s Museveni Inc
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – the founding members of the original East African Community – may have agreed to renew the spirit of East African regionalism but are so unlike especially in the way they pursue development, prioritise development and utilise their resources for development.
Conservationists in Kenya shift focus on pastoralist women in to curb human-wildlife conflicts
The 60 women from the Maasai community graduated this week after their first year of vocational training. They will now learn how to establish a business over 12 months and complete the programme with a year of mentorship.
Here’s why Uganda and Africa need leadership that gives environmental development priority
There are aeroplanes too that can go thousands of feet out of the Earthly environment into outer space with people and goods, but like the high-flying birds that come back to feed and reproduce themselves, they must come down to deliver people and goods to their destinations, fuel and take others. According to Smithsonian Magazine dated July 17, 1962, American test pilot Robert White took the X-15 to an altitude of 314,688 feet (95.916902 metres). But it is Russian pilot Alexandr Fedotov who holds the world altitude record set on August 31, 1977, when his MiG E-266M reached 37,650 metres. He went and came back to our environment.
After President Museveni ‘created’ Banyarwanda ruling tribe, he embarked on virulent ethnic balkanisation of Uganda
Already, every sphere of human life and activity is now effectively dominated by people who belong to the ethnic group dominating power in Uganda. This is not surprising. During his long reign in Uganda, the president has made sure that power does not get out of his hands, or out of his family and ethnic group. This is exactly what racist South African supremacists did to exclude the majority Blacks from governing their country.
Climate change fuels human-wildlife conflict in Kenya as Maasai herders spear lions that feasted on their livestock
Last month, one of Kenya’s oldest lions, Loonkiito, was speared to death as it wandered out of the Amboseli National Park in search for food. The Kenya Wildlife Service said it is working on lasting solutions that would address the conflict while protecting both humans and wildlife.
Gay rights defenders fear East Africa will copy Uganda’s harsh LGBTQ law, plus death penalty
Uganda receives billions of dollars in foreign aid each year and could now face further sanctions. The bill’s sponsor, Asuman Basalirwa, told reporters that parliament speaker Anita Among’s U.S. visa was cancelled after the law was signed. The US embassy in Uganda did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
What Uganda calls modernity is a byword for bandit economy run by refugees, ‘imported’ criminals
Unfortunately, integration of an African country in the WTO does not favour local industrialisation but instead, as a tool of globalisation and modernisation, sustains the dependency syndrome on goods and services of foreign origin with strings attached.
