Uganda Supreme Court bans military prosecution of civilians, falls short ordering release of detained opposition leader Besigye
Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo said members of military courts did not possess legal competence to handle criminal trials in a fair and impartial manner, as required by the constitution. That’s a stark contrast to the last time M23 took Goma – back in 2012.
Women take karate lessons for self-defence as alternative to police as femicide incidents in Kenya soar
Activists say the recent upward trend is felt across Kenya’s impoverished informal settlements, where women’s efforts to protect themselves have taken on fresh urgency. Inside a church in the Korogocho area of the capital Nairobi, Mary Wainaina, 93, thumped a punching bag. “No! No! No!” she shouted, before running away from a classmate pretending to be a male aggressor.
Nairobi county resolves bus owners and hawkers impasse but fails to address role of criminal enterprises in Kenyan capital’s chaos
Nairobi City County government led by Governor Johnson Sakaja has embarked on a clean-up exercise that has drawn in 3,500 ‘Green Army’ personnel every Sunday to restore a semblance of the gleam that once gave the Kenya capital the acclamation ‘Africa’s Green City in the Sun’ owing to its cleanliness, orderliness, security and public safety.
Row between Ramaphosa and Rwanda’s Kagame over Congo losses exposes limit of South Africa’s diplomatic ambitions
The slow decline over the past decade of South Africa’s military capability has led to previous failures in other peace enforcement efforts on the continent including in Central African Republic and, more recently, Mozambique.
African Union kicks off public participation campaign in Agenda 2063 with journalists workshop in Kericho
Agenda 2063 workshop participants explored Agenda 2063’s seven aspirations that revolve around prosperity, governance, peace and unity in Africa. The session also focused on capacity-building strategies for media professionals, ensuring they are equipped to communicate the agenda’s goals effectively.
Why West is unable to rein in Rwanda’s with economic sanctions to force its army out of eastern Congo
The United States disbursed $180 million in foreign aid to Rwanda in 2023. The World Bank’s International Development Association provided nearly $221 million the same year. And in the years ahead, the European Union has pledged to invest over $900 million in Rwanda under the Global Gateway strategy, its response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Destination Kinshasa: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo threaten to storm DRC capital, take power
“We want to go to Kinshasa, take power and lead the country,” Corneille Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23, said during the briefing. He did not indicate how the rebels planned to advance on the capital, more than 1,500 kilometres (nearly 1,000 miles) away.
Rising access to electricity in Kenya, worries conservationists as 500 colobus monkeys, 5,000 birds are electrocuted by power transmission lines
Colobus Conservation in collaboration with KPLC in 2017 removed 12 kilometres of uninsulated powerlines in Diani at the Kenya coast and replaced them with insulated lines. The agencies also moved transformers, which given their location, were causing multiple primate electrocutions.
Why the revolutionary germ in Kenya’s Gen-Z tax protests is growing but political tribe has buried head in sand
You either die or accept to acquiesce in suffering to your grave. Gen-Zs elected the former and many of them were felled by what they perceived as the butchers gunshots. The stress were full of blood. The spirit, though, was not felled, just as was the case in the germinal revolutions in the far-away lands.
UN agencies warn ‘imminent’ outbreak of cholera, mpox, measles and malaria in eastern Congo’s North Kivu will kill thousands
Before M23 fighters closed in on Goma, more than 700,000 internally displaced people lived around the provincial capital. But hundreds of thousands fled in anticipation of clashes between the Rwanda-backed rebels and DRC troops, prompting renewed alarm about the further spread of deadly disease.
