Wagner mercenary boss Prigozhin’s death exposes Russian President Putin’s real motives in Africa
Prigozhin was believed to be living on borrowed time after he led a short-lived insurrection – part of a power struggle with the Russian military leadership – in June. While he quickly backed down, the action embarrassed Russian president Vladimir Putin and triggered chatter that Putin’s perceived weakness would embolden other challengers to his authority.
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”.
Sudan: A gun class of constantly shifting alliances of violence specialists and elites who prey on civilians
The fight began as a mobster shootout over which soldier-business cartel would run Sudan. But the two bosses are losing their grip. Hemedti appears to be physically incapacitated and has shown none of the populist energy that allowed him to set a political agenda. Trying to dispel rumours that he was dead or in intensive care, the RSF released a video of patched together clips, in which Hemedti stood, stiff and pallid, speaking for just 11 seconds.
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.
While locusts menace poses threat to food security in East Africa, Uganda’s control methods fall off the pace
It is clear the government of Uganda has exclusively chosen chemical warfare to combat locusts. Pesticides are the chemicals of choice. However, the government has not been so open as to tell the country what particular pesticides it is using to combat locusts. We know some chemicals have been ordered...
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.
Queerism: How World Bank doles out wicked money to ‘evangelise’ homosexuality, engineer Africans’ self-termination
While Catholic orthodoxy still regards homosexuality as a crime against nature, the sexual deviation from the more biologically, ecologically and environmentally recurring sexual practice among diverse species of animals and plants – heterosexuality – the deviant sexual practice has been documented as far back as the times of ancient Greeks. Germany was probably the first country in modern times to legalise the practice almost 30 years ago.
Societies perpetuate behaviour that endangers civilisation via devotion to industrial-scale food production
Similarly, many governments continue to facilitate the large-scale production of water-intensive crops through extensive irrigation schemes, despite the evident decline in global water supplies that is already producing widespread shortages of drinking water in places like Iran.
Although know our appetite for food and fossil fuel is killing the world, our craving for conferences is equally high
When do we know that a civilisation is on the verge of collapse? In his now almost 20-year-old classic, Diamond identified three key indicators or precursors of imminent dissolution: a persistent pattern of environmental change for the worse like long-lasting droughts; signs that existing modes of agriculture or industrial production were aggravating the crisis; and an elite failure to abandon harmful practices and adopt new means of production. At some point, a critical threshold is crossed and collapse invariably follows.
Homosexuality: It’s time Africa, other developing countries gave World Bank and IMF a wide berth
African leaders who become rich only after they have become leaders through primitive accumulation of wealth are victims. The loot the make, if they do not encourage domestic production, will be foreign loans-based.
