Top UN official expressses serious concern about scale of killing, displacement in Sudan in 17 months

Top UN official expressses serious concern about scale of killing, displacement in Sudan in 17 months

On Friday, UN-backed human rights investigators urged the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians, blaming both sides for war crimes including murder, mutilation and torture.

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Was Jomo Kenyatta Ugandan? Scholars trace Kenya’s founding president’s ancestry to a Musoga woman called Katundu, who gave Gatundu its name

Was Jomo Kenyatta Ugandan? Scholars trace Kenya’s founding president’s ancestry to a Musoga woman called Katundu, who gave Gatundu its name

There is, however, another narrative of Jomo Kenyatta’s ancestry, which asserts that Kenyatta belonged to Soga culture and was thus a Musoga of the Chwezi Igaga clan, to which Prince Byaruhanga Ndahura, the founder of the Busoga Kingdom at Nnenda Hill, and His son Wamara Byaruhanga Ndahura, the first King of Busoga, belonged. According to a credible story, Kenyatta’s father was called Katagiro. Katagiro was engaged in a spear fight with some of his classmates over a “beautiful” woman called Katundu in a place called or close to Nsambya, near the location of Ikumbya Primary School, in Luuka County in present- day Luuka District.

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Blacks now most sought-after voters in Georgia as Trump, Harris duel in the battleground state

Blacks now most sought-after voters in Georgia as Trump, Harris duel in the battleground state

Before Biden dropped out, Trump’s campaign was so confident of victory in Georgia that it had spent less than $3 million on ad buys. Since Harris’ emergence, the campaign and an affiliated group responded by sinking more than $30 million into advertising in the state, outspending the Harris campaign through the month of August.

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Democrats target college football games to pummel Donald Trump and his conservative Project 2025

Democrats target college football games to pummel Donald Trump and his conservative Project 2025

A large portion of Saturday’s game crowds, meanwhile, may support Trump. Many college football fans hail from rural, more Republican areas, well beyond the confines of reliably Democratic college towns.

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Chwezi and witchcraft: Why Ugandans fear Museveni and Kagame are keen on Tutsi political hegemony in East Africa

Chwezi and witchcraft: Why Ugandans fear Museveni and Kagame are keen on Tutsi political hegemony in East Africa

Currently, encouraged by the fact that power in Uganda is dominated by people of Tutsi/Hima extraction, the Tutsi wield the real power in the country. Many are local council leaders at all levels of administration, resident district commissioners, institutional leaders and even represent Ugandans at local and parliamentary levels. Others sit on the bench of judges while many hold ministerial positions. Many are definitely holding big positions in the Uganda armed forces, including prisons. This means that the best paid people in Uganda tend to belong to the same ethnicity. It is more or less the same people fuelling corruption in the country.

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Trump struggles as Kamala Harris is endorsed by 90 company CEOs, 100 law enforcement officials

Trump struggles as Kamala Harris is endorsed by 90 company CEOs, 100 law enforcement officials

Laurene Powell Jobs, head of the Emerson Collective and widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, also endorsed Harris, as did the former chief executives of Merck, Aetna, GoDaddy, Blackstone and Starbucks, among others.

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Republican former VP Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris but Trump dismisses him as ‘irrelevant’

Republican former VP Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris but Trump dismisses him as ‘irrelevant’

Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, has also been a vocal critic of the current Republican presidential candidate, including over the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters.

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Jury is out: US democracy tested as Republicans who blamed Trump for January 6 failed coup line up behind him

Jury is out: US democracy tested as Republicans who blamed Trump for January 6 failed coup line up behind him

In Trump’s telling, the mob on January 6 assembled peacefully to preserve democracy, not upend it, and the rioters were agitated but not armed. They were not insurrectionists but rather 1776-style “patriots.” And now they are being persecuted by the Justice Department, juries and judges for their political beliefs.

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Haiti’s transitional government and international partners must commit to helping women, girls

Haiti’s transitional government and international partners must commit to helping women, girls

Discrimination against women and girls has always been a feature of Haitian society, including as a legacy of abuse towards Black women’s bodies born of colonialism and enslavement. Women and girls face added barriers to education, accessing funds and resources, and participating in the formal economy. They have been kept out of positions of authority and political leadership.

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Rebuilding ancient Chwezi Empire: Why Ugandan and Rwandan leaders stash loot in Israel, want bigger East African Community

Rebuilding ancient Chwezi Empire: Why Ugandan and Rwandan leaders stash loot in Israel, want bigger East African Community

“We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon.” “We,” meaning the Egyptians, as stated, came from the beginning of the Nile. Where is “the beginning of the Nile?” The farthest point of the beginning of the Nile is in Uganda; this is the White Nile. Another point is in Ethiopia. The Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Khartoum; and the other side of Khartoum is the Omdurman Republic of Sudan. From there it flows from the south down north. And there it meets with the Atbara River in Atbara, Sudan. Then it flows completely through Sudan (Ta-Nehisi, Ta-Zeti or Ta-Seti, as it was called), part of that ancient empire which was one time adjacent to the nation called Meroe or Merowe. From that, into the southern part of what the Romans called “Nubia,” and parallel on the Nile, part of which the Greeks called “Egypticus”; the English called it “Egypt” and the Jews in their mythology called it “Mizrain” which the current Arabs called Mizr/Mizrair. Thus it ends in the Sea of Sais, also called the Great Sea, today’s Mediterranean Sea. When we say thus, we want to make certain that Hapi is still God of the Nile, shown as a hermaphrodite having the breasts of a woman and the penis of a man. God Hapi is always shown tying two symbols of the “Two Lands,” Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, during Dynastic Periods, or from the beginning of the Dynastic Periods. The lotus flower is the symbol of the south, and the papyrus plant, the symbol of the north.

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