Retracing how Banyarwanda arrived in Uganda as refugees, turned it into their ‘colony’ with Museveni as president
The exodus of Banyarwanda continued through the 1930s and 1940s but this time as economic immigrants. They were coming in search of economic survival by way of casual labour and settled in Buganda, Ankole, Busoga, Kigezi, Tooro and Bunyoro. They worked on fields of agriculture, construction, local government, industries, ginning, cattle herding, forestry, fishing, Kilembe Copper Mines, sugar and cotton plantations in Busoga, etc.
Togo’s opposition calls for protests to stop president from signing off on a new constitution
The new constitution also increases presidential terms from five to six years. The almost 20-years that Gnassingbe has served in office, after taking over from his father, would not count toward that tally.
The opposition and the clergy say the legislation is an effort by Gnassingbe to prolong his rule. Some have promised to stop it from becoming law by calling on the people to rise up and protest.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels expand territory under their control as UN warns security in eastern DRC is worsening
Last month, the United States told Rwanda and Congo that they “must walk back from the brink of war,” the sharpest warning yet of a looming conflict.
Results: Opposition figure who became Senegal’s president-elect won over 54 per cent of the vote
President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s release from prison followed a political amnesty granted just in time for the balloting. He was little known until popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who was barred from running due to a prior conviction, chose Faye to run in his place.
Confusion over the new stock symbol leads to fleeting windfall Trump’s media company ticker
Several people complained on social media about briefly seeing the value of their DJT stock holdings on Charles Schwab platforms inflated to figures more in line with what they would be worth if the shares traded at the level of the Dow Jones Transportation Average.
White-led South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance party ready for a coalition with ANC
The DA has banded together with smaller parties to try to capture the more than 50 per cent of the vote needed to take power. They include the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party, long a bitter rival of the ANC, as well as Freedom Front Plus, which appeals to rural white South Africans who feel politically marginalised since the fall of apartheid, and Action SA, which has built a platform on a tough anti-immigration stance and appeals to working- and middle-class voters.
Musevenism: It’s time Ugandans asked themselves how and why they hawk their sovereignty for beautiful Rwandese women
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni is highly gifted in the art and science of deception. Although this is a requirement if one wants to be a successful politician, the president excels in its deliberate use to subdue detection that he deliberately uses untruth to rule. Nobody or institution has not tasted his deceptions or untruths.
Trump handed gag order in New York hush money criminal case but his team terms directive illegal
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she claimed to have had with Trump a decade earlier.
South Africa’s ANC fails to move court to ban ex-President Zuma’s party Umkhonto Wesizwe
South Africa’s May 29 elections are expected to be highly contested with the ANC, once led by anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, under pressure to remain in power following declining support in successive elections as the country faces stagnant economic growth, high levels of poverty among its Black majority, and an unemployment rate of over 32 per cent.
Democracy test: Senegal election offers respite in coup-prone West Africa, eyes now on South Africa
Recent votes in Nigeria, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo saw losing candidates reject the results. The next major test for democracy on the continent will be the parliamentary vote in South Africa on May 29, where the ANC is expected to lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
