UN voices concern over rising post-election hate speech, ethnic tension and calls to arms in DRC
Election-related tensions are common in the DRC, which has a history of authoritarian rule and violent government overthrow. Some 250 different ethnic groups live in the vast country. It sits on considerable mineral wealth but little trickles down the population of around 100 million.
Republicans cast as flip-floppers on Trump sedition as they back him to be president
Trump’s persistent false claims that the election of 2020 was stolen — which has been rejected in at least 60 court cases, every state election certification and by the former president’s one-time attorney general — continue to animate the presidential race as he eyes a rematch with Biden.
US Supreme Court takes up cases on whether Trump is eligible for 2024 presidential ballots
Three of the nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Trump, although they have repeatedly ruled against him in 2020 election-related lawsuits, as well as his efforts to keep documents related to January 6 and his tax returns from being turned over to congressional committees.
Tried and failed: Trump’s vows to deport millions are undercut by his White House record
Experts have highlighted it was no coincidence the deportation drive happened as farmers were looking for guest workers under the Bracero program that began in the 1940s, aimed at allowing Mexican farmworkers to enter the country and work in the US legally. The programme excluded women and children, driving some families to enter the country illegally to remain together.
Democratic Party strategists: Trump could very well defeat Biden even if the former president is in prison
Perhaps because of such apathy, some voters simply don’t believe Biden and Trump will end up on the general election ballot, despite strong evidence to the contrary. That’s an idea that conservative strategist Sarah Longwell, who founded the Republican Accountability Project, says she hears regularly during weekly focus groups with voters across the political spectrum.
Pariah economy: Museveni’s ‘life presidency’ turned Uganda into a basket case on life-support
Cultural erosion through schemes such Operation Wealth Creation, Myooga and Parish Development Model, which emphasise the individual and money rather than community integrity, cohesion, unity and resilience, which were subserved by culture.
South Korean opposition leader Jae-myung stabbed in the neck by knife-wielding attacker
President Yoon Suk Yeol expressed deep concern about Lee’s health and ordered authorities to investigate the attack, saying such violence would not be tolerated, according to Yoon’s office.
Why there’s need for Uganda to accept centrality of environment in economic growth, governance
There is need to rethink Uganda and its development, leadership and governance and recognise the centrality of environment and environmental literacy to any meaningful change, transformation and progress in the 21st century. A word to the wise is enough.
Initially ‘tribe’ was used to classify wildlife, then British applied it to denigrate Ugandans and Museveni seized it as a tyranny toolkit
The colonialists, therefore, introduced centralised governance, not to benefit Ugandans as such, but themselves. When they introduced domestic economic production of sugarcane, coffee and cotton, and integrated it in the global markets and a domestic education system, which later got integrated in the global education and communications system, it was not in the interest of the peoples they colonised.
American democracy has been tested since 2022 election, now voters say it’s ‘up to us to make it resilient’
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni has tried to repeat this feat especially in Buganda, thereby generating conflict in the kingdom. He encouraged installation of hitherto non-existent “kings” to weaken Buganda. The Kayunga Crisis of 2009 in which some people died is said to have arisen from the NRM government’s support for the Banyala to break away from the Kingdom of Buganda as late as October 2022.
