While environmental ignorance is worst form of ignorance it is is now pursued in East Africa as if it is a virtue and of value
Because environment is almost universally seen in physical terms only all our laws and policies for conservation and management of the environment have been skewed towards physical considerations only, which is wrong, immoral and unethical.
Uganda presidential election: Museveni gunning for five decades – not five years – in power to fight official corruption he’s part of
The opposition says hundreds of their supporters disappeared or were killed during the last presidential election in 2021 when musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine presented the biggest threat yet to Museveni’s reign.
Kenya’s plan for 60,000-megawatt nuclear plant in western Kenya on course as it eyes EAC electricity market
Siaya, which is in Lake Victoria Basin, has been identified for the project because of its proximity to the lake. The site of the plant is also strategic as Kenya will export the surplus power to Uganda and other East Africa Community (EAC) countries to the west.
Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda
Since 2009 I have committed time and energy to develop the collective public ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset of Uganda, East Africa, the Nile Basin, the Great Lakes Region, Africa and the world.
Dust has hardly settled as Trump warns he’d consider bombing Iran again, drops sanctions relief plan
Trump also said that in recent days he had been working on the possible removal of sanctions on Iran to give it a chance for a speedy recovery. He said he had now abandoned that effort.
Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump
After serving in the Marines and graduating from Yale Law School, Vance bounced around from a stint on Capitol Hill in Texas senator John Cornyn’s office to a federal clerkship in Kentucky to a brief stint in corporate law before cutting his teeth in the VC field at Mithril Capital, a firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.
‘We’re getting for US a lot of mineral rights from the Congo’, Trump makes American interests clear in DRC, Rwanda peace deal
Rwanda has sent at least 7,000 soldiers over the border, according to analysts and diplomats, in support of the M23 rebels, who seized eastern Congo’s two largest cities and lucrative mining areas in a lightning advance earlier this year.
Why Kenya police brutality is a colonial relic: Time and time, whenever a native was released by an Indian policeman, they’d always say, ‘Oh, I gave him something’
Kenya’s National Police Service is the direct descendant of the colonial police force, created not to serve or protect the population but to control and exploit it. From inception, the police has been the sharp edge of an extractive and violent state.
Museveni’s recognition of Banyarwanda refugees as an indigenous group is a potential cultural, political powder keg
One roadblock to resolution of the myriads of questions, crises or disputes in our environment is that there is no national consensus that they exist. What is happening is to postpone to the future. The constitutional recognition of Banyarwanda by the Uganda Constitution 1995 as one of the indigenous groups of Uganda is not only despising Ugandan indigenous groups but also a recipe for future conflicts, chaos and violence in our environment.
Kenya drafts law to shield senior citizens against economic and social vulnerabilities, keep them active in economy
Article 6 also obligates the state to ensure prompt payment of pension and other forms of social security for older persons to enable them to lead comfortable and dignified lives in their sunset years.
