Once a juggernaut in India’s politics under Nehru and Gandhis, Congress party now trails Modi’s BJP
The BJP’s critics, who say that Modi’s government discriminates against religious minorities such as Muslims and has weaponised law enforcement agencies against political opponents, fear a third term would be corrosive to democracy in the world’s most populous nation.
Ethiopia’s rights body calls for investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure
Daniel Bekele, head of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, called for “a prompt, impartial and full investigation by both the Oromia regional and Ethiopian federal authorities to hold perpetrators to account.”
Opinion poll predicts hush money charges will harm Republican’s Trump push for White House
New York prosecutors charge that Trump covered up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn-star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in exchange for her silence before the 2016 presidential election about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump a decade earlier. Trump denies that the encounter took place and has pleaded not guilty.
South African court greenlights Zuma to vie for presidency on Umkhonto Wesizwe Party
The Independent Electoral Commission had earlier ruled that Zuma could not run for office due to his criminal record, after it received an objection against his candidacy. South Africa’s constitution does not allow people who have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to more than 12 months in prison without the option of a fine to stand for elections as lawmakers.
In Uganda, we were militarily conquered, occupied, controlled and now dominated by guerrillas who claim to have liberated us
Perennial military slogans, songs and celebrations yearn in year out and perennial lie that we experienced liberation are also perennially concealing the truism that we are under conquest, occupation, domination and rule by people who came from elsewhere and captured our instruments of power.
Kagame blames the world’s inaction as Rwanda marks 1994 genocide with lingering scars
The killings were ignited when a plane carrying then-President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down over Kigali. The Tutsis were blamed for downing the plane and killing the president. And became targets in massacres led by Hutu extremists that lasted over 100 days. Some moderate Hutus who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority were also killed.
Ethiopia, Turkey ties stretched over Somalia maritime deals that threaten to shift dynamics
Turkey and its predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, have had a long history of interactions in the Horn of Africa, going back to the 16th century. But formal diplomatic ties between Ethiopia’s Emperor Menelik II and the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Abdul Hamid II were not initiated until 1896. At the time, the Ethiopians had just defeated the Italians at the Battle of Adwa.
30 years after genocide Rwanda discovers new mass graves, widening cracks in ethnic healing
In the months since, Rwandan authorities say the remains of at least 1,000 people have been found in this farming community in the district of Huye, a surprisingly high number after three decades of government efforts to give genocide victims dignified burials.
South Africa’s ruling ANC party and parliamentary speaker faces arrest over $135,000 bribe
According to prosecutors, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula received 11 payments totalling $135,000 between December 2016 and July 2019. She sought another bribe of $105,000 but that wasn’t paid, prosecutors said. Opposition lawmakers have called for her to step down from her position as speaker over the allegations.
The spill of Africa: Uganda’s academic knowledge workers cut image of leftovers who can’t qualify to be mind liberators
In Uganda, the single most threat to the belonging of species, including Man, Homo sapiens, is Man – particularly the political, entrepreneurial, corporate and nomadic-pastoral Man. Most of the blame goes to our education system, which continues to produce selfish and individualistic graduates, who in the total society manifest as the greedy, the selfish and the individualistic. When they should be building communities, society and country as “wholes” they build themselves, their families, kith and kin and ethnic groups.
