Think about us too: Over 500,00 people in Daadab Refugee Camp in Kenya petition US President Trump to rethink aid freeze
Siyad Tawane, another refugee at the same camp, regretted that several health facilities are on the verge of closure as a result of the USAID funding freeze.
Kenyan minister tells African conference ‘food independence and sovereignty’ is possible
The meeting preceded the 2021 UN Secretary-General-convened Food Systems Summit, which aimed at drawing attention to the urgent need to accelerate progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a food systems approach, and a follow-up of UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) held in 2023.
Dangerous patrimony: Why Uganda’s insecure president made daughter Natasha ‘presidential assistant in charge of household at State House’
This is what is called political patrimony. It is the fulcrum of patronage. Other relatives of the president in his government include: Bright Rwamirama – Minister for Animal Husbandry (his cousin); Shedrack Nzeire – senior presidential advisor on defence (his step-brother); Miriam Karugaba – administrator at State House (his sister-in-law); Sabiiti Muzeyi – former deputy inspector general of police (his cousin), James Kateera – Military Commander (Cousin of his wife); Faith Mirembe – private secretary in education and social services (his cousin); Sam Kutesa – former Minister for Foreign Affairs (father-in-law of Museveni’s son, Muhoozi); Allan Matsiko – Special Forces Command’s Intelligence Director (husband of Sam Kutesa daughter, the father-in-law of Muhoozi); Jim Muhwezi – Minister For National Security (cousin of Museveni’s wife, Janet)…
Echoes of 1969 rotten egg attack on Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta as leaders condemn ‘shoe-missile’ attack on incumbent
Speculation about the murder spread in Lake Victoria region like a wildfire, with allegations rife of assassination by the powers-that-be. The murder, according to the allegations, was intended to divert attention from a BBC documentary that places President Ruto’s government at the centre of the killing of 62 (police’s figure is 52) young Kenyans during last year’s anti-2024-25 Finance Bill protests by mainly the youths or Gen-Z or Generation Z.
Uganda’s environmental crisis turns searchlight on Museveni’s bankruptcy of ideas, resources and expertise
An inherent conflict exists between the policies underlying environmental and bankruptcy laws. Environmental laws, on the one hand, are designed to protect public health and safety by providing for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response to the release or disposal of hazardous substances. The goals of our bankruptcy laws, on the other hand, are to provide debtors with a fresh start by preserving their assets for equitable distribution
President accuses sugar millers, managers of conniving to keep Kenyan sugarcane famers in abject poverty
Cabinet secretaries for National Treasury John Mbadi and Energy Opiyo Wandayi were present at the event. Mbadi lauded the inclusion of key road projects in the current financial year’s budget, marking a historic first for the county. The cabinet secretary revealed that in the 2024/25 financial year, there will be construction of various roads in the county, terming it as the first time Migori is seeing this level of attention.
Citing national security, Trump orders 100 per cent tariff on foreign-made movies to resurrect US film industry on deathbed
Hollywood producers and labour unions have been urging Governor Gavin Newsom to boost the state’s tax incentives to better compete with other locations. Trump’s proposed movie tariff follows a series of trade conflicts initiated by his administration, which have roiled markets and led to fears of a US recession.
It’s not just the economy, Americans are dumping their homeland for Europe citing narrowing civil liberties
Government visa and citizenship data, as well as interviews with eight relocation firms, indicate an increased number of Americans are considering moving to Europe in the wake of Trump’s election – though the figures remain quite small for a nation of 340 million people.
Genocide: During Museveni’s 40-year reign over a million people were killed by Uganda military and rebels
We are aware that justice is becoming more and more captured the military and militarised as the judiciary is becoming more and more subject to the dictates of the executive. We are also increasingly aware of the disappearance of police in Uganda police with soldiers in command and in the rank and file of the police force and more and more subject to the dictates of the CDF. The Citizens cannot easily distinguish between the soldiers and policemen/women when human rights Violations are carried out by men and women in uniform.
Fleeced? Despite state assurance on expatriate jobs Kenyan public scepticism remains
The cabinet secretary disclosed that, since a major recruitment drive in October last year, the ministry has processed close to 1,000 job offers from a pool of 3,000 qualified candidates, an achievement made possible through strategic bilateral agreements with various foreign governments.
