Court issues arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon over martial law
The court issued the warrant due to the likelihood that Yoon will not respond to summons without a justifiable reason, and there being a substantial reason to suspect Yoon of a crime, Yonhap said. The court declined to comment.
Leaked Trump’s tax returns: Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn at risk of revenge as Biden’s in office winds down
With Biden winding down his time in office, Littlejohn’s advocates, including tax code reformers from the groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires, are worried for the incarcerated IRS consultant. They’re calling on Biden to commute Littlejohn’s sentence before it is too late and he is forced to spend Trump’s second term in prison at risk of retribution.
Role of Russian billionaires that finance chemical factories that fuel Russia’s war machine laid bare
Peter Harrell, a former senior White House official who worked on Russia sanctions during the war’s first year and is now a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said perhaps it’s time to review those 2022 decisions now that nations that once relied on Ukraine and Russia for wheat and fertilizer have had time to find alternative sources.
Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies
Anthropomorphic (i.e. the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal or object) positions about material cultures, offering relational theories (such as the new animism and the new materialism) that allow indigenous religious materialities to reveal new understandings about the ontological and other potentialities of so-called “things”.
He may have lacked political shrewdness but fallen former US president Jimmy Carter won hearts of many as a humanitarian
Jimmy Carter lived longer than any US president and, after leaving the White House, earned a reputation as a committed humanitarian. He was widely seen as a better former president than he was a president – a status he readily acknowledged.
Uganda gears up for unveiling of AU’s 10-year strategic plan to up food production
The summit according to the commissioner which is organised by the African Union and the republic of Uganda will commence in three weeks is a huge milestone as it will see the union’s heads of state and government consider and adopt the (2026-2035) CAADP strategic plan
Election violence erupts in Mozambique after election court ruling, at least 21 killed
Footage circulating on various social media platforms showed protesters burning and looting shops in the capital Maputo and the city of Beira, where some city officials were reported to have fled the city.
Why critical thinking and alternative analysis pursued by Ugandan academics are key to questioning existing orthodoxies in East Africa
At the end 2017 the staff of the CSGMC delivered a critical paper on Transboundary Water Governance for Inclusive Development and Environmental Sustainability in the Nile Basin at the first Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) Summit. The summit, organised by the NBD, was held Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda on November 29-30, 2017.
Religion in Uganda: When indigenous African God died, Ugandans hurriedly installed White and Arab Gods who they can’t access
Indigenous African spiritual beliefs are not bound by a written text, like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Indigenous African religion is primarily an oral tradition and has never been fully codified; thus, it allows itself to more easily be amended and influenced by other religious ideas, religious wisdom, and by modern development.
Spiritual colonialism, neocolonialism, conquests: How globalisation turned Ugandans into marionettes and they embraced it gleefully
In Uganda these different colonialisms have been revamped under NRM rule, thereby reversing the independence and development of the country and enhancing the country’s entrenchment in the global debt trap, with the ruling now unable to tick without borrowing from the local and global money markets or attaching the country wealth and natural assets to the creditor countries.
