Unanswered questions after Tanzanian President Suluhu’s handpicked commission finds 518 people died in last year’s violence
The commission chairman Mohamed Chande Othman said the number of deaths was likely to be higher, because some families buried their loved ones without taking their bodies to morgues
Senator Osotsi attack is rehearsal of assassination script borrowed from Tanzania and Uganda by Ruto administration
Senator Osotsi’s tragedy represents a step up in the ranking of targets by the Ruto-commanded terror gangs. Check! First, it was a “mere” mechanic shot dead in Kitengela in Kajiado County. Now it is a senator beaten to pulp like a dog.
Suspect identified as Ryan Routh sentenced to life for attempting to assassinate Trump in Florida
US District Judge Aileen Cannon handed down the sentence in a Florida courtroom, plus a mandatory additional seven years for a firearm offence for Ryan Routh.
Uganda’s popular opposition leader Bobi Wine abducted in pre-dawn military raid, his whereabouts unknown
As of Friday evening, Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, held a commanding lead with nearly 74 per cent of the vote, the electoral commission said. Wine trailed with 23 per cent.
I risk assassination if I declare an opposition candidate winner of presidential poll, anxious Uganda elections chief says
Simon Byabakama, chairperson of the Electoral Commission, said he had been warned by senior government figures not to declare certain candidates winners, although he did not name those involved. He was reacting to a video circulating widely online in which a presidential aide suggested the commission would never announce opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, as president even if he won the election.
Kenyan civil societies want independent probe by ICC of election atrocities in Tanzania
Scores went missing, prompting fears that they may have been killed by the political bodies dumped in mass graves as may be the case with hundreds – civil society allege thousands – with Tanzanians suspected to have been buried in unidentified graves.
From quasi-socialist and communist, Uganda’s Museveni morphed into ‘I, me and myself’ Eating Chief before ‘Kyagulanyi Idea’ arrived
For President Tibuhaburwa Museveni himself Uganda begins in 1986 when he captured the instruments of power through the barrel of the gun. Indeed, he has endeavoured to rewrite the history of Uganda in which past leaders, whom he once referred to as swine, are excluded as if they never existed or contributed to the social, economic or political changes in the country – positive or negative.
What to know about Tanzania president’s ‘white collar hit squad’ after bloody chaos
President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took office in 2021 after the death of her predecessor, took more than 97 per cent of the vote, according to an official tally. Her main rivals, Tundu Lissu of Chadema and Luhaga Mpina of ACT-Wazalendo, were barred from running.
Citing police and military sources, widely read newspaper says abducted Tanzanian former envoy Humphrey Polepole was assassinated
Scores of high profile personalities and frustrated youth that have been exerting pressure on governments in eastern Africa to institute economic, political and democratic reforms have become targets of abduction and disappearances as governments in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda resort to repressive tactics to hold onto power.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination: From Gerald Ford, who survived two assassination attempts, US gun violence hits Republican-run states the most
These bloody episodes underscore a grim irony: The very politicians and pundits who promulgate expansive gun rights and tough-on-crime rhetoric have repeatedly found themselves on the receiving end of bullets.
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