Wrinkles of Struggle: How Uganda’s perennial president has spent 20 years persecuting never-say-die ally-turned-foe Kizza Besigye
Kizza Besigye’s path was once intertwined with Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s after joining the National Resistance Army (NRA) in the 1980s, ostensibly to fight against dictatorship. But disillusionment soon followed.
Controversial Religious Organisations Bill draws resentment in coastal Kenya as clergy read malice
The government introduced the Bill following recommendations from a Presidential Taskforce on Religious Organisations that was formed after the Shakahola tragedy in which hundreds of people died in a cult led by controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie.
People’s president Bobi Wine’s ‘War for Freedom’ slogan rattles President Museveni’s as enthusiastic voters ‘sing redemptions songs’
National Resistance Movement and National Resistance Army (NRM/NRA) rebellion, often sold as a liberation for Uganda, has left many questioning its promises, fuelling a belief that the country’s journey remains unfinished.
Kenyan police mission to tackle gangs was undermined by lack of international support – Haitians tell of exhaustion and hopelessness
The first foreign boots since the UN approved a Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to tackle Haiti’s worsening security crisis have hit the ground but there’s little confidence among Haitians that it will be anything but yet another pointless foreign intervention. A batch of 230 Kenyan police officers landed in the...
Away from Al Shabaab attacks and contraband sugar and narcotics, Garissa is emerging as Kenya’s ‘capital’ of smuggled fuel from Somalia
Garissa has also become a corridor for hard drugs trafficking such as bhang, ingredients used in shisha, cocaine and heroin are also peddled in large quantities into Kenya from Somalia through the same corridors, which link the Kenyan town to the Somali capital Mogadishu, Kismayo Port and other towns along the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia.
Tension over disputed election forces Tanzania President Samia Suluhu to shelve Independence Day celebrations fearing protests
Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba on Monday asked all nonessential workers to stay home on Tuesday. The annual Independence Day celebrations were cancelled in November and the government said funds that would have been used for the celebrations would be used to repair damaged infrastructure.
State launches National Legal Aid Centre to provide legal services to poor Kenyans
The centre, commissioned under the National Legal Aid Service (NLAS) programme, is part of a wider national roll-out designed to operationalise the Legal Aid Act, 2016, and to ensure that no Kenyan is denied justice due to poverty, limited information or geographical barriers.
US to restrict visas for Nigerians and their families implicated in violence against Christians
The attacks on the community are part of a longstanding and extremely complex security crisis in Nigeria – a nation recently singled out by US President Donald Trump for “the killing of Christians” by “radical Islamists.”
Uganda’s ritualistic coronation and Gun Power: How soldiers elect Museveni and Electoral Commission endorses decision
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s personalist party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), has served since 1986 more to stupefy Ugandans into believing that they are participating in the politics of the country, yet its role has emerged to be legitimising presidential power at the expense of genuine power.
Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
