As the one week shaky ceasefire seems to hold on in Juba, South Sudan, African leaders sitting at an AU summit in Kigali on Sunday agreed to re-enforce the UN-Mission with a regional force under IGAD if they are to save lives and pacify Juba. IGAD called on the UN Security Council to give it […]
The highly anticipated elections of a new chairperson to head the AU Commission has hit a snug after none of the aspiring candidates contesting for the position garnered the required majority votes in the initial stages of voting that took place in the Rwanda capital Kigali, Monday 18 July,2016. Uganda’s Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe who […]
The odd saying that one Kenyan can do a job worthy six Ugandans is about to change if we are to go by a new World Bank report on productivity in a work place. According to the The East African newspaper,the World Bank report indicates that Kenyan workers are less productive than their counterparts in […]
The member of parliament for Kakuto county Rakai district Christopher Kalemba has called on the Ugandan representatives at East African legislative Assembly to intervene into the conflict between Ugandans and Tanzanians at Mutukula boarder on Lake Victoria. He revealed that many people in his area have lost their cows andmotorcycles at Mutukula broader to thugs who cross […]
On 17 June 2016, Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations, deposited at the United Nations in New York the Iceland`s Instrument of Ratification of the Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), adopted in Kampala in 2010. Iceland thereby accepted to bind its nationals and territory […]
Members of parliament have called upon the leadership of Uganda and members of the East African states to task South Sudan leadership to prevail over its citizens to stop killing and torturing Ugandans in Sudan. Thiw was while speaking during a training induction by the institute of parliamentary studies which was chaired by MPs from East Africa Legislative Assembly […]
MTN has noted that it has faced losses in their South Sudan unit. The South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in 17 African countries had its officials in the East African country note that “We have made losses since we started operating in 2011” – This was a statement by MTN Sudan‘s head of […]
An Eritrean Mered Medhanie 35, known as “The General” who was believed to have been the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants was held in Sudan in May and was flown to Rome on Tuesday June 2016. Britain’s National Crime Agency says he is thought to have arranged the transit of a boat that […]
2 June 2016 The Ethiopian Government must end its escalating crackdown on human rights defenders, independent media, peaceful protestors as well as members and leaders of the political opposition through the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (ATP) says a group of civil society organisations (CSOs). “The government’s repression of independent voices has significantly worsened as the Oromo protest […]
The Republic of Rwanda has been ranked as the most prosperous in the East African region. Legatum Institute yesterday June 1st 2016 launched their 2016 Africa prosperity Report. An international think tank and educational charity focused on promoting prosperity, the institute researches core themes of revitalising capitalism and democracy. The report released considered eight economic and […]