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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Kenya Kimenyes book that mocks certain societal behaviour
Barbara Kimenye also addresses this trap of glamour and easy riches that often mesmerise the youth. While she is best known for her Moses series, Kimenye has two young adults book Pretty Boy Beware and Beauty Queen. Incidentally, both are Kimenye's last books, first published in 1997 by EAEP (and reprinted 2010). Pretty Boy Beware revolves around Mathew -- the pretty boy. The slum in which ...
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Kenya Family demands return of terror suspect detained in Uganda
NAIROBI, KENYA : Watching news clips of the shooting of terror suspect Felix Nyangaga Otuko and his expectant wife earlier this week, Ms Zainab Suleiman had every reason to be ...
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Kenya Anti-graft agency says Kimemia not fit for public office
EACC ) has written to the parliamentary vetting committee, informing the members that Kimemia is under investigation allegedly over questionable activities that could disqualify him from serving in any public or State office. Eight other individuals out of the 66 who have been shortlisted for the position of Principal Secretary are also under investigation by the anti-corruption agency. ...
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Kenya Lawyers to hold forum to discuss petition ruling
Chairman Erick Mutua says they will critique the judgment and give their official position on it. Mutua urged the Judiciary to welcome positive criticism saying: "Critiquing an office does not mean you don't respect it." He urged the top court to take responsibility for errors made on its judgment to enhance confidence in the institution. He, however, did not state when the forum ...
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Kenya Man in court for attempting to poison son
Shadrack Kiptoo Kaptugen was accused of attempted murder. The court heard that Kaptugen had been left with the one and half year old child at their home on March 5 when he allegedly poisoned him before neighbours learnt of the incident and rescued the kid. Fellow playmates raised the alarm and alerted adults at the village who went to the boy's ...
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Kenya AG differs with ICC Prosecution over court co-operation
Githu Muigai has differed with the Prosecution at The Hague over co-operation with the court even as the Government moved through the African Union to terminate the two Kenyan ...
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Kenya A mixed bag for pan Africa Union as leaders mark anniversary
NAIROBI, KENYA: African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa this weekend to mark the climax of weeklong celebrations of the 50th year since the founding of ...
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Kenya Uhuru roots for youth empowerment in Africa
Noting that the youth form 70 per cent of the population, the President said there is need to mainstream the youth in all crucial sectors. He spoke on Friday ...
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Kenya Im not involved in Bungoma killings says Wetangula
While commenting on the current wave of insecurity, Wetangula made it clear that he is not in any way linked to the killings terming the allegations as 'rumours, reckless and baseless'. He said security personnel should work towards restoring peace if the killings were to be stopped. "If I was linked to the killings and general insecurity ...
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Kenya More suspects nabbed over fresh attacks in Garissa town
NAIROBI, KENYA: Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyio has said many arrests have been made following renewed attacks that saw two civilians killed ...
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Opinion Museveni is taking East Africa back to the dark days of slavery
Yoweri Museveni 's administration has been on the spotlight over its threats to journalists and media houses over his succession contest. It is within the right of any Ugandan to question the future of Uganda and this should not warrant a crackdown on the media. How can police ransack, disable equipment and threaten staff over alleged forgery of a mere signature? It is time for Uganda to ...
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Rights group up in arms as Botswana plans to evict Bushmen
Indigenous rights group Survival International said on Friday that the indigenous community based in the south of the country, will be removed on Monday and their homes will be destroyed. "The Bushman community at Ranyane has allegedly been told by the local government that trucks will arrive on Monday to remove them from the land they have inhabited for generations," said a ...
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Uganda - Ugandan police defy court order occupy publication premises
premises) was operationalized after the police obtained two search warrants from the Nakawa Magistrates Court and a letter from the Uganda Communications Commission, ordering the stations to cease operations pending the police search.The Nakawa Grade One Magistrate, Rosemary Bareebe, in issuing the Wednesday evening's vacation order, wrote that "in the process of execution of the said ...
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North African jihadists widen their war
The jihadist alliance in North Africa has widened its war with attacks in Niger demonstrating the militants are able to causing mayhem across the ...
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Patients drugged confined at Kenyas only mental hospital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients.Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section ...
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Kenya Commission outlines Coast marginalisation issues
Land issues, war on terror, poor education levels and lack of infrastructure have fuelled feelings that successive governments ignored the region. "One of the critical issues, described by some as a 'ticking bomb' is the seemingly intractable land question. More recently, other factors including perceived mistreatment of residents at the hands of police in the context of ...
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Continuing push for Great Lakes peace UN chief in Uganda after visit to Rwanda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today thanked the Government of Uganda for its contribution to peace and security in Africa, travelling alongside World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on a first-of-its-kind visit to support a recent peace accord and promote economic development in the Great Lakes region. Earlier in the day, Mr. Ban spoke at ...
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Kenya KWS entangled in insurance anomalies that may cost taxpayers Sh40m
KWS ) may now terminate an insurance cover with CIC Insurance Company after an internal audit committee established anomalies that may have cost taxpayers Sh40 million over irregular insurance ...
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Kenya TJRC demands justice for Taveta residents
TJRC has recommended proceedings against a former PC and local District Officers in charge of the area at that time. This former PC, allegedly, presided over or ordered the mass arrest of these people, their illegal detention and confiscation of their property while a junior officer in charge of Bomeni Division. According to ...
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Chinese TV series find a new voice in Africa
When Mao Doudou and Her Sweet Days, a 36-episode light comedy about a modern Chinese couple and their relationship with each other's families, was dubbed in Swahili and broadcast in East African countries in 2011, Omar Ahmed, like many, became a big ...
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Uganda Activists arrested as disturbing crackdown on media continues
The Ugandan authorities must end an attack on freedom of expression that has left several media outlets shut by security forces for a fifth day, Amnesty International said today after several activists were arrested for protesting against the crackdown.Armed police closed two newspapers and two radio stations on 20 May, after they reported on an alleged government plot to assassinate politicians ...
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African Union Reject Kenya’s attempt to shield its leaders from accountability
The African Union must reject Kenya's attempts to shield its leaders from being held to account for the human rights violations that took place in Kenya in ...
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Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits
Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...
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Statoil Completes Tanzania Farm-In
Statoil ASA reported Friday that it has acquired a 12-percent working interest in the Block 6 license, offshore Tanzania, from operator Petrobras Tanzania. Block 6 covers 2,130 square miles in the Mafia basin, offshore Tanzania. It is located approximately 105 miles north of Statoil's Block 2, where the company made three high-impact gas discoveries in 2012 and earlier this year. After ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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