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11 December 2011
By Farouk Chothia | BBC Africa ~ With the African Union (AU) having been a fierce critic of outgoing International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, it will be hoping for a better relationship with his successor, Fatou Bensouda – the first African to hold a top post at the ICC. The AU lobbied intensely [...]
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06 November 2011
Washington Post ~ PARIS — Once among the world’s most feared masterminds of terror, the man known as Carlos the Jackal is now a graying convict who has been behind bars for 17 years. On Monday, he goes on trial for four deadly attacks that occurred nearly three decades ago, and the verdict could determine [...]
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30 October 2011
(CNN) – A South Sudan rebel group warned the United Nations and residents to leave a remote border state within three days or risk coming under fire as it launches an attack on the local government. The South Sudan Liberation Army said Saturday it was headed to Warrap state after an earlier attack on Mayom town [...]
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28 October 2011
By Associated Press, Washington Post ~ NAIROBI, Kenya — While putting few U.S. troops at risk, the United States is playing a growing role in Africa’s military battles, using special forces advisers, drones and tens of millions of dollars in military aid to combat a growing and multifaceted security threat. Once again, the focus is [...]
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25 October 2011
By MICHELE KELEMEN ~ Human rights groups don’t usually cheer military forays. But they have offered loud applause for the Obama administration’s decision to send 100 military advisers to several countries in Africa to help those nations fight one of the continent’s most notorious rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance Army, or [...]
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25 October 2011
By Alexis Okeowo | The New Yorker ~ When President Obama announced his plan a week and a half ago tosend a hundred United States troops to central Africa to aid in the search for Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, the American public was, predictably, a little confused, and Rush Limbaugh was, predictably, a little off his rocker. “Uganda” soon became a trending topic on Twitter, [...]
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25 October 2011
By Jim Mannion ~ US special forces will be deployed with front-line units as advisors to central African militaries hunting down the leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, a senior US official said Tuesday. Alexander Vershbow, a top Pentagon official, assured lawmakers that the deployment would likely last no more than “months” and was limited to aiding regional [...]
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24 October 2011
By JOSH KRON, NAIROBI, Kenya — While Libya’s former rebels and many Western nations welcomed the end of the country’s long and brutal dictatorship, many sub-Saharan Africans are mourning the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, celebrated as much for his largesse as for his willingness to stand up to the West. To them, his violent death [...]
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24 October 2011
By Paul Cruickshank, CNN Terrorism Analyst ~ The mysterious visitor stands in a patch of scrubland in Somalia, surrounded by Islamic militants wielding AK-47s. His face is covered by a white-and-red headscarf; he is slim and seems young. But there is something puzzling about him: His skin is fair, and when he speaks in an [...]
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24 October 2011
By Jack Maddox, (CNN) – Twelve people were injured when someone either placed or threw a grenade into a Nairobi night club early Monday morning, Kenyan police said. Police have not linked the attack to any particular group, but it comes a day after the U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned it had credible information of an [...]
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20 October 2011
By SUSANNA KIM | ABC News ~ Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s war chest might have been large enough at one point to support fighting against rebel forces, but how much Libya’s Transitional National Council can extract after Gadhafi’s reported death remains to be seen. Gadhafi and his family had an estimated $33 billion and $60 billion in unaccounted money around the [...]
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20 October 2011
By JOEL SIEGEL | ABC News ~ He was one of the world’s most ruthless heads of state. He also was one of the most outlandish. Rarely has the leader of such a small nation played such a large role on the international stage. Moammar Gadhafi, who had weathered assassination attempts, U.S. air strikes, and years [...]
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20 October 2011
By Mahmood Mamdani ~ Al Jazeera ~ ”Kampala ‘mute’ as Gaddafi falls,” is how the opposition paper summed up the mood of this capital the morning after.Whether they mourn or celebrate, an unmistakable sense of trauma marks the African response to the fall of Gaddafi. Both in the longevity of his rule and in his style [...]
16 October 2011
By David McKenzie, Nairobi (CNN) – Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday. The move marks a dramatic shift in security tactics for the east African powerhouse, which is evoking the United Nations charter allowing military action in self-defense against its largely [...]
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16 October 2011
By Ashley Killough, Washington (CNN) – Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Sunday questioned the president’s recent order to send American troops to central Africa, saying the move could put the United States on a slippery slope. “I worry about, with the best of intentions, that we somehow get engaged in a commitment that we can’t [...]
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14 October 2011
Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord’s Resistance Army in and around Uganda. “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working [...]
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10 October 2011
By Joseph Ngugi in London, DAILY NATION ~ African countries which persecute gays will have their aid cut, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said. Mr Michael was quoted by the Britain’s Mail on Sunday saying that already his country has cut aid to Malawi by £19million after two gay men were sentenced to 14 [...]
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08 October 2011
By Rosie Goldsmith, BBC ~ The young nation of South Sudan has chosen English as its official language but after decades of civil war, the widespread learning of English presents a big challenge for a country brought up speaking a form of Arabic. I knew there might be problems as soon as I arrived at [...]
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05 October 2011
AFP ~ Accused war criminal Joseph Kony, the fugitive head of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, has likely taken refuge in Central Africa, the head of US Africa Command said Tuesday. “My best estimate at present is that Kony and the senior leaders are probably in the Central African Republic,” General Carter Ham said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International [...]
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05 October 2011
BBC ~ A Ugandan court is to charge three ministers with corruption in relation to the 2007 Commonwealth summit. The announcement came after angry complaints about selective justice when ex-Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya was taken into custody this week to await trial over the scandal. A parliamentary committee had recommended the prosecution of all four men [...]
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04 October 2011
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia’s capital as students and parents crowded around to learn about scholarships, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, officials said. It was the deadliest bomb attack in Somalia by al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked group that began its insurgency five [...]
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20 September 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police say they’ve arrested a man whose wife says wrote a book criticizing the longtime president and the ruling party. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Tuesday that police arrested Vincent Nzaramba on Saturday. She did not say why he was arrested or what he will be charged with but says [...]
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27 August 2011
LA Times ~ The African Union refused to recognize Libya’s oppositional National Transitional Council on Friday. The group’s Peace and Security Council called instead for the creation of an authority before the next elections that would include all of the country’s warring parties, according to Al Arabiya. Officials called an emergency meeting of the 15-member [...]
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25 August 2011
By JOSH KRON, NYT, KAMPALA, Uganda — A satellite imagery project monitoring parts of Sudan says it has found new evidence of mass graves in the troubled Nuba Mountains region, where the government has recently waged a fierce campaign to stamp out rebels. In a report scheduled to be published Wednesday, the Satellite Sentinel Project contends that as many [...]
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24 August 2011
By Teviah Moro, THE PACKET & TIMES | AGAGO ~ The boys are too young to have been forced to fight for the insurgency that terrorized northern Uganda for two decades, but the war is very much on their mind. They meet once a week with their teacher at Pacer Primary School to talk about [...]
23 August 2011
An Opinion and Reflection Piece ~ It was’t too long ago that we were cracking up at the impersonation of the Ghadafi’s Female Body guards and the old man himself in this comedy video clip by the well known Ugandan Comedian, Herbert Mendo Ssegujja. The video is filled with rib racking antics often associated with [...]
23 August 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda — The death toll from a cattle raid in an estranged region of weeks-old South Sudan rose significantly Monday with the United Nations saying more than 600 people had been killed in what was a retaliatory attack that has raised fears of ethnic instability in the deeply impoverished country. In a statement, the [...]
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18 August 2011
By Chris Rovzar, New York Magazine ~ Peter Waldron has been a Republican operative since the eighties, according to the Atlantic — and a lot’s happened in that period of time. In February of 2006, he was arrested for possession of assault rifles in Uganda and thrown in a prison outside of Kampala for over [...]
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18 August 2011
KAMPALA (Dow Jones) ~ The presidents of Uganda and Eritrea met on Tuesday in the Ugandan capital to discuss strategic and political issues in East Africa as well as the crisis-stricken horn of Africa, the Ugandan presidency said Wednesday. President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea, who is on a three-day state visit to Uganda, called for [...]
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18 August 2011
Ugandan police have fired tear gas and water cannon filled with a pink dye to break up an opposition vigil near the capital, Kampala. Several hundred opposition supporters gathered for a “light a candle” ceremony to mourn at least nine people killed during protests in April. Police said the meeting was illegal and could cause [...]
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18 August 2011
NEWS 24 ~ Juba – South Sudan said on Wednesday that fake college degrees, most of them from Uganda, were posing a critical challenge to the development of Africa’s newest state. The Ministry of Public Service said it had confiscated 20 forged documents from South Sudanese who presented fake college degrees from Uganda when applying [...]
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18 August 2011
PRESS TV ~ A terror suspect is to sue the British government over claims that British and American interrogators tortured him after he was kidnapped in Kenya and detained in Uganda. According to lawyers of Kenyan business man Omar Awadh Omar, he was illegally detained in Nairobi on 17 September 2010 and taken to Uganda [...]
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12 August 2011
By Elias Biryabarema, KAMPALA (Reuters) ~ Uganda has invited Eritrea’s leader, President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of stoking Somalia’s Islamist rebellion and destabilizing the east African region, to a state visit next week, Uganda’s State House said. Eritrea rejoined the East African bloc IGAD last month, four years after it walked out on the body [...]
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12 August 2011
BBC News ~ Uganda’s Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa has accused the opposition of using social media in a “grand plan” to topple the government. His comments came as opposition parties vowed to relaunch mass protests against the rising cost of living. Mr Mukasa said social networking sites Facebook and Twitter were being used to [...]
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09 August 2011
By Elias Biryabarema | KAMPALA (Reuters) – A court on Tuesday dismissed charges against Uganda’s main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, related to his participation in violent protests against high food and fuel prices earlier this year in which several people were killed. The east African country was rattled by widespread opposition led anti-government protests in April and May, sparked by [...]
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31 July 2011
AFP, KIGALI, RWANDA ~ The presidents of Uganda and Rwanda said they remain close allies at a weekend meeting clouded by rumours that Uganda has reached out to exiled Rwandan dissidents working against the Kigali regime. President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda began a four-day visit to neighbouring Rwanda on Friday and met with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame upon arrival. Before the [...]
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