Africa: Fighting for the Rights of Child Soldiers
Nairobi — At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers – a move seen as “encouraging” by the UN, albeit with the proviso that the situation in both countries remains volatile.
Uganda: Corruption Worsens, With Little Action from Government
Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, the head of the most corrupt institution in Uganda, is a lucky man. President Yoweri Museveni keeps praising him even when two reports have pinned the police as the most corrupt institution both nationally and regionally in a space of two months.
Ugandan Journalist Assassinated in Rwanda: Probe Deepens
The Rwandan State House’s Counter Intelligence has picked up the investigation into the killing of top journalist Charles Ingabire. According to a well-placed army officer, it’s feared Ingabire was killed in highly planned mission. Ingabire met a group of three men at around 10:00pm last night. One of them later left them in the middle of [...]
United States moving into Africa’s Nile River Basin
“Rivers are political systems. Management of rivers is political and management of international rivers is very political. The Chinese got it right long ago: River + Dyke = Political Order.”
Invisible Children: Tackling Kony’s Rebels Through Social Activism ?
AS U.S. Special Forces prepare to begin their mission to hunt down fugitive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, a San Diego, Calif. based humanitarian organization, Invisible Children, has taken up the cause of the thousands of child soldiers and orphans whose lives have been wrecked by the conflict.
U.S. in Africa: Kony Has 100 Special Forces on His Trail
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces to Uganda, ostensibly to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army.
The Gaddafi I Know: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
By the time Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi came to power in 1969, I was a third-year university student at Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. We welcomed his rise because he was a leader in the tradition of Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt who had a nationalist and pan-Arabist position. Soon, however, problems cropped up with Qaddafi as [...]
UN report says DR Congo killings ‘may be genocide’
A UN report into the killings of Hutu civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the 1990s says they may constitute “crimes of genocide”.
Entebbe Crash Report Faults Russian Crew, Forged Licenses
KAMPALA: AN investigation into last year’s plane crash into Lake Victoria has found that the navigator used a forged license and that the aircraft and engines were beyond their service life. Steven Candia, The New Vision
Rwanda has not healed: Rusesabagina
RWANDAN genocide hero and inspiration behind the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, says the east African country has neither healed from the 1994 genocide nor learned any lessons from it, as he accused the Rwandan government of continuing human rights abuses through the alleged arbitrary arrest and transportation of Hutus to work illegally in mines in the Congo.