Uganda Presidential Debate to Proceed, Organizer Says
Peter Clottey The organizer of the Ugandan presidential debate scheduled for Friday says the debate will proceed as planned, despite reports that President Yoweri Museveni may pull out. Joshua...
View ArticleAll in all, it’s been a pretty good year
Previous || Next Independent London journalist Gwynne Dyer surveys the state of the world in 2015 and finds it was a pretty good year for most people in most places. If historical ingratitude was made...
View ArticleAmin's career day leads TAMU-CC past Northwestern St. 89-79
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Ehab Amin scored a...
View ArticleJonathan Ran CBN Like Idi-Amin, Says Soludo
[This Day] Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan ran the bank like a movie from Uganda under Idi-Amin. ......
View ArticleObote Foundation wants UPC evicted from Uganda House
THE Milton Obote Foundation , a business arm of the Uganda People's Congress has asked Jimmy Akena and his faction to quit the party offices on the sixth floor of Uganda House. Addressing journalists...
View ArticleSurvey: In the United States, anger is all the rage these days
Often, 2015 felt like the year of outrage. The reasons for this were large and small — from police brutality to all manners of micro-aggressions, from terrorism to the color of a coffee cup. Americans...
View ArticleUS is clear: Local terror is India’s fight
American President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address before he lays down office, delivered earlier this week, was doubtless calculated to provide an upbeat account of his stewardship —...
View ArticleIran blames Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan over killing of Shia cleric in...
Turkey has reacted angrily to claims in Iranian state media that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was involved in...
View ArticleUganda's Lone Female Candidate: Election Won't Be Free or Fair
James Butty The only female candidate in Uganda’s upcoming February presidential election says she is running because she wants to rebuild the foundation of the nation away from its colonial...
View ArticleKenya president says his troops killed by Somali extremists
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Kenya's president said on Friday that Kenyan troops were killed when al-Shabab Islamic fighters attacked an African Union base in Somalia. He gave no casualty figure but an...
View ArticleThe Real Consequences of the Anglican Primates' Censure of the Episcopal Church
On January 14, a communiqu� was released from the meeting of Anglican Primates (leaders of the 37 independent provinces of the Anglican communion) that revealed a vote to sanction The Episcopal Church...
View ArticleThe Deathbed of the WTO
Reflections on the 10th Ministerial Conference in Kenya When the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Seattle, Washington in 1999, the Africa paper carefully prepared by the Kenya representatives to...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: I didn't mean to scare Angela Merkel with my dog
(CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin has told a German newspaper he did not mean to scare Chancellor Angela Merkel when he brought his pet Labrador in to meet her during an infamous press conference...
View ArticleAmine Hermouche (Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc)
(Source: Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc) Amine Hermouche Assistant PR Manager December 30, 2015 Meet Amine Hermouche, Assistant PR Manager at Hilton Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. For more...
View ArticleTurkey, the U.S. and Europe Are All Partly to Blame for the Festering Syria War
ISTANBUL -- On Tuesday, 10 German tourists lost their lives when a bomb went off in Sultanahmet Square, in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district, ringed by centuries-old Byzantine and Ottoman sights...
View ArticleBurundi rivals gather in Uganda for peace negotiations
Ugandan officials said talks would resume on January 6 but the Burundi government delegation said "no consensus" had been reached on the date. On Monday the East African Community headed by Uganda's...
View ArticleRwandan president becomes Africa's latest to seek extended time in power
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will follow the well-worn path of autocrats by seeking a third term in office next year, after changes to the country's constitutional limit that had allowed only two...
View ArticleRwandan president is Africa’s latest leader to seek extension of power
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will follow the well-worn path of autocrats by seeking a third term in office next year, after changes to the country’s constitutional limit that had allowed only two...
View ArticleUganda agrees to fresh probe into 1979 Muslim massacre
"The government has set up a team to carry out a thorough verification exercise of all the claims by victims of the 1979 Muslim massacre and report back within three weeks," Ugandan Prime Minister...
View ArticleCarleton Library to Host Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show in Toronto...
(Source: Carleton University) Carleton University's MacOdrum Library is hosting the Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show in Toronto on Jan. 23, 2016. When: Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m....
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