John Stephen Katende
13th Aug 2012:
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has rejected calls for an exclusively African regional force to tackle the raging insurgency in the country’s volatile eastern region. It accused its neighbours Uganda and Rwanda of (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
13th Aug 2012:
The BBC has launched its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences in Uganda. The new programme, BBC Focus On Africa, brings together the (more…)
By Online Team
13th Aug 2012:
The BBC’s former Somali Service Editor Mr Yusuf Garaad has taken a huge leap of faith in his war-torn country Somalia by declaring his intention to (more…)
By George Murumba
6th August 2012:
Hillary Clinton gestures: FILE PHOTO
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged President Yoweri Museveni to “consider his legacy” – a phrase which some analysts have interpreted to mean a diplomatic request to President Museveni to retire from the presidency before he is pushed out disgracefully.
Mrs Clinton met the president last Friday as part of a seven-nation African tour that began in Senegal on Wednesday last week. She also thanked Museveni for sending Ugandan troops to Somalia as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
30th July 2012:
M23 rebel warlord Gen. Bosco Ntaganda
A senior diplomat at the embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] in London has accused President Yoweri Museveni of joining his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in offering military and logistical support to the so-called ‘March 23rd’ [or M23] rebels who are fighting to overthrow President Joseph Kabila’s government.
The Congolese diplomat, who (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
30th July 2012:
An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, health ministry officials said, ending weeks of speculation about an unknown illness that had (more…)
By George Murumba
30th July 2012:
President Yoweri Museveni has called for a Euro-Africa summit to develop common ideas of cooperation, adding that there are a lot of unexploited opportunities between Europe and Africa that can (more…)
By Online Team
30th July 2012:
The mastermind of a white supremacist plot to kill Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, has been convicted of treason. A Pretoria court ruled last week that (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
30th July 2012:
The British government has taken its first official and perhaps most visible steps to join Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Burundi in the war against Somalia’s Islamic militants al-Shabab who are (more…)
By Online Team
30th July 2012:
A nine-day meeting kicked off in the Somali capital Mogadishu last week where an 825-member assembly is set to ratify a new constitution. Somalia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA), selected by (more…)
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