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…)
Uganda accused of supporting M23 rebels
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…)
British soldiers join war against al-Shabab
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…)
Somalia starts constitution making process
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…)
Uganda hosting Sudanese rebel headquarters
By George Murumba
16th July 2012:
Gen. Bashir: Uganda's Accuser-in-Chief
Sudanese President Gen. Omar al Bashir’s Khartoum government has accused Uganda of granting permission to representatives of the anti-Bashir rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) to set up its headquarters in Kampala, a claim the Uganda government has always denied.
On more than one occasion, however, (more…)
UK MPs call for suspension of aid to Rwanda
By Timothy Nsubuga
16th July 2012:
Members of the British parliament, the House of Commons, have called on their government to suspended British aid to Rwanda over spiraling allegations that Rwanda is supporting the M23 rebels led by (more…)
Rwanda: Opposition wants its leader’s death probed
By Our Online Team
16th July 2012:
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has called on the Rwandan government to re-open investigations into the assassination of its Ex-Vice President, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, whose body was found (more…)
Congo Oil: Curse or development opportunity?
By International Crisis Group
16th July 2012:
Renewed oil interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could nurture communal resentments, exacerbate deep-rooted conflict dynamics and weaken (more…)
Oil curse: Security chiefs cited in Buliisa thuggery
By Our Online Team
9th July 2012:
Mr Eriakimi Kaseegu - a Local Council official
KASENYI, BULIISA DISTRICT: Months after the central government tried to quell land speculation in oil-rich Bunyoro by suspending the issue of new land titles, Oil in Uganda visited Kasenyi, on the north-eastern shores of Lake Albert, and unearthed a tale of double-dealing and thuggery seemingly abetted by district leaders and security officials.
Eriakimi Kaseegu, the Kasenyi Local Council One Chairman, (more…)
Kony2012: UN endorses new anti-LRA strategy
By John Stephen Katende
9th July 2012:
The United Nations Security Council has endorsed the regional strategy developed by the United Nations to tackle the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel, and called for (more…)
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