Reports of Bobi Wine’s Injuries ‘Fake News’ – Museveni
President Yoweri Museveni has stated that reports indicating that Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi is gravely ill are fake. The president said that legislator popularly known as Bobi Wine does not have any head injuries or bone fractures, according to a report given to him by the UPDF doctors who are treating him from Makindye […]
Yoweri Museveni, From Liberator to Dictator
The recent crackdown on opposition leaders and the media in Uganda are clear signs the country is slowly sinking into anarchy and becoming a lawless state. This could lead to instability, writes DW’s Isaac Mugabi. Once hailed as a freedom fighter and liberator, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, is […]
Racist U.S. Pastor Punches, Spits at Hotel Employee
Police in Uganda have arrested an American pastor after a video of him beating a hotel employee was circulated. Footage from security television cameras installed showed a foreigner, identified later as Mr Jimmy L.Taylor, punching and humiliating a hotel employee. Upon police efforts to effect his arrest Taylor turned rowdy and uncontrollable, and spat on […]
Teargas, Live Bullets Rock Kampala Streets
Teargas and live bullets have rocked Kampala streets this Monday afternoon. Police and the army have fired teargas and bullets to contain rioters who have lit fire in the middle of roads in Kisekka Market, Namirembe Road and Kikuubo Market Lane. The crowds are chanting Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s slogan, “People […]
Zambia Govt Seeks U.S.$22 Million in Tax On Internet Calls
Zambia expects to raise $22 million annually in new tax on internet phone calls. The cabinet approved Monday a 30 ngwee (0.3 kwacha; $0.03) daily tariff charged on online phone calls. Transport and Communications Minister Brian Mushimba said on Tuesday that the government considered concerns raised by telecom operators. He added that there was “a […]
Marikana Massacre Police Were Not in Danger, Report
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has published a new report into the killing of 34 striking miners on the 16 August 2012.The South African thinktank has found that the police officers responsible were not under threat when they fired at the miners. The research’ published under the title Sound of Gunfire, includes photographs’ witness […]
Uganda President’s Car Attacked, Damaged in Campaign
A hotly contested by-election in Northern Uganda turned violent Monday evening, when unknown assailants shot a driver on the opposition side. A window in President Yoweri Museveni’s car was smashed in the chaos. Police have since arrested two journalists and dozens of opposition supporters, an act that human rights groups are calling an abuse of […]
Kenyan Man Buries Wife, Child 5 Years After Resurrection Fails
The man from Mwingi who was convicted for living with corpses of his wife and children for three years hoping they would resurrect has finally buried them. Before his arrest on October 1, 2016, Kitu Munyoki had been living with the corpse of his wife, Lydia, who died in 2014 and that of his daughter […]
The Tentative but Rising Resistance to Magufuli’s Repression
President Magufuli has clamped down hard on various freedoms. But as his popularity plummets and defiance grows, something may have to give. From the moment the relatively unknown Minister of Works John Pombe Magufuli became Tanzania’s president in 2015, he has stamped his mark on the country. In an initial whirlwind of activity, he fired […]
Authors of Book Claiming That Magnus Malan Was a Paedophile Feared for Their Lives
The co-authors of The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which alleges that former apartheid minister Magnus Malan was part of a paedophile network, had been living in fear for their lives since the book’s release two weeks ago. According to well-placed sources, Mark Minnie, who was found dead in Port Elizabeth on Monday, and Chris […]
