South Sudan: The Devil Lies In Implementing The Peace Deal
On January 9 2011, the people of Southern Sudan voted in a referendum whose results led to the birth of the Republic of South Sudan. Writing in The East African publication of January 3, 2011, this was my opinion: “Whichever way the vote goes, there is going to be far-reaching ramifications for The Sudan (Khartoum) […]
28,000 Uganda Inmates Spend Nights Standing
As a result of congestion in the country’s 247 jails, more than half of the prison population (about 28,000 prisoners) spends the night standing. This state of prisons highlights what the lawmakers yesterday called a crisis in the criminal justice system as authorities blame “perennial underfunding”. MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard that […]
I am Unstoppable Says Mugabe’s Wife As She Grabs Poor Vendors’ Goods
First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday said no one in Zanu PF including President Robert Mugabe can stop her from doing whatever she wants. Grace, who was in a combative mood at a rally at Murombedzi Growth Point in Zvimba, said ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru “fooled herself” thinking that Mugabe was going to stop her […]
Swaziland’s King Mswati’s Election As Deputy Chairman Of SADC Raises Serious Legal Problem
The Southern African Development Community felt it was not its place to block Swaziland’s King Mswati III’s election as deputy chairman of the regional bloc as it would have meant intervening in the affairs of a nation that has “no problem” with their monarch, Deputy International Relations and Co-operation Minister Luwellyn Landers said on Wednesday. […]
South African Policeman Arrested And Convicted For Murdering A Mozambican Man
EIGHT South African policeman were found guilty on Tuesday of murdering a Mozambican man who died after being dragged behind a moving police van in an incident that provoked global outrage. The shocking treatment of taxi driver Mido Macia, which was captured on film by bystanders, threw the spotlight on South Africa’s police force and […]
Senegal Jails 7 Men For Homosexuality
Hardly a month after US President Barack Obama came out in support of gay rights in Kenya, Senegal becomes the latest country to prosecute homesexuals. Seven men have been jailed for six months in Senegal, after they were found guilty of homosexuality last week the BBC says. A court in Dakar heard that police allegedly […]
Two Doctors Without Borders Killed In South Sudan
Two Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff have been killed in South Sudan, the medical agency said Tuesday, taking the number of aid workers killed in the 20-month conflict to over 30. MSF said Gawar Top Puoy, a logistician, and James Gatluak Gatpieny, a community health worker, were killed during separate attacks on villages in the […]
Ghanaian Man Joins Islamic State Militants
A 25-year-old man from Ghana is feared to have left the West African country to join the Islamic State (IS) group, his father says. It is the first reported case of a Ghanaian joining IS. Abdul Latif Alema told the press that his son’s disappearance was “like someone in the family has died”. Mohammad Nazir […]
ISIS Kills 30 People For Being Gay
The Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organisation said on Monday at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting what organisers called the “barbaric treatment”. “It’s about time, 70 years after the creation of the UN, that the […]
Robert Mugabe Admits To Killing Solomon Mujuru
Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe claimed Friday that no Zimbabwean was suffering as he revealed his row with liberation hero and former defence force chief, Solomon Mujuru, who was killed when an unexplained fire razed his farm house in 2011. Mugabe’s remarks during an address to the Zanu PF women’s league meeting in Harare raise new […]
