[The exiled Coordinator of Uganda’s Intelligence Services has called for the removal of President Yoweri Museveni from the High Command of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF). General David Sejusa said Mr. Museveni has abused the army, killed its officers and stolen money intended for the army which he has instead used to rig elections….
[Scientists using technology developed to search for oil have discovered a vast underground water reservoir in one of Kenya’s driest regions that if properly managed could supply the country’s needs for close to 70 years. The basin has a surface area larger than Suffolk and holds billions of litres of water that add up to…
[Le procès de William Ruto devant la CPI s’ouvre ce mardi. Le vice-président kényan est accusé d’avoir fomenté certaines des violences poltico-ethniques qui ont enflammé le Kenya en 2007-2008, suite à la réélection contestée du président Kibaki. William Ruto fait face à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI). Le procès du vice-président kényan pour crimes contre…
[The rebel M23 group have agreed to resume talks with Kinshasa in Munyonyo, in three days, time, after a respite in fighting in eastern DR Congo. Regional leaders, meeting in Munyonyo, Kampala, last week, had given the rebels a 14-day ultimatum to conclude the talks. The rebels, who had protested the resumption of fighting back…
[Essam Tarek woke on Thursday morning when a bomb blast, targeting the Egyptian Interior Minister’s convoy, shook his neighborhood, in Cairo’s suburban Nasr City area. “I went to the balcony and I saw cars full of fire and people running scared. People crowded around here. Then there were multiple gunshots,” says Tarek, 25, a medical…
[The United Nations envoy to the Great Lakes region says she will be direct with Kigali about evidence of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Mary Robinson also hopes the recent military advances against the rebels will create a window for a political solution to the crisis .Robinson…
[Kenya is preparing to employ drones as part of increased security operations along its borders with Somalia and Ethiopia to monitor and halt the movements of al-Shabaab and gunrunners, security officials told Sabahi. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are needed to help Kenyan security forces on the ground patrol the country’s frontiers, said Patrick Ochieng,…
[South African ex-President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a recurrent lung infection. The office of President Jacob Zuma says the 94-year-old remains in a serious but stable condition. Relatives, including his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, visited the ailing former leader on Monday. He has…
[YOKOHAMA — Africa will be an engine for world growth in coming decades, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe said on Monday, wrapping up a meeting in which Tokyo pledged significant aid as it tries to match China’s reach on the continent. Mr Abe said Africa would be at the leading edge of economic expansion and that…
[Army begins operation against fighters as fighter jets and helicopter gunships deployed in country’s northeast. Nigerian forces have launched attack on Boko Haram strongholds in the country’s northeast region, security sources have told Reuters news agency, amid deployment of fighter jets and helicopter gunships. Soldiers raided areas in the Sambisa Game Reserve in Borno state…
