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KENYA: The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders – Kenya (NCHRD-K) and DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) are outraged by the killing of human rights defender John Waweru on Monday 11 April 2016 in Zimmerman, Nairobi. John Waweru was the director of Githunguri Constituency Ranching Company and an avid and […]
Parliament has directed the parliamentary committee on Defense and Internal Affairs to investigate the on going killings in Kasese district. The order was issued by the deputy speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah upon parliament approval. This after the minister of Internal Affairs Rose Akol and Kasese opposition MPs were giving parliament conflicting statements on the on going […]
Buikwe district which was commonly known for child sacrifice cases has no shifted to a land problematic district with police registering a number of land cases on a weekly basis ranging from Trace pass, boundary marking among other land cases. According to the Sezibwa CID commander, Muhumuza Bernard, the increase land cases in the area […]
When Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signed the homosexuality Bill into law, the entire U.S administration commanded by President Obama was up in arms against President Museveni’s bold and good action. Within a short time, the Americans withdrew their support from Uganda and slapped sanctions against some Ugandan politicians like the Speaker of Parliament, […]
NRM chairman Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday during the party caucus meeting held at state House Entebbe questioned the work of security agencies to why they did not bring the information on Kasese, Bundibugyo and Nkoroko conflicts in time. He said that if the security tracked information about these conflicts in time, all these wouldn’t have […]
President Paul Kagame has challenged his counterpart president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to move beyond discussions about conflict resolutions and act to stop conflicts and armed wars that have sprouted in several parts of the Great Lakes Region in which thousands of Africans have lost lives under the hands of Ugandan soldiers, the UPDF. […]
A personal rivalry between President Salva Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar has seen the people of South Sudan divided and killing each other along ethnic lines. The members of Kiir’s Dinka tribe openly kill members of Machar’s Nuer tribe. The war started on December 15th, 2013 in South Sudanese capital city, Juba. Tens of […]
Uganda’s Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has pleaded to South Sudan rebel liberators and the dictatorial government in South Sudan to avoid civilian killings. Thousands of people in South Sudan have lost their lives in a power wrangle involving Ugandan soldiers (UPDF), South Sudan rebel fighters and South Sudan government soldiers. Mbabazi says African regional […]
The South Sudan freedom fighters have accused Uganda soldiers, UPDF and the South Sudan government troops of committing atrocities against civilians including rape, murder and displacement of people. Thousands of people have been killed in clashes pitting troops loyal to President Salva Kiir against rebels supporting Riek Machar, who was sacked as vice […]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has killed his silence and talked on the murder of dissident Patrick Karegeya in South Africa, reportedly by Rwandan spies. Kagame says that anyone who falls apart with the government in Rwanda loses his or her life or in berief that person turns out to be the loser. Speaking […]