3.7 million Rwandans on Tuesday chose to remove the two-term presidential limit in a signed petition to parliament supporting a constitutional change. This will allow President Paul Kagame a third term run in 2017. Hundreds of Rwandans turned up at the Parliamentary Building to follow the long-awaited debate on the presidential term limits according to […]
Members of the East African Legislative Assembly have finalized plans to tour the East African Community Partner States (Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda) to collect stakeholders’ views and submissions on the envisaged East African Community Electronic Transactions Bill 2014. The visit which involves the Assembly’s Committee on Communication, Trade and Investment chaired by Ugandan […]
The UN is asking the Ugandan government and all the other East African Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization member countries to send police experts to South Sudan and help strengthen security in the young nation. The call was made by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Hilder Johnson while addressing regional police chiefs meeting […]
The United States of America launched its direct flights between East Africa and USA in August this year. The USA flight base is in Nairobi Kenya. The USA did this as part of its bid to review the progress of increasing their links in the aviation sector in the East African Community states of […]
East African community (read Republic of Rwanda) could soon become a study centre for cervical cancer vaccine effectiveness and equity. Rwanda has become the world’s first East African and low-income country to attain universal coverage for the life saving vaccine. Research results of a national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme done in Rwanda […]
PhD Studentship Positions Available KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi. Applications are invited from the East African region (EAC plus Ethiopia and Sudan) for PhD studentship positions from candidates who have completed at least a Bachelors degree and achieved an upper second or first class in one of the following subjects: Maths, Statistics, Social studies, Anthropology, […]
DP seems to benefit first in EALA after one of its leaders, Mukasa Fred Mbidde got a place in EALA house, and they have easily moved in to form an alliance with CHADEMA, Tanzania’s leading opposition party which has 50% of MPs in Tanzanian parliament. Our informers in Arusha tell us that there were […]
New findings released by Uganda, one of the five countries in East Africa indicate that HIV/AIDS incidences in the region have risen to 6.7%. Uganda’s Ministry of health reveals that HIV/AIDS cases have risen to 6.7% up from 6.4%. The research findings done in 2004/5 show that at least two million of Uganda’s 30 […]
Ugandans in theUShas written a book titled president ‘Museveni is an evil.’ The book is coming out soon. It is going to be published on line and sold on streets in US,Uganda, East Africa andEurope. The intelligence network inKampalahas learnt that in the book there is a statement that president “Museveni is the government, […]
Bank of Africa has pledged to lower interest rates and to open up new braches in the East African Community states ofUganda,Kenya,Rwanda,BurundiandTanzania. The governments of the East African community block are therefore advised to push for lower bank interest rates on loans before Bank of Africa kicks local banks out of business. The warning was […]