Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | In the past few days social media has been awash with pictures of currency notes with political messages written on by suspected supporters of President Yoweri Museveni and Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine). The notes in question are of Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The General Court Martial has charged eleven suspects and remanded them to Luzira Prisons for the murder of Detective sergeant, Fred Chemonges, formerly attached to Mbale Central Police Station. The suspects are Private Bob Anichan, Ronald Ssekiranda Kizito alias Kamulegeya Sebalamu Joseph, Musa Kikomeko alias …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A Legal officer representing the Lord’s Resistance Army – LRA war victims at The Hauge based International Criminal Court (ICC) has died in his hotel room in Gulu town. Jane Adong Anywar, 64, a resident of Kampala died at Abola Lapok Hotel along Olya Road …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA plans to install lights beyond the streets of the city. KCCA has installed 4,988 lights in the City, 1,560 of which are solar. However, the street lights don’t cover slum areas with poor roads. Harriet Mulondo, the Director Gender and Community …

Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria | AFP |  In Algeria’s disaffected Kabylie region, the brick has become the symbol of the anti-vote campaign ahead of unpopular presidential elections set for Thursday. Protesters have even bricked up the entrances to local government offices to prevent the distribution of election material in Tizi-Ouzou, a key city …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Deputy Speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has granted government extra two months to conclude consultations on the Administration of Judiciary Bill, 2018. Oulanyah made the decision after Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana asked for additional two months to conclude consultations on a few “sticky …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights-CEFROHT has jointly sued government and Uganda Communications Commission-UCC for alleged failure to stop the broadcast of adverts threatening the health of children. CEFROHT is a not for profit human rights organization based in Gayaza that was founded …

Oslo, Norway | AFP |  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will collect his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Tuesday, but as ethnic violence rises at home he has kept festivities to a minimum and refused media requests. Hailed as a modern, reformist leader, Ahmed’s decision to skip all events with the …

  Meteoric rise of Abiy Ahmed trying to remould Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP |  Abiy Ahmed, the son of poor villagers who became a spy boss, and now the man behind dizzying attempts to reform Africa’s fastest-growing economy and heal wounds with Ethiopia’s neighbours, has seen an unpredictable and …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Officials from the US, Canada and Mexico will meet in Mexico on Tuesday for talks on a new continent-wide trade deal after President Donald Trump hinted that efforts to push the  pact through the US Congress were close to success. The talks will follow a …