Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Ann Amadi says only four lawyers from each party will be allowed to access the courtroom. “Not everybody will be allowed to come in. The parties have large teams but the numbers will have to be restricted because …
Read More »FOCUS ON KENYA 🇰🇪: African jurists arrive for Kenya presidential petition hearing
Lady Justice Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza of the Supreme Court of Uganda to attend proceedings Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | A High-Level Panel of notable African Jurists has arrived in Kenya to observe the proceedings of the 2022 presidential election petition. The 2022 Trial Observation Mission will be headed by …
Read More »FOCUS ON KENYA 🇰🇪: Raila, Martha produced doctored forms in petition – IEBC
Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | IEBC has accused Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance Presidential candidate Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua of producing doctored forms 34A which they are relying on as evidence to nullify the declaration of William Ruto as President-elect. IEBC and Wafula Chebukati …
Read More »Uganda becomes training destination for world athletes
Training camps in Kapchorwa ✳ Cheptegei Training Centre ✳ Taryet elite athletics training facility Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is becoming a popular training spot for the world’s elite athletes, with Kapchorwa the favourite destination for long distance stars, and Kampala and Jinja for short and middle distance …
Read More »Lighting up the Great Lakes
River Nile countries push for an interconnected power grid SPECIAL FEATURE | ESPOIR IRADUKUNDA & RONALD MUSOKE | It is 9am in downtown Bujumbura— Burundi’s commercial city, and the alleys are already crowded with buyers and sellers haggling noisily over prices of merchandise. They must shout to be heard because …
Read More »Kasese on high alert after ebola out-break in neighbouring DRC
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health authorities and local leaders in Kasese district have cautioned residents, particularly those living closer to the border areas over the outbreak of Ebola in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Last week, the regional office for Africa of the World Health Organization-WHO, said …
Read More »Tanzania sees good progress in population and housing census
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | At least 86.4 percent of Tanzanians had been counted by Saturday in the ongoing National Population and Housing Census that started Aug. 23, an official said Sunday. Seif Kuchengo, the coordinator of the National Population and Housing Census from the National Bureau of …
Read More »UWA slashes crops of over 500 Sironko families in Mt Elgon area
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA has slashed crops belonging to over 500 residents in three villages in Masaba Sub County in Sironko district for alleged encroachment on Mount Elgon national park land. The affected residents are from Kusi, Ngagai, and Malara villages in Bufupa parish in Masaba Sub County. Patrick …
Read More »Surge in Kitgum TB Cases after mandatory screening implemented
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district has registered high Tuberculosis-TB cases following the mandatory screening exercise that started in May 2021. Churchill Opira, the Kitgum District TB Supervisor, says that they have made it compulsory for all patients with productive cough and TB signs, and symptoms, irrespective of the …
Read More »Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’
Uganda’s Africans were victimized as much as the Asians | DEREK R. PETERSON | Fifty years ago – in early August 1972 – President Idi Amin summarily decreed the expulsion of Uganda’s “Asian” (that is, Indian and Pakistani) community. Over 50,000 people were given a scant three months to tie …
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