Based on experiences of autocratic political movements that regain power, it would be worse than the first COMMENT | TOM GINDBURG & AZIZ HUQ | Would a second Donald Trump presidency really imperil American democracy? Influential commentators suggest that the former president is too “weak,” too desperate to be popular, or …
Read More »U.S. boosts Uganda’s refugee response with Shs 27bn
The East African country currently hosts the largest number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Africa Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The United States government has given the Ugandan government Shs 27 billion (US$7.5 million) to support its response to the Sudanese refugee influx. The new funding brings the total U.S. …
Read More »HUMAN RIGHTS: US sanctions 4 Ugandan police officers
The US sanctions Police Commanders, Bob Kagarura, Alex Mwine, Elly Womanya and and Hamdani Twesigye over alleged human rights abuses. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United States said on Wednesday it was imposing sanctions on four officers of the Uganda Police Force over accusations of involvement in gross human rights …
Read More »Making fun of Trump
With Harris, Democrats try a new tack to take him down ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | A goal of every presidential campaign is to get voters to size up the opponent and, repulsed, decide, “No way.” President Joe Biden’s approach was to persuade the electorate that Donald Trump is a national menace. …
Read More »Will Democrats win after Biden’s withdrawal?
One challenge is the `Hubert Humphrey dilemma`; how to appear loyal to Biden without being weighed down COMMENT | RICHARD HAASS | U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate this fall has transformed American politics. It caps a historic July in the United States, …
Read More »Challenge of the Congo
Why Congolese leaders should be wary of US and UN involvement in their country’s affairs THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | We begin from where we stopped in this column last week. Staff at the U.S. embassy in Kampala deliberately distorted my discussions with them regarding M23 rebels. They claimed I …
Read More »USA and the abuse of the UN
How America uses the United Nations to falsify information in pursuit of its ulterior designs for the world THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Sometime in March of this year, I received a telephone call from an anonymous number. I rarely pick calls from numbers I do not know. By a …
Read More »US hostility towards the ICC is nothing new
It supports the court only when it suits American interests and threatens sanction when its citizens or allies are threatened COMMENT | ANDREA FURGER | In mid-May, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and …
Read More »Over 200 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at UCLA
LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | Over 200 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Thursday morning as police moved to dismantle an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), one of the top public universities in the United States, U.S. media reported. The number of protesters at UCLA arrested by California …
Read More »Why U.S Govt is investing in the health and wealth of Africa’s livestock
US$ 57 million ultramodern AU-PANVAC laboratory complex to tackle rising livestock disease burden Bishoftu, Ethiopia | RONALD MUSOKE | The United States government through its Defence Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) biological threat reduction programme (BTRP) has boosted the capacity of the African Union-Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre (AU-PANVAC) to respond better to …
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