The United States government will help Rwanda in training and equip peace keeping troops deployed in the Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur, the army has said. Rwanda Defense Force spokesperson, Major. Jill Rutaremara said yesterday nine hundred soldiers comprise the
Physicist Steven Hawking, who has been described as "the most famous living scientist on the planet," gave his first public lecture in Africa in Muizenberg, Cape Town, on Sunday.
In separate cases today, a magistrate court in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, released from police custody a top newspaper editor and a leading lawyer working in defense of journalists. Both were formally charged, however, according to local sources.
We received a report that the MDC MP for Mutasa Central, Trevor Saruwaka, was arrested Sunday morning at Penhalonga Police Station. He had gone there looking for one of the MDC Youth members who had been abducted and detained by
Youth militia descended on the home of a village head in Ward 8 Shamva and attacked the traditional leader and his wife with axes. Our correspondent Simon Muchemwa said Sabhuku Elias Madzivanzira, who was over 70 years old, died on
State sponsored violence against members of the Anglican Church reached new levels over the weekend as police in different parts of Harare gatecrashed church services and beat up parishioners loyal to new bishop Sebastian Bakare.
Reliant Stadium, the magnificent collesium and the venue, that has seen a lot of epic battles between the Texas home teams and their rivals, was in total transformation.
Over 2000 Kenyan refugees have begun a new life in central Uganda, months after the Kenyan crisis ended but Ugandan and aid agencies say international rules do not permit asking them to leave the country.
The elite in Uganda have remained stigmatised despite the government's efforts to fight HIV, the Uganda Aids Commission has said. " People in high social status have remained with the fear to come and access services," said UAC Information Resource
This is in response to Capt. Charles Byaruhanga, in the article: "Museveni confused inflation with wealth" (Daily Monitor, May 9). Byaruhanga seems to over-inflate his opinion about himself by preaching economic management to the President with regard to what the
The World Press Freedom Day was marked last week on May 3, with Uganda registering no marked improvement in media freedoms. In fact, the state continued to raid media houses with the latest being The Independent, a bi-monthly magazine in
And this is not breaking news. A few years ago President Museveni told the world that his younger brother General Caleb Akandwanaho a.k.a Salim Saleh had confessed to having taken a 'commission' in the hundreds of millions in the now
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change has summoned its errant member and Party Vice Chairperson, Mr Alex Onzima to appear before the party's disciplinary committee.
