Category: East Africa

Covid 19 pandemic is blown out of proportion

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> It's immensely mind-boggling that a disease with 98% recovery rate can...

Hope in the Hopeless

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> It is not that we don’t want to follow the rules. It...

Rabadaba, full figure, Madrat and Chiko engage in bitter verbal fight

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Recently singer Rabadaba was introduced and performed Nikkah with the late AK...

Boost the Agricultural Sector by Promoting Rural Resource Centres (RRCs)

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> OPINION: The agricultural sector has been the backbone of Uganda’s economy for...

Quality of 2021 Uganda’s Elected MPs worrying

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has launched an institute to train...

Debt Financing will cost Uganda Future Billions

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> During the last 35 years, the National Resistance Movement – NRM and...

Youth revolutionaries in Uganda

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights,...

Anite joins stingy women’s association of Koboko

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> The ambulance was bought with the taxpayer’s money and besides that...

Dr. Stella Nyanzi pens her exile

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Exile is neither defeat nor surrender. Having once been slapped with...

Earn big from plastic recycling

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Water pollution with Plastics materials is high. It is evident in...

Ethiopia Names New Leader for Restive Tigray Region

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> By VOA The Ethiopian Parliament has appointed a new leader for the restive...

Deal or Not? It’s Now All Up to Kagame, Museveni

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> A deal to defuse tension between Uganda and Rwanda lies in the...

You can win election in 2021 – Run – Mwaka Lutukumoi

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> THINKING ALOUD! YOU CAN WIN ELECTION IN 2021- RUN MY EXPERIENCE; A...

Uganda: UYD two rivalry factions set to resolve their sang

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">4</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Democratic Party  leaders have moved to strengthen their youthful political organisation and...

Colonial deal and oil factor in Kenya-Somalia border row

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> It looks like the Kenya and Somalia border issue is throwing...

China says Africa projects should be sustainable, denounces criticism

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Chinese development projects in Africa must be sustainable, the government’s top diplomat...

Militants killed while attacking Kenya police base

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Three suspected al-Shabab militants have been killed after they attacked a...

 poo-poo to food: Kenyan toilet waste key for new animal feed

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Kenyan farmer Victor Kyalo’s chickens have doubled the number of eggs they...

Bobi Wine agents arrested at a press conference

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> –Security operatives have arrested Mr Andy John Mukasa, the proprietor of...

9 Killed in revenge in Somalia

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Nine civilians were executed by a local militia in Somalia after...

WHO panel decides not to declare international Ebola emergency

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an...

Bomb kills Kenyan policemen near Somali border

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> A roadside bomb hit a police vehicle patrolling near Kenya’s border...

Make it difficult for the corrupt to thrive in Kenya

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">< 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> During the trial of Jesus Christ just before his crucifixion, Pontius...

Over 1500 dead ;New Ebola outbreak in DRC is ‘truly frightening’

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> The head of a major medical research charity has called the latest...

Why Bobi Wine is likely to fail if he takes power in Uganda

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> The militarised state Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni has created is likely to undermine...

Uganda music sensation Bobi Wine rocks Amsterdam

<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> B Mr. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssenatmu aka Bobi Wine and Nubian Li have...