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Mbabazi Crowds Shake Kampala
No vocabulary can serve to describe the size of the crowds that turned up today at Nakivubo stadium, downtown Kampala as former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi launched his…
OBAMA TO REMOVE BURUNDI FROM AFRICAN TRADE ACT
Obama with Nkurunziza and their first ladies WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Burundi isn't making enough progress toward establishing rule of law and will be removed from a…
Tanzania’s new president, ‘The Bulldozer’ Magufuli
Tanzania's new leader John Pombe Magufuli rose from humble beginnings to win the presidency of east Africa's most populous nation in the country's hardest ever fought elections. The win, on…
Tanzania ruling party’s Jhon Magufuli elected president: electoral body
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party's candidate John Pombe Magufuli has won the presidential election with some 58 percent of the votes…
Former ICC Chief Prosecutor in Mbabazi, Besigye talks
Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has attended high level talks held in London between leading opposition presidential aspirants Kizza Besigye and Amama Mbabazi, Red Pepper online…
The Untold Stories: Tony Blair Supports Long Road to Hell in Rwanda
The Former British PM Tony Blair has admitted ‘mistakes’ and conflict’s role in rise of Islamic State but defends armed intervention in Iraq in 2003. Tony Blair has moved to…
Nothing justifies Rwanda police brutality against the Nyamasheke victims.
The people of Nyamasheke are still grieving for their loved ones who were shot by the Rwandan police because they resisted demolishing their houses. The problem is not about whether…
Is Rwanda Justice Minister confused or confusing?
The Rwandan Minister for Justice and Attorney-General Johnston Busingye, has continued to deliberately lie or mislead the Rwandan people on the arrest warrants against Rwandan officials. According to…
May the best win as Tanzania goes to the polls in a week’s time
Magufuli vs Lowassa Sunday, October 25, is election day for our brothers and sisters of the United Republic of Tanzania. Millions of voters will go to cast the ballot at…
Flu keeps Mutesa home, dance with Burundi king
Kabaka Mutesa (right of Elizabeth, Queen Mother) presents gifts to the Queen Mother when she visited Uganda on February 19, 1959. COURTESY PHOTO By Barbara Kimenye African kings were fairly…