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Africa needs to invest more in transport, energy infrastructure, and stop fighting
Africa has the worst transport and energy infrastructure in the world. File By Daniel K. Kalinaki IN SUMMARY Conflicts cost Africa about $18 billion every year and shrank the economies of…
Uganda Police Abusing Street Children – HRW
Street children in Uganda face constant abuse from police and other government officials, a human rights group says. Police beat children with whips and wires, throw them into jail and…
Rwanda Fire Forces Bonking Couple Out Of Lodge
Business came to a standstill in Nyabugogo, a Kigali business hub yesterday at around 11:15am when fire broke out at a complex that houses more than 10 businesses including a…
More than 800 RDF personnel retire or terminate service contracts
Kigali, 15 July 2014 For the second time, on 15th July 2014, Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) organised a send-off ceremony to honour the service and sacrifice for the nation of…
Police back Makerere students
A police officer carries a student on a motorcycle during the protest yesterday. PHOTOS BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA IN SUMMARY The Force, which had deployed to stop a demonstration by students,…
Heavily Armed Men Raid Masaka District
Tension is mounting in Bukakata Sub County in Masaka district following a raid by heavily armed men on fishermen at Makonzi landing site. The gunmen stormed Makonzi landing site on…
King Oyo Starts Fasting Over Kingdom’s Division
The King of Tooro Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has started fasting, a month after announcing the move to protest what he called division of his kingdom. The 22…
William Hague quits as foreign secretary in cabinet reshuffle
William Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street has said. At least 12 men will leave their…
Behind The Presidential Curtains: Unanswered Questions on Continued Rwanda Fire Setting
Minister Mukantabana The government of Rwanda has instructed all the citizens and residents of Rwanda to have two fire extinguishers in their houses. This is following the repeated fires, as…
Tanzania: Ngo u Rwanda ruganire na FDLR
Leta ya Tanzania yasabye abaserukila ibihugu byabo muri Tanzania gufasha umugambi w'umuryango w'ubumwe bw'ibihugu byo mukarere k' Afurika y'amajyepfo SADC mu gushakira umuti ikibazo cy'ingabo za FDLR ziri muri Republika Iharanira demokarasi ya…