South Sudan: Kiir Launches Attack on Sudan's Bashir
[Sudan Tribune]
Juba -
The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Monday launched a fierce attack on his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir calling him a "thief" and urged him to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Madagascar: Regional Leaders Urge Political Players to Speed Up Change
[SANF]
Southern African leaders have intervened to ease tensions in Madagascar, urging the main political players to speed up implementation of a roadmap intended to restore constitutional order in the country.
Somalia: Heads of Govt to Debate Nation's Future
[African Arguments]
If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone. But the seizure of more than 200 ships by kids with guns in small craft has changed all that.
Uganda: Charcoal Boon a Bust for Forests
[IRIN]
Gulu -
Once a fortnight, Moses Sserwada travels from the capital, Kampala, to northern Uganda to pick up a truckload of charcoal destined for the popular Owino market in the city.
Uganda: MPs Bag Allowances for Vehicles
[New Vision]
NEW Members of Parliament have started receiving sh103m each for purchase of vehicles.
Kenya: Parliament Invites Views On Election Date Bill
[Nation]
Parliament has called on Kenyans to give their views on the Bill seeking to change the election date currently awaiting debate in the August House.
Somalia: London Conference 'An Opportunity' for Somaliland
[IRIN]
Hargeisa -
More than two decades after it unilaterally asserted its independence from the rest of Somalia, Somaliland plans to lobby hard at a major conference in London in February for something it has sorely lacked since its inception: international recognition of its sovereignty.
Burundi: Country Celebrates 21st Anniversary of the Unity Charter
[RFI]
Burundi celebrated the 21st anniversary of the adoption of its Unity Charter on Monday. While the man behind the project, former president Pierre Buyoya, says he is satisfied with the watershed document, some say there are reasons to doubt its efficiency after ten years of civil war.
Kenya: Tackling Underage Sex Work in Gold Mines
[PlusNews]
Nyatike -
Inside a smoky makeshift kiosk, Julie*, 16, can hardly cope with the demand from her clients for a cup of tea and a snack - the men are parched from their work as gold miners in the western Kenyan district of Nyatike.
Uganda: Civil Society Ask Members of Parliament to Reject Cars Cash
[Monitor]
As anticipated, the secretive Shs103 million each MP has received to buy luxury vehicles just when other Ugandans are facing serious economic challenges has drawn widespread public condemnation.
Uganda: Stop It! You Greedy MPs
[Monitor]
Latest reports that Members of Parliament have started receiving Shs103 million each for new vehicles are absurd.
Somalia: A Political Solution for Somalia
[Chatham House]
Last week Foreign Secretary William Hague made a surprise visit to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, ahead of an international conference on Somalia taking place in London this month. The visit comes at an important juncture for Somalia's internal politics and its relations with the rest of the world.
Uganda: Listen to Us, Uganda Opposition Tells Govt
[New Vision]
Opposition political parties have asked the government to listen to their views or they will pull out of the National Consultative Forum (NCF).
Uganda: I Ordered Minister to Sign Oil Agreement - Museveni
[New Vision]
President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that he ordered the Minister of Energy to sign the agreement with Tullow Oil last week.
Somalia: Calls for Independent Probe of Journalist's Murder
[IFJ]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the National Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), today called on the British Foreign Secretary William Hague to ensure that the "independent inquiry" he called for into the murder of Hassan Osman Abdi, director of Shabelle Media Network, is truly independent.
Kenya: Kibaki Set to Recall Parliament Next Tuesday
[Nation]
MPs have successfully petitioned President Kibaki and House Speaker Kenneth Marende to recall Parliament next Tuesday.
Uganda: Court Dismisses Case Against Monitor Editors
[Monitor]
Makindye Chief Magistrates Court has this Tuesday morning acquitted and discharged two Daily Monitor editors accused of forging President Museveni's letter on Bunyoro/Bafuuruki land question.
Kenya: Key Lessons From the President's Tears
[Business Daily]
As the beneficiaries of Equity Foundation's 'Wings to Fly' scholarships narrated their stories of triumph over adversity, President Kibaki shed tears. The President said it was his "most joyous moment."
Kenya: Stop Lawlessness in Row Over Park Fees
[Nation]
The controversy about introduction of an electronic system in the collection of fees in the Maasai Mara game park is getting out of hand.
Uganda: Fear As Lions Prey On Ishasha Farms
[Monitor]
Kanungu -
Residents of Ishasha near Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kanungu say lions have continuously invaded their homes and eaten their goats and cows.
Uganda: We Either 'Kill' Culture or Preserve Life
[Monitor]
ELEVEN-year-old Cheyech Lima of Doo village in Nakapipirit District died on July 9, 2010, in the bush due to over bleeding-a common FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) complication. According to the "surgeon", one Cheptchai, he was not only cutting for the first time, but hurriedly for fear of the law. "My grand father used to be a 'surgeon'. So elders asked me to start because we needed to cut as many girls as possible," Cheptchai says.
Tanzania: Specialists Join Doctors' Strike
[Daily News]
AS the Parliamentary Committee for Community Services on Monday started to meet various stakeholders in the health sector in a bid to resolve the ongoing doctors' strike, specialists at the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) and Orthopaedic Institute (MOI) have joined their junior colleagues to lay down tools.
Tanzania: Snake Disrupts Church Service
[Daily News]
Hai -
A huge snake emerged at the high table in a church during special fund-raising service in Hai District on Sunday, leading to commotion and stampede as hundreds of worshippers scrambled for their way out.
Sudan: Armed Group Loots 75 Sheep From Fatah Borno IDP Camp
[Radio Dabanga]
Fatah Borno Camp -
An armed group has looted 75 sheep from Fatah Borno internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in North Darfur.
Sudan: Five Arrested in North Darfur
[Radio Dabanga]
Um Kadada -
Security authorities arrested five citizens from the city of Um Kadada in North Darfur on Sunday.
Somalia: Getting Somalia Wrong - a History of International Misreading
[African Arguments]
Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death.
Ethiopia: Jazz and World Music Festival
[RNW Africa]
During the last four days, some of the Ethiopia's finest and most talented jazz musicians and selected bands from abroad have been playing in the "Acacia Jazz Festival & World Music". It is one of the first "Outdoor Jazz" festivals to be held in Addis Ababa and it is designed to entertain not only jazz lovers but also their families.
East Africa: Why Non-Tariff Barriers Should Go
[EA Business]
Being a landlocked country, Burundi's economy depends a lot on her neighbours for transport for both import and export.
East Africa: Pay Traders Over Chaos, EABC Tells Kenya
[East African]
The East African Business Council is putting pressure on Kenya to compensate Ugandans and Rwandan traders for the losses incurred during the post election violence between 2007 and 2008.
Somalia: UN Insists Interim Political Arrangement Must End in August
[UN News]
The international group that brings together the United Nations and its diplomatic partners in support of efforts to restore peace and stability in Somalia insisted today that the country's current transitional governing arrangements must end on 20 August this year, as stipulated in recent agreements, and called for a new draft constitution by mid-April.