Kenya top court hears bid to annul re-run poll
NAIROBI – Kenya’s Supreme Court has begun hearing three petitions challenging last month’s presidential election re-run, won by the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta with 98% of...
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South Sudan ends house arrest for ex-army chief
JUBA – South Sudan’s former army chief of staff has been freed from house arrest after nearly six months. General Paul Malong was sacked in...
Kenya’s professional witness
Two accidents, 184 kilometers apart, but happens to have the same witness, scared Kenyans. By Njeri Kimani, editorial@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – Kenyans dismissed him as a...
Activists want Uganda to arrest President Bashir
BY Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – Human rights activists in Uganda are pushing Uganda to effect the International Criminal Court arrest warrant and arrest the...
FBI joins investigations into mysterious killings of women in Uganda
BY Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA –The American Federal Bureau of Investigations have arrived in Uganda to help investigate the recent back-to-back killings of women in,...
Tanzanians equate Museveni to their country’s founding father
BY Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – Tanzanian politicians have likened the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni to the founding president of their nation, Julius Nyerere. Museveni,...
KDF under pressure to end al shabaab charcoal export business
NAIROBI: The Kenyan forces in Somalia have not assisted the Somali government to end exportation of charcoal by the al shabaab, an affiliate of al...
President Kagame in Senegal for security meeting
KIGALI- Rwanda’s President is in Senegal for an annual international security meeting that brings together global security experts. Kagame was received in Dakar on Monday by...
Tanzania, Uganda against ICC Burundi probe
KAMPALA – Uganda and Tanzania have expressed their displeasure about the decision by the International Criminal Court to start probing the government of Burundi for...
UN Monitors accuse South Sudan of using food as weapon
JUBA – The government of South Sudan has been accused by the United Nations Monitors of deliberately preventing humanitarian food to the starving refugees. The...
