Uganda

Firearms fired at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister on Tuesday, injuring the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, an army spokesman and local media reported. Four motorcyclists opened fire on a vehicle with General Katumba Wamala, Minister of Labor and Transport, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, the local television station NBS reported. Pictures circulating on social media showed Wamala with his mouth open, in obvious distress next to the car and his light pants…

Uganda, relatively spared so far by the Covid-19 pandemic, has seen the number of positive cases increase in recent weeks in the country. A new wave that raises fears of new restrictive measures while the curfew is still in place. On Saturday night, President Yoweri Museveni spoke on TV to launch a warning message about the development of the health situation.…

In Uganda, the Ministry of Well being estimates that roughly 1.4 million persons are HIV-positive within the nation. But when the therapy is free, many determine to not take the drugs. Worry of discrimination, denial of the illness, melancholy, medical doctors should do actual work to lift consciousness to be certain that their sufferers observe their suggestions.…

EDITORIAL: Farmajo's rejection of AU mediation in Somalia is conceited EDITORIAL | Somalia's outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has said that the brand new Particular Envoy for Somalia, Ghana's former President John Mahama, is not going to be put in because the Excessive Consultant of the African Union for Somalia. And the federal authorities claims that his announcement…

Farmajo meets AU chief after rejecting Mahama's appointment in Somalia's disaster KAMPALA, Uganda - Embattled Somalia's outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo held a closed door assembly with the African Union Fee on Wednesday President Moussa Faki of Uganda, in what might presumably have centered on the present election demise in Somalia, which has ultimately reached boiling…

Elected in January final yr with greater than 58% of the vote for a sixth time period - already 35 years in energy - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni swore on Wednesday morning, Could 12. And this, 4 months after the final election, particularly by his rival Bobi Wine. as reported from Kampala, Lucie MouillaudFor over an hour,…

In accordance with official outcomes, Museveni, president for 35 years, gained the final election 4 months in the past with greater than 58% of the vote, forward of his primary opponent Bobi Wine. The latter nonetheless condemns election fraud and in Kampala the police are making ready to keep away from all incidents in the course of the ceremony.…

Farmajo's "regardless of" harming harmless Somalis MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dysfunction, drama and normal mismanagement may finest describe Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's reign, whose time period expired on February 8, forcing him to hunt legitimacy by all out there means. Because the nation didn't arrange direct elections in time, a dialogue convention attended by most…

Palaver bushes on the pearl of the lagoon ... Abidjan was the positioning of two occasions linked to the anticipated nationwide reconciliation: in Burkina Faso, first; on the Ivory Coast then.In the image, exhausted Blaise Compaoré appears to be like like she's misplaced. To the fitting, Zéphirin Diabré, severe face, straight as an "I". Between the 2 Burkinabè flags. Environment ... The photograph is in fact within the…

Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became commander of the infamous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), was sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court on Thursday. Ongwen, 45, whose nom de guerre was "White Ant", was found guilty in February of 61 charges, including murder, rape and sexual addiction during a period of terror in the early 2000s by the LRA, led by the fugitive Joseph Kony. Prosecutors had asked for a 20-year prison…