The government of Djibouti had borrowed substantially from the World Bank to create a Center of Excellence facility, intended to address the problem of child malnourishment WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, June 7, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired,
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Uganda's Inspector General of Government (IGG) has ordered ordered the suspension of a contract between Lugogo Cricket Oval Managment and Zoe Christian Fellowship. The suspension is contained in a letter issued by the IGG, Irene Mulyagonja following complaints about the agreement between the two parties. "This is therefore to direct
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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has promised to step down in 2020. President Nkurunziza on Thursday told supporters that “I will support the new president who will be elected in 2020,” adding that “a man can change his position in the bed but he cannot change his word.” Deadly political violence
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WHY AM I ENDORSING COUNSEL ASUMAN BASALIRWA? Dear friends, A few people have been asking me why I decided to endorse Counsel Asuman Basalirwa in the upcoming Bugiri Municipality MP elections. Let me use this opportunity to explain why. First of all, let me remind us all of the nature
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will on Friday make a two-day state visit to Uganda where he will be awarded a medal of honor, said a statement on Wednesday. A Ugandan State House statement said Abiy will be awarded The Pearl of Africa Grand Master medal at a function where
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Sudan said on Wednesday it had cut all defence ties with North Korea, in a rare admission that it used to have such ties in the first place. The announcement came as Washington is locked in a standoff over Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear weapons programmes, and as Sudan, which is
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Japan has expressed her willingness to support Uganda's vision 2040. This was conveyed by the Asian country's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tara Kono during a joint press conference with his Ugandan counterpart, Sam Kutesa in Tokyo on Tuesday. In 2007, Cabinet approved the National Vision Statement, “A Transformed Ugandan
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In March, Kenya agreed to accelerate a health agreement it signed with Cuba last year to bring in 100 doctors. The doctors, who have started arriving in Kenya, are meant to fill what the government has termed "gaps" in county hospitals. The Kenyan doctors' union thinks those gaps should be
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Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said he thinks he can make a difference in the stalemate between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar. Odinga is offering to mediate talks between the president and his former deputy to end the nearly 4½-year civil war in South
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A group of activists marched on the Ugandan police headquarters Tuesday, protesting what they see as a lack of police response to recent kidnappings and killings. Donning black T-shirts, the participants chanted, carried banners reading "Women's Lives Matter," and used saucepans and small drums to call attention to their demonstration.
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