Category: East Africa

In a letter dated March 28 and addressed to EAC Council of Ministers, the chairperson, South Sudan’s EAC Affairs Minister Deng Alor Kuol said they will convene virtually on March15 before the Summit decides on Mathuki’s fate on the same day.

However, the five justices struck out Sections 3 (2) C, 9, 11 (2)d and 14 for being inconsistent with the Constitution as they violate the right to health, privacy and freedom to religion.

The new Prime Minister replaces Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, who resigned at the end of February as a legal requirement after he won a parliamentary seat. 

The federal parliament in Mogadishu on Saturday approved several constitutional changes that the government says are necessary to establish a stable political system.

In its review of the United Kingdom, the committee said it regretted the arrangements made with some with third countries, particularly Rwanda, to transfer asylum seekers, as well as “efforts to adopt the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill despite the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that the arrangement would not be compliant with international…

But, even the issue of extending that term itself, as well as whether to hold elections at all, is divisive. First Vice-President Riek Machar is pushing for extension, but that has also earned him increasing isolation from senior figures in the unity government, The EastAfrican understands.

Two EAC partner States- Uganda and Burundi, are on the spot for delaying the ratification of an enforcement mechanism.

Gen Muhoozi has been serving as his father’s senior presidential advisor in charge of special operations.

The markers, some of which had never been repaired since independence, were destroyed as bandits targeted them over unverified claims that the material used to erect them was made from valuable minerals.

Patients once assured of care now find themselves in a dehumanising state, left on their own as hospitals and doctors demand cash before treatment.