Category: East Africa

And out of either, a change of tack or fear of censure from local and international human rights watchdogs, security forces have allowed Bobi Wine to go about his tour.

A 26-year-old freelance journalist who held British and American nationality, Allen was shot and killed on August 26 of that year while covering a confrontation between the South Sudan People's Defence Forces and the former rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-in-Opposition (SPLA-IO) in Central...

And in a show of continual anger against the UN Mission known as Monusco, gunfire could be heard for most of the morning following new demos against the Mission’s presence in North Kivu. Several sources, including the Kivu Security Barometer, an organisation that tracks conflict...

In a statement, she named former minerals minister Doto Biteko as Deputy Prime Minister and placed various other existing ministers in new dockets.

In a two-paragraph statement, the Presidential Communications Unit gave no reasons for the abrupt change as Siwa, a former Tanzanian High Commissioner to Rwanda, was sworn-in almost immediately as director general of the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Services (TISS) at a brief State House ceremony...

The law -- considered one of the harshest of its kind in the world -- contains provisions that make "aggravated homosexuality" an offence punishable by death and includes penalties for consensual same-sex relations of up to life in prison.

That has raised criticism as well, with some quarters terming the pace “too fast” (Somalia resubmitted the bid late last year) for a country still at war with itself and several other governance problems.

The global lender on August 8, 2023 halted new loans for Uganda’s development projects, following the country's enactment of Anti-homosexuality Act, 2023. 

The six individuals are Rwandans and Congolese rebels, or members of their respective defence forces in what could signal the cross-border complexity of the conflict.

However, the final decision will still rest with the government of the DRC, which has to sign the Status of Force extension to grant the troops permission to stay.