Safe haven?: LGBTQ+ refugees face hardships in Kenya’s Kakuma camp
TONNY ONYULO reports on the plight of the LGBTQ asylum-seekers and refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya…
Sudanese paramilitary leader Hemedti meets civilian leaders on tour
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Cairo, EgyptReuters The leader of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo met on Monday with civilian pro-democracy politicians in Addis Ababa, the latest stop in a foreign tour as his troops take the upper-hand in a devastating nine-month war. The meeting comes as General Dagalo, known as Hemedti, has appeared […]
Sudan RSF leader visits Uganda in first known wartime foreign trip
Reuters The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said on Wednesday he met Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, his first confirmed appearance outside of Sudan since the war between RSF and the Sudanese army broke out in April. Dagalo, whose whereabouts during the war have been unknown, said on X the […]
Uganda to reopen century-old rail link after China fails to fund new line
Kampala. UgandaReuters Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country’s north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, a railway spokesperson said. The line, which has been out of use for roughly 40 years, is part of the […]
Essay: Why schoolchildren are regularly being targeted by terrorist groups in many countries
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRIAN J PHILLIPS, co-author of ‘Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relations and the Killing of Civilians’, explores what’s behind what appears to be an escalating trend of terrorism against schools…
Uganda sends more troops to pursue attackers who killed 37 students
Kampala, UgandaReuters Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, near the border with the […]
Militants kill 37, abduct six others in attack on Ugandan school
Kampala, UgandaReuters Militants linked to Islamic State killed 37 people and abducted six others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on Saturday. Military personnel found the bodies of the dead when they arrived at the school, defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye […]
Ugandan law widens Anglican Church rift over LGBTQ rights
Kigali, Rwanda Reuters The chair of a conservative group of Anglican church leaders on Wednesday accused the church’s global head of perpetuating colonialism with his criticism of one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, introduced by Uganda last month. Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion’s 85 million […]
Uganda accuses West of blackmail in its response to anti-LGBTQ law
Kampala, Uganda Reuters Uganda on Tuesday condemned the Western response to the East African country’s new anti-LGBTQ law, considered one of the harshest in the world, and said sanctions threats from donors amounted to “blackmail”. The law signed by President Yoweri Museveni carries the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, an offence that includes transmitting HIV […]
Uganda confirms casualties among country’s soldiers in Somali attack
Kampala, UgandaReuters Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said late on Saturday there had been casualties during an attack by Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabaab on a military base manned by Ugandan peacekeepers in the Horn of African country on Friday. Museveni did not say how many soldiers were killed or wounded but it was the first official […]