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Police in western region are hunting for yet to be identified assailants who murdered a tea estate manager in Kabarole District last week.
At least 150,000 people, residents of Kasese District who had crossed to the Democratic Republic of Congo but were evicted, have started feeling the pinch of expulsion, Daily Monitor has learnt.
The R.Kelly anticipated concert is 69 days away but Zain Uganda, the company behind his coming, has already stepped up activations.
The Top Model Trend (TMT) grand finale is on tomorrow at Kampala Serena Hotel starting 6 p.m.
The president of Somalia's Puntland State has said that his government will play major role in the formation of more regional states that would help in stabilizing the Horn of African nation.
OBRADOVIC Tomislav will stand in for besieged Amavubi head coach Branko Tucak at this year's Orange Challenge Cup which kicks off next Saturday in Kenya.
East African Community's neighbours, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Sudan have shown interest in joining the five-nation grouping.
Power in Kenya will be divided between a president and a prime minister under the new constitution. The draft, unlike the current law, is clear on the authority of the President and the PM.
The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.
Houses left behind by Mau settlers were demolished on Thursday in a clear indication that the government would not allow the evicted squatters to return to the forest.
A wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.
THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan.
When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out.
Some lawmakers have called on the embattled President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to resign over incompetence and making several foreign trips since his election.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni told cultural leaders yesterday that the Cabinet has approved the draft Bill on traditional leaders.
The government plans to deploy more security officers in the Mau forest amid threats by local politicians to lead evicted settlers back into the forest.
African countries have been urged to support the International Criminal Court to promote justice and peace.
Treasury is emerging as the missing link in the quest for a better livelihood for a huge fraction of Kenyans and accelerated economic growth through bureaucratic red tape.
The Committee of Experts did a sterling job in publishing the draft of the proposed new constitution within a very short time frame.
Despite high-sounding pledges, Kenya's war against corruption is yet to record significant gains.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.
At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The guns have gone silent - except for sporadic conflict in parts of the vast South Sudan region, such as the Eastern Equatoria State. It may not be the absolute end of the conflict in the region, but it is a reason for renewed hope.
Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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