Human Rights Watch says the 2011 polls could be bloody if perpetrators of violence in previous elections, among them serving ministers, are not prosecuted and punished for criminal behaviour.
The East African Business Council (EABC) with support from TradeCom Facility has embarked on a regional private sector sensitisation programme aimed at educating private sector players on ways of harnessing business opportunities under the World Trade Organisation.
The Bill Gates Foundation has approved a $19 million (about Shs35 billion) grant in support of surveys in agricultural information in Uganda, Tanzania, Niger, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Malawi.
Permanent Secretary Eugene Munyakayanza during the official opening of the workshop yesterday. (Photo: F. Goodman)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an investment arm of the World Bank Group, yesterday held a one day training session for auditors authorised by the Central Bank to support Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs).
As part of the continued efforts to increase condom use and availability to curb HIV prevalence, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Aurélien Agbénonci has added his voice to the on-going campaign that seeks to reduce the country's infection rate.
Someone has remarked that Rwanda is becoming a country of firsts and maybe he has a point.
Governments expressed the will at the seventh ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to finish the Doha Round of trade negotiations as soon as possible. But the Africa Group still deems development to be a more important priority than a speedy conclusion.
Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba must be detained until his trial, appeals judges at the International Criminal Court said today, reversing a pre-trial decision to release him.
Prosecutors today questioned former Liberian president Charles Taylor on his decision to grant Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leonean rebel forces who relocated to Liberia in December 1999 after falling out with the Sierra Leonean rebel group's hierarchy.
THE Pan-African Parliament (PAP) Observer Mission has okayed the election process, but not without a good dose of criticism.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday ruled out the possibility of introducing video technology or even goal-line assistant referees in time for next year's Soccer World Cup.
The United Nations Special Envoy on Aids in Africa, Ms Elizabeth Mataka, has urged Uganda to reconsider its proposed HIV law, saying it could fuel the spread of the virus.
UGANDANS are among the foreigner militants fighting alongside Al Shabaab to overthrow the Somali government, the African Union Mission in Somalia has said.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has led United Nations condemnation of today's suicide attack at a graduation ceremony for medical students in Somalia's war-scarred capital, Mogadishu, which has claimed at least 15 lives.
Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalised in the major debates leading up to the COP15 climate-change summit in Copenhagen this month.
Climate talks due to take place in Copenhagen could be a turning point for developing countries, a senior UN official has said.
President Kibaki arrived in the country Thursday morning from a commonwealth's meeting that passed key resolutions on climate change.
A simplified version of the Rome Statute under which The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) was established has been launched in Uganda.
Determined to fight the spread of death and other consequences of malaria, the Nigeria Inter-Faith Action Association, (NIFAA), has collaborated with the World Bank and the Ministry of Health to conduct a nationwide campaign to stop the spread and deaths caused by malaria across the country.
More than two million people are reported to have died from AIDS-related illnesses globally, while two million children under the age of 15 now live with HIV.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is adamant there would be no change in refereeing methods during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
President Kibaki returned home on Thursday morning from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, where he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
A weak deal in Copenhagen would be the worst possible outcome for the one in six people going hungry around the world today, warns ActionAid.
The European Union (EU) yesterday demanded that the government stops offering lip-service in the fight against corruption.
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