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The MP for Lobatse, Nehemiah Modubule has appealed to President Ian Khama to strike out the 'D' for Democracy because he has shown no commitment towards it.
The Forum for Democratic Change President, Dr Kizza Besigye has, in his first major press conference since returning from a 10-day tour of Karamoja, accused the Uganda People Defence Force of gross human rights abuses during the disarmament programme.
Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008.
SUDAN has assured Uganda that it is a partner in peace and dismissed as "irresponsible accusations" claims by a senior LRA officer that it is still supporting the LRA.
An American-Slovak investment group, Bay View, has pledged to remain firm and committed to the continued investment in Rwanda for the development of human resources and socio-economic development of the country.
A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month.
The Federal Government is proposing to buy four more aircraft for the presidential fleet, according to the 2010 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
GOVERNMENT has no money to pay teachers invigilating this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations and is urging the educators to make sacrifices for their students, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday.
OVER 100 Government health centres listed by the Ministry of Health as recipients of drugs and funding are non-existent, according to investigations by the National Medical Stores (NMS).
At least one civilian has been killed and another one wounded in Derkenley district in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
Perhaps that is how it was meant to be.
Wednesday evening's fundraising in aid of those evicted from the Mau Forest was a major political statement, interpreted as an alliance against Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
More than 300 former combatants in Darfur, including women and disabled persons, have participated in a three-day discharge programme organized by the Government of Sudan with support from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Like most industries that start off unregulated, the motorcycle passenger business is growing to be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. In a few years, it has become one of the most dominant modes of passenger transport in Kenya.
The Kenyan Government lost a lot of time implementing the economic stimulus package announced in June by the Finance minister.
United Nations peacekeepers are going beyond the call of duty in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), not only protecting local civilians from rebel militia but also helping them boost agricultural output as well as resurfacing roads and refurbishing a school.
The Islamic administration of Hizbul Islam in central Somalia has banned the business of Kat in Beledweyn town in Hiran region in central Somalia. Officials said on Wednesday.
A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday.
The Senate yesterday approved President Umar Yar'adua's additional supplementary budget of N353.6 billion as part of total expenditure for the 2009 fiscal year. This is apart from the initial N3. 049 trillion that was approved by the National Assembly last December for the 2009 fiscal year.
The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has condemned the on-going clashes between his group the militant group Al-Shabaab.
One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November in a dispute over land and property. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of FCT, dares tyranny for he has vowed to return home as soon as possible. Rufai who left the shore of the country last year for academic purposes declared in a letter that he will be home in December not minding the threat of an eight-count charge of criminal conspiracy and abuse of office while he was the FCT minister set against him by the Economic and ...
It would take US$8.8 billion annually over several years to halve the number of malnourished children worldwide, currently at some 178 million, says Save the Children in a new eight-point action plan.
Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences.
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