Two of the three arrested Mengo officials, Medard Lubega and Betty Nambooze, were yesterday charged with sedition at the magistrate's court in Nakawa and released on bail. The third, Peter Mayiga, was not brought before the court. He had been released on Police bond earlier in the morning.

The United Nations Security Council is no stranger to intractable international disputes. But soon Sudan will present it with a different kind of problem, one it has not faced in its 62-year history.

Former Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River escaped arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Tuesday by the whiskers, courtesy of the timely intervention of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Federal Government has described the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as ill-timed and an action that could aggravate the already bad situation in the country.

A FORMER Vodacom executive is facing charges of perjury after allegedly lying to the Competition Commission.

Emotions of extreme joy and extreme agony played out in Kyenjojo yesterday as the three Buganda Kingdom officials were rearrested only moments after being released.

President Isaias Afwerki today received and held talks with a Sudanese government delegation headed by the Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdulbast Sebderat. The delegation also includes Mr. Al-Semani Al-Wesila, Deputy Foreign Minister.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been dragged before an Abuja Federal High Court to answer questions he allegedly misappropriated N32 billion realised from the sale of federal government houses in Abuja.

TRANSPORT and Communications deputy minister Hubert Nyanhongo has been accused of defying two High Court orders compelling him to vacate a farm in Burma Valley, Manicaland, he seized from a white-commercial farmer, Johan Vorster.

The first women lawyers' association in Somalia has been established in the Somaliland region with the help of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Court proceedings have started at Nakawa High Court where two Buganda officials Medad Lubega and Betty Nambooze are appearing before Nakawa High Court Magistrate Deo Nzeimana.

Mmegi Online (http://www.mmegi.bw/ ), the webpage for Botswana's leading daily newspaper, reported on 18 July 2008 that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gaborone North, Keletso Rakhudu, says he intends to table a motion requesting the government establish a Freedom of Information Act during the forthcoming parliamentary session, due to start in early August.

It is quite disturbing that after more than 10 years of stakeholders bringing the obnoxious Trokosi system to national attention, it is still live and kicking.

Senior administrative government positions need to put to competitive bidding such that competence is the driver for selection not political considerations, campaign group Transparency Rwanda says.

WHITE commercial farmers say they did not fake injuries during the hearing of the land case at the Sadc Tribunal in Namibia in a bid to attract sympathy from the judges.

Mystery now surrounds the whereabouts of the sum of $210million paid by two oil companies for oil blocks in the 2003 bid round carried out by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as officials of the department were yesterday unable to account for it in the ongoing investigation by the House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee into the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum ...

THE Cross River State caucus in the National Assembly yesterday charged the federal authorities to defer the August 14 scheduled final handover of Bakassi to Cameroon until after the election of a substantive Governor for the State.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered the immediate release of N59 billion being part of the N115 billion 2008 budget for the Ministry of Energy to enable it address the epileptic power supply in the country.

Workers should reject their July salaries and go on leave, the Trade Union Confederation of Tanzania (Tucta) said yesterday.

The Federal Government has appealed to the people of the Niger Delta region to give them chance to address all the injustices they have been suffering for years.

For two consecutive days, this newspaper has published an article each day making a case against another article which appeared in a Ugandan publication, Daily Monitor, last week.

The Rwandan government has made notable progress in reforming its judicial system since 2004, but fair trial is still not assured, said Human Rights Watch in a new report released today.

Uganda risks losing several of its properties abroad due to lack of land titles, the Auditor General has said.

Nkobazambogo, an umbrella group of Baganda youth, yesterday tried to forcefully enter the office of the Katikkiro (prime minister), J.B. Walusimbi, protesting his 'soft approach' to the arrest of three kingdom officials.

Buganda Katikkiro (prime minister) John Baptist Walusimbi has suspended negotiations with the Government following a court order that the kingdom's detained officials be freed unconditionally.