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  • Ending Africa’s Culture of Impunity

    AFRICA, 2016/06/11 Africa has a long tradition of leaders who inflict great brutality on their own people and who, next flaunting their contempt for human rights, escape accountability for their actions as long as they remain in power. This creates a precedent of impunity for next despots. A much-needed break in the sordid trend occurred this week, as Chadian dictator Hissène Habré was sentenced to life in prison by a Senegalese court for war crimes committed during his policy from 1982 to 1990. This marks the initial time an African leader has been prosecuted and sentenced by the courts of an extra African country.

  • The Child Migrants of Africa

    ITALY, 2016/06/11 LAST year, the news media focused intensely on the European refugee crisis. Some 800,000 people crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, a lot of fleeing wars we had a hand in creating, in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Each segment of their journey was carefully documented by thousands of reporters and photographers. But there is an extra humanitarian crisis in Europe we have heard much less about: the roughly 200,000 migrants and refugees who left Africa for Italy since last year. This year alone, some 2,000 have died while making the voyage.

  • Rwanda: I&M Bank Gives Facelift to Survivor's Home

    RWANDA, 2016/04/20 i&M Bank refurbished a home of an 8-year-old widow who is a genocide survivor in Buhoro cell of Musambira sector in Kamonyi district. Virginie Mukarubega's home was painted and installed with solar energy, rainwater harvesting tank, furniture and foodstuff. "I am very happy to get this home renovated. I used to buy candles, torches or kerosene lamps for lighting but would instantly run short of funds. We have been borrowing chairs from neighbours at the same time as we get any visitors. It was like a shame," she said. The renovation is part of the bank's corporate social responsibility activities. Since 2014, i&M Bank has been in partnership with AEGIS Trust Rwanda to honour genocide victims, helping survivors to rebuild their lives, inclunding sensitisation and confronting prejudices that can lead to genocide.

  • Uganda: What Voters Must Know

    UGANDA, 2016/02/10 It is exactly nine days to the much-awaited February 18, at the same time as registered Ugandan voters will begin casting their ballot at 7am across the country to pick the next president and Members of Parliament. Other lower tier government voting will be happen in the weeks next. Because elections are high-stake, the exercise is often fraught with suspicion, tension and, in some cases, clashes. Uganda's politics has over the years become heavily commercialised, with the Alliance for Campaigns Finance Monitoring estimating that all the parties and individual presidential candidates in the initial two months combined spent Shs137 billion.

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  • Uganda hosts new Burundi peace talks

    BURUNDI, 2016/01/10 Burundi’s government has demanded the withdrawal of key opposition figures if peace talks, restarted in Uganda on Monday, are to continue. Initial deputy chairman of the country’s ruling CNDD-FDDD party, Victor Burikukiye, speaking in Entebbe today said: “I would like to mention that if those who participated in the [May 2015] coup are here, we shall not continue with the talks.”

  • Ethiopians celebrate Orthodox Christmas

    ETHIOPIA, 2016/01/10 The domestic counters of Addis Ababa Bole International Airport are heaving with passengers going to Lalibela, a town in northern Ethiopia which is home to what a lot of consider to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Lalibela churches are 11 ancient monolithic structures carved out of solid granite. It is here that a lot of pilgrims of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from different parts of the country travel to celebrate Christmas. The airport is particularly busy on the eve of Ethiopian Christmas, which falls on Jan. 7 each year.

  • Djibouti cuts diplomatic relations with Iran

    IRAN, 2016/01/08 Djibouti said Wednesday it has cut diplomatic relations with Iran amid a diplomatic crisis with ally Saudi Arabia. The tiny Horn of Africa country is a strategic port on the Gulf of Aden with a key position on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf has "severed diplomatic ties with Iran," a government statement read.

  • Kenyan college where al-Shabaab killed 148 reopens amid tight security

    KENYA, 2016/01/05 Kenya’s Garissa University has reopened nine months next an al-Shabaab shooting rampage killed 142 students and six security personnel. A staff conference was held on Monday, with students expected back for lessons on 11 January. Security has been reinforced, inclunding the deployment of 25 police officers to a new barracks built within the campus. Garissa is the biggest town in the region, straddling Kenya’s long border with Somalia, which has been repeatedly targeted by militants. “The reopening of the university marks an significant milestone,” said principal Ahmed Osman Warfa. “We fought very hard to have this institution here and will not accept losing it.”

  • Resumption of Burundi talks offers chance for peace

    BURUNDI, 2016/01/03 Negotiations aimed at ending the Burundi crisis resumed in Uganda on Monday with rival parities expressing commitment to the process. Chief Mediator of the talks, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, told the rival parties that the East African region cannot allow a repeat of the 1994 Rwanda genocide anywhere in the region. He urged the rival parties to expeditiously conclude the talks so that the suffering of the people in Burundi can end. "I appeal to you, the two sides to sit down and have a political solution so that you save our people who are going through that suffering," Museveni said here 40 km south of the capital Kampala.
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