Tag Archives: Yoweri Museveni
NAIROBI — Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to promote peace, unity and economic development at his inauguration Tuesday as Kenya’s fourth president. Kenyatta and his deputy are taking power while facing charges at the International Criminal Court, which could complicate the country’s … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Kenya, News, Pan African News
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Kenyatta, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Yoweri Museveni
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President Yoweri Museveni has said that Africa needs to address the issue of electricity shortage as one of the means to enhance and enable its development efforts. He made the comments on Sunday at the African Union Headquarters, in Addis … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Sudan, Yoweri Museveni
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Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) The inaugural meeting of Meles Foundation opened this morning (March 6) at the African Union Hall. The meeting is attended by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, President Ismail Omar Guelleh … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abdi Farah Shirdon, African Union, Azeb Mesfin, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Hailemariam Desalegn, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Sudan, Yoweri Museveni
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The two Sudans have pledged a combined $3 million in support of the Meles Foundation, established in honour of Ethiopia’s the late prime minister, Meles Zenawi and officially launched on Saturday in a ceremony held at the African Union (AU) … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abdi Farah Shirdon, Addis Ababa, African Union, Azeb Mesfin, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Sudan, Yoweri Museveni
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by Bizuayehu Tsegaye, ecadforum.com Our world has it’s depiction of evil and evil deeds as the cause of our emotional distresses. It’s product displayed in the verity form of mental and physical pains; worse, taking life. Almost all tells, heritages … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Babylon, Democracy, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Ogaden, Yoweri Museveni
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By Reporters Without Borders In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, making 2012 the deadliest in history for the country’s media. The Horn of Africa state was the … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya
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Tagged Central African Republic, Declaration of Table Mountain, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Omar al-Bashir, Robert Chasowa, Yoweri Museveni
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Leading opposition politician Kizza Besigye was arrested for planning anti-government riots in the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said on Saturday. Besigye has led protests for years aimed at toppling President Yoweri Museveni, to whom he lost a … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Uganda
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Tagged Besigye, Forum for Democratic Change, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Kampala, Kenya, Kizza Besigye, Reuters, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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(Editor’s note: Peter Tatchell’s blog first appeared on Huffington Post UK, and the human rights campaigner then submitted it to SDGLN.) Amid fears that Uganda’s notorious “Kill The Gays” Anti-Homosexuality Bill will soon be revived in parliament, the country’s Prime … read more »
Lemam2010@gmail.com Little is understood in Ethiopia of the concept of ‘developmental state’ (at least outside of EPRDF leadership circles) and there is no effort to discuss the concept in this rather short piece. But it will be naive to understand … read more »
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Tagged China, Dominant-party system, EPRDF, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, IndepthAfrica, Liberal Democratic Party, Meles Zenawi, Yoweri Museveni
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By Tim Kelsall Mozambique’s Samora Machel built a strong consensual party with a succession tradition. Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni has not. 2012 was a tough year for African leaders: one resigned, one was sacked, two were overthrown in coups, two were … read more »
Posted in Article, Mozambique, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Armando Guebuza, FRELIMO, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joaquim Chissano, Mozambique, Samora Machel, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Here is a look at the life Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda. Personal: Birth Date: 1944 Birth Place: Ntungamo, Uganda Birth Name: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Father: Amos Kaguta, a cattle keeper Mother: Esteri Kokundeka Marriage: Janet (Kataaha) Museveni (1973 – … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Uganda
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Front for National Salvation, George W. Bush, Idi Amin, IndepthAfrica, Milton Obote, President of Uganda Yoweri K Museveni, Tito Okello, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Last Saturday came the breaking news that outspoken Woman Member of Parliament Cerinah Nebanda had passed away. Since the Butaleja District Woman MP was an outspoken critic of her own party, the NRM, and no accident was mentioned as the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Uganda
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Tagged Benedicto Kiwanuka, Gilbert Bukenya, IndepthAfrica, James Kazini, Kizza Besigye, Nebanda, South Africa, Uganda, Uganda news, ugandan news, Yoweri Museveni
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By Andrew Green,World Polirics Review KAMPALA, Uganda — Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s long-serving president, has emerged as the central mediator of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, orchestrating the withdrawal of rebel troops from the key Congolese city … read more »
Posted in Article, DR Congo, East Africa, News
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kampala, Rwanda, Uganda, United States, Yoweri Museveni
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Matriarch of the Unholy Trinity Susan Rice, the current U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., has been waltzing (or should I say do-se-do-ing) with Africa’s slyest, slickest and meanest dictators for nearly two decades. More cynical commentators have said she has … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Juvénal Habyarimana, Prudence Bushnell, Rice, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Susan Rice, Yoweri Museveni
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By Michael Keating There is an old saying, ‘if you’re a hammer, you will see everything else as a nail.’ Today there is no bigger hammer in the world than the U.S. military, and in one of its newest interests, … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Paul Kagame, Somalia, United States, United States Africa Command, Yoweri Museveni
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by Shifa Mwesigye In 1982, Prof Nelson Ssewankambo was a young researcher studying a strange disease at Kasensero fishing village, Rakai. Together with Prof David Serwadda and other scientists, they later confirmed the cause of the ailment to be HIV, … read more »
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Tagged AIDS, HIV, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Makerere University School of Public Health, Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Uganda, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Yoweri Museveni
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By Theogene Rudasingwa The international community (read, Western powers) have put pressure on Kagame to have his creation and proxy, M23, withdraw from Goma. President Kabila is being pressured to talk to M23, to listen to their grievances. As we … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, Uganda
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, DRC, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Col Dr. Ndahiro Emmanuel, a historical confidant and former spy of President Kagame has been denied entry to the US prestigious Fort Leavenworth military academy After receiving the information regarding the attack of Rwanda in 1990, like many other young … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Rwanda, Uganda
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Tagged Col Ndahiro, Fort Leavenworth, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Ndahiro, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, ugandan news, Yoweri Museveni
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Kampala. President Jakaya Kikwete and other regional leaders called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel group M23 yesterday to end hostilities and leave a key eastern town they seized in a rampant advance that has sparked fears of … read more »
Posted in Central Africa, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Jakaya Kikwete, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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By: by: Robleh M. Raghe (Lafcanbe) IndepthAfrica — Colourful flags and campaign posters are waved around by young and old, candidates are giving enthusiastic speeches in front of energized crowds and a sense of joy and patriotism lingers through the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Robleh M. Lafcanbe, Somali
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Tagged Dahir Riyale Kahin, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kulmiye, National Election Commission, Somalia, Somaliland, United Peoples' Democratic Party, Yoweri Museveni
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Uganda’s parliament will, before Christmas, pass a highly controversial bill which seeks more stringent punishments for people engaging in homosexual acts and those perceived to be “promoting” homosexuality, says the speaker of the house. Rebecca Kadaga told hundreds of petitioners … read more »
The international battle against the al-Qaeda-allied militant group al-Shabaab is under threat after Uganda said it would withdraw its 5,700 troops from Somalia in a row over a controversial United Nations report. Mr Mbabazi said the report was written by … read more »
By Sybille Fuchs The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Ugandan, ugandan news, United States, World Socialist Web Site, Yoweri Museveni
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By Angelo Izama When Beatrice Atim Anywar received a call from a reporter to ask if her daughter had applied for a scholarship with an oil company, she laughed: “I had no idea,” she said. At over six feet, Anywar … read more »
Jamie Hitchen October 9 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Ugandan independence from British colonial rule. Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM), in power since 1986, celebrated the day’s events at the official event in the district of Kololo … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged AIDS, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica South African Press Association, Kampala, Museveni, National Resistance Movement, political corruption, Uganda, Ugandan, Yoweri Museveni
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By Paul Amina, The Star As Uganda marks its golden jubilee today, Paul Amina argues that the country is a shadow of its former self and that a balanced overview of Uganda’s 50 years of independence shows that (de)colonisation is … read more »
British rule over Uganda came to an end on October 9, 1962. Half a century later, the African nation still has not made the transition to genuine democracy. In the early years of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, Britain’s World … read more »
by John Burnett,npr Rebel leader Joesphy Kony, head of the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army, has achieved greater notoriety than any other Ugandan in the world today. Idi Amin, who ruled the country through most of the 1970s, still stands as … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Idi Amin, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Lord's Resistance Army, Milton Obote, Museveni, Paul Kagame, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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By Peter Nyanzi, independent In early 1964, units of the British led Uganda Army mutinied, demanding “the fruits of independence” and better working conditions. One of the most respected officers at the time, Idi Amin instigated the mutiny when the … read more »
Prof. Jjuuko of Makerere University thinks it is but others differ Makerere University professor Frederick Jjuko recently stirred up debate when in a keynote address he said Uganda is a “failed state”. He said the government’s failure to provide social … read more »
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