This week, my article targeted Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Uganda. Recently, strikes have been causing conflict between the students at the Uganda University and the police in Uganda. Police have been throwing tear gas at student strikers, sending many of them to hospitals. There have also been reports of actual bullets being fired in Uganda to try and stop the strikes…. Read more »
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) says it will study the 2018 Mining Royalties Research Report, which highlights the complexities and challenges facing South Africa’s mining industry. “The department will study the report and the issues it highlights, consider where it enhances our commitment to eradicate corruption and how it should respond to the challenges,” said the department. This follows… Read more »
Business in and around Kyambogo university premises was paralysed as police fired teargas to disperse students who were striking over what they described as an unfair fees policy. The students on Thursday went on strike protesting a policy that requires them to have cleared tuition by the 12th week of the semester or risk an automatic temporary withdrawal (dead semester)…. Read more »
MORONI (Reuters) – Comoros said its security forces killed at least three gunmen in a shootout at a military base in the capital on Thursday after renegade soldiers broke out of prison and the opposition announced a plan to unseat the president. Shooting could be heard for around an hour near the main military base in the capital Moroni, hours… Read more »
BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) – Mozambique will start a cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, after five confirmed cases were detected. Thousands of people were trapped for more than a week in submerged villages without access to clean water after Cyclone Idai smashed into the Mozambican port city… Read more »
Kampala — The Police have admitted that Ronald Ssebulime was murdered in cold blood. Ssebulime was on Sunday gunned down by police for allegedly trailing ICT State Minister Ida Erios Nantaba. On Wednesday, Fred Enanga, the Police spokesperson apologized and withdrew the police’s earlier statement which indicated that Ssebulime was shot dead for allegedly planning to assassinate Nantaba. Enanga says… Read more »
By Nahshon Musungu Burundi has bowed to pressure and released three schoolgirls who were detained for allegedly scribbling on President Pierre Nkurunzinza’s textbooks, Justice Minister Aimee Laurentine Kanyana told the BBC. The detention of the girls about two weeks ago on a charge of insulting the head of state had led to a social media campaign under the hashtag #FreeOurGirls… Read more »
EU ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen has challenged government to bring tangible evidence that targeted sanctions imposed on some top government officials and associated entities were hurting ordinary people as often alleged. Addressing journalists and civil society activists at a MISA-Harare advocacy committee discussion in Harare on Tuesday, Olkkonen also dismissed continued government claims the travel and asset freeze on… Read more »
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, has explained why the federal government proposed a smaller 2019 budget than that of 2018. Speaking at a public hearing on the 2019 budget on Wednesday, Mr Udoma said the cut was necessary to manage the debt of the country. While the 2018 budget was N9.1 trillion, the 2019 budget was… Read more »
The issue that the North Atlantic Council of KarMUN 2019 is concerned with is the new route of migration that leads through the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the effect it has on the country. The New Balkan route for migration opened because the route previously followed has been closed down by the governments of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia… Read more »