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When this newspaper started making calls about the threat of 'rebels' in Bunyoro last week, few people in the know could make head or tail of it.
The Islamic administration officials of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in Bay and Bakol regions have refuted reports saying that seven people were executed in the regions; officials told Shabelle radio on Saturday.
President Barack Obama who late on Saturday made a major speech in Accra, Ghana in which he outlined his administration's view of Africa hinted that he will not be tolerating undemocratic behaviour, a position that has ramifications for Uganda.
Until last year, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo was largely unknown in Kenya. He entered the national discourse when Justice Philip Waki wound up his inquiry into last year's post-election violence.
United States President Barack Obama singled out the Kenyan civil society and business leadership for praise over their efforts in helping to end last year's post-election violence.
Mr Kofi Annan has dropped a bombshell on Kenya by handing over the Waki Envelope to Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Chief mediator Kofi Annan handed over the Waki list and haul of evidence to stop further delays in bringing suspects to justice, he revealed on Friday.
As President Barack Obama continues his tour of Ghana on Saturday, it may be an emotive homecoming for the first African-American President of the United States.
It is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law - possibly amounting to war crimes - are being committed in strife-torn Somalia, a top United Nations official said today.
The transitional authority in Madagascar is willing to bring forward elections for the presidency and the legislature and hold them before the end of this year, writes Iloniaina Alain in the Antananarivo newspaper, L'Express de Madagascar.
A day after a Ugandan woman, allegedly sold to work under slave like conditions in Iraq by a local labour recruitment company appeared at Parliament, Saturday Monitor has learnt that at least eight more women have been rescued in a joint operation mounted by some Ugandans working as guards of American bases and the US Marines serving in the Arab country.
The Zanzibar Government has re-stated its position on oil and natural gas resources, saying they should be excluded from the Union list.
A significant amount of Government money is diverted to personal use each year by corrupt senior public officials, President Jakaya Kikwete said yesterday.
The Government has until September 30 to prove that it is committed to setting up of the special tribunal to try perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence, failure to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) might take over prosecutions.
United States President Barack Obama has again used the Kenyan example to impress upon the African leadership on the need for policy change.
Political parties have asked the International Criminal Court to make public the names of suspected perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence.
Southern Sudan could face a food crisis this year because of erratic rainfall in several states, insecurity disrupting farming patterns, and poor infrastructure affecting aid delivery, local specialists said.
THE Ministry of Finance has released an extra sh10b for emergency food for the famine-hit north and north-eastern parts of the country, Parliament has been told.
SOME Kenyans and Kenya-based organisations have been assisting the new rebel group, known as the Uganda People's Front (UPF), security minister Amama Mbabazi has said.
Eight Malagasy women die per day while giving birth, either due to complications during the pregancny or during delivery, according to a recently-published national Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
The Government has banned the use of water from Tigithe River in North Mara, Tarime District, it has been learnt.
The Government said yesterday it will employ 7,000 policemen and other personnel in the security and rescue operations sections ready for the next year's General Election.
The control centre for search operations to recover bodies of victims of the Yemen airline crash in the Indian Ocean will be set up in Dar es Salaam, the police have said.
The Tanga-based sisal company, Katani Limited has formed an energy company, Mkonge Energy System, to specifically deal with production and selling of energy from renewable sources.
Tanzania was yesterday drawn into the investigations surrounding the recent Yemeni airliner crash in the Comoros, after eight bodies, believed to be of passengers of the ill-fated plane, were located close to the Mafia Island.
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