David Malingha Doya
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:46
When former U.S. president Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he praised "a new generation of leaders" as champions of a dawning "African Renaissance". Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni was one of them: Two years before, he had been elected president after a decade as a military ruler. Museveni is again running for president — at the age of 71, after abolishing constitutional limits on presidential terms. He refers to the East African country’s oil reserves as his own, holds a public holiday to mark when he seized power in a coup 30 years ago, and is expected to easily win a fifth term in the February 18 elections.
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 09:20
Kenya police tightened security in the capital, Nairobi, on intelligence that suspected al-Shabaab militants are planning attacks on targets in the city including parliament, a spokesman for the legislature said. The action comes as the country’s main opposition party called for elections scheduled for 2017 to be brought forward because of deteriorating security and the government’s failure to address corruption.
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 05:58
African troops in Somalia are planning a surge to free areas still controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants, with more than two-thirds of the country already liberated, government and African Union officials said.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 09:19
Northern Uganda’s return to peace following a 20-year rebellion by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army is spurring investment in oil exploration, electricity production and railways.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:07
South Sudanese army forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar captured two towns in Jonglei state from government forces in a sign of a worsening ethnic divide in the world’s newest nation.