Uganda

News Digest (Sep. 01, 2018): Amin Mekki Madani dies, Ahmed Al-Dai Bushara Joudah, Peter Biar Ajak, Darfur United, Bobi Wine…

This is our last Weekly News Digest, a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: Sudanese human rights defender Dr Amin Mekki Madani has died; Darfur United Men’s Team in Los Angeles; El Jareeda and El Tayyar newspapers confiscated;...

Uganda leads Africa’s move to quit the International Criminal Court

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni wants Africa to quit the International Criminal Court over the way the court has handled Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta‘s case. From The Saturday Monitor: Uganda has admitted rallying African countries to collectively withdraw from the...

Grace Akallo comes back from the last place on earth

UNICEF published an awful, true story. The story of Grace Akallo who was abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to fight – to live.  She talks about her captivity and how education became her hope, her salvation – and her impetus to fight for peace. From the...

Free solar power in Peru, al-Bashir and Museveni, UN intervention brigade in Congo

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Peru and free solar power; Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni don't get along; Can the UN intervention brigade bring lasting peace and stability to the war-torn country, Congo? - Peru to...

Congo: 60 000 flee to Uganda after attack

In an article posted on News24 from the Associated Press, it is said that an aid group says about 60 000 Congolese have fled to Uganda after a rebel attack on a town by the border, stretching humanitarian capacities. Catherine Ntabadde of the Uganda Red Cross said Sunday that her...

Uganda expels ‘rebels’, Babies victims of rape, Carbon bubble

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement has recommended the expulsion of four outspoken members of parliament from the party; Babies as young as six months victims of rape in war: U.N. envoy;...