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Lawyers do dumb things. Presidents do dumber things. Lawyer-presidents do dumbest things. Disclaimer: I have done dumb things myself. And I have paid for them and I keep paying for them. Thus this article is not written from a holier-than-thou perspective.

Try holding your breath long enough and your lungs will feel like will explode. The fact is, this is impossible to do for an unusual period of time, because we were not created that way. Even expert divers have their limits.

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There is currently dire need for Ugandan politicians to treat our country as a nation, and not just a huge chunk of arable or pastoral land whose ownership is always up for grabs every five years.

In my report to the Human Rights Council in June 2015, I documented the myriad challenges to upholding the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation.

The sudden cancellation of an Extraordinary Summit on the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) raises serious concerns about the future of this important home-grown African governance and accountability tool.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has just released its May/June school-based senior secondary certificate examination (SSCE) results. From the breakdown, less than one-third of the candidates would be eligible for university admission.

It has been a decade since the people of New Orleans and the Gulf coast were dislocated due to the failure of the federal government to both protect their communities and to rebuild them after the hurricane.

Canadian Forces have trained hundreds of African soldiers at the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre in Kingston Ontario and Lester B. Pearson Centre in Nova Scotia.

The International Community should learn when and when not to interfere in the domestic affairs of Somalia.