Comment & analysis

I was awestruck to watch on Television on 26 October that the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) won a continental award as the leading National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

We, Form Fives, a.k.a. Grade 12s, are a people chained, facing the lit walls in the darkness of our own country. On the walls we watch our fantasies and desires. We see ourselves with a lot of money, one day living in luxury — in a mansion.

So the International Conference on the Great Lakes (ICGLR) summit in Kampala is over, boycotted by the principal culprit in the tragedy, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and presided over by President Museveni of Uganda.

‘His re-election in 2012 has generated little celebration,’ writes Harvard Professor Calestous Juma in Forbes Magazine http://tinyurl.com/csefuoz .

I remember my first love.

Martelly, who came to office in a grossly unrepresentative process which excluded Lavalas, the country’s most popular party (see Counterpunch), has been closely linked with figures around former dictator Jean

For not less than 12 years, Somalilanders were chanting ‘Democracy’ without a deep understanding.

On 4 November 2012, the new Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon announced the composition of his first Cabinet with two women appointed as part of the 10-member executive.

I would like to take a moment to respond to two commentators who wrote responses to my articles published by Pambazuka News: ‘South Sudan in the post-CPA era: Prospects and challenges’ [1] and ‘The role of women in nation-building in South Sudan.’ [2] I will begin by responding to that written by

Domestic violence has been described as abuse of power, trust, or dependency.