Governance

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The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) network of governments are coming to Durban, South Africa, in four months, meeting on March 26-27 at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Africa’s largest venue.

The ruling party Zanu PF, under the leadership of Robert Mugabe lost support as it failed to develop a credible economic strategy, which then resulted in deteriorating governance and, ultimately, paralysis.

The Egyptian government has finally concluded an initial loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following two years of continual negotiations.

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).

This article is about the twin evils that have bedeviled the World Bank’s relationship with Africa as a continent and Africans as human beings.

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.

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