Why the Arab Spring failed to spread south of the Sahara? (Phil Clark)
Phil Clark, an academician specializing on African issues, published an interesting piece on ‘Why has the Arab Spring so far…
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 4:10 am
Uganda
The Economist’s article on Ethiopia’s maritime ambitions
Highlights: * .....losing the coastline has not scuppered Ethiopia’s merchant fleet. The state-owned Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) has eight ships…
Sunday, May 27, 2012 @ 11:56 pm
Somalia: Kenyan military plans to capture Kismayu port in June
The Kenya Defence Force(KDF) is scheduled to join the second and final stage of the operation to flush out al…
Saturday, May 26, 2012 @ 11:19 pm
Kenya: Terror suspect not Swedish rather a Swiss citizen
Highlight: The “Swedish” national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab…
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:45 pm
Kenya to send home a Swedish terror suspect
A Swedish citizen, Magd Najjar, has been detained by Kenyan police on alleged links to Al-Shabaab. Kenyan media reported, citing…
Monday, May 14, 2012 @ 7:23 pm
Report: UK citizens make up a quarter of Al-Shabaab’s foreign fighters
‘Britons are thought to make up about 25 per cent of the 200 or so foreign fighters that the Al-Shabaab…
Sunday, May 13, 2012 @ 10:00 pm
HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins
Highlight: * The epidemic was born between 1881 and 1924. A few decades later, the virus had migrated far from…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 @ 5:57 pm
Research: Al-shabaab’s Leadership Hierarchy and its Ideology
(By: Dr. Abdi O. Shuriye) Abstract This research studies the deriving ideology and directions of al-Shabaab movement. The organization constitutes…
Monday, May 7, 2012 @ 1:01 am
Uganda: Questions over progress against the Lord’s Resistance Army
The US believes its military intervention in central Africa in pursuit of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is having…
Sunday, March 4, 2012 @ 4:34 am
Uganda: Charcoal boon a bust for forests
Once a fortnight, Moses Sserwada travels from the capital, Kampala, to northern Uganda to pick up a truckload of charcoal…
Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 2:33 am
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