Category: Featured
Did President Museveni get his facts right about Uganda’s development?
Claims Four claims about economic and educational progress in Uganda. Source: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (January 2019)checked Verdict One correct, one mostly correct, one misleading, one incorrect President Yoweri Museveni said Uganda’s economy had grown steadily since 1986, and adult literacy has risen. His claim of 6.3% average economic growth since 1986 was correct, but two…
Govt to register all Kenyans and foreigners in the country from mid February
By JEMIMAH MUENI, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 31- The Government will start the National Integrated Identity Management System registration of all Kenyans and foreigners in the country from mid February this year. Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho on Thursday said everything is ready for the roll out of the exercise which will be piloted in 15 counties. “We…
Conflict between brothers splits Uganda’s thriving Abayudaya Jewish community
MBALE, Uganda (RNS) — During a recent Shabbat service here, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu led dozens of worshippers in a prayer for unity. Women sang psalms. Children clapped. Men wearing yarmulkes played drums and guitars. Locally known as Abayudaya or “the people of Judah,” they practice Conservative Judaism with an African flair — and right now, need…
Kenya bomber’s journey offers cautionary tale of intelligence failures
The bomber who blew himself up outside a Nairobi hotel this month, launching an attack that killed 21 people, was already so well-known to Kenyan police that they had emblazoned his face across billboards under the slogan “WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE”. Mahir Khalid Riziki was barely 20 when he joined a radical Islamist cell that…
Politicizing Eritrea peace perpetuates conflict cycle
arly last month, Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki opened the Humera-Oumhajer border. It was more progress that builds on the end of a long standoff between the two nations. The new crossing should allow movement of people as part of the normalization. Unfortunately, and in keeping with the turbulent history…
SOMALIA:Airstrike Kills 24 Al-Shabab Extremists
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The United States military says it has killed 24 al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in Somalia. The U.S. Africa Command says the airstrike was carried out on Wednesday near an extremist camp near Shebeeley in the central Hiran region north of the capital, Mogadishu. The U.S. carried out nearly 50 such…
GOLD RALLY IS OVER: Gold Rises for 4th Month
Investing.com – First it was palladium’s turn and now gold is racing to new highs above $1,300 an ounce, leaving other precious metals in the dust. Gold chalked up its fifth-straight day of gains as January trading ended on Thursday, finishing higher for a fourth-straight month. That was also its best winning streak since April…
SOMALI: Hargisa & Mogadishu Carrying Out Joint Cryptocurrency Trials
SomaliCoin Beta launched in 2012 and has been waiting for the perfect time to go LIVE. The SomaliCoin carry out tests on a new cryptocurrency before it is introduction into the national financial system Cryptocurrency wave has taken over the entire world. There is no single country that does not have a trace of cryptocurrency…
OPINION: Why Internet Censorship Doesn’t Work and Never Will
Speech regulations are always going to be either too loose or too strict, and users are always going to exploit them. Regulating speech is difficult even under the best of conditions, and the internet is far from the best of conditions. Its patchwork system of regulation by private entities satisfies no one, yet it is…
SOMALICOIN Solution to Funds flowing to terrorism: National Security
Mobile money agents in Kenya have become cautious as the police investigate a link between use of the service and terror activities in the East African nation. SomaliCoin a Security Token was working for the past 7 years in building its infrastructure to solve money laundering to terror groups and criminal actors in the Somali…
