Tanzania’s president is making his first state visit to Kenya since taking office last October, in a bid to improve relations strained by economic competition.Kenya is “quite important to Tanzania,” President John Magufuli told reporters upon arriving …
As the date for the IGAD Regional Ministerial Meeting on Migration draws closer, the National Organising Committee (NOC) held several sessions to prepare the first ever meeting at that level on the subject in Uganda.During the 25th October at a plannin…
The United Nations refugee agency announced today its intention to double funds for cash-based assistance to refugees across the world by 2020 as a way to better assist and protect them”The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in t…
Some 23,000 illegal firearms confiscated by the South African police were destroyed in a foundry in Germiston, Gauteng province, as part of efforts to fight that scourge in the country.The largest confiscations were made in Western Cape province (3,461…
Two Ugandan activists who recently stormed the United States Embassy in Kampala have been charged in the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Makindye here under the Public Order Management Act.The duo, Moses Bigirwa and Allan Kitonsa, who appeared before Grade…
A Thai rubber was sentenced to three years’ jail by the High Court in the northern peninsular state of Perlis Friday for smuggling in two Ugandan women into Malaysia.Judicial Commissioner Abu Bakar Katar handed down the sentence on Muhammad Romlee Aron…
South Africa and Burundi have sent letters of intent to withdraw from the International Criminal Court to the U.N. secretary-general. Gambia says it will do the same.These threats are nothing new, says Angela Mudukuti, international criminal justice la…
A new study conducted in Uganda has found that humanitarian assistance for refugees creates significant economic benefits for the local economy, and these benefits are greater when the assistance is in the form of cash transfers and land for agricultur…
Every week, IRIN’s editors offer a selection of important and/or interesting resources that may have flown under your radar. This week’s humanitarian reading list:Colombia’s peace conundrumColombia’s negative referendum result may have been a setback o…
On October 27, The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Abdusalam H. Omer signed the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) charter during the Council Ministers’ (COM) Meeting in Bali, Indonesia on …
The government of Uganda is considering the cancellation of land titles which were issued to various investors and individuals around Lake Victoria, in a bid to save the biggest lake in Africa and to improve its water quality.State Minister of Water an…
Ethiopian troops who have been fighting Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have vacated a series of military bases, sparking fears of a militant resurgence and a possible setback for African Union efforts to stabilize the country.On Wednesday, Ethiopian tr…
Yei River County’s commissioner and other local officials defected this week to a SPLM-In Opposition faction loyal to former South Sudan First Vice President Riek Machar, according to Yei River State officials. Bidali Cosmas Wori-Kojo is the second Yei…