Kampala, (HRW)- The government of Uganda has failed to hold to account senior officials implicated in the theft and diversion of public funds, Human Rights Watch and Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic said in a joint report released today. No high-ranking government official, minister, or political appointee has ever served...
By Franz Wild Ali Omar Mohamed fled Somalia’s civil war two years ago to seek a better life in South Africa. Now after being robbed at gunpoint and seeing scores of his countrymen murdered in xenophobic violence, he’s ready to leave. Mohammed, a 21-year-old shopkeeper, is part of a growing tide of immigrants who say they prefer...
By Robyn Dixon and Alexandra Sandels JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A Somali-born Norwegian said to be a suspect in a deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall was described Friday by former classmates and others who knew him as an observant Muslim who struggled to fit in after his family fled their troubled homeland. Norway’s...
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities have subjected political detainees to torture and other ill-treatment at the main detention center in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian government should take urgent steps to curb illegal practices in the Federal Police Crime Investigation Sector, known as Maekelawi, impartially investigate allegations of abuse, and hold those responsible to account. The 70-page...
The Olympic champion on why he never wants to do another Mobot, how he avoided prison and the army, and why the Daily Mail almost cost him his gold medals By Tim Jonze It’s neck and neck at the halfway point. I get the better start, but Mo Farah – a man renowned for his strong finish –...
Files on her seized computer show her relentless quest for mass carnage – and that she has the funds to carry it out Police hunting for the White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite fear she is planning more deadly attacks after masterminding the Nairobi shopping centre massacre. It has been revealed that documents found on her laptop show the...
By John Daly il companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.” That said, there remain a few nations where even the intrepid masters of the universe hesitate to tread. In Central Asia, it is Afghanistan, despite the nation’s purported 1.6 billion barrels...
WRITTEN BY EDWARD SSEKIKA In a bid to get to the root of the reported theft of UPDF food rations in Somalia, President Museveni on Thursday staged a surprise inquiry, questioning soldiers fresh from the battlefield. After hours of listening to personal testimonies from low- cadre soldiers, the commander in chief was dumbfounded, sources at...
By Gitau Warigi Those busy questioning why the Kenyan army is in Somalia fall into two categories: those who are simply ignorant and those serving a pan-Somali agenda. Tetu MP Ndung’u Gethinji, who chairs the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, recently gave the most lucid rationale I have heard so far for the...
By David Malingha Doya Ali Mohammed says that once close friends regard him and his fellow ethnic Somalis in Kenyaas “enemies of the state” since Islamist militants attacked a shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi. “I’m living in a lot of fear,” Mohammed, who runs a trucking business, said in an interview in Nairobi’s Eastleigh suburb, a...