ICT, Media & Security

When Reeyot was arrested and imprisoned by the personal order of the late T-TPLF capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) Meles Zenawi in June 2011, I was outraged but not surprised. I had no idea who she was; never heard of her name.

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A group of 15 female protestors were beaten with wooden batons by members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on Wednesday 3 February at Haj Yousef bus station in Khartoum.

When Major F. X. Nzuwonemeye, one of the Co-Accused in the “Military II” case at the ICTR, was acquitted by the Appeals Chamber in February 2014, he had already served 2/3rds of the 20-year sentence which had been imposed by the Trial Chamber.

An historic victory over South African neoliberalism was won on October 23, after the most intense three-week burst of activist mobilization here since liberation from apartheid in 1994.

On Friday 17 October, President Yoweri Museveni presided over a function at Speke Resort Munyonyo where his campaign song entitled “Tubonga Naawe” was launched. The song overly praises Mr. Museveni and his NRM government.

The Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) wishes to express dismay and outrage over the passage of the Parliamentary Powers and Privilege Bill 2014 with clauses that clearly violate the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and which deliberately seek to undermine press freedom.

BACKGROUND

Several alternatives have been put across for Africa’s development agenda: industrialization, infrastructure, agriculture, universal primary education, universal secondary education, aid, trade and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) among others.