Guinea Soldiers go on Rampage, Rape Women in Streets, Killed dozens
Guinea’s government said Tuesday it would investigate why troops opened fire on protesters at a pro-democracy rally. A human rights group said 157 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured....
View ArticleGold Addiction Fuels Brutal Congo War
This Sunday “60 Minutes” will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo. CBS reporter Scott Pelley’s investigation found that conflict...
View ArticleStrange case: First Eritrea's soccer team go missing in Kenya, now granted...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has granted asylum to the 12 members of the National Football (Soccer) Team of Eritrea that defected in Kenya on...
View ArticleWhy do women fake pregnancy in Uganda?
“I did unimaginable things, dancing around a graveyard at night, drinking all sorts of herbs but nothing helped, so maybe that’s what God wants me to be – without children. What hurts most is the...
View ArticleUganda plans to resettle 500,000 over mudslide risk
Half a million people will need to be moved from their homes in mountainous areas of Uganda because of the risk of mudslides, the government has said. Hundreds are believed to have died last week when...
View ArticleYemeni troops and rebels in deadly clashes in south
At least one person has been killed in clashes between the government and secessionist rebels in southern Yemen. Government forces tried to recapture a municipal building occupied by separatists,...
View ArticleCongo army clashes with Ugandan rebels, 50,000 flee
Tens of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fled their homes amid an army offensive against Ugandan rebels, presenting fresh impetus to humanitarian agencies’...
View ArticleRights Group: Uganda Rebels Abduct Hundreds
Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army has abducted more than 697 people in a largely unreported campaign in the Central African Republic and northern Congo over the past 18 months, a rights group said...
View ArticleWhen bullets rained like popcorn
“I am Sister Christine Nanyanzi Nakuwam, a trained social-worker, posted to Karamoja (Kaabong District) five years ago. In 2005, the fighting with warriors played out here like music – it was constant...
View ArticleAnother journalist beaten to death in Uganda
A journalist was on Wednesday morning was beaten to death by unknown assailants wielding metal bars in Mukono district, just three days after another scribe was mobbed to death by boda boda cyclists...
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