Amnesty International and a conglomeration of human rights activists have stated that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe by ignoring human rights abuses by President Robert Mugabe’s supporters while paying lip service to implementation of political reforms. Amnesty International Africa director Erwin van der Borght [...]
Xinhua reports that the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) office cautioned the Ugandan media on Wednesday to avoid inciting the public during the general elections slated to begin on February 18th. Birgit Gerstenberg, UNHCHR representative in Uganda, told reporters here that although the media should fully exercise the right of freedom of [...]
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono has warned multinational banks currently operating there that they would suffer consequences if they refuse to write loans to ZANU-PF officials or others on Western sanctions lists in another fantastic example of civility in the face of foreign fiscal trepidation. In a monetary policy statement posted to the [...]
The case is important and it set a precedent. Yet, to many, the awarding of damagesmatters less than the fact that, at long last, gay Ugandans stood up and demanded to be treated as equal citizens. What heartens a particular Guardian reporter is that it set a precedent. They had the courage to challenge popular hate and [...]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, seeking a fourth term in office, will arrest his main opponent Kizza Besigye if he carries out his own vote count and announces the results, the presidency issued yesterday. Besigye stated in early October his party planned to hold a parallel count of the presidential election expected to be held on [...]
The Zimbabwean government has recently opened its long awaited one-stop shop investment centre that is expected to reduce the registration period from the current 50-plus days to only 11 in an effort to reel in foreign and domestic investment long stifled from a paralyzed joint government. Besides failing to woo investors to the country because of [...]
Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking political stability, battling economic woes and stubborn rebel insurgencies as it gears up for elections due next year. The polls for the presidency and parliament, due to start in November 2011, will be the second since the official end to the 1998-2003 war, which drew in six foreign armies [...]
The long-standing and ongoing boom in commodity prices has given natural resources investors much to cheer about. It’s also revived a leviathan once thought tamed: resource nationalism or “indigenization”. Following a benign period of global deregulation, liberalization and privatization – the “Washington Consensus” of the post-Cold War era – Tim Woods reports that natural resources [...]
Its an interesting public relations tactic – Zimbabwe’s indigenization laws equate to radical political action which immediately hinders foreign investment, and to counter this clear trend, the Gov’t issues a press release that the aim of such action is to encourage investment security through indigenous participation. Why haven’t we heard this before? Why has the [...]
At this critical juncture in geopolitics, Uganda has made great strides to fulfill both its domestic and regional commitments. The Museveni administration continues to use the resources at its disposal to make the best of what is a rather debilitating situation in rural Uganda; the government maintains pressure on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to [...]
