UN officials made a special visit to Tunisia to determine the progress of it’s recommendations involving human rights and counter-terrorism in the country. According to a report from the UN News Centre, Martin Scheinin visited the country for the first time since last January to see what human rights efforts still needs to be accomplished in [...]

As AllAfrica reports, to run a democratic government in Nigeria is very expensive but the people that run the government determine the political system. In the recent past, the Federal Government has been bedeviled with high- profile corruption which emanated from the military interregnum but has continued under the civilian government. Yet, corruption undermines everything the [...]

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 [...]

It is quite simply paradoxical juxtaposition – a delegation from Uganda on one hand seeks a seat at the United Nations Security Council on behalf of the continent of Africa, a symbolic request unsurprisingly indicative of the bravado of the Museveni administration while on the other, the nation has prospectively failed meeting the Millennium Goals [...]

Things are looking worse than ever in Zimbabwe, as the increasingly isolated President Robert Mugabe defied international pressure and outright condemnation to proceed with a “one-candidate poll” in the runoff election for the presidency on Friday – leaving not only the beleaguered public, but also foreign and domestic businesses, between a rock and a hard [...]