Ugandan health authorities have allayed fears that coronavirus could be driving the wave of cough and flu, which is sweeping through the country. Local media reported increased cases of people being bedridden for days or losing their voices with the onset of an intense cough, flu and fever. In a …
Read More »Autopsies rule out organ harvesting in Kenya cult deaths
Autopsies on at least 112 bodies of cult victims exhumed from shallow graves in Kenya’s coastal Kilifi county have ruled out organ harvesting. Government pathologists said some of the victims died of starvation, strangulation and suffocation. Kenyan police are expected dig up more graves in search of victims of the …
Read More »More than 100 dead in floods and landslides in Rwanda
The death toll from landslides and floods in Rwanda has now risen to more than 100 amid heavy rains in the country, local media reported, citing authorities. The Rwandan public broadcaster, RBA, reports that 109 have so far died, 95 of those in the western province and 14 in the …
Read More »Uganda’s parliament reconsiders anti-homosexuality law
Ugandan parliament has watered down an anti-homosexuality bill that originally criminalised people for simply identifying as LGBTQ+. The proposed legislation, first approved in March, was returned to the house after President Yoweri Museveni suggested changes. He said the clause penalising people who identify as gay would have led to the …
Read More »Autopsies of deadly fast victims begin in Kenya
The autopsy and identification of more than a hundred bodies found in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where the followers of a sect gathered, began on Monday morning, announced the interior Minister Kithure Kindiki. “The process of autopsying the bodies begins immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside the …
Read More »Ugandan minister Charles Okello Engola shot dead by his bodyguard
Uganda’s Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Colonel (rtd) Charles Okello Engola was shot dead by his bodyguard on Tuesday morning at his home in Kyanja, a suburb of Kampala. It is not yet clear whether there was an argument between the soldier and the minister. Some …
Read More »Kenyan pastor Ezekiel Odero arrested after 98 bodies exhumed
Ezekiel Odero, one of Kenya’s most influential pastors, was arrested on Thursday after being accused of the ‘mass murder of his followers’ The pastor, all dressed in white, Bible in hand, was transferred to the regional police headquarters in Mombasa, local media report. The arrest comes as authorities announced measures …
Read More »11 female lawmakers arrested during protest in Uganda
Uganda’s police detained 11 female members of parliament on Thursday who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest, Reuters reported. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to …
Read More »UK relocates its Sudanese ambassador to Ethiopia
UK Ambassador to Sudan Giles Lever has moved to neighboring Ethiopia after the embassy temporarily closed due to the conflict in the country. “From Addis Ababa, he will lead the UK’s diplomatic efforts in the region to bring fighting to an end in Sudan,” the British Foreign Office said in …
Read More »Uganda: President Museveni calls for changes to LGBT bill
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has asked the country’s lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, local media reported. This measure is part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation. Last month, Ugandan …
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