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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: DETAINED TANZANIAN JOURNALIST ERICK KABENDERA NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION

[Africa News] CPJ Sub-Saharan Africa Representative Muthoki Mumo: “Tanzanian authorities have a duty to ensure that Kabendera receives the urgent medical care he needs, ...

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TANZANIAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF “RETALIATING” AGAINST JOURNALIST ERICK KABENDERA WITH QUESTIONABLE ARREST AND CHARGES

[Journalistic Freedom] Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) have called on Tanzanian authorities to “immediately drop charges” against journalist Erick Kabendera and to “end its ...

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Tribute: E. Otema Allimadi–Honorable Ugandan Statesman Who Abhorred Corruption

E. Otema Allimadi and Alice Allimadi, who feared the family would end up in exile again.   [Tribute To A Father]   Yesterday Feb. ...

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Uganda: What We Must Do To Recapture Our Lost Potential

  Obote and Kabaka Mutesa II. Political marriage of convenience ended badly. Photo: YouTube.   [Letter from New York]   Travelers, explorers and statesmen ...

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This Week CEFC’s Ho Was Convicted for Bribing Gen. Museveni; Two Years Ago, The Dictator Wanted China’s Help Building “Nuclear Power”

Ho’s memo reporting on opportunities opened up by the $1 million payment for Museveni and Kutesa. Many of his country’s government hospitals lack basic ...

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Committee To Protect Journalists Says Tanzania and South Africa Lied About Detaining its Team

Muthoki Mumo and Angela Quintal  The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists expressed indignation at statements from Tanzanian authorities and South Africa’s foreign minister justifying ...

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What Is To Be Done? Obstacles to Africa’s industrial development

Nkrumah shown with Kennedy during state visit to U.S. was Africa’s biggest champion of industrialization. Ironically the CIA was involved in his ouster during the ...

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How Three Ugandan Soccer Fans Cheered for the Cranes in a Stadium Packed With Tens of Thousands of Tanzanians.

[Soccer Story From Archives] This is the season of World Cup fever so I pull out a soccer story from many decades ago. Soccer ...

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Ugandan Troops on Congo’s Border Again

Another slew of Orwellian headlines appeared in the press this week, along with the usual bellicose chants that war is peace, freedom is slavery, ...

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In Zimbabwe Military and War Veterans Flex Muscles

President Mugabe. Photo-Flickr [Editorial] There are today unconfirmed reports that the Military in Zimbabwe may be in negotiations with President Robert Mugabe for him ...