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Rwanda: The population forced to make contributions to fund farcical parliamentary elections.

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The RPF regime INKOTANYI is in full gear preparing parliamentary elections on September 16,2013 in which no individual or party critical of the regime will take part. Leaders of key opposition parties are in jail for politically motivated reasons. These include the chair of FDU-Inkingi Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Bernard Ntaganda, chair of PS Imberakuri, Deo Mushayidi of Chair PDP/Imanzi… Read More

Zimbabwe: Women forced to flee their homes for refusing to reveal their vote

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Women political activists in rural Zimbabwe told Amnesty International they have been threatened with violence and forced to flee with their children for refusing to reveal their vote to supporters of Robert Mugabe’s party during harmonized elections.  The women said they resisted instructions from Zanu-PF supporters to feign illiteracy, blindness or physical injury, which would have meant someone else marking… Read More

East African passports set to go international

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Starting January 2016, the East African Community citizens will begin using regional passports to travel internationally. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP.  Starting January 2016, the East African Community citizens will begin using regional passports to travel internationally. All partner states are expected to procure passport booklets and issuance systems between July and October 2015. The launch date in each partner… Read More

Zimbabwe’s MDC considers protests against Mugabe landslide

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Tsvangirai calls Zimbabwe election “huge farce” (01:30) By Ed Cropley HARARE | Fri Aug 2, 2013 10:49am EDT (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s victory in elections it rejects as a farce and which face skepticism from the West. No results of the presidential vote on July 31… Read More

DR Congo rebels face disarmament deadline today

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Congolese government army soldiers stay concealed at an attack position near Munigi, overlooking the front-line, where they are fighting against M23 rebels outside the eastern Congolese city of Goma, July 15, 2013. – Reuters picKINSHASA, Aug 1 — Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline today to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed… Read More

From Rwanda to opportunity in land of the free

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TurayishimyeLaw student Jean Paul Turayishimye laughs during an interview at his Leominster home.(T&G Staff / Rick Cinclair)» Enlarge photo       LEOMINSTER — His American friends tell him it seems more like a movie than real life, when he shares some of the horrific violence and corruption that exists back home in the jungles of Central Africa.  The exiled Rwandan’s… Read More

Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete threatens Malawi over lake dispute

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LILONGWE(AGV)--Speaking on Thursday during the country's heroes' day celebrations, Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete made a rumbling speech saying its armed forces were ready to protect the country against any foreign threat to its territory, raising the stakes in an escalating border dispute with Malawi. . Read More

Insults to President Joyce Banda merit a fine and conviction

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Blantyre, Malawi, july 24 (Raphael Tenthani/MaraviPost) _ A court in the northern Malawi city of Mzuzu has convicted a 37-year-old man for calling President Joyce Banda "stupid" and a "failure". Japhet Chirwa, who was arrested on Tuesday, pleaded guilty to the single charge of 'conduct likely to cause breach of the peace', a misdemeanour under Section 182 of the Penal... Read More
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