Uganda is slowly moving towards pension sector reforms that will hopefully see National Social Security Fund and the Public Sector Pension Scheme cease to monopolize the savings of pensioners. In his 2007/08-budget speech, the finance minister reiterated the need for
SIMEO NSUBUGA is the Police spokesman for Kampala Extra Region and also the officer in charge of community affairs. He talked to Rachel Kabejja about his work
Two University of Botswana (UB) lecturers, Dr Dolly Ntseane of the Social Work department, and Dr Kholisani Solo of the Law department, recently launched a book they co-authored, titled, Social Security and Social Protection in Botswana.
Police arrested US freelance photographer James Buck and his Egyptian interpreter, Mohammed Saleh Ahmed Maree, on 10 April 2008 in Mahalla and took them to the nearest police station, where they were both detained.
The trial of Sipho Moses Maseko and Abdulla Ismail Gaibee, the two South Africans who were arrested in Harare on March 27, 2008 and charged for allegedly violating the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), as
The top United Nations human rights official has welcomed changes to Senegal's constitution to make it possible for national courts to try crimes against humanity, paving the way for former Chadian leader Hissène Habré to be tried for alleged crimes
Since the early 1990s, the world has come to learn about a man named Joseph Kony, the leader of a rebel, mainly Acholi group, called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), operating out of Acholi and extending to its rear bases
The funeral service of the late Mohammed Seid Bareh, veteran fighter and patriot, was conducted in solemn manner today at the Patriots Cemetery in the presence of President Isaias Afwerki, ministers, PFDJ heads, Army commanders, regional administrators, religious leaders, diplomats
The basic point Dr Donald B Kipkorir was making in his article of April 5, titled The Young Politician and the Cabinet: Who Will Cast the First Stone? is that two mistakes make a right.
Angola's National Defence Ministry Friday here accredited general of brigade, Rafael Moracén Limonta, as military attaché of the Cuban embassy to Angola.
A fire swept through part of the remote Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad on Friday, leaving some 3,000 Darfurian refugees homeless. UNHCR staff reported that 10 people were slightly injured, and many refugees lost all their food rations
Every day voices speak out for why President Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga should agree on sharing the spoils of Cabinet offices, and complete the formation of the grand coalition government.
Former Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) negotiator David Nyekorach-Matsanga addresses a press conference in Nabanga on the Sudan-Congo border on Friday after his sacking. Photos/ REUTERS
In an interview with Radio Okapi on Friday 11 April 2008, European Union (EU) Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region Roeland van de Geer said that the EU was committed to assisting the peace process in eastern DRC, and
