African Great Lakes Observer

  Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is usually a very jolly man. But at the 13th Northern Corridor Infrastructure Summit held at the weekend in Munyonyo, Kampala, he appeared to be the opposite of his usual self. Days to the summit, it had been concluded, and perhaps he had even been briefed early enough, that Uganda had chosen the southern route through Tanzania for the proposed multi-billion dollar crude oil export pipeline. The political manoeuvring With an election not so far away, according to insider accounts, Mr Kenyatta had hoped for his country to snap up the deal via the Northern route to the Lamu Port on the Indian Ocean. The project commencing in a pre-election year meant investments, jobs and other associated benefits—which undoubtedly would go to his government's credit.   More: http:www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/How-oil-pipeline-deal-slipped-out-of-Kenya-s-hands/-/688334/3174606...

  Museveni blames land killings on Britain SHARE   BOOKMARK PRINT RATING President Museveni pays his last respects after laying a wreath on the late Samuel Majyambere's grave in Kitebere-Makulubita village, Luweero District on Thursday. Majyambere was killed over a land dispute recently.PPU PHOTO   By Dan Wandera Posted  Saturday, April 23   2016 at  01:00 IN SUMMARY "I recently set up a committee headed by Luweero LC5 chairman Hajj [Abdul] Nadduli to look into some of these problems and report back with a detailed plan on how we shall handle them. We have been briefed by police that the suspect has been arrested but we still wonder why one would opt to kill a man like Majyambere because of a land dispute," Museveni Luweero.  President Museveni has castigated the British colonial masters for messing up the local land ownership system in Buganda which has become a cause of persistent murders and...

  On Thursday, 21 April 2016, 15:05, "JNepo jnmani03@yahoo.com [uRwanda_rwacu]" <uRwanda_rwacu@yahoogroups.com> wrote:   Rwandan publication says Kagame planned xenophobia in Zambia http://www.zambiawatchdog.com/rwandan-publication-says-kagame-planned-xenophobia-in-zambia/ Rwandan publication says Kagame planned xenophobia in Zambia By  +  on  April 20, 2016 14 Comments KIGALI EVENING POST WRITES: HOW THE RWANDAN RPF EMBASSY IN ZAMBIA PLANNED AND EXECUTED XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON INNOCENT RWANDAN REFUGEES INSIDE ZAMBIA By NAYUBUHORO Elise, Kigali All these attacks on the Rwandan Hutu refugees have been organized and executed by the Rwandan High Commission in Zambia in conjunction with the Rwandan Embassy in Tanzania and Kenya. HOW DID ALL START AND WHO IS BEHIND IT The Tutsi government here in Kigali has always wanted to forcibly re...

  Zambia arrests over xenophobic attacks in Lusaka More than 250 people have been arrested in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, to curb xenophobic violence which has hit the city, police say. At least 62 Rwandan-owned shops have been looted in the the riots which have spread to nine poor neighbourhoods, police added. Many Zambians describe it as the worst xenophobic violence in the country. The riots started in two areas on Monday following rumours that Rwandans were behind ritual killings in Lusaka. At least seven people have been murdered in recent weeks and their body parts removed. Rumours circulating on social media alleged the body parts would be used as charms to ensure success in business.   More:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36084858   __._,_.___ Posted by: Alfred Ng...

  Nigeria: UN human rights experts call for progress in abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok 12 April 2016 – Ahead of the second anniversary of the abduction of 200 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok in Nigeria, a group of United Nations and African human rights experts today appealed to Boko Haram to immediately reveal the location of the girls, and urged the Government of Nigeria to escalate its efforts to free all civilians kidnaped by the group. "In the last two years, despite re-assurances from those at the highest level of the Nigerian Government, the parents have not seen any concrete progress in locating and liberating their daughters," the experts   said . "The lack of access to information increases the suffering of the abductees' families through false hopes and frustrations." The experts said that while they understand the security considerations put forward by the authorities, which prev...