By Brigadier Peter Okuja – Before I highlight specific human rights abuses, it is of fundamental importance that I put the situation in Uganda in perspective. Some Democrats, News Media and academicians have gone through contortions and gyrations in order to portray Museveni as a Democrat, a human rights observer and a believer in transparency and accountability of Government, who has even according to them, appointed an Inspector general of Government to oversee and investigate corruption. Raphael Baku who headed Research at NRM secretariat cannot in all fairness oversee corruption and human rights abuse when he deserves to be investigated... Continue Reading
Women earn less than men for similar work and, despite the growing focus on reducing gender inequality in recent years, the pay gap is widening. “Women in developing economies in particular are worse off today than they were last year, giving credence to the impression that women bear the brunt of economic downturns,” says Sandra Burmeister, CEO of the Landelahni Recruitment Group. In South Africa, women earn on average 34% less than their male counterparts, compared to 33% a year ago. The pay gap is at its lowest in the non-profit sector at 5%. In the public sector it is... Continue Reading
By Kenneth Matimaire – ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s hip-hop First Lady, Black Bird has voluntarily taken up a humanitarian role by using her music to spearhead a fundraising campaign for the hunger stricken Somalis. At a time when most hip-hop artists are more concerned with the negative aspects of the culture such as beefing and gang banging, Black Bird focused on the positive elements of the genre. She took advantage of her venomous spit to record a single titled “Prayer for Somalia” as a way of raising awareness about the crisis in Somalia through music. The single will also be used... Continue Reading
London, 30 Oct 2011 – Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff in Marere, in Lower Juba Region, southern Somalia, are treating dozens of injured following an aerial bombardment on the town of Jilib that hit a camp for internally-displaced people at around 1.30 pm on Sunday 30 October. At this time at least 3 people are reported dead and 52 injured, mostly women and children. MSF is transporting the wounded to the hospital in Marere for stablisation and treatment, and may have to refer some patients to other facilities due to limits to the surgical capacity at the hospital. Somalia has been hit by a severe humanitarian... Continue Reading
Gambia: By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Baba Jobe, former National Assembly majority leader of the ruling APRC party, has been admitted at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) since Sunday, reliable sources have told this paper. Though the exact illness he suffered from was not revealed to this paper, because of what sources say was medical rules, Jobe it would be recalled was arrested on 10th October 2003 and charged with economic crimes. He was convicted and jailed on 26th March 2004 by Justice MA Paul for nine years in prison, and has since then been serving his sentence at... Continue Reading
