By Nangayi Guyson in Kampala Uganda – Another Ugandan journalist who has been working as news presenter for the Seventh Day Adventist radio station in Uganda has been beaten and killed by an unidentified assailants. Dickson Ssentongo has been working for Prime Radio in Mukono district, central Uganda as a Luganda language news presenter but he was attacked on Monday morning on his way to work. Assailants beat Ssentongo with metal bars and dragged him into a nearby cassava field, local journalists told CPJ. He was the second journalist murdered in three days in Uganda after freelance journalist Paul Kiggundu... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson, – Seven civilians were killed by gunmen on Wednesday in an area north of Bujumbura that residents suspect of harbouring a reformed rebellion and where security forces launched a swoop. “When we arrived at the scene we found six bodies with bullet and machete wounds and 11 others injured four of them critically,” Ntirandekura told AFP, adding that a seventh victim died in hospital. Earlier, regional police chief David Nikiza said two civilians were killed and wounded in the Rukoko marshes by unidentified armed bandits. Regional administrator Bonaventure Ntirandekura said a gang of eight bandits in army... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Johannesburg – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s chief lawyer representing him at his war crimes trial is visiting South Africa. A defence team spokesperson said on Thursday Courtenay Griffiths is in Johannesburg but gave no further details has been given but sources say, Griffiths had expressed interest in meeting officials around Africa, possibly to testify at Taylor’s Netherlands-based trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Taylor says he is innocent of 11 war-crimes charges linked to allegations he supported rebels during Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, which ended in 2002 with an estimated 100 000... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Khartoum At least 37 people were killed and 26 injured on Thursday when two buses collided in the northern Sudanese state of White Nile, the director of Sudan’s traffic police said. “The accident came after bus tried to overtake a truck, but it failed and it collided into a minibus coming the other way, setting the minibus on fire”, Mohammed Tahier Fadl said. Thirty-seven people were recorded dead and 26 others were injured in the crash,” with four children among the dead. The accident happened near the settlement of Alrader, some 60km south of the capital... Continue Reading
Making the world clean and green, one idea at a time. The Cleantech Open Global Ideas competition is a hunt for the most promising clean technology ideas anywhere in the world. One national winner from each country will then compete, in November, against the winners from other countries at the global finals in California. This is your chance to join a major national project that can really make a dif¬ference. The Cleantech Open is more than just a fun competition, more than just cool technology, more than just smart entrepreneurship. Together, we’ll find, fund and foster the most promising cleantech... Continue Reading
