By Francis Kagolo The Ugandan Government has commended Victoria University management for rejecting orders from UK-based University of Buckingham (UB) to embrace homosexuality. The two universities have been collaborating for over a year, with majority of Victoria University students offering University of Buckingham courses. They, however, parted ways early this week after UB asked Victoria […]
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By Eugene Agha Lagos — An explosion on board a ship servicing MRS Oil and Gas tank farm at the Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos sparked a major fire yesterday, disrupting operations at the depot. Witnesses said many people were injured by the fire that resulted from the explosion, which happened at about 11am. There […]
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Cape Town — South African police fired rubber bullets to repel hundreds of rock-throwing farm workers during a strike for higher wages on Thursday, during a second day of violence in the normally calm and picturesque wine lands. Police and farm workers fought running battles along the N1 motorway which links Cape Town and Johannesburg, […]
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By Tinashe Madava SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma is expected to up the pressure on his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Robert Mugabe to solve the crisis north of the Limpopo as ZANU-PF dilly dallies on reforms before elections. With harmonized elections expected within six months, there is no movement on the election roadmap spearheaded by the […]
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Malian troops received reinforcements in the central town of Mopti on Tuesday night (January 8th), AFP reported. Troops in the area are receiving a boost after the army reported that shots were exchanged with Islamist fighters after the rebels tried to move into Kona, a town near Mopti. “Terrorists and Islamist armies from al-Qaeda in […]
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New York — UNICEF today warmly welcomed the launch by Save the Children of a new Report, Ending Poverty in Our Generation – Save the Children’s vision for a post-2015 framework. “The new Save the Children report is an important contribution to discussions on the critical question of how the world can best address the […]
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By Francis Kagolo Kampala — The University of Burkingham in the UK has suspended its affiliation to Victoria University in Uganda that was established about a year ago. The suspension was connected to Uganda’s laws against homosexuality and the Anti-homosexuality Bill currently before Parliament. The Victoria University Chancellor, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told New Vision that […]
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In a ruling that lasted five minutes, a new judge appointed to the Ethiopian Court of Cassation in the capital, Addis Ababa, rejected on January 8, 2012, an appeal filed on behalf of award-winning journalist Reeyot Alemu, according to local journalists. Reeyot, who wrote columns critical of the government for the now-defunct independent weekly Feteh, […]
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The acquittal of two Cameroonian men jailed for “looking gay” because they wore women’s clothes exposes the systematic discrimination against perceived homosexuals in the country, Amnesty International said today as the pair’s convictions were overturned by an appeals court. Jonas Kimie and Franky Ndome have spent more than a year in prison following their arrest […]
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By Tommy Trenchard Freetown — The air is heavy with the smell of marijuana as Gibrilla (23) expertly rolls a large joint at the Members of Blood (M.O.B) gang base in a poor neighborhood of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. He is part of a generation of young people faced with a chronic shortage of jobs, […]
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