"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Militia group reacts to Kampala’s offer to send more troops to Somalia.The dreaded al-Shabaab militia group has once again sent signals of terror attacks if Uganda failed to pull out of Somalia’s Soil.
MWANZA (Tanzania) - Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results – for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake.
African nations are increasingly taking control of their own science funding — but they must keep the money coming, When it emerged earlier this year that Uganda’s government was not planning to renew a low-interest science loan from the World Bank, Ugandan scientists were alarmed.
The executive secretary of the Independent Media Council of Uganda told VOA journalists have every right to criticize President Yoweri Museveni and hold his government accountable for its actions, after a court declared the country’s sedition law unconstitutional.
The East African region is on high alert following the recent twin bombings in Kampala which left 76 people dead and several others injured.
Civil society campaigners attending the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda are seeking new investments in stopping the deaths of women and children, which is the main issue slated for discussion by the African leaders.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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