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Update–here is a new blog post from Progressio on the Somaliland election: “Election hots up, but remains largely peaceful.” Somaliland election–preliminary observation report due on Monday.. Initial...
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A few links to set the scene as we approach 30 days to Kenya’s vote . . .
Jay Naidoo of The Daily Maverick writes from “the Mukuru Kwa Reuben slum, one of the largest in Nairobi” with an unknown population size: “I have a right to a toilet–it’s human dignity”. An update on...
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How is IGAD’s “diplomatic observation” regarding Kenya’s election process...
Africa Review reports on the statement of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) from this week’s visit to Nairobi by executive secretary Mahboub Maalim (himself a Kenyan) and others...
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Is Uhuru on his way to being the next East African authoritarian American...
Before noting the choice of speakers for the Uhuruto inauguration, the idea that governance in Kenya might be in the process of falling in line with its East African neighbors has been much on my mind...
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EAC: Complaining of “lack of democracy and ideological disorientation”...
American President George W. Bush meets with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda Friday, July 11, 2003 in Entebbe, Uganda. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the Daily Monitor, “Museveni faults Africa”...
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Famed photojournalist Mo Dhillon responds to AU on the ICC trials: “African...
Sir Mohinder Dhillon, renowned Kenyan photographer, photojournalist and filmmaker shared this new essay which he also submitted to the ICC judges: “GADDAFI AND MUSEVENI” African Unity leading Africa...
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The U.S. “official” infatuation with Kenya, in numbers
I’ve spent some time looking at “Official Development Assistance” (“ODA”) numbers for Africa to test my perception that the U.S. seems, for some reason that is hard to pin down, to give an inordinate...
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Roadside Still
Roadside Still, a photo by AfriCommons on Flickr. For my friends at the African Studies Association annual conference this week . . .
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New Congressional Research Service report on the U.S. response to the Lord’s...
The Lord’s Resistance Army: The U.S. Response was submitted by CRS on May 15 and has been published by the Federation of American Scientists. The LRA is assessed to remain in much diminished capacity...
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Uganda: “bursting at the seams” says State OIG inspection
The State Department Office of the Inspector General released this afternoon its latest regular inspection report for the U.S. Embassy in Uganda. The Kampala mission, the second largest in Sub-Saharan...
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“Look, no hands”— Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Uganda declines to offer...
In an interview in today’s edition of Uganda’s state owned New Vision, retiring U.S. Ambassador Scott DeLisi addressed the current Ugandan campaign for the 2016 elections. In response to a question...
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More on risks of President Museveni’s (re)election commission, Rwanda and...
“Uganda at ‘crossroads’ opposition leader warns” from Amy Fallon for AFP today: Besigye said he feared Uganda is “now very clearly at a crossroads”, and demanded an overhaul of the electoral commission...
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Unnamed Kenyan officials figure in UN bribery charges involving “Chinese...
The criminal complaint unsealed yesterday by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York of six individuals, including John Ashe, the former President of the U.N..General Assembly, and...
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Is Libya to Burundi in 2016 as Somalia was to Rwanda in 1994?
I have no answer to this question, and I hope and pray it is just something to think about abstractly. What I am getting at is that for purposes of public consumption at least the Western democracies...
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Updated: Once more, with feeling: Museveni’s election commission has...
Contrary to what one would expect for a fair competition for elective office, Museveni appoints his own seven member election commission (with confirmation by the Parliament controlled by his NRM)....
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Observers find candor in Uganda and condemn elections on basis of...
Which raises the question: “why observe?”. “Uganda’s elections again fall short of democratic benchmarks” says the Commonwealth Observation Mission. In spite of my sarcasm about an observation being...
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Museveni’s Election Commission has released voting station data–putting...
See “Ballot box stuffing in Uganda elections: early analysis of open election data surfaces suspicious stations“from Drew Bollinger at developmentSEED.org. Those who follow Kenya’s elections will...
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U.S. fights in Somalia; Old lions–Kissinger, Moi, Scowcroft,...
Things had gone so far awry on the democratization front by last year to trigger a Washington Post editorial noting the authoritarian trend in East Africa. Recently we have news of a major U.S....
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Meanwhile, Uganda is reported “sliding into crisis”
With attention focused on Mugabe’s capitulation to the military and his erstwhile ZANU-PF cronies in Zimbabwe, and the accompanying exuberant popular optimism, the Crisis Group released its latest...
View ArticleCIA reported that Kenyans expected a Ugandan air strike the week of July 27,...
This item of Kenya – Uganda – United States history comes from a recently declassified Presidential Daily Brief from the CIA from the Ford Administration. Unfortunately about half of the item relating...
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