South Africa chief justice releases damning report into former president Zuma corruption.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1818 EAT on Friday 24th June 2022. South Africa’s chief justice Raymond Zondo has released a final and damning report after a long-running inquiry into influence-peddling and corruption during former President Jacob Zuma’s nine years in office. It recommends several high-ranking officials face investigation and prosecution. Acting chief justice…

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Museveni lifts ban on Democratic Governance Facility.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1814 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to lift a ban he imposed on Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a civil society funding body, whose activities were suspended last year.  In a press statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit (PPU), Museveni lifted the ban…

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Malawi President strips VP’s power, fires police boss after corruption allegations.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0824 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Vice President Saulos Chilima Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended the powers of Vice President Saulos Chilima after the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) accused Chilima of accepting kickbacks in return for government contracts.The bureau’s findings come a month after Britain’s National Crime…

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Body organ testing: Labour exporters reject Sudhir’s hospital.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0100 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Labour export firms have rejected a directive by the ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct body organ examinations for all migrant workers at the Bukoto-based UMC Victoria hospital which belongs to businessman Sudhir Rupaleria. On May 27, 2022, Internal Affairs minister, Maj…

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Kakwenza petitions Human Rights Commission over children’s passport.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0049 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Exiled novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) accusing the passport office of violating the rights of his children to own a passport.  In his June 20, 2022 petition filed by counsel Eron Kiiza, Kakwenza says that his…

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