Uganda is the new Zimbabwe

Thirty protesters picketed the Ugandan High Commission in London on Friday in protest of the persecution of gay and lesbian Ugandans. They were from the National Union of Students LGBT campaign and from the gay rights group OutRage!

Recently, a Ugandan paper with ties to the government publicly outed 58 alleged lesbians and gay men, sparking an outcry of criticism from gay groups. A letter was presented to the Ugandan high commissioner urging respect for the human rights of LGBT Ugandans

“Uganda is the new Zimbabwe,” said Peter Tatchell of OutRage! “President Yoweri Museveni is the Robert Mugabe of Uganda, a homophobic tyrant who tramples on

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Africa:Kenya is losing out to Tanzania and Uganda in Foreign Direct Investment

A report by the Kenya Investment Authority says the country is losing out to Tanzania and Uganda in terms of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs).

While Kenya attracted investments worth $46 million in 2004, Uganda drew $237 million and Tanzania $270 million. And this reflects the trend since 2000.

Ironically, Kenyan businesses are the second highest investors in Uganda and the third highest in Tanzania.

The Kenya Institute of Public Policy Analysis and Research (Kippra) and the Kenya Investment Authority have launched a project to stem this loss of FDI from Nairobi.

Kenya: 1,000 Billboards for Kenya Tourism

A three-month programme of marketing Kenya in Europe begins in Poland this month.

The Karibu Kenya 2006 promotion will showcase what Kenya has to offer in tourism, business and investment opportunities.

It has been organised by the Kenyan-Polish Forum (KPF), which is a joint effort by the two countries to harness social and economic ties.

Foreign Affairs minister Raphael Tuju is expected to fly to Poland to talk about Kenya as a tourist and investment destination.

Kenyan-Poland Forum vice-president Robert Zdunczyk said there will be a trade exhibition in Warsaw.

Africa’s World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old’s Eyes

KETE KRACHI, Ghana — Just before 5 a.m., with the sky still dark over Lake Volta, Mark Kwadwo was rousted from his spot on the damp dirt floor. It was time for work.

On Lake Volta in Ghana, Mark Kwadwo, 6, left, scoops water in the canoe of Kwadwo Takyi, rear. Kwabena Botwe, 11, paddles.
The New York Times

Indentured children as young as 5 and 6 sustain the fishing trade in Kete Krachi, without schools or basic necessities.

East Africa: Seventies Music is All the Rage Again

By MIGUEL SULEYMAN

When the three East African heads of state met in Arusha in March to seal the Customs Union Protocol, had they cared to go out on the town after a hard day’s document signing, they would have found the music being played in the city’s entertainment spots and on its radio stations almost the same as that which was all the rage when Julius Nyerere, Milton Obote and Jomo Kenyatta foregathered for the frequent summit meetings of the first East African Community. (It is somehow easier to picture this earlier trio letting their hair down in the evenings and settling back with a drink to enjoy the music of, say, Fundi Konde.)

In the form of remixes and sampled tunes, going by names such as Zilizopendwa (old favourites) and Rumba Classic, East African music of the late 1960s and the 1970s is winning back the hearts of East Africans in almost all the region’s big cities – Tanzanians in particular.

East Africa : Systemic sleaze threatens to plunge Tanzania into darkness

By Ernest Mpinganjira

Tanzania urgently needs an additional 240 megawatts of power to head off an economic crisis.

To hedge off future power shortfalls, the government has announced a plan to install a power generation capacity of 1,200 megawatts to ensure a consistent energy supply.

Despite the grandiose talking, investors and power consumers are united in thinking that the big plans are part of government talk to escape accountability for the crippling power problems facing the country.

Manufacturers and private investors agree that the endemic sleaze has exacerbated the power crisis. Out of an installed capacity of 560 megawatts, Tanzania generates only 400 megawatts, which is consumed by less than 20 per cent of the population living in urban areas.

Problems in energy sector need to be addressed urgently