Ugandan General Fighting Abuse of State Powers

KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan army general who sparked controversy over the presidential succession said Wednesday he’s fighting the use of state institutions to keep the country’s long-serving president in power. Gen. David Sejusa – who is in London- told The Associated Press Wednesday that the Ugandan military is a “prison” used by President Yoweri…

Kenya police raped, tortured refugees in “rampage”- Human rights group

NAIROBI, May 29 – Kenyan police tortured and abused more than 1,000 refugees, asylum seekers and Somali Kenyans in Nairobi in a “10-week rampage” beginning in late 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday. The abuses were part of a police crackdown that began the day after an attack on a…

Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has arrested opposition New Patriotic Party, NPP, Mr. Michael Omari Wadie over sex photo

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has arrested a staunch member of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, NPP, Mr. Michael Omari Wadie, Radio XYZ reports. The arrest, according station, was in connection with a doctored sex photo which Mr. Omari Wadie allegedly posted on his Facebook wall to portray President John Mahama as having…