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By Munir Kalidushi, KAMPALA,  16:30 GMT    Intimidating independent nations across the developing nations is part of what the US defines as international democracy. They have caused endless atrocities in Africa, Asia and Latin America in that name. They have assassinated Presidents, overthrown governments and provoked violence in many places. To them, the argument would be and is always democracy, human rights and countless other meaningless phrases.  What is democracy to the US is something of a mystery; they have sabotaged democratically elected leaders, they have overthrown the leaders who were really transforming their countries and who brought about stability in those nations to destroying national institutions. The Obama and now Trump administrations were believed to bring about changes to that old but stubborn US policy. Unfortunately, the reality is different. The recent statement of the US Embassy to Tanzania on elections and democracy

By Staff Reporters, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi GMT 22:15 Days after the Opposition Chief Whip in Tanzania, Tundu Lissu escaped assassination attempt, new evidence has come into limelight exposing a massive plot to end his life on internal power struggles. Local newspapers in Dar es Salaam that were also accessed in Nairobi, cited impeccable sources within the main opposition party, Chadema, narrating the ordeal of how Lissu’s premature interest on party’s top leadership post and ultimately nomination as Chadema’s presidential candidate hastened his own peril. Mr. Lissu is now recovering in a Belgium hospital. “The main reason for what happened to Mr. Lissu’s life, I can confide, is directly linked to his own political interests. Top party leaders were openly unhappy with what was about to happen; ultimately they chose to thwart his ambitions,” said a member of the Opposition who fled to the ruling party, CM, couple of days ago. Lissu in a hospital bed. Mr. Mbowe has

By KENNEDY KANGETHE , NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 – Reelforge Media Intelligence, media monitoring and Research Company in Nairobi, has announced a partnership with Ones & Zeros to introduce online advertising monitoring to the advertising industry in Kenya. The partnership will see marketers able to monitor their digital campaigns, generate reports on demand, and receive alerts on their campaigns’ interactions, as well as monitor their competitors’ activities and marketing strategies. Reelforge Managing Director Sammy Lusiola said that the product will see Kenya become the first Sub-Saharan country to have an online advertising monitoring tool. “This is especially important for the Kenyan market seeing that latest data from the Communications Authority shows that of the 36.1 million internet subscriptions in the country, 35.8 million are mobile data subscriptions. It means that most Kenyans access the internet using their mobile phones and this tool mo

NAIROBI, Kenya — Aug 7, 2018, 12:29 The Associated Press 80-year old Margaret Achieng places a rosary on her daughters name Doreen Aluoch at plague with the names of victims of the August 7, 1998 US embassy bombing at the Kenya's capital Nairobi during the 20th commemoration at the memorial park, Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) more + Email Kenyans and Tanzanians on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaida bombings of the U.S. embassies in their countries that killed more than 250 people, with hundreds of local survivors calling on the U.S. government for compensation. The explosions on Aug. 7, 1998, were the first major al-Qaida attack on U.S. targets. Nearly 5,000 people were injured. The U.S. ambassador to Kenya , Robert Godec, said the extremists wanted to cause a rift between Kenyans and Americans but failed. Watch Now Kenyan hotel, sanctuary allows visitors to have breakfa

2018-08-07 15:30 Two Zimbabwean soldiers wearing balaclavas shout orders to street vendors and money changers to leave in the Copacabana market in Harare. (Marco Longari, AFP)   The European Union and United States on Tuesday condemned violent attacks targeting the Zimbabwe opposition since elections last week, as 27 supporters of the MDC party were released on bail. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, declared winner of the country's first ballot since the downfall of Robert Mugabe, again vowed to protect rights, but the government has been accused of overseeing a brutal post-vote crackdown. Last week's poll, which was marred by soldiers opening fire at a protest killing six people, was meant to re-launch Zimbabwe on the international stage and attract foreign aid and investment aft