Moyiga Nduru

BURUNDI-POLITICS: Rebel Leader Issues Warning

When East and Central African leaders meet on Wednesday to discuss Burundi, they are unlikely to treat a warning by Burundian rebel leader Leonard Nyangoma lightly.

BURUNDI-POLITICS: New Military Regime Under Fire from All Sides

By Moyiga Nduru

Burundi's new de facto ruler is under fire from all sides. Some Tutsi hardliners oppose him and Hutu extremists have vowed to get rid of his junta, which faces international isolation and a possible U.N.-backed military intervention.

SUDAN-FOOD: WFP Resumes Use Of Large Plane For Food Relief

By Moyiga Nduru

For the first time in 10 months, the World Food Programme (WFP) this week resumed using a large aircraft for food deliveries to people facing starvation in Southern Sudan.

EAST AFRICA-POLITICS: Warm Relations May Send Rebels Packing

By Moyiga Nduru

Dr James Obita is an elusive man. Finding the representative of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) here, especially to comment on rebel activities in Uganda, is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

KENYA-CULTURE: Caught Between Two Families

By Moyiga Nduru

Abdia Derow Garad's fate hangs in a medical laboratory in Finland, some thousands of kilometres away from her native Kenya.

ETHIOPIA-POLITICS: Worrying Signs

By Moyiga Nduru

Ethiopia's government has been credited with restoring the rule of law in the African nation since 1991, but its relative stability, already threatened by separatist movements, could be further jeopardised by political score- settling.

RWANDA-POLITICS: Government Rejects Allegations of Massacres

By Moyiga Nduru

If former Rwandan interior minister Seth Sendashonga is to be believed, over 150,000 Hutus have been killed in Rwanda in two years without a hint of the massacres reaching the outside world.

BURUNDI-POLITICS: Rebels threaten U.N. agency

By Moyiga Nduru

A Hutu rebel group Friday threatened that it would attack the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if it sets up operations in Burundi.

SUDAN-POLITICS: Messengers of Death from the Sky

By Moyiga Nduru

Cluster bombs are explosives that spray grenade-like pellets on impact. They are meant not to destroy installations but to kill humans. They are also banned by international conventions governing warfare.

RWANDA-POLITICS: Exiles Urge Rebels Not to Kill Foreigners

By Moyiga Nduru

Exiled Rwandese leaders here have urged a new rebel group to drop its threat to kill U.S. citizens living in Rwanda.

SUDAN-POLITICS: A Not-so-Safe Haven for Sudanese Rebel Leaders

By Moyiga Nduru

Major Arok Thon Arok, a founder of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is a lucky man.

UGANDA-POLITICS: Aid Agencies Pull Out Of Rebel Zones

By Moyiga Nduru

Relief agencies have been forced to pull out of refugee camps in north-western Uganda following a series of attacks by rebels seeking to topple the government of President Yoweri Museveni.

SUDAN-POLITICS: Nubas break Ranks with Main Rebel Group

By Moyiga Nduru

Members of the largest black minority in northern Sudan have broken away from that country's main rebel group, accusing it of turning its back on their struggle against genocide.

SOMALIA-FOOD: WFP Moves to Stop Refugees From Pouring Into Kenya

By Moyiga Nduru

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a programme to distribute relief food to starving people in Somalia in an effort to stop them from pouring into neighbouring Kenya.

KENYA-HEALTH: Aids Drug Controversy Just Won’t Go Away

By Moyiga Nduru

The controversy surrounding Kenyan professor Arthur Obel's Pearl Omega just won't go away and it's not just in the media that it is being discussed.

RWANDA-KENYA: Relations Hit all-time Low

By Moyiga Nduru

Relations between Kenya and Rwanda have hit an all-time low with the decision by the government of Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi to close Rwanda's embassy here and order its diplomats to leave the country.

UGANDA-POLITICS: Rebels Deny Involvement in Mediators’ Killing

By Moyiga Nduru

The brutal murder of two elders trying to broker peace between the Uganda government and rebels in the north of the country seems like a grim warning to freelance mediators.

ZAIRE-POLITICS: Mobutu Comes in From the Cold

By Moyiga Nduru

Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko's transformation from international pariah into a major player in the sub-region has filled his neighbours with apprehension.

KENYA-NARCOTICS: Drug Barons Target the Youth

By Moyiga Nduru

When, in 1994, she enrolled her only son, George, in one of Kenya's best and most expensive schools, Catherine Ichoya was convinced she was buying him a ticket to a bright future.

/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 10/ ENVIRONMENT: Gorilla Custodians Keep Poachers at Bay

By Moyiga Nduru

The custodians of the few remaining gorillas in Rwanda have won an international prize for keeping poachers at bay during and after the tragic civil war of 1994 in which up to one million people died.