It’s sad that people link leadership with theft

The government’s plan to protect the lives of animals in the Serengeti National Park by linking it with Lake Victoria’s ecosystem has provoked opposition from the community in the vicinity. The proposal to integrate the park in the Ghuba Speke game-controlled area faces at least three levels of conflicting interests.

President Jakaya Kikwete with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Bert Koenders
President Jakaya Kikwete has conceded - and regretted - his failure to change and grow the agricultural sector over the course of his ten years at the State House.According to a statement from the Directorate of Presidential Communications circulated to the media yesterday, the president, who is on a three-day official visit to the Netherlands, admitted to the fact in his talks with the country’s...

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Fun and Inspiration, celebrating great leadership @ Presidential Leadership Awards hosted by GPS and African Leadership Magazine. In attendance : President Hage Geinbgob of Namibia, Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy of The Gambia representing the Head of State and other great leaders from United States Congress including Honorable John Lewis, Martin Luther King III, Hank Johnson and more. Congratulations once more to GPS and African Leadership Magazine and Thanks to the dynamic Ms Nene Barry...

From a LIB reader who saw the little boy...

I was on my way to a shop in the market at Eke Awka in Anambra state and I saw this little child sleeping. First thing that came to my mind was that this child is resting after hawking either satchet (pure) water or any other goods he was asked to sell and was sleeping in such an environment, whereas his peers are in the classrooms learning. These are our future leaders and musn't be pass through all these sufferings in this 21st century. Please...

We are gratified that the brazen-faced clamour for more money by our Constituent Assembly (CA) members has been dealt with decisively.

There is a tendency in Uganda, to personalise matters. Instead of looking at the causes of events and analysing any underlying trends, we are content to focus on the transient and the trivial.

Having dropped off a daladala that has stopped just for “msaada” (read illegal) at a bus stop just across one of your roadside locals, you walk to the counter. As it were, you’re dying for a drink.

“Had my son been alive, I would have not lived a miserable life like this. Perhaps, I would have been taken abroad for treatment,” these are the words of an approximately 80-year-old woman Aisha Baraka, who has spent most of her time in the last fifteen years lying in a traditional rope-crafted bed, famously known as Teremka Tukaze in Kiswahili.