Why The Citizen’s escrow exposé makes sad reading

Dar es Salaam police boss Suleiman Kova shelved a press briefing yesterday, saying everything he wanted to say about investigations into last week’s “robbery” at Barclays Bank’s Kinondoni branch was in The Citizen.

Former Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and Nigeria striker Yakubu joins Reading until the end of the season.

A damning programme exposing police death squads in Kenya was aired by an international television network Monday.

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.

“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.

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.

Older Tanzanians tell us that in the days of yore, travellers feared coming across wild animals. Today we fear coming across fellow humans.