Caribbean Development Bank president Daniel Best put out a statement saying his organization stays locked into fighting corruption because dirty money keeps sabotaging development across the region. He pointed to UN numbers showing bribes eat up a trillion bucks every year, while another 2.6 trillion gets swiped through fraud, and all that cash could have gone toward schools, hospitals, and basic infrastructure instead.
The bank runs an integrity office that trains member countries on compliance systems and governance standards, plus it wants young people involved since they bring tech skills and fresh ideas to shake up broken processes. Best said anti-corruption work is central to helping borrowing nations get resources for growth...
A matatu flipped over at the Museum Hill roundabout, and people driving by, plus random pedestrians, jumped in to help right after it happened. Traffic cops showed up to lock down the area and keep cars moving, but nobody confirmed how badly the passengers got hurt or what made the vehicle roll in the first place.
Authorities are still looking into what went down before they drop more info about injuries and the crash cause.
Laurent Saint-Cyr showed up at the airport to meet 230 Kenyan cops who just flew in to help deal with the gang situation, and Kenya sent Deputy National Security Advisor Joseph Boinett, plus some other officials, to drop them off. The crew from Kenya is replacing 100 officers heading home after finishing their rotation, and they landed right as Haiti tries to build up this UN-backed force that's supposed to hit 5,500 people total.
Commander Godfrey Otunge said his team learned some stuff from earlier deployments and adjusted how they operate, while Boinett passed along word from Kenyan President William Ruto promising continued backup. The whole mission has been struggling to get enough cash and gear, even though personnel from...
Haiti just dropped its election schedule after years of putting it off, and the country wants to run general elections next summer, even though gangs basically run half the capital. Jacques Desrosiers from the Provisional Electoral Council said voting happens in two rounds on specific dates next year, but security has to get way better first, or the whole thing falls apart. The plan covers the president, the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, and a bunch of local spots.
The place hasn't voted since way back, and the last elected president got assassinated a few years ago. Port-au-Prince is partially controlled by armed groups that forced out the old prime minister, and a UN report said over 16,000 people have died from violence over the...
A former prison health officer from Uganda is claiming the system screwed him over after he wouldn't fake receipts for COVID money he never got. James Turyatunga says his bosses at Kitalya Prison wanted him to sign documents confirming payments that didn't actually reach him and other medical staff who treated infected inmates at Moroto during lockdown. When he refused, they transferred him to Koboko without transport support, then labeled him a deserter when he couldn't show up.
He recorded some aide demanding 300,000 shillings to process his paperwork, and started getting death threats after going to anti-corruption agencies for help. Authorities arrested him for desertion under the Prisons Act, and he sat in Luzira until bail came...
Wamala Region cops are looking into what appears to be a homicide after Henry Lubwama Kisitu turned up dead in Bukyanga Cell over in Kiboga district. Kisitu lived in Kyengera town council before he went missing for a few days, and Robert Kawuki found the body while trying to ditch his dead dog in some bushes nearby. Regional police spokesperson Lameck Kigozi said the corpse showed obvious beating marks, and investigators think someone killed him somewhere else before moving him to the dump site to hide what went down.
Authorities want anyone from Kyengera or Bukyanga with info to come forward, since they need help figuring out who did it, why it happened, and what the timeline looked like before Kisitu ended up dead.
The US and Uganda just locked in a five-year deal worth $2.3 billion to prop up health services across the country, with Washington kicking in $1.7 billion and Kampala promising to add over $500 million. Finance minister Matia Kasaija and Ambassador William W. Popp both signed off on the agreement, which targets HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, maternal care, and disease tracking while shifting commodity purchases and health worker payrolls from American control to Ugandan government hands.
The whole thing is designed to make Uganda less dependent on foreign cash over time, and it pumps money into digital health records, surveillance tech, and lab upgrades for better outbreak response. Faith-based clinics will get support through performance...
Rebels from the M23 movement grabbed control of Uvira after weeks of fighting that left 74 people dead and pushed over 200,000 residents out of South Kivu Province into neighboring countries. The UN said 83 more got injured while combat spread through a dozen towns before M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka announced they had liberated the city. Bruno Lemarquis from MONUSCO mentioned that a peace deal signed between Congo and Rwanda might help if everyone stops shooting, but the government in Kinshasa has not commented on losing ground.
M23 keeps taking airports and major roads across eastern Congo after regrouping back in 2022, and officials keep saying Rwanda backs the rebels even though both parties deny it. The group claims they are...
Uganda's lawmakers admitted they have zero clue how the biometric voting machines work just weeks before the election, and opposition leader Joel Ssenyonyi called out the whole mess after the Electoral Commission asked for nearly half a trillion shillings to build thousands of new polling stations at the last minute. Speaker Anita Among got visibly annoyed and asked if officials had been sleeping through five years of prep time. The machines are supposed to stop multiple voting and fake identities, but trainers cannot explain error codes, and backup plans are basically nonexistent.
Muhammad Nsereko raised alarms about data security after hearing the supplier might be Chinese, which would give a foreign company access to millions of...
