The current force is under-staffed and under-equipped as it takes on Haiti’s powerful, well-armed gangs, and shifting to a formal UN mission would provide more money, personnel and logistical support, said Dorothy Shea, the deputy US ambassador to the United Nations.
Besigye, 68, was brought to the General Court Martial in handcuffs and under a heavily armed military escort, his lawyer Erias Lukwago told AFP.
Chama kikuu cha upinzani nchini Tanzania, Chadema, kimeilalamikia mamlaka nchini humo kwamba wagombea wake wengi wamekataliwa “kwa njia isiyo ya haki” kushiriki katika uchaguzi wa serikali za mitaa unaotarajiwa kufanyika wiki ijayo.
Mamlaka ya Uganda, ambayo ilisema kuwa zinachunguza taarifa za kupotea kwa Besigye, zimekuwa zikifanya ukandamizaji dhidi ya upinzani katika miezi ya hivi karibuni, kwa kuwakamata viongozi mashuhuri na kuwashtaki wanachama wa vyama vya upinzani.
Police opened fire in both encounters, killing 10, and then chased down those who fled with the help of self-defense groups, formed by residents opposed to the gangs and their violent rule over swaths of the country.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, popularly known as “Irro”, won the election with 63.92 percent of the vote, well ahead of outgoing president Muse Bihi (34.81 percent) and Social Justice Party (UCID) leader Faysal Ali Warabe (0.74 percent), election commission chairman Muse Hassan Yusuf announced on Tuesday.
Rescuers worked to reach people still trapped in a collapsed building in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Monday, with the death toll rising to 16.
Kulingana na ripoti za polisi, meli hiyo iliyokuwa imebeba zaidi ya watu 30 ilikuwa sehemu ya msafara wa baharini wa Kikatoliki katika taifa hilo la kusini mwa Afrika wakati ilipozama kwenye Kisiwa cha Luanda siku ya Jumamosi.
The ship carrying more than 30 people was part of a Catholic maritime procession in the southern African nation when it sank off the Island of Luanda on Saturday, police said.
The new constitution sets out a vision of a presidency with a maximum of two seven-year terms, no prime minister, and no dynastic transfer of power.
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