KAMPALA: Police raided Uganda’s leading independent newspaper yesterday and disabled its printing press after it published a letter about a purported plot to stifle allegations President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power, a senior editor said.
Speculation is growing that Museveni, in office since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, is lining up his son Kainerugaba Muhoozi to take power, a move that would likely test loyalties in Uganda’s ruling elite. The Daily Monitor, Uganda’s most-read independent paper, published a private letter last week by General David Sejusa calling for an investigation into allegations of a plot “to assassinate people who disagree with this so-called family project of holding onto power in perpetuity”.
New clashes erupt in DR Congo
GOMA: Rebels from the M23 movement and the army fought yesterday just north of Goma, a regional capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo which the rebels occupied briefly last November, both sides said.
The fighting was the first involving M23 since December and erupted just two days before UN chief Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the region, including Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
The clashes also came a week after the first troops from a new UN intervention brigade arrived in the country with a strong mandate to attack rebel groups.
Dutch youth charged over stabbing of boy
HERAKLION, Greece: A 20-year-old Dutch entertainer was charged with attempted murder yesterday after repeatedly stabbing a 12-year-old Russian boy vacationing on the Greek island of Crete, local officials said.
The suspect, who has confessed to the crime, will be kept under guard at the psychiatric ward of Heraklion hospital pending trial as his family claims he is autistic, a judicial source on the island said.
Authorities on Crete said the Russian boy had been stabbed at least 20 times and left bleeding in the bushes behind the debris-strewn parking lot of his hotel. Agencies
