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Malawi hospitals assessing patient’s treatment satisfaction

Malawi hospitals assessing patient’s treatment satisfaction

Lilongwe – In a bid to improve health care services, three Malawian hospitals have embarked on an exercise to assess how much patients are satisfied with their service delivery. The three Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) mission run hospitals are Mulanje Hospital in the southern region, Nkhoma in the central and Ekwendeni in the [...]

Democracy is not on the agenda in Russia as Judge comes under pressure in Khodorkovsky trial

Democracy is not on the agenda in Russia as Judge comes under pressure in Khodorkovsky trial

MOSCOW, February 14, 2011 (AFP) – The judge in the second trial of Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was pressured from on high into delivering a guilty verdict and jail sentence, an aide to the judge claimed on Monday. Natalya Vasilyeva, a spokeswoman for the Moscow’s Khamovnichesky district court and an aide to judge Viktor Danilkin, made [...]

China gets massive endorsement from the African Union

China gets massive endorsement from the African Union

Maxwell Mkwezalamba, the AU’s economic chief, said Africa must end its reliance on Western money and that the African Union must turn ever more to China for its development because conditions and checks often stalled the flow of funds from Western nations and the World Bank. “For Africa’s development and integration we have depended on [...]

Guinea’s Supreme Court to rule on disputed election results

Guinea’s Supreme Court to rule on disputed election results

The Supreme Court in the West African state of Guinea is expecting to make a  ruling on the 27th June presidential election, scheduled to be delivered Monday. The leader of the New Generation for the Republic party, Abe Sylla, said there is a need for the entire Guinea population to respect and abide by the [...]

African Union summit starts in Kampala Uganda

African Union summit starts in Kampala Uganda

Despite the recent Al-Shabaab-inspired twin suicide bombings that killed more than 70 people, the Ugandan government seems prepared to get underway the African Union summit scheduled to start today in the country’s capital, Uganda. The theme of the summit will be maternal and child health. The summit’s  theme is intertwined with food security and nutrition [...]

Serious questions about Paul Kagame’s leadership – As opposition demands investigation into death of party’s V.P. in Rwanda

Serious questions about Paul Kagame’s leadership – As opposition demands investigation into death of party’s V.P. in Rwanda

Rwanda’s opposition Democratic Green Party has called on President Paul Kagame’s government to begin a thorough investigation into the murder of the vice president of his party. The chairman of the party, Frank Habineza said, despite repeated appeals to the government, the Minister of Interior has refused to give the opposition leaders protection after they [...]

Rwandan police arrests more newspaper journalists – Releases designer

Rwandan police arrests more newspaper journalists – Releases designer

After last week’s arrest of Uwimana Agnes, the editor and owner of UMURABYO newspaper, police detained two more staff of the newspaper Saidath Mukakibibi a reporter and Patrick Kambale the designer but the latter was released. Rwandan authorities denied in a live broadcast that the journalists’ arrests were not linked to the upcoming august elections [...]