Church of Uganda Archbishop Stanley Ntagali has criticised the US for legalizing same sex marriages, Daily Monitor reported Wednesday.

At least 14 people were killed in an attack by al-Shabab militants early Tuesday in Mandera county in Kenya close to the border with Somalia, VOA quoted Kenyan officials as saying the swift response of security forces prevented greater tragedy.

Two Ugandan nationals, Malcom Lukwiya and Emmanuel were arrested July 1 in Kenya in connection with a syndicate which is recruiting youth to join Syria’s ISIS terrorists, Kenyan police said according to Sunday Monitor.

Sunday Monitor says the pair were arrested at a hideout in Kabete, in Kenyan capital Nairobi, after allegedly sneaking into the country following the killing of a top Muslim cleric Sheikh Hassan Kirya in their home country.

The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly 10,000 Burundians fled the country over the weekend before Burundi closed its borders ahead of controversial and violence-wracked elections in the troubled central African nation, according to Daily Monitor.

A police officer is among six people who were killed in gun battles Wednesday in a part of Burundi's capital Bujumbura that has led protests against the president's third-term bid, Africa Review quoted the police as saying.

The violence comes as Burundi awaits results from elections on Monday that were boycotted by the opposition and widely condemned internationally.According to reports, five of those killed were members of an armed group who were "neutralized", police said, adding they had seized weapons, including a rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade.

Another muslim leader has been killed in Uganda, Daily Monitor reported on Tuesday that shortly after his Tarawih prayers at Dar-tal-alim al-islamiya in Rubaga, Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kiirya, was on Tuesday attacked and shot dead by unknown assailants on a bodaboda motor cycle.

(By Bonny Apunyu)

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya will not relent in its war against  terrorism even as al Shabaab continues launching attacks on soft targets in the East African country, Standard Digital reported Thursday.

President Kenyatta reportedly said the fact that Al-Shabaab has resorted to attacking soft targets means they are losing the war. "They are seeking to intimidate us as a nation, but we will not let them. We will fight them fiercely," the President said.

(By Bonny Apunyu)

Following a directive from Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta issued on Thursday, some 13 money remittance firms or  hawalas that were suspended by the Kenyan government two months ago over allegations of financing terrorism will soon be back to business.

According to Standard Digital,  the Kenyan  President, through a written statement from State House directed the Central Bank of Kenya to immediately issue comprehensive regulations that guide the operations of the firms, upon which their suspension would be lifted.

(By Bonny Apunyu)

The expelled UN aid chief  Toby Lanzer, who was barred from South Sudan earlier this month after warning of economic meltdown said Tuesday that some 250,000 children face starvation in war-torn South Sudan, with an end to the 18-month conflict as distant as eve, according to Daily Monitor.

"Six months ago, we thought that violence and suffering had peaked and that peace was on the horizon. We were wrong," said Toby Lanzer adding that "Political intransigence left peace ever more distant; war raged on and is leading to economic collapse."

(By Bonny Apunyu)

Less than 48 hours after former Prime Minister Mr. Amama Mbabazi declared he was running for president in 2016, Ugandan President Museveni has reacted to Mr. Mbabazi’s bid calling it ‘bad conduct and premature,’Daily Monitor reported Tuesday.

The Ugandan head of state, in a recorded statement circulated to the media Monday night, hit back at Mr Mbabazi, saying he served the system whose weaknesses he seeks to solve, according to reports.