The political climate is growing increasingly antagonistic in Burundi, where many of today’s political parties were yesterday’s rebel groups.

First, let me apologize for getting back to you less promptly than the urgency of the matter at hand calls for. I do so because just like justice delayed is justice denied, I consider this late response – a response denied.

As wisdom of yore would have it, there is time for everything. For Kenya, it is without a doubt, the time to move on. Buoyed by the strong wings of hope, and powered by the sure winds of canon, Kenya promulgates the new constitution.

It’s baby Kenya! That would have been the cry of a midwife heralding the birth of a new nation, well more than 45 years ago. However, the true birth has belatedly, but pleasantly so, eventually come

Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister.

At a time when anti-establishment sentiments are high in the United States, many Americans are searching for answers in their constitution, in an effort to turn back the clock to the way things once were

Politics is perhaps the only manufacturing plant that never shuts down for annual maintenance, and so are the observers.

As the adage goes, necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of Kenya, dire necessity has become the mother of reinvention and on Aug. 4, Kenyans troop to polling booths to either affirm the current constitution or usher in a new dispensation.

On a humid evening at a downtown Kampala hotel, I began my conversation with Amanda Onapito only to be interrupted when three cockroaches swam onto our table, one sliding into my juice cocktail.

Less than three years after a closely fought presidential election plunged Kenya into widespread violence and displaced thousands, the country is bracing itself for another crucial and equally divisive ballot, this time on a new constitution.

“Children don’t vote,” said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda.

One would think that Moi is campaigning for office- now we know. The new constitution is a shuffling of things where Moi thought he was safest. The magic power of time, Kenyans voted Moi out in 1992, but he rigged and clung on; his project was rejected in 2002; we must vote Moism out now!