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Mr Yoweri Museveni has been sworn in for another term as Uganda president in a ceremony attended by dozens of leaders and dignitaries.

Amid ululations, President Museveni signed the oath of allegiance and was handed the instruments of power by Justice Bart Katureebe a few minutes to noon.

The instruments include a copy of the the Ugandan Constitution, the national flag, the presidential standard flag, a copy of the national anthem, the court of arms, and the public seal. 

The ceremony was attended by several heads of state, among them presidents Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya), John Magufuli (Tanzania), Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), Salva Kiir (South Sudan), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger).Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang represented President Paul Biya of Cameroon at the ceremony.

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Reports from Yaounde indicates that two laborers have lost their lives following the collapse of a section of the amadou ahidjo stadium under rehabilitation. It is equally reported that some sustained injuries.
The Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium is under rehabilitation ahead of  the  November female AFCON to be hosted by Cameroon. 

PM Philemon Yang recently visited the stadium to mount pressure on contractors for prompt completion.

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Yaounde - Cameroonian Prime Minister, Yang Philemon,just arrived Kampala-Uganda  this Wednesday  to represent  the head of state, President Paul Biya at the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Yoweri Musseveni, of Uganda.

Yoweri Museveni, won the presidential the disputed presidential election on February 18th in Uganda whch has led the main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to announce it will hold an alternative inauguration of opposition candidate Kizza Besigye on Thursday, the same day that President Yoweri Museveni, in office since 1986, will be sworn in for another term. 

The electoral commission in Uganda says that President Museveni won the election with 61 percent of the vote but Besigye, the FDC candidate, insists he won the election with 52 percent of the vote.   Besigye has been on a campaign of defiance aimed at invalidating what he calls President Museveni's "illegal presidency."

The Ugandan government has banned the local media from covering "live activities" of the FDC party.

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In a report released on Wednesday, Amnesty International puts the spotlight on conditions in Nigeria's notorious Giwa barracks. Adults and children are detained without contact to the outside world.

Amnesty International's latest report on conditions in Giwa barracks, where children and even babies are among the more than 1,000 inmates, makes grim reading. There have been some 150 deaths this year alone. DW spoke to Daniel Eyre, Amnesty International's Nigeria researcher.

DW: Giwa barracks are located in Maiduguri, in the Nigerian region hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency. What kinds of detainees are kept there?

Daniel Eyre: Maiduguri is really the epicenter of the conflict. We estimate that at least 1,200 detainees are kept in the barracks. These are people who are kept on suspicion of being supporters or members of  Boko Haram. But when we spoke to people who were arrested or who witnessed these arrests, it becomes clear that many people have been arrested completely arbitrarily, often because they are young men who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In your report, you say you have gathered evidence from former detainees and eyewitnesses. Apart from what they say, have there been any medical tests that can confirm that the victims died as a result of the conditions under which they were detained? 

One of the problems is that when people die in detention, no autopsy is conducted. They are simply taken away and buried. There is no official account of what happened to them. We obtained photographs of some of those who died and had them subjected to analysis by a forensic anthropologist. The analysis was that the images are consistent with a lack of access to food and water and death as a result of disease. That is exactly what people who were detained in the barracks are telling us, that they are not getting enough water or food, people are losing weight as a result and disease is rife inside the barracks. So those are the causes of death as far we can establish.

What has been the government's response or reason given for not acting?

Deaths in military detention are an issue that we have covered since 2013. Under previous administrations in Nigeria, we found that more than 7,000 people died in military custody between 2011 and 2015. That's a truly horrific number. Although steps have been taken in the last couple of years to try and improve conditions in military custody, we believe that recent mass arrests of suspects have erased those gains.

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to UK’s Prime Minister David Cameroon remarks; Nigeria is ‘fantastically corrupt’ stating that he is deeply shocked and embarrassed by the remarks. President Buhari suggested Cameron was referring to the previous Nigerian administration since he had made the fight of corruption one of his priorities. Buhari is attending an anti-corruption summit in London.

The Prime Minister was caught on camera saying Nigeria and Afghanistan were "probably the two most corrupt countries" on the eve of a major corruption conference in London.

The Prime Minister was caught on camera saying Nigeria and Afghanistan were "probably the two most corrupt countries" on the eve of a major corruption conference in London.

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Equatorial Guinea has expelled 53 Cameroonian citizens from its territory.
The deported  arrived in Cameroon Sunday, May 8 without their belongings
according to  Cameroon Tribune.
The Cameroonian citizens all said, Equatorial Guinea officials didn't allow them to take along their properties.

They were received by the Cameroonian authorities at the entry boarder to Cameroon in the south of the country. This expulsion comes as the free movement of people and goods is in debate within the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC).

The border town of Campo in southwestern Cameroon has seen hundreds of Cameroonians returning from Equatorial Guinea in recent years after they were forcefully expelled.

In 2013, CEMAC heads of state agreed to cancel visa requirements and to begin issuing CEMAC bio-metric passports  in order to promote better regional economic integration between Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville.However, the country seems to give a deaf ear to the agreement.

The situation is sparking anger in Cameroon - where many locals are pressing for the government to retaliate by expelling many of the 10,000 Equatorial Guineans who work and study in Cameroon.

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