Felix Kilonzo

In the first part of this inside story we talked about the ceasefire and commitment of the cease fire documents signing Do you think recent attacks allegedly by Rwasa Agathon forces of national liberation (FNL) will affect the A tenuous peace reached in 2005? And Finally, what is the stand the head of the Government of The CNDD-FDD Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza on NL rebels who did not signed a cease-fire in 2005?   According to Evelyn the fragility of the peace is often threatened by the rampant rebels who have threatened the peace of the people of the country. She said in a one to one interview “I think the FNL only now does not have sufficient force to cause a release any BUT very sure that yes, the fragility of peace is already assigned!”, she adds, “I know not if you live here in Burundi but I'd say that there are no security.  People are killed from day to day especially those belonging to opposition political parties by whom it is said by the police, I ...

As Africa marks the Day of the African child today the 16 th June the main challenge that has continued to pressure the African leadership is the unchartered for orphans who have been used as a bait by NGO’s. Many orphans have been registered by the so-called NGO’s with the aim of purportedly assistance for them to access basic needs like any other child in the continent. Just the other day, I was having a conversation with my grandmother who is 83. She is the one who brought me up since I was 2yrs old and took charge of me when I lost my mother in 2000. I was 10 then and she had a huge role of ensuring that I had education and later get my dream career. She asked me, “Do you think this people who enroll our children to their organizations with the aim of helping them do so?” I understood what she meant and it was rather tricky to answer. But on a journalistic point of view I gave her my opinion. It is the same opinion I wish to share with you. My cousin was registered in the NGO whic...

Tweet                                             Tweet to @Starkolix                       Follow @Starkolix   (Felix Kilonzo) Kenyans and Africans have several lessons to learn in the just concluded general elections in Kenya where Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was declared winner. - See more at: According to an article [BBC] by Calestous Juma an International development professor at Harvard University, Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the democratic process by tribal politics. It was evident that Kenyans defied the issues and the policies put forward by the ...

The scandal at the office of the Prime Minister in Uganda may be seen as insignificant but the truth that lies underneath is that the fact that the country that relied on donor funding may be preparing to deviate further to local or domestic borrowing to suppress the fiscal budget of the next year. As a preparedness measure the Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka will increase the domestic borrowing by 0.7 per cent of the GDP after 5 crucial donors withdrew their budgetary support for the country that saw the embezzlement of close to $13million meant for reconstruction. The donors are said to have withheld their $282million in budget support and what does that mean for Uganda? It will be noted that EAC member states deviated to domestic borrowing in the ongoing financial year which began in July 2012 and its ending in June 2013. The FY2012/13 was meant so because of the ongoing euro zone crisis that according to Mario Draghi who is the president of the European Central Bank, the Euro econo...

Tweet As I sit at my desk my mind is churning furiously and while I have this vision I am not certain what it is all about. My life’s experiences are harsh yet I am convinced that I still have a lot to learn.  I hear many voices discussing great plans for the future and while I sense the urgency; the commitment, I am uncertain and undecided of what is really passing through my mind. You see, it appears as though tomorrow will never come and the days and nights are like the same all year round. Yet these thoughts pervade my mind. What are they? Though uncertain I have this conviction that I smell change; change that will bring maturity in the political arena in Kenya; change that will make president Museveni of Uganda embrace democracy and stop regarding term limits as ‘sheer nonsense.’ Change that will make President Paul Kagame of Rwanda grant the media its own freedom, change that will propel Burundi to appreciate the importance of media operatives thus wo...