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By Munir Kalidushi, KAMPALA,  16:30 GMT    Intimidating independent nations across the developing nations is part of what the US defines as international democracy. They have caused endless atrocities in Africa, Asia and Latin America in that name. They have assassinated Presidents, overthrown governments and provoked violence in many places. To them, the argument would be and is always democracy, human rights and countless other meaningless phrases.  What is democracy to the US is something of a mystery; they have sabotaged democratically elected leaders, they have overthrown the leaders who were really transforming their countries and who brought about stability in those nations to destroying national institutions.   The Obama and now Trump administrations were believed to bring about changes to that old but stubborn US policy. Unfortunately, the reality is different. The recent statement of the US Embassy to Ta...

TRIBUTES are flowing for the United Nations’ high-profile and well-respected former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who has died. Ads by FORMER United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has died at age 80. Mr Annan died in the early hours of Saturday in Switzerland after a short illness, according to a statement issued by his family. The Nobel Peace Laureate was the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from January 1997 to December 2006, and became the first black African man to take on the top job as the world’s top diplomat. He was founder and Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, which issued a statement on social media, saying: “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness...” “His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side duri...