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01 Dec '25
Kigali is preparing to roll out one of East Africa’s most ambitious public transport reforms, a service-led model that places efficiency, reliability and strict timekeeping at the centre of urban mobility.The reform, approved by the Rwandan Cabinet on November 28, will require public bus
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01 Dec '25
Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being put on trial in her absence alongside 16 other people over corruption allegations.She was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister
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01 Dec '25
Singapore hanged three people for drug offences last week, bringing the total number of executions to 17 this year - the highest since 2003.These come a week before a constitutional challenge against the death penalty for drug offences is due to be heard.Singapore h
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01 Dec '25
BBC | The abrupt cancellations of several Japanese music events in Shanghai - one of them midway through a song - have sparked criticism among fans, with some calling the moves "rude" and "extreme".Maki Otsuki was halfway through the theme of hit anime One Piece on Friday
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27 Nov '25
Minister Byamukama addressing the IMO Assembly in London this weekLONDON/ENTEBBE — Uganda has issued a bold call for the inclusion of land-linked states in global maritime governance, arguing at the 34th International Maritime Organization (IMO) Assembly in London that access to the seas
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27 Nov '25
Buganda Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Charles Peter Mayiga, has called on security agencies to exercise restraint and uphold professionalism during the ongoing campaign season, warning that violent crowd-control tactics only deepen national wounds.“Once again, I urge the police and all sec
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27 Nov '25
Rusoke was tasked with explaining why youth groups wearing the ruling National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) signature yellow attire were seen conducting coordinated marching and exercises in viral videos without facing arrestsPolice Spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke has addressed the controvers
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27 Nov '25
A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested.Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained.The officers
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27 Nov '25
Other candidates in the parliamentary race are Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party flag bearer Simon Opoka, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag bearer Geoffrey Komakech, and independents Wilfred Opobo, and Edward Odong, all independent candidates.The race for the Laroo-Pece Division
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27 Nov '25
Mogadishu (HOL) — Uganda has stopped granting refugee status to asylum seekers from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, saying those countries are no longer considered to have active armed conflicts and that dwindling donor funding has made it difficult to support new arrivals.Uganda’s Mini