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26 Aug '25
President Donald Trump has said he will immediately remove Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her position, a major escalation in his battle against the US central bank.In an announcement made on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump posted a letter addressed
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26 Aug '25
Hours before South Korean president Lee Jae Myung was due to meet US president Donald Trump, a Truth Social post dropped."WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?" Trump wrote, pointing to a "Purge or Revolution" - which many saw as a reference to the prosecution of former preside
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24 Jul '25
President Museveni has renewed calls for a permanent ceasefire and democratic elections in Libya, while harshly criticising continued foreign interference in the country’s affairs and the African Union’s failure to take decisive action.Museveni made the remarks on Wednesday during a vi
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23 Jul '25
Lt‑Gen Henry Tumukunde was once among President Museveni’s most trusted allies — serving as head of military intelligence, Security Minister, and a powerful NRM mobiliser.Yet, by March 2020, the retired general faced a dramatic reversal. Declaring a
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22 Jul '25
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has urged Burkina Faso’s interim President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, to honour his original commitment to democratic elections. Wine made his remarks during an interview on the SMWX podcast in South Africa, where he advocate
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08 Jul '25
Presidential aspirant Wycliffe Kasaija Kizza has attributed President Yoweri Museveni’s enduring political
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07 Jul '25
Fresh revelations from archived records and eyewitness accounts have shed light on a covert agreement between Milton Obote and Yoweri Museveni ahead of Uganda’s contentious 1980 general elections—an event that shaped the country's modern political path.
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29 Jun '25
In a dramatic shake-up within Uganda’s intelligence architecture, President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed four senior directors from the Internal Security Organisation (ISO). The decision is part of a continuing power struggle among key security agencies over
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05 Jun '25
For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a "special government employee" working inside the Trump administration to slash what he said were wasteful government programmes and bloated departments.Now, after his exit last week, he is back on the outside. And it is the Tr
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29 Apr '25
BBC | Hong Kong has released four former opposition lawmakers who were among dozens of pro-democracy leaders jailed under the city's controversial National Security Law( NSL).The four - Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan - had pleaded guilty and were each sent