Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to helping Uganda access the Indian Ocean, downplaying recent threats of war made by President Yoweri Museveni over maritime access.Speaking during a media briefing on Kenya’s foreign policy, Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi said facilitating cargo
The number of foreigners kidnapped by jihadists in Mali has reached a record high, with at least 22 taken hostage by the al-Qaeda affiliate group JNIM in the last six months, as part of its strategy to undermine the ruling junta.Between May and October the Group for the Support of Islam an
Museveni in Kibuku on ThursdayPresident Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged Ugandans to strengthen community support systems for young people after a schoolgirl from Kibuku emotionally revealed that she had once contemplated taking her own life due to lack of opportunities.The Presiden
Tanzanian TikToker Jennifer Jovin, also known as Niffer, is facing some serious charges, and her mother, Mwanaisha Isaac, is fighting for her daughter’s life.According to The Star, Isaac has publicly pleaded with President Samia Suluhu Hassan for forgiveness for her daughter, who is curr
Gold rose for a fifth straight session on Thursday to hit its highest in more than three weeks, buoyed by expectation that the U.S. government reopening will restart the flow of economic data and boost bets for further interest rate cuts.Gold rose for a fifth straight session on Thursday t
Profit-taking saps metal’s strengthBengaluru — Gold prices slipped on Wednesday, pulled down by a rebound in the dollar and profit-booking after bullion rose to a near three-week high in the previous session on the expectation of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve next month.
Nearly two years after the World Bank Group suspended new funding to Uganda over the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, the international lender has lifted the ban.Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa was among the first to welcome the development, congratulating the Ministry
Last week, violent clashes broke out in Yumbe district over, of all things, pork.It is a poorly kept national secret that many Ugandans treat this as a delicacy. Indeed, many lifelong friendships (not to mention marriages) and other abiding ties have been forged, and strengthened over the
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed the undersecretary at the Ministry of Petroleum just a week after appointing him, in the latest shake-up in the country’s sensitive oil sector.The undersecretary is the highest-ranking official managing the ministry since Petroleum Minis
China remains our “most irreplaceable customer,” said Jim Sutter, chief executive officer of the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC).“We have been in China since 1982. Over the past 43 years, we’ve invested in relationship-building, training and cooperation with the Chinese industr
