Micho assistants Basena and Kajoba to handle Cranes for Rwanda game Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) president Eng. Moses Magogo has outlined plans for the replacement of national coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevich, who terminated his contract over a pay dispute last week. “There is a system challenge …
Read More »VIDEO: Ugandan football analysts blame FUFA for coach ‘Micho’s resignation.
VIDEO: Ugandan football analysts blame FUFA for coach ‘Micho’s resignation. Kampala, Uganda | NTV Uganda | The resignation of Uganda Cranes Coach Micho Sredojevic may not have come as a surprise, but it has nonetheless left many football lovers crestfallen. Some have faulted the country’s football governing body, FUFA, for breaching …
Read More »RWANDA: Kagame vows to leave no Rwandan behind
President Paul Kagame, who is seeking re-election and holding campaigns across the country, has said the mantra of his party; RPF-Inkotanyi, is “not to leave any Rwanda behind”. RWANDA |SUSAN BABIJJA| Kagame who is the chairman of RPF-Inkotanyi is pushing this message at all his rallies. He is urging Rwandans …
Read More »VIDEO: 38 countries confirm participation in Commonwealth youth meet
VIDEO: 38 countries confirm participation in Commonwealth youth meet Kampala, Uganda | NTV Uganda | Delegates from 38 countries are in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, for a Commonwealth ministerial meeting and youth leaders forum. The summit runs from 31 July to 4 August. The Youth Leaders’ Forum, between 31 July …
Read More »VIDEO: John Nagenda shares about his lighter side, literature, art, sports and beer
VIDEO: John Nagenda shares about his lighter side, literature, art, sports and beer Kampala, Uganda | NTV Uganda | John Nagenda, President Museveni’s senior advisor on media and public relations loves his literature, art, sports and enjoys a regular tipple. He pens a column in a local daily in which he …
Read More »VIDEO: MPs should keep away from age limit debate, says Kadaga
VIDEO: MPs should keep away from age limit debate, says Kadaga Kampala, Uganda | NTV Uganda | Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has cautioned legislators not to be distracted from their duties by the debate on the lifting of the presidential age limit. Kadaga says that since no formal bill has …
Read More »Somalia militants claim 39 AU troops killed in ambush
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Shabaab militants in Somalia on Sunday claimed they had killed 39 African Union troops in an ambush in the country’s south. The claim by the Al-Qaeda linked insurgents, made by the group’s spokesman on an affiliated radio station, could not be immediately verified. Local residents …
Read More »93-year-old Mugabe says ‘not dying’ as health concerns mount
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring “I am not dying,” sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about his health after his wife urged him to name a successor. Mugabe’s medical trips to Singapore have become frequent in recent years, fuelling questions about his health. His …
Read More »Two dead as Kenyan police end siege at home of deputy president
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Elite Kenyan security forces on Sunday killed a man at the home of Deputy President William Ruto, ending a 20-hour siege that left one officer dead and another wounded, security officials said. Ruto and his family were not at the vast property in the northwest of …
Read More »Five dead, 10 wounded in Somalia blast
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | At least five people were killed and ten wounded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car bomb detonated on a busy road, the security ministry said. There was no immediate claim of responsiblity but the bombing fits the pattern of Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab …
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