CAPE TOWN, South Africa | Xinhua | Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), was reelected by the National Assembly on Friday as the nation’s president for the next five years. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who presided over the first sitting of the National Assembly, announced …

Dokolo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the international community have witnessed the return of calm and peace to Okwongodul parish in Okwongodul sub county Dokolo district where Awer central forest reserve has been a flashpoint of land-based conflict. The forest reserve sits on 220 hectares in Adwong dok Inyom …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A scuffle ensued on Friday as Member of Parliament Paul Akamba was rearrested at the Anti-Corruption Court premises shortly after securing bail on corruption charges. Akamba was earlier granted a cash bail of 13 million shillings by Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro, who also ordered him …

It is absurd to demand that it build state institutions while Israel withholds its main source of finance COMMENT | RAJA KHALIDI | Ahead of the recent G7 summit, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, in a rare rebuke of Israel, warned that its plans to cut off Palestinian financial institutions …

Mororto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These days, farmers in the villages of Kicoke, Bugana, and Nganzi in Buliisa sleep in a makeshift hut outside their gardens. The idea of crops of their crops being unable to pass another night rattles them. They have to stay awake to fight off the …

KIGALI, Rwanda | Xinhua | Rwanda said it received 113 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya late Thursday, the government announced. The evacuees include individuals from South Sudan, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire and Somalia, the Rwandan Ministry in charge of Emergency Management said in a statement. The evacuees, who arrived …

KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda’s Finance Minister Matia Kasaija on Thursday said the East African country’s economy will grow by 7 percent in the fiscal year (FY) 2024/2025, which will start on July 1. The growth will be driven through increased oil and gas activities, growth in exports, increase …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anti Corruption Court in Kampala has denied bail to Lwengo District Woman MP of Parliament Cissy Namujju Dionizia and Yusuf Mutembuli the Bunyole East Member of Parliament. The court presided over by Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro on Friday rejected their bail application on grounds …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s growth strategy for the 2024/2025 Financial Year is anchored on agro-industrialisation, tourism development, mineral development including oil and gas, and technology and innovation, the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija has said. “These are the anchors that are going to propel …

WASHINGTON, USA | TASS |  US President Joe Biden signed a 10-year security agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, Reuters reported. “The parties recognize this agreement as supporting a bridge to Ukraine’s eventual membership in the NATO alliance,” the agreement reads, according …