Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, Theodore Ssekikubo is blaming his current woes on Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine. Ssekikubo  is currently locked up at Masaka Central Police Station following his arrest on Friday this week for mobilizing residents to defy the livestock quarantine, reopen …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Makerere University, University law Don, Joe Oloka Onyango has given Uganda’s oil management laws a thumbs up for distributing powers to different agencies charged with managing the country’s oil revenues, a move that could deter maladministration. Reviewing Uganda’s oil legal regime for a chapter in …

Benghazi, Libya | AFP |  Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar on Saturday announced a ceasefire in his months-long battle to control the capital Tripoli after calls for a truce from Russia and Turkey. The North African state has seen an escalation of the turmoil that erupted after a NATO-backed uprising killed …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has implored Public Universities to realign their curricula to address the dilemma of unemployment facing graduates in the country. He made the call while officiating at the 15th graduation ceremony of Gulu University on Saturday. Up to 1,513 students comprising of 870 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The expansion of Nakawa-Ntinda Road that has seen several huge trees cut down sparking mixed reactions from residents and people operating around the road. The 2.82 km Nakawa-Ntinda Road will be expanded to a dual carriage way with two lanes on each side, walkways on both sides, solar Street Lighting, covered …

Porto-Novo, Benin | AFP | In his long life, voodoo priest Kpohinto Medji has seen his religion flourish and then go into decline, banned for years by the authorities and pressured by other faiths. Today, the ageing priest with mischievous eyes is somewhat happier. Benin is gearing for its annual voodoo …

Kafountine, Senegal | AFP |  Most Senegalese farmers sell peanuts and vegetables, but in one hamlet lost in a mangrove swamp in the West African country’s south, only one crop is commercially viable — cannabis. Kouba, a village deep in the mangroves of Casmance and inaccessible by road, teems with caiman …

Paris, France | AFP |  Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to streets across France on Thursday in the latest mass protests against a pensions overhaul that critics say could cut benefits even while requiring people to work longer before retiring. Tensions flared in Paris and other cities as some black-clad …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Uganda’s Sim-Card registration policies have received a poor ranking, getting same score as North Korea. Comparitech, a technology research company in England and Wales, said Uganda was among the top 15 countries with poor Sim-Card registration policies – only better than Tanzania and Saudi Arabia. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A witness has told court that surgical instruments and a bullet were recovered from the body of Kenneth Akena. The witness whose identity was concealed by court was part of the team that conducted a post mortem on November 13th, 2016. On Thursday, the witness …