Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan’s armed forces will not allow the country to “fall into chaos,” Defence Minister General Awad Ibnouf said Monday as thousands of anti-government protesters demonstrated outside the military’s headquarters in Khartoum for third straight day. “Sudan’s armed forces understand the reasons for the demonstrations …
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Museveni vows ‘Uganda is safe’ after tourist kidnap Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | US President Donald Trump has demanded that Uganda must find the the kidnappers of American Tourist Kimberly Endicott. Although he welcomed Sunday’s release of the American held last week in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Trump said tourists will not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has demanded that Democratic Party (DP) President Norbert Mao apologises to Dr. Kizza Besigye for attacks during last week’s DP Block agreement signing event. DP on Thursday, last week held an event to sign a memorandum of understanding …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University will be able to sustain its research programmes after government promised to allocate a new sh30billion fund in the 2019/2020 financial year to support it. This follows the end of a 20-year collaborative partnership between Makerere University and the Swedish International Development …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tourism Minister Professor Ephraim Kamuntu has admitted that the kidnap of an American tourist and a Ugandan tour guide was a result of a security lapse by officials of the Uganda Wildlife Authority. Kimberly Sue Endicott and her Ugandan tour guide Jean Paul Mirenge …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines, the national carrier of Uganda, has firmed up its order for two A330-800 airliners, the latest version of the most popular A330 widebody airliner. They become only the second airline to own the new aircraft. Kuwait Airways is the only other customer …
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Paris, France | AFP | Emperor Akihito ascended to the Japanese throne on November 12, 1990 in a tightly choreographed ceremony steeped in tradition but with hints of modernity. Akihito, aged 56, had already succeeded his father, Emperor Hirohito, immediately on his death the previous year after the longest reign …
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Liverpool, United Kingdom | AFP | Sadio Mane has grown used to playing second fiddle to Mohamed Salah in the two seasons since the latter joined the Senegalese at Liverpool. However, the fact Jurgen Klopp’s men top the Premier League in their quest to end a 29-year wait to win …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Economists have warned against over running government budgets saying the move will distort government’s planning processes. Recently, the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development (MoFPED) released the Economic Performance report for January 2019. The report revealed that government spent Shs1.286 trillion instead of …
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Kigali, Rwanda | AFP | President Paul Kagame said Sunday that Rwandans had become a family again, 25 years after more than 800,000 people were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world. Kagame lit a remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250,000 mainly Tutsi victims …
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