Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The electronic voting system due to be used in a re-run of Kenya’s presidential poll will not be ready in time, the French biometrics firm behind it said Monday. OT-Morpho provided Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) with equipment to identify voters biometrically in …
Read More »PSG win again but tensions simmer between Neymar, Cavani
Paris, France | AFP | Paris Saint-Germain kept their perfect start to the season going on Sunday, but the 2-0 win over Lyon also laid bare certain tensions in their all-star front line. PSG were leading 1-0 at the Parc des Princes when they won a penalty with 10 minutes …
Read More »Nigeria attacks pro-Biafra propaganda as curfew eased
Aba, Nigeria | AFP | A dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed after clashes between pro-Biafra supporters and Nigerian security services was relaxed on Monday, as the government blasted social media “quacks and internet trollers” for stoking tensions. The Abia state government in the country’s southeast last week ordered people off the streets …
Read More »MASAKA: 12 Tanzanians killed in crash on deadly highway
MASAKA: 14 killed in crash on deadly Ugandan highway Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Fourteen people were killed when a truck ploughed into a bus carrying a group returning from a wedding on Uganda’s deadliest road, police said Monday. “The driver of the truck lost control after a tyre burst …
Read More »Details of Sematimba Court of Appeal ruling
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Uganda’s Court of Appeal has confirmed NRM’s Peter Sematimba as the validly elected MP of Busiro South constituency in Wakiso district. Three Justices, including out-going deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma, Catherine Bamugemereire and Cheborion Barishaki overturned the High Court’s decision by Justice Lydia Mugambe …
Read More »Rooney banned from driving after drink-drive guilty plea
Stockport, United Kingdom | AFP | Former England captain Wayne Rooney was Monday banned from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to drink driving. Rooney was charged after being stopped by police while driving a black Volkswagen Beetle at 2:00 …
Read More »US flies bombers over Korean peninsula
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | The US flew four stealth fighter jets and two bombers over the Korean peninsula on Monday in a show of force after North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests, South Korea’s defence ministry said. Four F-35B stealth fighters and two B-1B bombers flew over …
Read More »Rooney arrives at court to face drink-driving charge
London, United Kingdom | AFP | Former England captain Wayne Rooney arrived at court on Monday to face a drink-driving charge. The Everton striker, 31, made no comment as he was confronted by a media scrum outside Stockport Magistrates’ Court in the northwest of England. Wearing a blue suit with …
Read More »DR Congo opens inquiry into killing of dozens of Burundian refugees
Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | The Democratic Republic of Congo said Sunday that it had opened an inquiry after soldiers fired on Burundian refugees in the eastern South Kivu province, killing dozens. Government spokesman Lambert Mende also claimed that many of those killed during the clashes were members of …
Read More »LIVE: Peter Sematimba ruling
BREAKING NEWS Uganda’s Court of Appeal has in a Monday ruling confirmed Peter Sematimba as the validly elected MP of Busiro South. Through Muganwa, Nanteza and company advocates, Ssematimba appealed saying he was dissatisfied with High Court Justice Lydia Mugambe’s decision last year declaring his seat vacant and the resultant …
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