Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenyan athletics selectors have been forced into wholesale changes to the marathon team for the August 4-13 World Athletics Championships in London following the withdraw of four top runners including Olympic men’s champion Eliud Kipchoge. Kipchoge, who narrowly missed out on becoming the first athlete …

  President Yoweri Museveni has received and held a meeting at State House, Entebbe, with a delegation from the Rockefeller Foundation led by Foundation’s president Dr. Rajiv Shah. The Foundation CEO has prioritized the East African Region since he took office on March 1st this year. The Rockefeller Foundation support …

Manchester, United Kingdom | AFP | The man behind a terror attack at a pop concert in Manchester late Monday died when he detonated his device, killing 22 others including children and injuring 59 people, police said on Tuesday. Greater Manchester Police chief Ian Hopkins said the man had set off …

Brazzaville, Congo | AFP | Congo broke ground on a new Chinese-funded parliament building in the capital Brazzaville on Monday estimated at over 52 million euros ($58 million). The investment from China’s government was criticised by opposition groups which pointed out that Congo is in the midst of an economic …

Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  The Gambia’s longtime former ruler Yahya Jammeh stole at least $50-million from the state, the country’s justice minister said Monday, in the first major anti-corruption move by the country’s new president. It is the first time the new government of the small west African nations …

New York, United States | AFP |  US pop star Ariana Grande late Monday said she felt at a loss for words after a suspected terror attack at her concert in the British city of Manchester. “Broken,” she wrote in her first reaction on Twitter. “From the bottom of my …

Manchester, United Kingdom |  Nineteen people have been killed in a suspected terrorist attack during a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande in the northwest English city of Manchester, police said Tuesday. There were scenes of panic as Grande’s audience of youthful fans fled the 21,000-capacity venue after what …

President Yoweri Museveni has extended Uganda’s SIM-card registration deadline from May 19 to August 2017. “I chaired the NRM Caucus today where some Members of parliament (MPS) appealed for more time for SIM card registration despite the passing of the earlier deadline,” Museveni said on twitter. “I’ve agreed to this proposal …

Home form gives Nigerian club hope as KCCA seek first group stage points Johannesburg, South Africa | Impressive home form in Africa gives Nigerian club Rivers United  and Uganda’s KCCA FC hope of getting back on track this week in the CAF Confederation Cup. The Port Harcourt outfit host Group …

  President Museveni urges unity in diversity in South Sudan as worlds’ youngest nation embarks on national dialogue to stop the war Juba, South Sudan| PPU| President Yoweri Museveni has urged the people of South Sudan to embrace unity for prosperity and development warning that the misuse of identity can …