Paris, France | AFP |  A complex offensive is taking place to recapture Mosul, the Islamic State group’s last major stronghold in Iraq and the country’s second city. Questions of timing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Monday that operations to liberate Mosul had begun after already calling an operation to …

Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Claver Gatete, has been named Finance Minister of the Year in the Sub-Saharan category by Global Capital, an international news, opinion, and data service Gatete’s honour was announced on Oct.04 together with winners from Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and …

Blantyre, Malawi | AFP |  Malawian President Peter Mutharika returned home Sunday after an unexplained trip to the United States that lasted several weeks, sparking rumours over his health. Mutharika flew to New York to give a speech at the UN General Assembly on September 25 but there had been …

COMMENT: By Yoga Adhola UPC needs to look critically at what Obote did, build on it, and look into the future In a recent discussion on UPCNET, a UPC internet discussion forum, Allan Tewungwa (alias Ras) asserted: “In UPC, we follow Milton Obote and his example. He was a high-minded …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya Airways, already facing financial difficulties and a threatened pilots’ strike, cancelled five flights on Sunday after outsourced cabin crew walked off the job. While the stoppage only involved a small number of workers, it coincides with a deep malaise at the airline, which in …

Washington, United States | AFP |  The teen daughter of former US Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot early Sunday, police said. Police say 15-year-old Trinity Gay, a star high school runner herself, was struck by a bullet during a shootout at about 4 a.m. in the parking lot …

VIDEO: The different Parliament committees have in the past months investigated many of the issues that are of public concern. Several cases have been handled and actions recommended. But with a gigantic executive armed with powers and the ills of the multi party democracy, many analysts question the ability of parliament to …

VIDEO: The Democratic Party (DP) celebrated 62 years of its founding with a cleaning exercise of public places along Entebbe road this week. The party’s leadership led by President Norbert Mao cleaned markets, roads and hospitals in a move aimed at showing that leadership is service to the led.   Share on: …

VIDEO: Local pepper and chili farmers are being challenged to double their production and tap into alternative overseas markets. Pepper production in Uganda fell drastically after government announced a ban on pepper exports to the European Union. But with emerging bigger markets for Uganda’s pepper outside the European Union, the country …

Benaulim, India | AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday a rising tide of protectionism and anti-globalisation was endangering the world economy’s still fragile recovery as BRICS leaders vowed to forge closer business and trade ties. At a summit in the Indian tourist hub of Goa, host Prime Minister …