Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Anti-government protesters in Ethiopia have turned their anger on foreigners, torching tourist resorts and foreign-owned factories in the restive Oromia region, local media reported Friday. At least 11 companies, including textile and plastic factories, were torched in recent days in the town of Sebeta …

Paris, France | AFP |  French investigators have reopened their probe into the 1994 genocide-triggering assassination of a Rwandan president to question a dissident general who has accused the country’s current head of state of orchestrating the killing, AFP learnt Friday. After a French-crewed plane carrying Juvenual Habyarimana was shot …

Bogota, Colombia | AFP | In a Colombia left deeply divided by a contested peace deal with the FARC rebels, not everyone was happy about President Juan Manuel Santos winning the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. “Santos doesn’t deserve it,” said Rodolfo Oviedo, one of the opponents of a peace deal …

Uganda hold Ghana after escaping red card Ghana 0 Uganda 0 Uganda defender Nicholas Wadada was yellow-carded twice but not sent off as his team forced a shock 0-0 away draw against Ghana Friday in a World Cup qualifier. Although right-back Wadada was cautioned in each half at the Tamale …

COVER STORY: Governance crisis `Clueless’ Parliament meets `lazy’ Executive Governance crisis feared as `clueless’ Parliament and the  Executive fail to deal with major issues facing the country just weeks after the World Bank froze new lending to Uganda because of the government failure to fully use already borrowed money, and parliament …

Manufacturers in Uganda can look forward to reduced costs of electricity and interest rates as the country helps to boost the sector and create jobs, President Yoweri Museveni has said. He said the aim is for manufacturers to pay sh169.39 ($5cents) per unit up from  sh372 ($11cents) for electricity per …

VIDEO: President Yoweri Museveni has blamed the high power tariffs in the country on mistakes that were made during the construction of Bujagali power dam. Speaking during the opening of 24th edition of the Uganda International trade fair, Museveni assured manufacturers that they will enjoy a significant reduction from 11 …

VIDEO: All the six members of Parliament hailing from Kasese district including the district Chairman and the Omusinga of Rwenzuru Charles Wesley Mumbere are now living in fear after getting death threats from unknown people. It is these threats that have forced the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanya to direct …

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