London, UK | Xinhua | The Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool kicks off the weekend in the Premier League in a key game for both sides. Everton have not won yet this season and although they have shown some resilience in recent matches, defeat to their neighbors would make life …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tolbert Onyango, head coach of Uganda’s Rugby Sevens team, has named a 12-man squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town, South Africa from September 9 to 11. Michael Wokorach and Ian Munyani will lead the team as captain and vice-captain respectively, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kampala has raised a red flag over the emergence of criminal gangs using children to attack victims. Although Kampala has had a series of criminals victimizing pedestrians, riders and drivers, change in the methods of operation of the gangs known as Egaali …

New York, U.S. | Xinhua | Oil prices eked out modest gains on Friday as traders awaited a key meeting from major oil producers. The West Texas Intermediate for October delivery added 26 cents, or 0.3 percent, to settle at 86.87 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City Hall Court has sentenced 25 women to seven weeks in jail for deploying children on different streets of Kampala to beg for money. The women many of whom appeared before the court with their children were arrested last month from different parts of the …

Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA | Lawyer Willis Otieno on Friday used the storyline behind the movies entitled ‘The Italian Job and The Wolf Of Wall Street’ to make his argument in court. In a no-sweaty affair as previously witnessed in court, Otieno narrated how IEBC tried to confuse Kenyans by using extra …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Transsion Holdings, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, led the African smartphone market in the second quarter of 2022, with a combined unit share of 48 percent, according to a new study by a global research firm. The International Data Corporation (IDC) said Transsion, which manufactures Tecno, Infinix, …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. Department of Defense released on Thursday the fiscal year 2021 annual report on sexual assault in the military. “Sexual assault and sexual harassment remain persistent and corrosive problems,” the top line results read. Over 8 percent of active-duty women and about 1.5 percent of …

Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA |  Deputy Chief Justice and vice President of the Supreme Court Philomena Mwilu has asked Kenyans to pray for judges as they retreat to write their verdict on the presidential petition. Curtains on the three-day hearing came down on Friday after a strenuous submission …

  Juba, South Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was one of several heads of state who early this week witnessed the graduation of the 1st batch of the unified forces of the Republic of South Sudan. This follows the Entebbe Tripartite agreement of November 2019 in which …