Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Male Mabirizi has withdrawn his application seeking a review of the Supreme Court decision upholding the scraping of the presidential age limit from the constitution. He announced the decision before a panel of seven Supreme Court justices this morning and didn’t specify reasons for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has announced that his People Power movement has morphed into a political party, the National Unity Party. Speaking at his People Power secretariat in Kamwokya on Wednesday morning, Kyagulanyi said for the last two years they have been in negotiations with …

  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  | XINHUA | The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will create new opportunities for China-Africa cooperation, an Ethiopian expert said on Tuesday. Speaking to Xinhua, Gedion Jalata, a senior advisor to the UNDP South- South Cooperation and a former consultant to UNECA-Capacity Development Division, said the …

Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Tuesday instructing the government to implement a set of national development goals by 2030. The decree published by the Kremlin said the country aims to achieve breakthrough developments, increase its population and raise living standards. Other goals include …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA | Much still needs to be done for Africa to increase internet penetration as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the continent’s trade and socioeconomic condition, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said on Tuesday. According to figures from the ECA, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia and South …

Paris, France | XINHUA | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hailed as “historic” a European Union (EU) deal on a post-pandemic recovery fund that would help build a “green and prosperous Europe” and further improve European solidarity. “A historic day for Europe! A massive recovery plan is adopted: a …

London, UK | XINHUA | U.S. stock markets have been “a gold rush” for Chinese companies, but this may come to an end, as the U.S. administration has used its market as a “potential new front in a battle with China,” the British newspaper Daily Telegraph has reported. In May, …

Washington, US | XINHUA | The resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States is raising the risk of a double-dip recession if the country is unable to reign in the pandemic, economists have warned. A total of 34 U.S. states have seen increasing rates of COVID-19 infection since the Memorial …

Khartoum, Sudan | XINHUA | A Sudanese court on Tuesday announced the adjournment of the trial of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his officials just after the trial opened in the capital Khartoum earlier in the day. Emad-Eddin Mohamed Ibrahim, the supreme court judge, said the adjournment will be …

Washington, US | XINHUA | A new nanoparticle vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has shown hints of protection and immunity by safely eliciting the production of antibodies and antiviral T cell responses in mice and pigtail macaques, according to a new preclinical study published Monday in Science …