Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Elections in Democratic Republic of Congo — due to take place on Sunday — may be postponed for a week, a senior electoral official has told AFP, after electronic voting machines were destroyed in a suspected arson attack on a warehouse last week. The …
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Mpondwe, Uganda | Michael O’HAGAN – AFP | Stormwater from the peaks of the Rwenzori Mountains swells the muddy Lhubiriha River that marks the often porous border between western Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Less than 70 kilometres (40 miles) away, authorities have already confirmed one case of …
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New Delhi, India | AFP | An Indian journalist has been jailed for a year after he criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, in the latest example of what critics claim is a clampdown on free speech. Kishorechandra Wangkhem was arrested last month in the remote northeastern state of …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a media watchdog said Wednesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year …
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Special One turns sour as Mourinho’s dream job ends in sack London, United Kingdom | AFP | Jose Mourinho reportedly cried when he heard he had not been chosen as the heir to Alex Ferguson’s throne at Old Trafford.Five years on, having finally landed his dream job, Mourinho’s United tenure …
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President will shake up central bank, insiders say Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | When the committee investigating the central bank over closed banks starts querying the process surrounding the sale of Crane Bank, one particular question will arise again: How did you zero on dfcu Bank as the …
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Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Democratic Republic of Congo goes to the polls this week in elections which could see the country emerge from 17 years of conflict-ridden rule under controversial President Joseph Kabila. Twenty-one candidates are running to replace Kabila, whose hand-picked successor Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary is one …
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Civil society excited but frustrated scientists pin hope on Museveni Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Ugandan civil society is celebrating a new law that seeks to regulate the development and application of biotechnology. But it is cautious celebration – until President Yoweri Museveni signs it into law. The objective of …
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What can Museveni’s new anti-corruption tsar do where others have failed? Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | President Yoweri Museveni has unveiled Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema to the public as the newest anti-corruption tsar in State House. Nakalema, a trusted Museveni aide, was named to the task soon after she returned …
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How the fight against corruption was lost Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT REPORTERS | When on Dec.05, an American court convicted Patrick Ho Chi Ping on charges of bribing foreign leaders in Chad and Uganda in a bid to corruptly secure unfair business advantages for his multi-billion-dollar Chinese energy company, news …
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