Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Rarely a season start of the Bundesliga has been more eagerly awaited than the 2022-2023 campaign. With the reigning champion Bayern Munich to open the show against Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday evening, the German league seems ahead of challenging rounds of matches. Despite having lost …
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| YVONNE SU AND COREY ROBINSON | In 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people surpassed 100 million worldwide. Nearly 1.5 million refugees will need resettlement in 2022, but less than one per cent of refugees will be resettled. Across the globe, the declining rate of refugee resettlement and the …
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is opening parts of the world’s second-biggest rainforest to drilling following its offer on July 28 of licensing rights for 27 oil and three gas blocks in the region. Initially, Kinshasa had planned to give away 16 oil blocks but it appears that with the …
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The reasons for the charm offensive aren’t pretty | JOSEPH SIEGLE | Russia is the source of less than 1% of the foreign direct investment into Africa. Substantively, then, Russia brings little to the continent. But the fact that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made a high-profile trip to Africa …
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Museveni shrugs off US-Russia enmity Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Affairs minister, wrapped up a four country Africa tour and Uganda was always going to be a key stopover for the long serving Lavrov. It was the first time someone at the level of Foreign …
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How new IFAD boss plans to halt rural poverty by 2030 Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On July 7, the Governing Council of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) voted Alvaro Lario from Spain to be its 7th president. Lario beat three other candidates including Khaled …
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What they offer in tight presidential elections KENYA | MICHAEL NDONYE | On August 9, 2022, Kenyans will vote for their fifth president. It will be the country’s seventh general election since the resumption of multiparty electoral democracy 30 years ago. This year will see the lowest number of presidential …
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People die as they promise and don’t deliver Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI HABATI | Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is once again battling to ensure boda-boda remain in the capital. This after an orchestrated move in January saw Parliament order the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to decongest the …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | The newly appointed Minister of Justice and Democratic Party (DP) President Norbert Mao has defended his decision to sign a cooperation agreement with the ruling National Resistance Movement – NRM Government, describing it as a strategic investment. The agreement between the parties aims to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On June 15th, 2022, Makerere University Council resolved to suspend the guild elections following chaotic campaigns that led to the death of Bewotti Batungura, a law student from Uganda Christian University-UCU. Batungura bled to death after being pierced with a broken bottle in the neck …
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