Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Trade Minister Amelia Kyambadde has said there is no reason for one to show bitterness when they are dropped from a political appointment. Kyambadde says 40 years of serving the nation was more than enough and she is not complaining. Kyambadde’s first job …
Read More »Kyagulanyi’s family not being targeted – Govt
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has said that government and its leadership has a long good track record of not harming or killing politicians, their families or its opponents. Ofwono Opondo was responding to claims by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu that his children were taken abroad for …
Read More »Court rules that UK transgender man who gave birth is child’s mother
London, United Kingdom | AFP | A transgender man who gave birth but did not want to be registered as the child’s mother on the birth certificate lost a legal battle at England’s High Court on Wednesday. Freddy McConnell, 32, was born as a woman but has lived as …
Read More »First-ever set of sextuplets born in Poland
Warsaw, Poland | AFP | A woman has given birth to Poland’s first sextuplets with each newborn weighing about one kilogram (2.2 pounds), physicians at the University Hospital in the city of Krakow announced on Monday. “This is the first birth of sextuplets in Poland and one of the few …
Read More »Mandatory ‘divorce course’ for parents splitting up in Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP | Gone are the days in Denmark when parents could get a divorce with a simple online click — now they have to complete a course before their marriage can be dissolved. As part of a new divorce law that entered into force on April …
Read More »Serena in inspirational message to working mums
Perth, Australia | AFP | Serena Williams has posted an inspirational New Year message to mums and dads juggling parenthood with work, saying “anything is possible”. The 23-time Grand Slam champion began 2019 in Perth at the mixed teams Hopman Cup, with baby Alexis Olympia in tow. She posted a …
Read More »Thai man guns down six family members, including kids at New Year party
Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | A Thai man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year’s Eve party before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Sucheep …
Read More »Family: Muhangi suffered cardiac arrest
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The late businessman and rally ace Charles Muhangi suffered a heart attack. This is according to a postmortem released by the family. Muhangi’s body was on Thursday found lying in his bed by his child around 7:30 am at his home in Lower Mawanga in …
Read More »Nobel Peace Prize to honour champions of struggle against sexual violence
Oslo, Norway | AFP | Champions of the fight against sexual violence, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, a former captive of jihadists, will on Monday receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which this year highlights rape as a weapon of war. Murad, 25, and Mukwege, 63, will …
Read More »Ohio family arrested for killing eight people
Chicago, United States | AFP | Police in the US state of Ohio arrested a husband and wife and their two sons Tuesday over the “meticulously planned” murder of eight people — seven members of the same family and a fiancee. George Wagner III, Angela Wagner and their sons George …
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