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San Francisco, United States | AFP | Twitter shares slid Tuesday after a quarterly update worsened investor fears that the one-to-many messaging service can win enough users to be a lucrative, mainstream hit. Twitter posted a loss for the first quarter of 2016 of $80 million, compared with a loss …

Washington, United States | AFP | Nine Yemeni inmates have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Saturday, bringing the controversial military prison’s remaining population down to 80. It is the largest transfer from the facility since 10 Yemenis were sent to Oman in January …

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Tom Malinowski has urged youth in Uganda to vote in the 2016 elections a way of playing a constructive role in the country’s politics and emphasizing the influence they hold in shaping the future. “It is clear that this …

Several civil society organizations working in Uganda’s health sector have petitioned the US government through its Kampala mission to review its current position in the ongoing negotiations with the so-called least developed countries in Geneva, Switzerland, over access to affordable medicines. Locked in negotiations with the US are Uganda, Nepal …

By Martin M. Lwanga The collapse of realpolitik and pursuit of interventionism created a vacuum filled by terrorists and anarchists What we are witnessing today in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Eritrea with masses of hapless human beings abandoning their nations in search of safe pastures in the West is a …

By The  Independent Team (Washington, DC, January 7, 2015) – A commander of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been taken into custody by US military forces, according to news reports. The US State Department indicated that a man who identified himself as Dominic Ongwen, the commander, …

By Ian Katusiime US President Barack Obama yesterday announced sweeping changes aimed at restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba. After more than 50 years of hostility and tension towards each other, US and Cuba yesterday announced that they were holding talks aimed at normalising diplomatic relations between the two countries. Both …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why American media should listen to the views of Rwandans about freedom in their country A month before the Africa-America Summit in Washington DC, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda shuffled his prime minister (who was from the same Rwanda Patriotic Front political party as the president) …

By Joan Akello Just hours into 2013, US congressmen had a burden on their shoulders during the festive season.  They had to either meet the Jan.1 deadline and save the economy or reject and drag the other world economies in a possible recession. Even the president Barack Obama had his …

By Julius Odeke The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (Bureau of African Affairs), Mr Jonnie Carson, has warned stakeholders involved in global initiatives to end the atrocities attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that no single silver bullet can on its own solve the LRA problem. According to …