Ankara, Turkey | AFP | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday battled to regain control over Turkey after a coup bid by discontented soldiers, as signs grew that the most serious challenge to his 13 years of dominant rule was starting to falter. After hours of chaos unseen in decades, Erdogan …
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Right now in the skies of #Ankara, fighter jets flying low. Please let this be some sort of training, I’m scared. pic.twitter.com/GBOIZL1sNZ — Marina Lourenço (@lourenco_marina) July 15, 2016 #BREAKING Turkey’s top general ‘held hostage’ at military HQ: state agency — AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016 …
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COVER STORY: Fight over Museveni’s business bail out money President Yoweri Museveni is battling with technocrats at the central bank and Finance Ministry over whether to fork out of the public purse about a trillion shillings to bail out private companies facing immense financial distress. Behind the bail-out is a …
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A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through the …
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Northern Corridor success: New World Bank report highlights logistics on EAC’s Northern Corridor as an inspiring African success story Finally, the massive investments in projects to remove logistical bottlenecks in the East African Community are starting to pay off great dividends. A new World Bank report dubbed, ‘Trade Logistics in …
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Tanga Odoi, the chairman of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s Electoral Commission, is assertive to the point of abrasiveness. The former university don attributes his confidence in dealing with situations directly and not fearing to take a stand from the kind of family he was raised. Odoi, who is …
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Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has announced new electricity end user tariffs with a reduction, implying that consumers in all categories will pay less in this quarter (July-September 2016). As per the new tariff schedule, domestic consumers will pay sh626.0 per unit from sh640.2, commercial consumers will pay sh566.9 from …
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Juba, South Sudan | AFP | A ceasefire in South Sudan’s capital appeared to hold for a second straight day Wednesday after intense fighting that killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. No gunfire or artillery was heard in Juba and evacuation flights for …
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Beijing, China | AFP | China warned its rivals Wednesday against turning the South China Sea into a “cradle of war” and threatened an air defence zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid. The surprisingly strong and sweeping ruling by a UN-backed tribunal in …
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The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | The International Criminal Court on Tuesday said it is referring Uganda and Djibouti to the UN Security Council after the two east African countries’ failed to arrest wanted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The Hague-based ICC’s judges said in a statement “the Republics of Uganda …
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