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African countries must reduce their reliance on other Western countries by boosting intra-Africa trade and also by eliminating their exploitation of Africa’s raw materials, according to the AfCFTA Secretary General and Uganda’s president. Speaking at the 2023 Zenith Bank International Trade Seminar on Non-Oil Export, the Secretary General of AfCFTA, Wamkele Mene, said that economic […]
The governments of Kenya and Uganda have now revived the plans to build a standard gauge railway (SGR) between them, with each of them pursuing individual financing for their SGR portions, with Kenya signing commercial contracts and Uganda set to finalize its deal soon. These steps signal renewed efforts in both countries to upgrade infrastructure […]
With rising temperatures, people living in regions across Africa that were once inhospitable to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, including the mountains of eastern Ethiopia and the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, could be newly exposed to the disease, according to latest studies on this topic. As the temperature range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising in elevation as […]
The planet’s record-breaking hot weather has caused severe drought in many places around the world and African nations risk extreme heat if climate targets are missed, with Uganda, South Sudan, and Congo being among the most vulnerable to soaring temperatures, a recent Oxford study has warned. According to the report, eight of the 10 countries […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a mining deal worth $1.9 billion for which the Gulf country will develop several mining fields. The deal was signed Monday with state miner “Société Aurifère du Kivu et du Maniema”, “Zawya” reports, citing a statement from the Congo’s President Felix […]
French oil giant TotalEnergies is being sued in Paris by 26 Ugandans, together with five Ugandan and French aid groups, for reparations over alleged human rights violations at its massive mega-projects in the East African country. People from the affected communities in Uganda say the energy firm caused “serious harm”, especially to their rights to […]
Twenty people had been reported arrested by Ugandan police for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last Friday’s (16 June) horrific attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Uganda reels from its deadliest attack in more than a decade after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a […]
Somali security forces have brought an end to a six-hour siege of a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, during which at least six civilians were killed and 10 wounded. Responsibility for the Friday evening’s attack on the popular, upmarket Pearl Restaurant was claimed by the armed group al-Shabab, the Somali Police Force said on […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law draconian new anti-gay legislation against homosexuality described as among the world’s harshest, stirring controversy in and outside the country and prompting condemnation from human rights and LGBTQ groups as well as Western powers. The new anti-homosexuality law that provides for tough measures targeting LGBTQ individuals is supported […]
Six African leaders plan to spearhead and facilitate what they hope could be the beginning of peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv more than one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Tuesday (16 May) that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had agreed to meet […]