AFRICA

Kisumu ,Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s President, William Ruto says it is shameful that countries in East Africa are importing fish from China yet Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are endowed with the largest Lake in Africa. Ruto says Lake Victoria, which is Africa’s largest lake by area, and the world’s largest tropical lake …

NAIROBI, KENYA | Xinhua | Kenya’s security forces killed a terrorist and recovered a cache of weapons during an operation carried out in Garissa County, near the border with Somalia, on Saturday. The Counter-Terrorism Policing unit said its elite Special Operations Group (SOG) conducted an intelligence-driven operation in the Najo …

PORT SUDAN | Xinhua | The Sudanese government on Saturday announced that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured Singa, the capital city of Sinnar State in central Sudan, which had been controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “Today (Saturday), Singa city has returned to the homeland … The …

What’s the Ugandan government calculating? COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | The abduction of opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye in Nairobi, Kenya has put President Yoweri Museveni and his government in the eye of a diplomatic storm. But the major prevailing question asked by everyone is: what is the government’s play …

The SGR was originally an East African project, but faced financing problems. Kenya did a section of the SGR but it did not connect to Uganda, Rwanda and Sudan as was originally planned over 8years ago. Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Construction works on the delayed Standard Gauge Railway …

COMMENT | YUSUF MASABA | World leaders and some more than 70,000 delegates from 170 countries descended on the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, for the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) that kicked off on November 11, running till next week on Friday. With …

Byanyima asks Gov to produce Besigye Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The front page of Wednesday’s The Daily Monitor says it all —  ” Besigye missing in Nairobi.” Dr. Kizza Besigye, veteran Ugandan politician and four-time presidential candidate is reported missing, but his wife Winnie Byanyima claims …

    Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity BCDC Managing Director, Willy Mulamba, has painted a rich picture of DRC’s economic potential for delegates attending the 3rd trade mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. “DRC is a country rich in resources and opportunities and …

Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 250 delegates drawn from the host country DRC as well as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are in Kinshasa for a business-to-business conference to deepen understanding of trade in the region. Delegates attending the third Trade Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo jetted into …

Africa’s Gen Zs, promised opportunity, innovation and new technology but faced with the very real world of a workplace in flux, constrained labour markets, high inflation and increasing criticism of their work ethic, are finding very little to cheer about. So a growing number of African universities are stepping in, …