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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has hailed Uganda on infrastructure development as well as efforts to contain inflation amidst challenges of high exchange rates and fluctuating  prices. In its latest report “Recent development’s and prospects, Uganda’s Economic Buffers”, the IMF says Uganda is relatively high on growth, low on inflation,  …

  Uganda gets technology, improved care to extend life for sufferers When Evelyn Mwesigwa, a social worker thought of settling down – marrying and having children, she considered a lot of things. Religion, love, respect and of course her partner’s HIV status. What never crossed her mind was a sickle …

Obo, Central African Republic | AFP | “Charlie Six, India One here… we’re going to begin the check-in,” says radio operator Joanick from his small studio in Obo, calling out to the surrounding villages in southeast Central African Republic. It’s a daily meeting at dawn, when each village informs the …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Democratic Republic of Congo’s rumba king Papa Wemba was posthumously awarded one of his country’s highest honours on Monday, a week after he collapsed on stage and died aged 66. At a ceremony in the national parliament in Kinshasa, where Papa Wemba’s body lay …

  ⚽️⚽️⚽️ #saintsfc pic.twitter.com/Efl9dABvpC — Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) May 1, 2016 Senegalese Sadio Mane spearheaded an African goal rush in the English Premier League at the weekend with his hat-trick inspiring Southampton to a 4-2 triumph over Manchester City. Africans claimed nine of the 27 goals in nine matches, including …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Long-stalled peace talks that many hope will solve a year-long crisis in Burundi have been delayed again, the opposition said Friday. Hundreds have been killed and a quarter of a million people have fled Burundi since President Pierre Nkurunziza’s controversial decision last April to run …

Mabior Garang de Mabior, son of the founder of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) John Garang, was named on the cabinet as South Sudan President Salva Kiir named a Transitional Government yesterday. Mabior Garang de Mabior, new South Sudan minsiter of Water Resources and Irrigation, was one of a number …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Burundi’s government on Wednesday refused to participate in stalled talks to end months of political crisis unless it was first consulted on who else was taking part. As Washington urged the authorities to defuse a year-long crisis, a presidential statement, broadcast on national radio and …

United Nations, United States | AFP | The return of rebel leader Riek Machar to Juba must pave the way for a genuine transition to end more than two years of brutal civil war in South Sudan, the UN peacekeeping chief said Tuesday. “The return of the designated first vice …

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | AFP | An opposition politician said Tuesday that police have barred him and 200 of his supporters from leaving his residence in the capital Malabo after an army assault on the property. “I am in prison in my own residence, there are more than 200 activists …