Washington, United States | AFP | US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his “very strict” crackdown on Muslim immigration was working “very nicely,” amid mounting resistance to the order branded as blatantly discriminatory. In an executive order signed Friday, Trump halted the arrival of refugees for at least 120 …
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Cameroon 0 (5) Senegal 0 (4) Burkina Faso 2 Tunisia 0 Sunday Egypt vs Morocco DRC vs Ghana Franceville, Gabon | AFP | Sadio Mane agonisingly missed from the spot to allow Cameroon to beat Senegal 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final tie on …
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Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa has been nominated by Uganda as a candidate for the post of judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Justice Bossa is a highly accomplished judge with over 27 years of legal and judicial work experience at national, regional and international level. She has considerable exposure and …
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President Museveni in Addis Ababa for 28th AU summit as Uganda fronts AU Commissioner, ICC Judge President Yoweri Museveni is in Addis Ababa for an African Union (AU) meet where Uganda will front Dr. Warren Naamara for the post of Commissioner Social Affairs and Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa as candidate for the …
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Negotiators won over Gambia ex-leader with appeals to faith and patriotism Conakry, Guinea | AFP | In pushing Yahya Jammeh to give up The Gambia’s presidency, negotiators played on two key cards: his deep Muslim faith and his professed love of country. Jammeh finally quit as president and went into …
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Staff of Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga over a salary increment. They also complained that the Standard Gauge Railway is going to displace them from their headquarters. In their petition brought to the speaker by the EC’s commissioners and Secretary Sam Rwakojjo, they …
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Mexico City, Mexico | AFP | By picking a fight with Mexico, US President Donald Trump is needling a strategic partner that could retaliate with a trade war and less cooperation on immigration and the drug war, analysts say. The neighboring countries face the biggest diplomatic rift in decades over …
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Africa Cup of Nations quarters Saturday Burkina Faso v Tunisia 7pm; Senegal v Cameroon 10pm Libreville, Gabon | AFP | Senegal coach Aliou Cisse insists Africa Cup of Nations opponents Cameroon are favourites to win the eagerly-awaited quarter-final in Franceville on Saturday. Pundits beg to differ, though, making the Senegalese Teranga Lions …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | A Kenyan court on Friday issued an order blocking the deportation of two South Sudanese opposition figures after an outcry by rights groups over treatment they would face at home. The families of prominent lawyer and activist Dong Samuel Luak and opposition member Aggrey Idri …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Islamist Shabaab fighters attacked a Kenyan military base in southern Somalia on Friday in their latest assault on foreign and national army outposts. The attack on the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base at Kolbiyow, close to the Kenyan border in Somalia’s Lower Juba region, began …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
