New York, United States | AFP |  The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the most famous equity index benchmark on Wall Street shot above 20,000 for the first time at the open Wednesday. The blue-chip stocks index quickly blew through the much-anticipated milestone in the opening seconds of trading, culminating a …

Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Twenty-eight people were killed Wednesday when Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a popular Mogadishu hotel, setting off two car bombs and opening fire on security guards, according to the city’s main ambulance service. The attack, claimed by the Al-Qaeda-aligned Shabaab insurgents, began when a car loaded with …

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner General Doris Akol has said it was the Attorney General Fred Ruhindi who initiated the request for a sh6 billion presidential reward for a team of government officials who won a 2014 capital gains tax case against UK based oil company Heritage. Akol said she only got involved …

Champs Ivory Coast out as Renard-led Morocco win Oyem, Gabon | AFP |  Title-holders the Ivory Coast were dumped out of the Africa Cup of Nations Tuesday after a superb Rachid Alioui goal gave Herve Renard-coached Morocco a 1-0 win in Gabon. Clinching a quarter-finals place was particularly sweet for …

Cranes will hope to wind up their return to the high table of African football with a goal, and win, when they take on Mali today. “We came here to play three Cup finals — the first we lost on a penalty to Ghana and the second we lost in the last …

Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  Gambian ex-president Yahya Jammeh will be allowed to keep his collection of 13 luxury cars and fly them out to his exiled home in Equatorial Guinea, a spokesman for new president Adama Barrow said Tuesday. Barrow’s spokesman confirmed to AFP an agreement had been struck …

Soma, Gambia | AFP | They breathed a sigh of relief when strongman Yahya Jammeh finally left The Gambia. But supporters of the new president, Adama Barrow, say he has a lot to do to get the country — one of Africa’s poorest — on its feet. “At the end …

Rome, Italy | AFP |  Controversial Roman Catholic organisation Opus Dei said Tuesday it had named Fernando Ocariz as its new chief following the death of its 84-year-old leader. Pope Francis officially named Ocariz, 72, as the organisation’s fourth leader, an Opus Dei statement said. He replaces bishop Javier Echevarria, …

The High court in Kampala has ordered Mulago National Referral Hospital to pay sh85 million to a couple they helped  deliver twins, but failed to hand them both of them, claiming one died.  Mulago did not produce the body. Justice Lydia Mugambe made the order after discovering that Jenifer Musimenta …

The 10th annual Hip-hop For Society event at Sharing Hall Nsambya showed again that entertainment is an integral part of all round education for youth Organized by Breakdance Project Uganda (BPU) Sharing hall was filled to capacity for the 10th annual Hiphop For Society, which presented a mix of entertainment and education. …