Washington, United States | AFP | The Washington Post, purchased three years ago by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will turn a profit in 2016 and expand its newsroom, defying the downward trend in the newspaper industry. A memo to staff this month from Post publisher Fred Ryan, obtained by …
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VIDEO: The Democratic Party has named Gerald Siranda as the acting Secretary General, a position held by Mathias Nsubuga who passed on earlier this month. Siranda will act in the position for one year – the same time the country’s oldest surviving party will be mourning the fallen Nsubuga. …
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VIDEO: Cranes head coach Micho says he will be spoilt for choice when choosing the final list of 23 players that will board the plane to Gabon. The Uganda Cranes head coach expressed his selection headache after key three players joined camp. Four of his current team in training face the axe. Grace …
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Gambian president-elect tells Jammeh to transfer power like British Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow on Monday called on President Yahya Jammeh to step aside, saying that even colonial power Britain was able to hand over power peacefully. In a Christmas message, Barrow said Gambians should …
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Beni, DR Congo | AFP | The official explanation for a two-year wave of massacres in a restive corner of DR Congo centres on a shadowy rebel group accused of having ties to the global jihadist underground. But some basic details about the alleged killers of more than 700 victims …
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Sydney, Australia | AFP | A man has died a week after being bitten by one of the world’s deadliest snakes in his living room in Australia’s tropical northeast, officials said Tuesday. The 77-year-old, named in local media as David Pitt, was at his home in Cairns when he was …
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Smartphone-obsessed Finns rank tops in screen time Helsinki, Finland | AFP | On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose …
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Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria has struck off 50,000 “ghost workers” from the state payrolls this year, saving nearly 630 million euros, the presidency said Tuesday. The office of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was voted into power last year vowing to stamp out endemic graft in Africa’s most populous …
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VIDEO: Even before the Electoral Commission declared NRM’s Yoweri Museveni the winner of the 2016 presidential poll, Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye already predicted what was forth coming and announced he would still end up in state house through what he called defiance. At the time of his announcement last year, people …
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New York, United States | AFP | No, Britney Spears is not dead. Yet her fans’ hearts may have skipped a beat today when tweets purportedly from Sony Music Entertainment said “RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016” and “Britney spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon #RIPBritney.” The …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
