Singapore, Singapore | AFP | Oil prices fell further towards the $40 mark in Asia Friday, extending losses to a seventh-straight day on renewed worries about a global supply glut, increased production. The commodity has slipped nearly 20 percent since its 2016 peak above $50 in early June as …

VIDEO: Police Chief General Kale Kayihura is in Algiers, the Capital of Algeria on a mission to assess the progress on the implementation of the proposed African Police (Afripol) – an offshoot of the International Police. Afripol was proposed in Cartagena, Colombia in 2014 and was approved by the African …

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The Ministry of Health will spend $9m in an Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) exercise to fight and manage a malaria epidemic in Northern Uganda. Indoor spraying will be carried out in 10 epidemic districts this September. The districts were selected based on the malaria burden, giving priority to those with …

Philadelphia, United States | AFP | President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Democrats to carry onetime rival Hillary Clinton to victory in November as America’s first woman president, while savaging her Republican opponent Donald Trump for fueling hate and division. The two-term president rallied his party’s faithful at their national …

Libreville, Gabon | AFP | An aspiring young Gabonese singer said Wednesday he was “overwhelmed” after Canadian superstar Celine Dion shared a homemade video of him performing one of his hits with her millions of social media followers. Samuel, aged just 17, was filmed performing a haunting rendition of Dion’s …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on anti-government activists, foreign embassies and disaffected war veterans as he sought to assert his grip on power following recent protests. Mugabe addressed thousands of supporters outside the headquarters of the ruling ZANU-PF party, issuing …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Congo’s veteran opposition chief Etienne Tshisekedi returned home after a two-year absence to a warm welcome from large crowds Wednesday as the mineral-rich African nation heads into fresh turbulence. Thousands of supporters sporting Tshisekedi T-shirts and waving party flags who had gathered at the …

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) collected sh11.23 trillion, 400 billion less than targeted for the fiscal year 2015/16. Despite the shortfall on the target, the tax figures represented a growth of 15.60% (sh1.5 trillion) from the previous year’s figure of sh9.7 trillion collected in revenue.  URA has now been taxed to …

Reorganisation of major player sparks interest in e-commerce deals Big is better. That seems to be the thinking behind Africa Internet Group’s decision to pool all its franchises, mainly online marketing offerings, under one brand name. And what that brand name would be seemed pretty obvious. Although AIG had seven …