✳ TODAY ⚽ Man Utd 2 Man City 1 ⚽ Brighton vs Liverpool 6pm ⚽ Everton vs Southampton 6pm ⚽ Nott’m Forest vs Leicester 6pm ⚽ Wolves vs West Ham 6pm ⚽ Brentford vs Bournemouth 8.30pm Manchester, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | An incredible, rollercoaster of a Manchester derby Saturday fell in …
Read More »Moroccan players dominate 2022 ‘World Best’ football rankings
While Moroccan team members ranked high in categories including the best goalkeeper, coach, and playmaker in the 2022 rankings, there were plenty of Africans named in the “Men’s World Best” list. Doha, Qatar | BIRD AGENCY | Morocco’s national team goalkeeper, Yassine Bounou, was ranked third-best goalkeeper in the world …
Read More »Guardiola urges team to ‘recover who you are’
✳ TODAY ⚽ Man Utd 15:30 Man City ⚽ Brighton 18:00 Liverpool ⚽ Everton 18:00 Southampton ⚽ Nott’m Forest 18:00 Leicester ⚽ Wolves 18:00 West Ham ⚽ Brentford 20:30 Bournemouth Manchester, UK | Man city.com | Pep Guardiola has told his team to ‘recover who you are’ as his head into …
Read More »CHAN kicks off in Algeria, Mandela stadium opened
✳ RESULT ⚽ Algeria 1 Libya 0 🇺🇬 FIXTURES ⚽ DRC vs Uganda Today- 7pm ⚽ Senegal vs Uganda January 18 – 10pm ⚽ Uganda vs Ivory Coast January 22 – 10pm Algiers, Algeria | Xinhua | The seventh edition of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) kicked off at Nelson Mandela Stadium in …
Read More »Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits: A strong weapon against malaria deaths
SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases, causing high morbidity and mortality especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, malaria is endemic in approximately 95% of the country, affecting over 90% of the population up to 20% of all hospital deaths. Malaria is …
Read More »Germans eye icon Rudi Voller to save national team
Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | One of German football’s most famous names is about to take over the challenging job of rescuing the country’s struggling national team. The final steps to an official announcement are yet to go, but the return of 1990 world champion Rudi Voller appears the only …
Read More »Director Steve Mugo fires up East Africa’s music scene
The award-winning music video director has worked with artists including Nyashinski, Otile Brown, King Kaka, Kambua and Khaligraph Jones. Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD AGENCY | When Steve Maingi Mugo is on set, nothing is left to chance. Every few minutes, he calls for a change of scene or gives new …
Read More »Ugandan engineers head to Turkey soon to discuss new SGR
CONFIRMED: Uganda writes to Chinese firm to cancel $2.2bn SGR railway line building contract, turns eyes to Turks Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has written to the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) seeking to cancel an eight year old $2.2bn Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) contract. According to a high level source …
Read More »CHAN: Uganda Cranes face uphill task without 2 key players
✳ 🇺🇬 CHAN FIXTURES ⚽ DRC vs Uganda January 14 – 7pm ⚽ Senegal vs Uganda January 18 – 10pm ⚽ Uganda vs Ivory Coast January 22 – 10pm Annaba, Algeria | THE INDEPENDENT | Two key players have been ruled out of the final Uganda Cranes squad as the team …
Read More »Uganda is counting on all of us
COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | In the run-up to the 2021 Uganda presidential elections, as tensions ratcheted up, a battle-hardened journalist friend asked a French diplomat his thoughts on the growing tensions. The French diplomat calmly responded: “I hold a French passport. I will leave for the airport and …
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