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VIDEO: Muntu asks FDC party members to work together Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Mugisha Muntu has refuted claims that he is working as President Museveni’s mole. He has urged FDC party members to put aside their individual differences and work together to oust the government. Muntu …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared the winner of the country’s election, but his rival Raila Odinga insists he is the true winner, and the election was stolen from him. Odinga has said he will outline his strategy to contest the vote on Tuesday. Deadly …

Dakar, Senegal | AFP | A Senegalese singer was formally charged with “offending the head of state and broadcasting fake news”, her lawyer told AFP Wednesday, after audio of her lashing out at President Macky Sall went viral. Amy Colle Dieng, 39, was arrested on August 3 after unleashing a social …

  New Delhi, India | AFP |  India’s next president will emerge from the Dalit caste — a community so marginalised they were once known as “untouchables” — with the victory of the ruling party candidate set to strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grip on power. Ram Nath Kovind, 71, …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP | Brazil’s President Michel Temer blames bad vibes and even ghosts for driving him from his sumptuous official residence in the capital Brasilia, a Brazilian news weekly reported Saturday. Temer surprised Brazilian politics watchers this week with the revelation that he has decamped from the …

Inauguration: Trump names two simple rules: ‘Buy American and hire American’ Washington, United States | AFP |  Donald Trump became the 45th president of United States on Friday, ushering in a new political era that is cheered and feared in equal measure. The 70-year-old Republican billionaire placed his left hand on …

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | South Korean prosecutors on Saturday raided the homes and offices of senior advisers to President Park Geun-Hye, as she struggled with a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving a close family friend. The crisis centred around Park’s long-time confidante Choi Soon-Sil has rocked her presidency, …

By the Independent Team Bujumbura (Burundi) (AFP) – Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza arrived back in the country Thursday, a day after a coup was declared while he was in Tanzania for regional talks, his office said. “President Pierre Nkurunziza is now in Burundi,” his senior communications advisor Willy Nyamitwe told …

By the Independent Team A top Burundian general on Wednesday announced the overthrow of President Pierre Nkurunziza, following weeks of violent protests against the president’s bid to stand for a third term. The radio broadcast by General Godefroid Niyombare — who was sacked from his position as the central African …

By Joan Akello Uganda Media Centre (UMC) has today published a letter dated Mar. 2 in which the President forwarded names of nominees for the positions of Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice to Parliament for approval. “In Exercise of the powers conferred on the President by Article 142 (1) …