Hundreds of protesters have gathered in the Sudanese city of Omdurman to call for an end to the nearly 30-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir. The BBC's Mohamed Osman says security forces have used tear gas against some of the 300 or so demonstrators there. Sudan has already been rocked
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Kenya’s game-dominated tourism faces a bleak future as population of wild animals that attract visitors to the country continue to decline rapidly, Business Daily reports. About 40,400 animals that were on records by end of 2016 were not available in 2017, latest data indicates, highlighting a trend that should also
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Uganda's public debt has increased by 22 percent, rising from 33.99 trillion Shillings as at June 30, 2017, to 41.51 trillion Shillings as at June 30, 2018, according to the 2018 Auditor General's report released this morning. Handing over the report to the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, the Auditor
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Lecturers who were expelled in a recent shake up at Makerere University have this morning handed to the speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, a petition challenging their dismissal from the institution. The university on December 23, 2018, announced the expulsion of 32 staff and suspension of 13 others for absconding
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The Auditor General John Muwanga has released a new report revealing that Government may never recover 28.4 Billion Shillings disbursed to youths under Youth Livelihood Project. The AG found that almost 64 percent of the sampled youth projects, consisting of 71 percent value of loans, were non-existent and another 25
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Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic church said on Thursday it was clear which candidate won the country’s presidential election, and demanded that the electoral commission publish accurate results. The church, one of Congo’s most trusted institutions and representing about 40 percent of its 80 million population, based its finding on
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Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG), Africa’s largest indigenous producer of cigarettes and other Tobacco products, reached a milestone recently by celebrating its 40th anniversary. Rwandan multi-millionaire businessman Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa (in featured photo) founded the company in 1978 when he began manufacturing cigarettes in Burundi in 1978 after a successful
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Kenyan fish traders are calling on the Government to restrict illegal import of fish from Uganda, The Standard reports. They say their businesses are hurting from the large amounts of fish being sold in the local market from Uganda. The traders who were interviewed hoped the East African trade protocols
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The EU has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore Internet access, which operators say was cut on government orders. The internet has been blocked since Monday, the day after the presidential election. The joint statement by the European Union, the United States, Canadian and Swiss heads of
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More than 1000 Ugandans in areas neighboring Kyangwali Refugees settlement were forced to attain refugee status in order to retain 'ownership' of their land. The scheme was reportedly crafted by Charles Bafaki, the Principal Resettlement Officer in the Office of the Prime Minister, Jolly Kebirungi, the Camp Commandant Kyangwali Refugee
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