China’s foreign minister has called for EU and US sanctions against Zimbabwe to be removed, saying they have no basis under international law. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the comment on his visit to Zimbabwe. "The unilateral sanctions imposed by some countries and organisations on Zimbabwe have no basis in
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Lwemiyaga County lawmaker Theodore Ssekikubo's problems could be getting from bad to worse. The MP was detained on Friday at Masaka Police station after a scuffle between police and herdsmen who attempted to forcefully enter Lwemiyaga cattle market and sell their cows. Police had a week earlier closed the market
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Three teachers were killed in Kenya near the country’s border with Somalia in a suspected attack by al Shabaab militants, a police report seen by Reuters said on Monday, in what would be the latest assault by the group since the new year. The militia also attacked a local police
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has invited South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to mediate in its dispute with Egypt over the future of the Grand Renaissance Dam. It is not clear what role South Africa will play in the dispute which the United States is already helping to mediate. Construction
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has responded after US President Donald Trump appeared to take credit for Mr Abiy's Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Abiy said he did not have "any clue about the criteria, how the Nobel Committee select an individual for the prize". So he said that if Mr
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NBS Television presenter, Mildred Tuhaise, made her much awaited return to our TV screens on Monday, 6th January, 2020, co-hosting the TV station’s breakfast show, Morning Breeze, with Simon Kaggwa-Njala. Tuhaise had been away for over 3 months on maternity leave, and had had many of her fans online yearning
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The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, Theodore Ssekikubo is blaming his current woes on Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine. Ssekikubo is currently locked up at Masaka Central Police Station following his arrest on Friday this week for mobilizing residents to defy the livestock quarantine, reopen livestock markets and inciting violence
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Iran says its military "unintentionally" shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board, Iran's state TV reports. The statement said it had done so due to "human error" after the plane flew close to a sensitive site belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Mistaken for a "hostile
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The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADs) is set to spend Shs11Bn on the purchase of hoes President Yoweri Museveni promised farmers before the 2016 general elections. The details of the expenditure are contained in the 2020/2021 national budget framework paper for NAADs that was today presented before Parliament’s budget Committee.
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US President Donald Trump seems to think that he was overlooked for last year's Nobel Peace Prize. Why, what did he say? "I'm going to tell you about the Nobel Peace Prize, I'll tell you about that. I made a deal, I saved a country, and I just heard that
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