US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has won a victory in a long-running dispute with European rival Airbus. The World Trade Organization has reversed on appeal a ruling that Boeing received some state aid to help build its newest aircraft, the 777X. "The WTO has rejected yet another of the baseless claims
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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has just announced that he's not "ready" to take part in a planned re-run of the country's presidential election. Mr Odinga said he wanted "legal and constitutional guarantees" in place before agreeing to take part. He also called for changes to the country's electoral commission,
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is "begging for war" with his latest and most powerful nuclear bomb test, the US envoy to the United Nations has said. Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council in New York that the US did not want a war but its
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The Ugandan Government is considering revising fees charged on Ugandans in the Diaspora to make it easy for them to acquire dual citizenship. Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, while addressing the political forum of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) on Sunday, 03rd September 2017 in Miami, Florida, said that
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Police in Rwanda have confirmed they have arrested a prominent opposition leader, Diane Rwigara. Her mother and sister have also been detained. The police previously denied they had been arrested. Ms Rwigara and members of her family have not been seen since Tuesday last week. She has been accused of
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Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 (£3,862) threshold for the first time. The virtual currency peaked at $5,103.91 in the early hours of Saturday, according to CoinDesk's price index. BBC reports that the record high helped push the total value of publicly traded crypto-currencies - including Ethereum and the Bitcoin-offshoot Bitcoin
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A UN investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Burundi says there is strong evidence that crimes against humanity have been committed. The report, which is being published today in Geneva, details what the authors say are widespread and systematic violations, committed largely by government forces, since April 2015, when
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All eyes will be on the financial markets that opened today for the first full trading session after Friday’s Supreme Court ruling that annulled the August 8 presidential election. The Friday pronouncement by the highest court in Kenya immediately triggered a bloodbath at the stock market that saw Nairobi Securities
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Kenya’s government will not replace the election board ahead of the new elections ordered by the Supreme Court, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, indicating a looming showdown with the opposition. On Friday, the court annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta’s official win in the Aug. 8 presidential polls by 1.4 million
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There are plans to set up a specialized hospital in Uganda to treat the increasing number of women who succumb to fistula. The Terrewode Hospital & Rehabilitation Center will also serve as a centre of excellence and a demonstration facility for surgical training programmes that will offer psychosocial rehabilitation for
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