Swiss court jails Gambia ex-minister for 20 years.

A Swiss court has sentenced a former Gambian minister to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Ousman Sonko fled to Switzerland in 2016, shortly before Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was forced out of power after refusing to admit he had lost elections. His government was accused of numerous rights abuses. After non-governmental organisations…

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Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico survived death,  after assassination attempt.

                        Updated by sserwadda Ronald Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination on Wednesday, the government office said. Fico, 59, was rushed to hospital in the central city of Handlova after holding a government meeting there, and was being transported by helicopter to the…

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Uganda to build a nuclear energy plant to reduce on Shortage of power supply

In April 2023, the Cabinet adopted the Energy Policy for Uganda, 2023 which envisages development of 52,481 MW generation capacity in the long term to meet the future demand. Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said on Tuesday that it is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in efforts to develop nuclear…

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US embassy in Tanzania closed as the country faces internet outage.

The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed for two days because of an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy saìd in a post on X formerly Twitter on Monday. It cancelled all consular appointments for Tuesday and Wednesday and…

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Humanitarian crisis in Gaza due to a heavy heat wave, fueled by climate change.

                           Updated by sserwadda Ronald A deadly heat wave in Gaza in April, which saw punishing temperatures worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, was made hotter and more likely by the human-caused climate crisis, according to an analysis published Tuesday. Gaza was not alone. Several heat waves spanning a vast area of the Asian continent last…

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East African countries hit by major internet outage.

Internet connectivity was disrupted in and around several East African nations on Sunday, the internet observatory Netblocks said, adding that the incident was linked to failures affecting the SEACOM and EASSy subsea cable systems. Tanzania and the French island of Mayotte were experiencing a high impact on internet connectivity, while Mozambique and Malawi were seeing…

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Saudi Arabia accepted  to postpone the execution of a Kenyan man.

A Kenyan man due to be executed in Saudi Arabia has had a last-minute reprieve following a large-scale social media campaign. Stephen Munyakho, son of veteran journalist Dorothy Kweyu, received the death penalty in 2011 following a fatal fight with a colleague in the Gulf nation. According to the Bring Back Stevo campaign, run by…

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Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof flees after jail sentence.

                   Updated by Ronald sserwadda Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled the country after receiving a jail sentence for making his latest film in secret. In an Instagram post, he said he was in a “safe place” after people “risked their lives” to help him cross borders. His film The Seed of…

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