Kenya has lost $200 million worth of exports to Uganda, its largest regional market, since October 2023, new data shows. And experts warn that it will lose more going forward, as the fight over petroleum products imports escalates, with major oil infrastructure at the risk of underuse. Last week, Uganda announced that it was moving…
Month: January 2024
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exit ECOWAS
The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS. The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a “sovereign decision” to leave the Economic Community of West African States “without delay”. Struggling with jihadist violence and poverty, the regimes have had…
US accuses Iran behind drone strike in Jordan
Iran denies it was involved in the drone attack which killed three US troops and injured 34 on a US base in Jordan, near the Syria border US President Joe Biden said the attack had been carried out by Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq “We shall respond,” he said at a campaign…
Why Uganda picked UAE firm to refuel its oil refinery project.
In picking a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm as the lead developer and investor for its 60,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery, Uganda has yet again opted for an outlier with the financial muscle but no technical expertise or footprint in the development of downstream refining facilities for oil and gas. January 23, Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa announced…
Unversity professor earn more in welding, Nigeria.
Welding is widely seen as a menial job across Nigeria and he has shocked many – especially his colleagues – by opening up his own welding workshop. “I am not ashamed that I work as a welder despite being a professor,” he tells the hicginewsagency “I make more money from welding.” The 50-year-old teaches and…
Key UN Gaza aid agency UNRWA runs into diplomatic storm
In Gaza, a strip of land fast becoming a wasteland, few international aid bodies can still operate. The United Nations is one of them. Its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, was founded in 1949, working in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, caring for the 700,000 Palestinians who were…
Senior Citizens Talk with John Ken Lukyamuzi
Ugandan Politician & Environmentalist John Ken Lukyamuzi- The Man, President of Conservative Party- CP & Former Member of Parliament Lubaga South today is on Senior Citizens Talk with #Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin. He is analysing important issues including; The Buganda Question, His Environment Campaigns, Land Evictions in Uganda, The IGG Scandal that removed him from Parliament,…
Ugandan student who died in Egyptian police cells returned, buried
Augandan student who died in Egyptian police cells has been returned and laid to rest at his ancestral police in Luwero district. Ahmad Mukasa Nsanja, 30, was a student at Alazhar University in Cairo. He was arrested on December 27, 2023 after he was found with no visa. He was detained at First Settlement police…
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