A week ago, a jovial Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s former president, emerged from a Uganda Airlines plane at the N’Djili International Airport, Kinshasa, where he was travelling to attend the inauguration of DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi, who had won a second term in the December presidential election. When his media team shared the pictures on social…
Month: January 2024
USD 2 billion 3-year Social Bond Issued By African Development Bank.
The African Development Bank (AfDB), renowned for its financial stability with Aaa/AAA/AAA/AAA ratings from Moody’s, S&P, Fitch, and Japan Credit Rating respectively, has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative. They have successfully launched a USD 2 billion 3-year Social Global Benchmark, due on 25 February 2027. This marks a significant milestone as it represents the AfDB’s inaugural…
UK and Us rejects funding to UN agency in Gaza
The United Kingdom and Finland on Saturday announced they are temporarily pausing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after allegations that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas in Israel. The United States, Australia, Canada and Italy have already announced they are suspending funding. In a…
NRM celebrates 38th Liberation Day in uganda
On 26th January 1996 NRA took over power in Kampala, today Uganda on Friday marked the 38th NRM Liberation Day when the party National Resistance Movement (NRM) overthrew the then sitting government and took over power in 1986 after a five-year guerrilla war in the east African country. President Yoweri Museveni who led the guerrilla…
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa quits
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has resigned, saying his party has been “contaminated” and “hijacked” by the governmen “I will have nothing to do with sewer politics,” he said in a 13-page statement on Thursday. He won about 44% of the votes in last year’s presidential election which was plagued by allegations of foul play….
Kenya court blocks police deployment to Haiti
The judge argued that the deployment would be illegal as the National Security Council lacks the legal authority to send police outside Kenya. He added that the council can only deploy military, not police, for peacekeeping missions such as Haiti. Last year, Kenya had volunteered to lead a multinational security force in Haiti to quell…
Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza, says ICJ
Hamas welcomes World Court ruling The Palestinian group also called on the international community to require Israel to implement the court’s decisions and stop what they called the continuing “genocide” against Palestinians. Israel -Netanyahu reacted on ICJ As countries and international bodies across the world issue their approval of the International Court of Justice’s order…
Ugandans dying of hunger are idiots, says Minister Oryem.
This was as a result of president Museveni speech during the Non-Aligned- Movement (NAM) SUMMIT that Ugandans who are starving near to death due famine in karamoja sub region that’s not the station in africa . Hon Okello Oryem said this on the interview made on one of the TV in uganda, where he called…
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