The National Backbone now extends to all regions of the country spanning 4,300km extending connectivity to around 4,360 Government offices The Ugandan government has announced a reduction in the cost of the internet for its ministries, agencies and departments. “I am delighted to announce that effective today 1st of August 2023, the Price of the…
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Putin meets Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday ahead of a Russia-Africa summit. Putin has billed the two-day summit that opens in St. Petersburg on Thursday as a major event that would help bolster ties with a continent of 1.3 billion people that is increasingly assertive on the global…
United Nations panel says it’s concerned about human rights violations in Uganda in recent years
Human rights violations in Uganda in recent years ranging from the arrest of government opponents to extrajudicial killings have raised the concern of a panel of United Nations experts The U.N. Human Rights Committee in findings released Wednesday also urged authorities in the East African country to repeal a recently enacted law that prescribes the…
Deadly fires rage along Algeria coast, spread to Tunisia
Algeria was battling to contain devastating forest fires along its Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, in an inferno which has killed at least 34 people, authorities said, adding they had managed to control about four-fifths of the blaze. Fanned by strong winds, fires had also spread to neighbouring Tunisia, forcing the closure of two border crossings….
Indonesian police crack down on traffickers who sent 122 people to sell their kidneys in Cambodia
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Gabon’s Bongo to face 18 other presidential candidates in August election
Gabon’s leader Ali Bongo Ondimba will face 18 other candidates in next month’s presidential election, authorities announced Monday. Bongo is favourite to win a third term at the head of the oil-rich West African state ruled by his family for 55 years. The 64-year-old, who took over from his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba in 2009, officially announced in…
Eswatini: Election With No Democracy On the Horizon
By Andrew Firmin London — Eswatini heads to the polls soon, with elections scheduled for September. But there’s nothing remotely democratic in prospect. The country remains ruled by King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, who presides over Eswatini with an iron fist. Mswati dissolvedparliament on 11 July, confident there’s little chance of people who disagree…
Israeli parliament passes key part of Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul plan
“We see the passage of part of the legal reform as unfortunate,” the Biden administration said of the move that has prompted mass protests. July 24, 2023, 11:17 AM EAT / Updated July 24, 2023, 9:51 PM EAT By Paul Goldman, Raf Sanchez, Patrick Smithand Corky Siemaszko JERUSALEM — Israel was in an uproar Monday after the country’s parliament gave Prime Minister Benjamin…
