HICGI News Agency – Updated at 1329 EAT on 10th March 2022 On Wednesday, Kampala Capital City Authority – KCCA Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka met and interacted with Kampala City Youth Executive and Division Chairpersons at City Hall. Kisaka said was delighted to share the vision of a smart city with the youth “They are…
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Boda-Boda; The enduring menace of Kenya’s motorbike taxis.
Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1155 EAT on Thursday 10/03/2022. In our series of letters from African writers, Kenyan broadcaster Waihiga Mwaura reflects on the latest outrage allegedly carried out by riders of motorbike taxis and asks why it seems so difficult to take action against them. Anyone driving in Kenya’s capital knows they…
Top Russia, Ukraine diplomats in Turkey for first talks.
Negotiations mediated by Ankara are the first high-level contact between the two sides since Moscow’s invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbour. Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1127 EAT on Thursday 10/03/2022. The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine are set for face-to-face talks in Turkey in the first high-level contact between the two sides since…
ISIL suicide bomber of Pakistan mosque was Afghan exile: Police.
Police also said they killed three suspects allegedly involved in last week’s bombing in Peshawar that killed 64 people. Volunteers examine the site of last week’s explosion inside a Shia mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan [Muhammad Sajjad/AP] Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1058 EAT on Thursday 10/03/2022. An ISIL (ISIS) suicide bomber who killed 64…
There is Riots and snubs in Pacific Islands which is growing wariness of China.
Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1035 EAT on Thursday 10/03/2022. The president of Kiribati, prime ministers of Fiji, Tonga and Niue, and the foreign ministers of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands appeared in windows on a screen, their video summit meant to herald a new promise in China’s…
US Man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after two months
By Kafeero Twaha update at 2345 EAT on 9th March 2022 The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died two months after the groundbreaking experiment the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57 died Tuesday at the University of Maryland medical center. Doctors didn’t give an…
Deputy Speaker Calls For Audit Of Police SACCO
Updated at 2124 EAT on 09th March 2022. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among has directed the Auditor General to investigate Exodus, a Uganda Police SACCO after Members of Parliament cited irregularities in its operations. Among said the situation in which police officers were living was bad and that encroaching on their savings called for urgent…
HRW urges release of two South Sudanese arrested for government criticism.
Both men face the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted of undermining the country’s constitution. Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1747 EAT on Wednesday 9/03/2022. Global watchdog Human Rights Watch has called for the release of a clergyman and a university professor in South Sudan, both detained since last year for criticising the…
