Updated by Faith Barbara.N. Ruhinda at 11:20 EAT Friday 07 March 2025 Nuclear Arms Race Heats Up: 5 Countries Quietly Stockpiling NukesThe world’s nuclear arsenal has increased significantly in several countries, sparking fears of World War III. According to a 2024 report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), five countries – China, Pakistan, India,…
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EPL: Amad Commits to Manchester United Until 2030
04:52 EAT Friday, 10 January, 2025 | By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi Manchester United is delighted to announce that Amad has signed a new contract, extending his stay at the club until 30 June 2030. Since joining the Reds in 2021, the 22-year-old Ivory Coast international has made 50 appearances, scoring nine goals. This season, Amad…
AU Kampala Summit To Adopt 10-Year CAADP Strategy For Agricultural Transformation And Food Systems In Africa.
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi, Ernest Benjamin Kivumbi and AU Press Unit. EAT 22:15. Thursday, January 09, 2025. MUNYONYO, UGANDA-Ministers of Agriculture from the African Union’s (AU) 55 member states have convened in Kampala, Uganda, for a three-day Extraordinary Summit aimed at advancing agricultural transformation and strengthening food systems across the continent. The summit, taking place…
UEDCL Takes Over UMEME’s Role to Distribute Power in Uganda
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi, EAT 17:11 January 02, 2025. Umeme Limited is leaving Uganda after 20 years of electricity distribution. The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) will take over Umeme’s operations on April 1, 2025. The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Hon Ruth Nankabirwa, alongside officials from ERA Uganda, officially handed over the…
Israel – Gaza Conflict: When Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar & Gilad Shalit were Swapped.
By GM Yahya Ibrahim Hasan al-Sinwar; 29 October 1962 – 16 October 2024) was a Palestinian militant and politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from August 2024, and as the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from February 2017, until his death in October 2024, succeeding Ismail Haniyeh [murdered by…
Organ Trafficking – A Growing Problem with No Easy Solutions
ANALYSIS By Frederike Ambagtsheer Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought a man to the UK from Lagos to sell his kidney. Several months later in Kenya, following…
60 Years of African Unity – What’s Failed and What’s Succeeded
ANALYSIS – By Keith Gottschalk Africa Day this year marks 60 years since the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The anniversary begs the question: How much of the vision of the OAU’s founding fathers has been realised 60 years on? What would not be there but for the efforts of the organisation and its…
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