By Holly Honderich & Shrai PopatWashington Updated at 1521 EAT on Monday 11th Oct 2021 About 30 years ago, just months after starting work as a prostitute, Maxine Doogan became pregnant. She had been with a new client at a massage parlour in Anchorage, Alaska, when she realised he had removed his condom surreptitiously during…
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Taiwan defies China Aggression
HICGI News Agency Updated at 1256 EAT on Sunday 10th October 2021 TAIPEI- Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will continue to boost its defences ‘to ensure that nobody can force’ the territory to ‘accept the path China has laid out for us’. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says her government will not bow down to pressure from…
Kenya refuses to accept court ruling in its long-running maritime border dispute with Somalia.
BY Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0922 GMT on Saturday 9th October 2021. The Horn of Africa neighbours have been feuding for years over a stretch of the Indian Ocean claimed by both nations and believed to hold deposits of oil and gas. “In addition to withdrawing its participation from the current case, Kenya ……
Why China-Taiwan military tensions ‘worst in 40 years’ Tensions with China are at their worst in 40 years, Taiwan’s defence minister has said, warning of the risk of an accidental strike between the two. Chiu Kuo-cheng’s comments came after China sent a “record number” of military jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone for four consecutive days….
Panic as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down in global outage
Outage is affecting tens of thousands of users across social media platforms, according to an outage tracking website. Updated at 2144 EAT on 4 Oct 2021 Facebook Inc has said it is working to restore access to its social media platforms, including photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp, after an apparent global outage.null The…
UN envoy says North Korea has right to undertake tests during its missile firing.
By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0732 GMT on Tuesday 28 September 2021. South Korea says weapon, which Japan described as a ballistic missile, was fired into the sea early on Tuesday morning. North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, officials in South Korea and Japan said, shortly before Pyongyang’s representative…
UG Government Sued over Junk foods and sodas
HICGI News Agency Updated at 1144 GMT on 19th September 2021 – KAMPALA Anthony Odur, Team Leader at Health Equity & Policy initiative Files Case against Uganda National Bureau of Standards- UNBS, National Children Authority, and Attorney General over fast foods and carbonated drinks. Activists demand Health warnings in eating places and on carbonated drinks…
“I Will Crush the Corrupt” PM Nabbanja at the Launch of sh 13 Trillion SDGs Implementation Road-map
By E K Benj, Faith Namagembe Barbara & Joshua Mulindwa Updated at 1051 GMT on Friday 17th Sep 2021 KAMPALA- Uganda’s Prime Minister Rt Hon Robinah Nabbanja has vowed to crush the corrupt at the time President Museveni is intensifying efforts to fight the vice. Nabbanja who was appointmet to this post on 08th June…
