By Jake Horton, Daniele Palumbo & Tim Bowler The European Union plans to ban all purchases of Russian oil by the end of the year. But there is no consensus yet among EU members on stopping imports of Russian gas. What oil and gas sanctions are there? European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has…
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World Bank, IMF Mourn Governor Emmanuel Mutebile
Updated at 1123 EAT on Sunday 23rd January 2022 By E K Benj @kivumbi The World Bank and International Monitory Fund – IMF family is disturbed by news of fallen Bank of Uganda Governor, Emmanuel Tumusime Mutebile . In a statement released earlier, Bank of Uganda said “It’s of profound sadness that the Bank of…
Timeline: 20 years of Guantanamo Bay Prison; Will Joe Biden Close Facility?
Human Rights US President Joe Biden says he wants to close the controversial facility in Cuba, but expansion plans are in the works. Published On 10 Jan 202210 Jan 2022 January 11 marks 20 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay, the infamous US prison located in Cuba that critics say allows detainees to be held…
Awards Winning Journalists for 2021 announced
HICGI News Agency – Updated at 0015 EAT on Thursday 23rd 2021 Several Ugandan Journalists on Tuesday scooped Awards from The African Centre for Media Excellence – ACME a Kampala-based independent, non-profit professional organisation that is committed to excellence in journalism and mass communication in Africa. ACME’s main goal is to make the media a…
Looking at Twenty years after 9/11, did US win its ‘war on terror’?
US President George W Bush promised to defeat al-Qaeda and other groups after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon. Updated at 1120 GMT on Thursday 09th September 2021 – By Chris Moody & Faith Barbara Namagembe Ever since the United States declared a so-called global “war on terror” in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks…
Global breakdown of the IPCC’s warnings, and what they mean for peace and security
26 August, 2021 © Bjørn Tore Økland/Unsplash.com What before was ‘clear’ is now ‘unequivocal’: human activity is causing the climate to change rapidly and drastically, while threatening the environment and the resources we need for surviving. Although we might struggle to digest these catastrophic – and yet, foreseeable – news, we have learned, once again,…
Climate change: Uganda under threat from a melting glacier
By Pablo Uchoa Climate change Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains, a Unesco World Heritage site on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The view was stunning every time she travelled from her home in Kasese town to the Ugandan capital, Kampala…
Africa’s Most Deadliest Force acquires new Headquarters; Inside SFC Hive.
Kampala, Uganda- By our reporter President Yoweri T Kaguta Museveni has commissioned the new headquarters of the Special Forces Command, named the General Yoweri Museveni House. Built by Special Forces Command – SFC’s construction unit, the complex cost UG Shs3.48b, opposed to the Shs9b quoted by a contractor. Museveni also yesterday (Fri 06th Nov 2020)…
Why Malians remember fallen Ex President Moussa Traore a tyrant.
Bamako, Mali- By E. K Benj Moussa Traore Mali’s former long-serving president has passed on Tuesday at 83 years, a family source source has confirmed. Traore ruled the West African nation for 22 years. Traore’s death comes just a month after another coup in Mali against immediate former president Ibrahim Keita. Keita was removed from…
How Sevo neutralized ‘AIC’ sympathized Walk to Work Demos But now facing a New wave of Bobism threatening his Reign.
Special Edition By E K Benj On 11 April 2011 Uganda’s 4 time unsuccessful presidential contender Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (born 22 April 1956), nicknamed Colonel (in reference to his military rank before he left the Army), Daktari, Kifefe, KB, and Ssenyondo (“Big Hammer”) declared and began the first Walk to Work protest under a pressure…
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