Internet Photo Exhibition on International Children’s Day in DPRK

By E K Benj- Updated at 2320 on Thursday 1st June 2023 Children’s Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honor of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children’s Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare. Since 1950, it is celebrated on June 1…

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Uganda sends Gov’t-led delegation to Avocado African Conference

Uganda has for the first time sent an official government-led team to the international Avocado African Conference that brings together farmers, buyers and other stakeholders in one room. The global market for hass avocado is estimated at 14 billion dollars for food and other products like oil and Uganda is a latecomer following in the…

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South Africa Grants Putin Diplomatic Immunity to Attend Brics Summit

By Andre van Wyk Cape Town — South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) Minister Naledi Pandor gazetted a notice providing diplomatic immunity to officials attending the the BRICS summit in August. The decision bears significance as it comes in the wake of an international warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court for…

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‘Al-Shabaab Will Regret Actions on Ugandan Soldiers in Somalia’

An Al-Shabaab attack took place on an AU peacekeeper operating base in Bulo Marer, 120 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu on May 26, 2023. The Al-Shabaab militants claimed in a statement that it carried out suicide bomb attacks and killed 137 Ugandan soldiers, while others were taken as prisoners of war. However, these claims…

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M7 Signs Anti-Gay Bill Into Law

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed the anti-homosexuality bill into law. According to Attorney-General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, who is the chief legal adviser to the government, the new law provides for a mandatory death sentence for a person convicted of aggravated homosexuality. Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among confirmed that the president executed his constitutional mandate as prescribed…

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Bola Tinubu – The Kingmaker Becomes Nigeria’s President.

By Bakare Majeed Mr Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, were inaugurated as president and vice president yesterday After he joined the Peoples Front, a political movement headed by Shehu Yar’adua, a retired general and former chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, in 1992, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu , spent the next two years working…

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Netflix expands password sharing crackdown around the world

By Lisa Richwine Netflix Inc on Tuesday expanded its crackdown on password sharing to the United States and more than 100 other countries, alerting users that their accounts cannot be shared for free outside of their households. The streaming video pioneer has been looking for new ways to make money as it faces signs of…

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