100,000 Turned up for Kabaka Birthday Day Run

Thousands run. Many briskly walked or jogged as soon the race started. While hundreds did not break any sweat and instead stood in awe. The 10th edition of the Airtel-sponsored Kabaka Birthday Run was proclaimed as the biggest ever staged in Uganda, with more than 100,000 tickets sold as the loyalists braved an overnight Sunday…

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Scientists may have found the ‘immunity’ secret to living to 100

By Corrie Pelc on April 6, 2023 — Fact checked byJessica Beake, Ph.D. The life expectancy of humans on our planet has more than doubled since 1900. Global life expectancy has increased from 31 years in 1900 to 73.2 years in 2023, and is expected to further increase to 77.1 years in 2050. Also increasing is the number of…

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Rwanda Promises Military Assistance to Benin to Combat Sahel Jihadist Threat

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame met his Benin counterpart Patrice Talon at the weekend, promising military support to help the west African nation contain a spillover from jihadist conflict at Benin’s northern border with Burkina Faso. West Africa’s coastal nations Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire are increasingly worried by the islamist insurgency gaining ground just…

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Dominion, Fox News reach $787m settlement in defamation case

The voting machine maker had launched a $1.6bn lawsuit against the news network for its coverage of the 2020 US election. Fox News has reached a $787m settlement with election technology company Dominion Voting Systems, which accused the network of defamation in its 2020 United States presidential election coverage. Tuesday’s eleventh-hour agreement — reached as opening statements…

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DPRKorea celebrates building 10,000 modern homes in Pyongyang

Pyongyang- DPRK held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the completion of 10,000 new modern homes in the newly built Hwasong District in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported. President Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, was present at the ceremony. Monumental…

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Where Outlaws Roam – Gruesome Murders On the Indian Ocean

ANALYSIS The award-winning investigative journalist Ian Urbinaexplains the video documentary series on human rights and environmental crimes committed on the oceans. Documentaries on abuses committed in oceans off the African continents are being published by AllAfrica. Two-thirds of the planet is covered by water, and much of that space is ungoverned. Human rights and environmental…

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FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese ‘police stations’ in New York

By Holly Honderich in Washington US prosecutors have arrested two men in New York for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighbourhood.  Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, both New York City residents, face charges of conspiring to act as agents for China and obstruction of justice. They are expected…

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Uganda Gov’t releases Shs26 billion road funds to districts, cities

Government has released Shs26.1 billion for road maintenance works in districts, cities and municipalities for the fourth quarter of the 2022/23 financial year. A circular issued by the Uganda Road Fund, dated April 17, 2023 indicates that Shs16.4 billion has been sent to 135 districts, town councils and their sub counties, Shs3.3 billion goes to…

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