AGENCY The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile (Internet Photo) Kenya is navigating a familiar but increasingly delicate role in Nile Basin diplomacy: principle without partisanship. Nairobi has reaffirmed its long-held position that no riparian state should be left…
BBC NIGERIA: Nigeria’s foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to fight in foreign conflicts. It comes after Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of two Nigerians who they…
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport acts as a hub for flights to Europe, North America and the Middle East ( Rueters) KENYA: Kenya’s national airline and airports authority have announced that flights to and from the country’s primary airport are being delayed due…
AGENCY Courtesy photo Uganda’s push to clean up its food system and fix chronic shortages of quality farm inputs has landed squarely before Parliament, with the Ministry of Agriculture seeking an additional Shs213 billion in the 2026/27 budget to revive a national…
By our Reporter Raymond Bernard Opolot-Head teacher Toroma SS (courtesy Photo) Raymond Bernard Opolot, 53, head teacher of Toroma Secondary School in the Katakwi District, is seeking financial assistance worth Shs100 million to undergo brain surgery in India. Medical professionals have indicated…
By Alexander Mackey Okori As Uganda today honors the life and martyrdom of Archbishop Janani Luwum, the communities and leaders of Karamoja have been to embrace peace, dialogue, and clemency to thwart descending back to insecurity, which had plagued the region for…
By Moses Lokeris Bags of posh delivered by WPF to feed School going children in Karamoja (Courtesy Photo) The deputy head teacher of Secondary School John Bosco Bongomin has warned that the closure of the World Food Program (WFP) feeding initiative will worsen…
The World Health Organization has criticised a now-halted plan to conduct a hepatitis B vaccine trial involving thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau, deeming it “unethical.” The US-funded study had sought to give one set of babies the vaccine at birth, while another…