World News
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1.3KTeam Uganda wins prize at Huawei global ICT competition
Teams from the southern Africa region represented a great success in the competition, which lasted for one year and attracted 150,000 students...
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1.9KUganda far from middle income: World Bank
According to the Bank, this average income by a Ugandan is far below the lower-middle-income threshold of 1,045 dollars
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1.0KMuseveni calls for implementation of barter trade with Cuba
Museveni made the remarks while meeting with a Cuban delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez.
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1.1KUS Supreme Court strikes down right to abortion
A somber President Joe Biden called the ruling a "tragic error" stemming from "extreme ideology" and said it was a "sad day...
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1.2K‘I am good’: Biden falls from bike but says is unhurt
He was biking with First Lady Jill Biden in a state park near their beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and had...
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975Biden follows Trump’s “crude and hostile” policy on Mideas
Biden has neither cancelled the sanctions imposed by Trump on Iran, nor delivered the promise to reopen the U.S. consulate in the...
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1.1KRussia fines Google for not localizing user data
Google representatives did not attend the sitting, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported from the courtroom.
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1.2KFIFA selects 16 host cities for 2026 World Cup
Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and New York/New Jersey were the U.S. cities named...
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979WHO calls for “genuine, unselfish” collaboration against monkeypox
According to Kluge, monkeypox has been endemic in parts of western and central Africa for decades and has been neglected by the...
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1.6KCongolese soldiers flee to Uganda as M23 rebels capture Bunagana border
A Ugandan security source at the border, says that the soldiers fled into Uganda following non-stop fighting on Sunday throughout the day...
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1.2KFINALLY: Microsoft to retire popular ‘Internet Explorer’ after 27 years
Internet Explorer was first launched in 1995 as an add-on package for Windows 95 before Microsoft later started providing the app for...
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1.7KBritain records 104 more monkeypox cases
The agency told people in Britain to contact a sexual health clinic if they have a rash with blisters, and if in...
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1.5KMUST READ: The emerging viruses of the 21st century
The recent explosion of monkeypox cases in countries where the infection had not previously spread, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, has underscored...
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1.5KBiden struggles in “pond of exclusionary Summit of the Americas”
Biden made the remarks during his toast at the Summit of the Americas leaders dinner on Thursday, after shrugging off controversy
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1.1KIndian Association offers free heart surgery to 100 children
It was revealed by Rao Mohana, the Chairperson of the Association while paying a courtesy call to the Deputy Speaker of Parliament...
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1.0KStagflation creeps in on Uganda and neighbors – World Bank
The Global Economic Prospects Report predicts that Uganda will not escape the slowdown in global growth that has been steepened by Russia’s...
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988Oil prices retreat from 3-month highs
The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for July delivery lost 60 cents, or 0.5 percent, to settle at 121.51 U.S. dollars a barrel...
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1.2KMonkeypox outbreak tops 1,000 cases; WHO warns of ‘real’ risk
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was not recommending mass vaccination against the virus and added...
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1.2KLuzira Head ‘loaned’ to British Museum?
Kizaalwa says that any time Uganda wants back its 1,000-year-old artefact, the government just needs to revise the agreements that loaned it...
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1.2KUgandan fintech signs partnership with Ethiopian bank
According to a press release, the partnership with Awash, Ethiopia's biggest private bank, was signed on April 25, 2022, at the bank’s...
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1.1KMuseveni talks to former Russia president over Russia-Ukraine war
Speaking on a Zoom meeting to the former Russia president and current chairman of the United Russian party, Dmitry Medvedev, Museveni said...
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1.1KECOWAS convenes summit on political situations in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso
Opening ECOWAS’ 6th Extraordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government, Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said he...
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1.1KPutin, AU discuss sanctions, food access for Africa
Putin and Sall addressed a wide range of cooperation issues, including the importance of enhancing political dialogue as well as economic and...
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887UN okays Turkey to change name to Türkiye in rebranding effort
The move seen as part of bid to dissociate name from bird and also from associated negative connotations such as a ‘stupid...
