Ugandan members of parliament (MPs) disagreed over the distribution of hoes to members’ constituents, alleging some constituents are getting more than others. The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni during his campaign in 2016 promised to provide 18 million hoes to six million households in a bid to transform the nation from an agrarian to an industrial […]

East African country, Uganda is set to join other African countries like Zambia, Lesotho and Zimbabwe in relaxing its laws regulating growth and export of cannabis. Uganda health ministry has issued guidelines to individuals and companies interested in the business of marijuana for medical purposes. The guideline among other things require investors to be cleared […]

A South African billionaire businessman and the first black African on the Forbes billionaires list, Patrice Motsepe has apologized for telling United States President, Donald Trump that “Africa loves you” during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last week. A video of Patrice Motsepe’s remarks to Trump went viral on social media and sparked […]

A German court on Tuesday ordered that a 28-year-old man, be held in a secure psychiatric facility after pushing a woman in front of a moving train in Germany and killing her. The 34-year-old victim was killed instantly after being struck by the train at a railway station in the town of Voerde in July […]

Two charity vessels that have rescued 484 migrants over the past days were on Monday waiting to bring their passengers ashore to Italy or Malta. The Ocean Viking, run by SOS Mediterranee, has picked up 407 people over five rescue operations since Friday. Among them there are 152 minors, including 10 under the age of […]

Authorities on Tuesday have urged all Chinese to avoid travelling abroad in a bid to stop the new coronavirus as the death toll in the country climbed to 106. Twenty-six people died since Monday morning, including a first casualty in the capital, Beijing, health authorities said. They said 4,515 cases were confirmed and many more […]

Japan will send a chartered flight to the central Chinese city of Wuhan later in the day to repatriate about 200 of its citizens, the government says. The government will also send doctors, nurses and quarantine officers so that those Japanese citizens can undergo checkups on a plane, according to the health ministry. The aircraft […]

Protests on Monday are in full swing in Lebanon’s capital Beirut as demonstrators continue to voice their objection to the government recently formed under new Prime Minister Hassan Diab. Beirut has been engulfed in protests over the poor economic situation and endemic corruption since October 2019. READ ALSO: Osun Government, Muslim group disagree over Amotekun […]

Police in Russia have discovered a newborn baby dead in a washing machine. Russian authorities said in an official report that the mother of the newborn Nadezhda Z, is facing a murder investigation after the baby was found dead.

German prosecutors have accused a 31-year-old man of sending a string of emails containing bomb threats and right-wing extremist material to politicians and public authorities across Germany. The accused signed them with the alias National Socialist Offensive, the prosecutors’ office in Berlin said on Monday. He is accused of 107 separate offences. From December 2018, […]