Manchester, United Kingdom | AFP | Jose Mourinho says he wants Paul Pogba to stay at Manchester United as fresh reports linked the midfielder with a move away from Old Trafford, this time to French giants Paris Saint-Germain. The Frenchman, 25, has endured a difficult season at Old Trafford, with …
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The Corolla has been redesigned from the ground up, and here’s why it will change Toyota forever Kampala, Uganda | MOTORING GURU | The world’s top-selling car has come in for a radical overhaul for its latest generation. Here are just some of the reasons you should pay attention. 9: Design …
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Beira, Mozambique | AFP | Afonso Dhlakama lived in a secret location and led armed fighters against the Mozambique government — but on Wednesday he was given an official memorial service and praised by the president. He died of a suspected heart attack last week among his Renamo troops in …
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The intimate connection between political and economic institutions is the heart of development COMMENT | ENOCK NYOREKWA TWINOBURYO | I recently visited the Rwanda – residing largely in Kigali. I was particularly impressed at the transition and strong faith by citizens in their development trajectory. There is strong unionism and strong …
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Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Revitalising Lake Chad will stop Boko Haram from gaining a long-term foothold in the region, experts said on Wednesday, as four countries wrapped up talks aimed at ending in the conflict. The insurgency began in 2009 and has killed at least 20,000 in northeast Nigeria …
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Accra, Ghana | AFP | Four judges accused of taking bribes in Ghana have been suspended, the presidency announced Wednesday, in the latest fallout from a graft scandal rocking the country’s judiciary. President Nana Akufo-Addo suspended the high court judges after a disciplinary committee launched a case against them. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Commission of Inquiry into land matters has questioned government failure to operationalize the land fund 20-years since it was planned. The fund is a multi-purpose resource envelope envisaged to serve targeted beneficiaries, including tenants seeking to buy or own land, a government seeking to …
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Financial flows regularly wreak havoc, so the absence of protest against their integration is strange COMMENT | ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN | Most economists wax eloquent about the benefits of “real” global integration that is, virtually uninhibited cross-border flows of goods, labour, and technology. They are less certain when it comes to global …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Rugby Cranes will camp in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of the 2018 Rugby World Cup 7s. Ramzy Olinga, the Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda Rugby Union (URU) told URN on Wednesday that the team will have 10 days of training at the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pastor Leonard Wambazu from Mbikko, in Njeru Municipality, has been detained, as Police intensify the case of kidnap and eventual death a student of YWCA Buwambo Campus in Wakiso district. The 22-year-old student, Brina Nalule was allegedly kidnapped from the Old Taxi Park …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
