Staff of Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga over a salary increment. They also complained that the Standard Gauge Railway is going to displace them from their headquarters. In their petition brought to the speaker by the EC’s commissioners and Secretary Sam Rwakojjo, they …

Mexico City, Mexico | AFP | By picking a fight with Mexico, US President Donald Trump is needling a strategic partner that could retaliate with a trade war and less cooperation on immigration and the drug war, analysts say. The neighboring countries face the biggest diplomatic rift in decades over …

Africa Cup of Nations quarters Saturday Burkina Faso v Tunisia 7pm; Senegal v Cameroon 10pm Libreville, Gabon | AFP |  Senegal coach Aliou Cisse insists Africa Cup of Nations opponents Cameroon are favourites to win the eagerly-awaited quarter-final in Franceville on Saturday. Pundits beg to differ, though, making the Senegalese Teranga Lions …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  A Kenyan court on Friday issued an order blocking the deportation of two South Sudanese opposition figures after an outcry by rights groups over treatment they would face at home. The families of prominent lawyer and activist Dong Samuel Luak and opposition member Aggrey Idri …

Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP |  Islamist Shabaab fighters attacked a Kenyan military base in southern Somalia on Friday in their latest assault on foreign and national army outposts. The attack on the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base at Kolbiyow, close to the Kenyan border in Somalia’s Lower Juba region, began …

MUSEVENI: We need IMF support for economic growth The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will support Uganda’s education and health sector plan to build houses for teachers and medical workers. The assurances were given by the visiting IMF Director Christine Lagarde in a meeting at State House Entebbe Friday with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. …

Bank of Uganda has confirmed that it has transferred the assets of Crane Bank to DFCU Bank. “In exercise of its powers as Receiver, under Sec 95(1)(b) of FIA, BoU has now transferred the liabilities (incl deposits) of CB to DFCU Bank,” Bank Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile told the press in …

President Yoweri Museveni has made changes in the foreign services, with former defence minister Crispus Kiyonga being appointed ambassador to Beijing, China. The majority of the changes will see new faces like Phoebe Otaala, Busoga king William Gabula and former ISO boss Brig. Ronnie Balya take on roles as ambassadors, …

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Washington, United States | AFP | US-Mexican relations were rocked Thursday as Donald Trump’s administration suggested taxing imports from the southern neighbor to fund a border wall and Mexico’s president scrapped a meeting with the US leader. Trump had been scheduled to receive Pena Nieto at the White House on …