Sunday , November 1 2026
Home / The Independent (page 2440)

The Independent

New wave of robots set to deliver the goods

Washington, United States | AFP | The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered. The six-wheeled, knee-high robots from startup Starship Technologies are part of a new wave of automated systems taking aim at the “last mile” …

Read More »

US travel ban working ‘very nicely,’ Trump says

Washington, United States | AFP |  US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his “very strict” crackdown on Muslim immigration was working “very nicely,” amid mounting resistance to the order branded as blatantly discriminatory. In an executive order signed Friday, Trump halted the arrival of refugees for at least 120 …

Read More »

Cameroon defy Senegal, storm AFCON semis

Cameroon 0 (5) Senegal 0 (4) Burkina Faso 2 Tunisia 0 Sunday Egypt vs Morocco DRC vs Ghana Franceville, Gabon | AFP |  Sadio Mane agonisingly missed from the spot to allow Cameroon to beat Senegal 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final tie on …

Read More »

Who is Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa?

Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa has been nominated by Uganda as a candidate for the post of judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Justice Bossa is a highly accomplished judge with over 27 years of legal and judicial work experience at national, regional and international level.  She has considerable exposure and …

Read More »

How Jammeh was convinced to step down

Negotiators won over Gambia ex-leader with appeals to faith and patriotism Conakry, Guinea | AFP | In pushing Yahya Jammeh to give up The Gambia’s presidency, negotiators played on two key cards: his deep Muslim faith and his professed love of country. Jammeh finally quit as president and went into …

Read More »

Electoral Commission asks for pay rise

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 …

Read More »