✳ Jacob KIPLIMO  27:09.19 🥇 ✳ Daniel Simiu EBENYO 27:11.26 🥈 ✳Kibiwott KANDIE 27:20.34 🥉 Birmingham, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Jacob Kiplimo has clinched gold in the 10,000m final in a new Commonwealth Games time of 27:09:19. He continues a strong Ugandan tradition in the 10,000m that has seen the country’s runners …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday issued a statement on Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to China’s Taiwan region. ▶ Following is the full text of the statement: On 2 August, in disregard of China’s strong opposition and serious representations, Speaker …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the Prime Minister-OPM has started distributing relief food to the more than 5,600 people displaced by floods in Mbale district. The affected persons include the 150 households whose homesteads were washed away by floods during the heavy rains that hit the area over …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The newly appointed Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Norbert Mao and the Soroti City East Member of Parliament, Herbert Ariko have taken oath as a Members of Parliament. Mao was recently appointed by President Yoweri Museveni to Cabinet following a signing of a memorandum of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has cancelled 260 diplomatic passports. These had been applied for by Ugandans whose status does not warrant such travel documents. The Ministry of Internal Affairs Spokesperson Simon Peter Mundeyi says that many Ugandans used the online passport application …

Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) on 02 August officially launched the Anti-Illegitimate Mobile Communication Devices Campaign in Uganda. The campaign seeks to draw public attention to and discourage the use of such devices. Under Section 5(k) of the Uganda Communications Act 2013, the Uganda Communications …

Montreal, Canada | Xinhua | A new Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030 was announced Monday at the 24th International AIDS Conference to ensure that no child living with HIV is denied treatment by the end of the decade and to prevent new infant HIV infections. The alliance …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several piggery farmers in Luwero district have stopped using maize as a key component of pig feeds citing high prices. Families in at least 47 out of 101 parishes in Luwero district are involved in piggery. But the households are crying foul over the high costs …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the U.S. addiction to sanctions and using them as leverage against others is a characteristic of the U.S. hegemonic system. Nasser Kanaani, the ministry’s spokesman, made the remarks on Tuesday in reaction to new U.S. sanctions imposed on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court has dismissed with costs an application by 23 National Resistance Movement-NRM party members challenging the decision by the party to lock them out of the East African Legislative Assembly-EALA elections. Civil Division High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana dismissed the application in his ruling delivered …