Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzanian authorities on Friday charged the editor of a whistle-blowing website for failing to reveal the identity of contributors to the site, court documents revealed. Maxence Melo, who co-founded the website Jamii Forums, was charged with operating a website without a local domain, …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Facebook announced Thursday it was offering a tool allowing users to report fake news, a move aimed at stemming a wave of misinformation which some claim influenced the 2016 US election. “We believe in giving people a voice and that we cannot become arbiters …
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In this week’s issue of The Independent: COMMENT Yahya Jams: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s decision to cling to power after initially conceding defeat in the Dec.01 election might be a result of his fear about how the victorious opposition might treat him. That has lessons for those opposing President Yoweri …
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New York, United States | AFP | Vladimir Putin was the world’s most powerful person for a fourth straight year in 2016, with US president-elect Donald Trump in second place, Forbes magazine said Wednesday in its annual rankings. “Russia’s president has exerted his country’s influence in nearly every corner of …
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WBS TV will cease to operate as a public broadcaster on December 14, 2016 because of failure to repay a sh7billion tax debt, a source has told The Independent. A statement signed by Kabiito Karamagi, the Receiver/Manager appointed by Uganda Revenue Authority to try and rescue the TV, confirmed the …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | A British journalist working for The Times of London newspaper said Friday he was being deported from Kenya after being detained for more than a day at the airport without explanation or charge. Jerome Starkey, 35, was locked in a cell overnight after arriving …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton issued a stern warning Thursday against the proliferation of fake news, branding it an epidemic with “real world consequences” that must be addressed in order to protect the nation’s democracy. The Democrat Clinton lost last month’s presidential election to Republican Donald Trump …
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Beijing, China | AFP | China should “significantly” increase military spending and build more nuclear weapons as a response to US President-elect Donald Trump, an editorial in the nationalistic Global Times newspaper said Thursday. China should “build more strategic nuclear arms and accelerate the deployment of the DF-41 intercontinental ballistic …
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New York, United States | AFP | Time magazine on Wednesday named Donald Trump its “Person of the Year” for 2016 for his stunning upset victory in the US election, saying he had redrawn America’s political rules. The Republican president-elect dialed into NBC television’s Today show, welcoming the accolade as …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The last foreign reporter living in South Sudan said Wednesday he had been deported from the war-torn country after a series of articles critical of the government. In a statement posted on his Twitter account, Justin Lynch, 25, said he was “arrested and deported” by …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price