MOSCOW | Xinhua | A five-hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff that ended after midnight on Wednesday failed to produce a compromise plan for settling the Ukraine crisis. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov on Wednesday described the conversation as “extremely useful, constructive …
Read More »Kremlin says no need to promptly prepare Putin-Trump meeting
MOSCOW | Xinhua | There is no need to rapidly organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview released Sunday. Peskov said that promptly preparing such a meeting is possible, but there is no need for it, …
Read More »Nigeria to host 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meeting in Abuja
The 2025 edition is expected to be the largest in the event’s history, drawing over 6,000 delegates, including Heads of State, business leaders from Africa, the CARICOM region, and beyond Lagos, Nigeria | THE INDEPENDENT | Nigeria and Afreximbank have signed the Host Country Agreement for the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings …
Read More »BLOCKED: Uganda Law Society extra ordinary AGM
Order given on Friday night by the Civil Division Judge Musa Ssekaana Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has blocked the Uganda Law Society Extra Ordinary Annual General Meeting and subsequent elections that were slated for December 17, 2024. The order given on Friday night by …
Read More »Judicial officers demand meeting with Principal Judge over Bukirwa’s expulsion
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Judicial Officers Association (UJOA) has petitioned Principal Judge Flavian Zeija, demanding an urgent meeting over the expulsion of Justice Farida Bukirwa from High Court duty. Justice Bukirwa was among the 16 justices who were appointed in acting capacity by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni …
Read More »Acholi elders seek meeting with Museveni after owning up to mistakes
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of elders in the Acholi Sub-region are seeking to meet President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over his recent statements acknowledging the mistakes of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) led government in the region. Early this month, the President while presiding over a crusade organized …
Read More »Road carnage: Speaker’s crisis meeting yields results
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Works and Transport will table regulations operationalising the Traffic and Road Safety Act, 2019 by August 13, 2023. This was agreed in a crisis meeting convened by Speaker Anita Among on Thursday, 13 July 2023 to address increasing road accidents. “Whereas …
Read More »President Museveni holds a consultative meeting with UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on June 27th held a consultative meeting with the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Susan Ngongi Namondo who called on him at State House- Entebbe. Namondo was accompanied by a delegation that included the UNICEF Representative Munir Safieldin, the …
Read More »Experts meet over Africa’s water resources
Kampala meeting of 19 river basin organisations tells governments to ‘share and not be greedy’ Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The popular narrative around the African continent is that fresh water resources such as those of the Nile, Congo in central Africa, or Zambezi in southern Africa are fast declining …
Read More »US, Russian defense chiefs hold first phone conversation since start of Ukraine conflict
Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu spoke over the phone on Friday, marking the first call between the two since Russia launched the special military operation in Ukraine. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a brief statement following the …
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