Uganda said Sunday it would maintain a ban on social media platforms while lifting a nationwide internet block hours after longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of national elections. The internet was blocked two days before polls opened…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office on Saturday after an election marred by violence and an internet shutdown, with African observers saying arrests and abductions had “instilled fear”. Museveni, 81, won 71.65 percent of the vote in…
US President Donald Trump said Friday he may impose trade tariffs on countries that don’t support his plans to take over Greenland, part of the territory of NATO ally Denmark. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t…
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Thursday she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump, in a bid to win over the US president who had sidelined her since overthrowing Nicolas Maduro. Her “wonderful gesture of mutual…
Libyan authorities have uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 21 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, local media reported Thursday. News outlets cited government sources as saying a Libyan national has been arrested on suspicion of killing the migrants and…
Russia has announced the expulsion of a British diplomat, accusing him of secretly working for the United Kingdom’s intelligence services. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that it had summoned the UK’s chargé…
The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, US researchers and EU climate monitors said Wednesday. The last 11 years have now been the warmest…
Russian forces struck two U.S bound cargo ships on Friday, January 9, killing one seafarer and injuring a second crewmember, according to Ukrainian officials. It comes as Ukraine continues to accuse Russia of “deliberately targeting civilian facilities, international shipping, and…
When Yoweri Museveni seized power in Uganda in 1986, he declared that “the problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.” Now 81, the former rebel leader…
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s leadership had called him seeking “to negotiate” after he repeatedly threatened to intervene militarily if Tehran killed protesters. For two weeks, Iran has been rocked by a protest movement that has swelled…
