Politics

Uganda’s police detained 11 female members of parliament on Thursday who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest, Reuters reported. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to …

UK Ambassador to Sudan Giles Lever has moved to neighboring Ethiopia after the embassy temporarily closed due to the conflict in the country. “From Addis Ababa, he will lead the UK’s diplomatic efforts in the region to bring fighting to an end in Sudan,” the British Foreign Office said in …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has asked the country’s lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, local media reported. This measure is part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation. Last month, Ugandan …

Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, has once again warned Westerners about a potential “world war”. According to Vladimir Putin’s relative, “the world is sick and is most likely on the verge of a new world war” against the backdrop of the conflict …

A border dispute between Uganda and DR Congo is brewing again in the border town of Padea in the West Nile sub-region after Congolese residents backed by their police entered Uganda and claimed three villages in the deep in Uganda, reports the local media DailyMonitor. Such incursions by Congolese security …

US president Joe Biden, now 80, has announced he is “a candidate for re-election” in a bid to “finish the job”. Joe Biden announced his candidacy for re-election in 2024 on Tuesday in a message and a video posted on his social networks. “Every generation has a time when they …

Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country, Reuters reported. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the agreement …

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will travel to France next June as part of a state visit, the Algerian presidency announced on Sunday, after a telephone conversation between the two heads of state. During this meeting, the two presidents “discussed bilateral relations and the means of strengthening them, including the state …

More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from Sudan over the weekend amid the deadly fighting between rival army factions, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. Mr Borell told journalists that it had been a complex operation but had been successful – adding that the EU …

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa will face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year peak spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and prices high, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic …