By BERNARD BUSUULWA The International Monetary Fund has offered a $240 million three-year loan to Uganda to support a radical public sector reform agenda anchored on fighting corruption, cutting financial waste and promoting financial inclusion while sending positive signals to international creditors and credit rating agencies about the country’s debt burden. The loan offer comes…
By MARY WAMBUI Senior Commanders from the Federal Government of Ethiopia and senior representatives of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have agreed on the modalities to be used in evaluating the implementation of the peace deal signed in early November to end two years of war in the country’s north. This paves way for…
By MOHAMMED MOMOH Abuja The Nigerian military has in three weeks killed more than 103 terrorists belonging to Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa State Province (Iswap) groups in the north east. The Defence Media Operations said the soldiers also arrested 40 terrorists, including four commanders, and rescued 30 kidnapped victims. DMO director,…
Extradition of Abdullah al-Senussi over Lockerbie bombing would have closely followed that of Mohammed Abouagela Masud. The extradition to the US of Muammar Gaddafi’s most trusted and notorious aide was abruptly halted by Libya at the 11th hour this week for fear of public anger after the handover of another ex-senior Libyan intelligence operative, officials…
At least 150 terrorists killed in clashes in strategic town of Runirgod, says Somali Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia The Somali military on Thursday liberated the strategic town of Runirgod in the middle Shabelle region from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group, the Defense Ministry said. In a news conference in the capital Mogadishu,…
By EMMANUEL ONYANGO The construction of Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project went a notch higher on Thursday after President Samia Suluhu Hassan officiated the opening of the diversion channel that will direct water into the dam for generation of electricity. The 2,115 megawatts project is being built at a cost of Tsh6.55 trillion ($ 2.77…
Former President Jacob Zuma is determined to proceed with his bid to have his successor Cyril Ramaphosa privately prosecuted. Zuma has accused the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of bias after it said that the [nolle prosequi] certificates it issued the former President and his legal team were not in relation to Ramaphosa. Zuma has accused Ramaphosa of…
Following a meeting of Ethiopian government representatives and Tigrayan officials, former Kenya President and mediator Uhuru Kenyatta announces he will travel to Tigray’s capital Mekele with the African Union’s monitoring and verification team to check on the implementation of the Ethiopian peace deal “before the end of this month.” “The true statement that they need…