35+ min ago   (357+ words) Uganda's King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, was buried on Saturday, days after a row broke out over who would succeed him. Oyo, 34, who had ruled the traditional kingdom of Tooro in western…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (486+ words) The Jatikay Centre for Human Security and Peace Building has raised alarming national security concerns following revelations that recruits in Ghana's security services were dismissed after presenting forged and doctored West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results. The security…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (539+ words) Ugandan broadcast journalist Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma steps into royal duty after the Tooro Kingdom selection committee chose him as crown prince on Wednesday. The news anchor works for the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation as an editor and broadcaster. He succeeds King…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (218+ words) Interior Minister Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed has disclosed that several recruits have been dismissed from security services training schools after checks revealed that the WASSCE results they used to gain admission had been forged or doctored. The Minister said the discrepancies…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (301+ words) A private hospital's failure to provide preventative medication contributed to the death of Lady Joan Branson, an inquest has concluded. The 80-year-old, who was married to Sir Richard Branson, died on 24 November last year after suffering a cardiac arrest at…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (399+ words) US President Donald Trump has said he does not think the Iran war will end until after November's midterm elections, adding that oil prices will not come down until then. "I think the war's going to end immediately after the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (352+ words) The absence of appropriate transportation and storage systems is contributing to post-harvest losses among farmers, particularly those dealing with highly perishable crops, social entrepreneur and innovator Mathias Charles Yabe has said. Speaking on the 13th edition of the Loud and Green…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (695+ words) Israel has given Britain 30 days to close its East Jerusalem consulate in response to sanctions on goods from settlements, a measure Britain's leader said ‌on Wednesday was needed to "stand against injustice" in the occupied West Bank. In the West…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (267+ words) Iran has issued severe threats against oil tankers operating near the territorial waters of Bahrain and Kuwait following American military strikes that targeted multiple Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and off the coast of Jask on Tuesday. Two United…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (798+ words) Brent crude futures breached $100 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since late July, as Iran and the U.S. hit tankers in the ​biggest wave of attacks on shipping since the war began, threatening to worsen the ongoing impairment of…...