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Kasaija tasks UDB to expand footprint across the country
Observer
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June 25, 2025
Matia Kasaija, the minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, has directed the management of the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) to lay out plans for extending its services from urban areas to rural communities to improve access to its...
If we respect our women, we should not remain blind
Ghanaian Times
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July 8, 2025
Since summer 2023, Russia has been using Iranian-made suicide drones to attack Ukraine. However, since then it has significantly modified and upgraded them, making deadlier, adding a better navigation system and speed. The drones that target...
Lord Tebbit, true blue Thatcherite and scourge of the unions
The Times
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Norman Tebbit was the target of many a derogatory epithet. Labour’s Michael Foot once called him a “semi-house-trained polecat”. The satirical television show Spitting Image portrayed Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet enforcer as a leather-clad bovver...
Kenya wins Africa Catchball Cup in South Africa unbeaten
Citizen TV Kenya
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June 25, 2025
Kenya clinched the Africa Catchball Cup in South Africa after completing an unbeaten run during the week-long tournament held from Saturday, June 14 to Saturday, June 21 in Soweto. The competition, which took place at Pimville Stadium in Gauteng,...
Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk
Context
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights are key to achieving development goals and their erosion has clear, serious consequences. Åsmund Grøver Aukrust is Norway’s Minister of International Development and Nordic Co-operation and a SheDecides...
Ruto locks down Nairobi to stop Kenyan protests, police kill 10
World Socialist Web Site
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July 7, 2025
Just 12 days after orchestrating a bloodbath that left 19 dead and over 400 injured across the country, President William Ruto again deployed armed police to brutally suppress protests. In Nairobi’s working-class districts and informal...
Saba Saba protests: Police block several roads to Nairobi CBD, forcing commuters...
TUKO
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July 7, 2025
The government has heightened security across major towns as Kenyans mark the 35th Saba Saba Day Roadblocks and police presence caused widespread disruption in Nairobi and beyond, forcing residents to seek alternative ways to get to their...
Who’s Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
New York Mag
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July 8, 2025
Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo To win the nomination for mayor, Zohran Mamdani outwitted and outworked the city’s lethargic Democratic political Establishment. And that seems to be driving the old guard mad. Think of New York’s Democratic...
Zohran Mamdani Claimed to Be an African American on His College Applications. But the REAL Story Is...
PJ Media - Virginia
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July 4, 2025
That’s kinda weird: Zohran Mamdani doesn’t look like an African American. And by his own admission, he doesn’t consider himself to be black. So why did he list his ethnicity as “African American” on his college applications? After all, he just...
First Person: Japanese UN volunteer ‘motivated by the passion of others’ to support peace
UN News
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July 6, 2025
Haruki Ume spoke to UN News at the UN Pavilion at Expo 2025 currently being held in the Japanese city of Osaka. One section of the pavilion features a rotating presentation focusing on a specific UN agency or entity and recently, attention turned...
New York By God Times Stole Teenager's Failed College Application And Goddammit It Would DO IT AGAIN
Wonkette - Michigan
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July 7, 2025
Photo by Dmitry Shein. Around these parts, we’re big fans of Smilin’ Zohran Mamdani, his policies, his campaign, his purty face and purty wife, and his goddamn joy. But you know who does not like the Muslim immigrant from Africa/Democratic nominee...
Why Evangelicals Turned Their Back on PEPFAR
The Atlantic
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July 6, 2025
I n 2006, Ambassador Mark Dybul, then the United States global AIDS coordinator, visited an orphanage run by the Daughters of Charity in Ethiopia. It was a sanctuary for more than 400 HIV-positive babies and young children found in garbage heaps,...
COVID-like measures can keep chimps safe from human diseases
Digital Journal
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July 6, 2025
Different populations of chimpanzees showed varying behaviours - Copyright Handout/AFP Kathelijne Koops Masking, distancing and quarantines keep chimpanzees safe from human disease, a new study shows. This is an important finding in the context of...
Commentary: The Frightening Dream House of Zoran Mamdani
The Arizona Sun Times
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July 8, 2025
by Victor Davis Hanson After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool. So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims...
Behold the Power of Independent Media: NYT Rushed Mamdani Scoop to Beat Rufo
Hot Air
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July 7, 2025
Bottom line: Competition works in free markets. And that's why the Protection Racket Media tried very hard to kill off their competition through tendentious 'fact checks' and cheerleading for government censorship. Even with their grip on...
Nigeria at risk as U.S. threatens extra 10% tariff on BRICS nations, slams 25% on Japan, S’Korea
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 8, 2025
• China says BRICS not seeking ‘confrontation’ after Trump’s threat • AU counters Trump with AfCFTA trade proposal United States President, Donald Trump, has warned that countries supporting BRICS policies that clash with U.S. interests will face...
PS Mofa Bagiire Vincent Waiswa Meets Istanbul Chamber Of Commerce Executives
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 21, 2025
A delegation led by the permanent secretary ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Bagiire Vincent Waiswa on 20th June 2025 held a meeting with Executive board member of the Istanbul chamber of Commerce, Mr. Bahadır Yaşik. Mr. Bagiire was accompanied to...
UK restores diplomatic ties with Syria as Lammy visits Damascus
The National News
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Britain said it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday as Foreign Secretary David Lammy visited Damascus. “There is renewed hope for the Syrian people,” said Mr Lammy. “It is in our interests to support the new government...
Zohran Mamdani's Profoundly Offensive Hanukkah Video Latest Scandal to Rock Dem Nominee For NYC Mayor
The Western Journal
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July 7, 2025
It would almost be funny, at this point, if it weren’t so serious. In the latest scandal to rock Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, the socialist state assemblyman is revealed to have posted an offensive video of...
Zohran Mamdani tipped to pip Cuomo in NYC mayoral primary
AS
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June 24, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is one of 13 candidates (10 Democrats, one Republican, two Independents) to become the next mayor of New York City and he is hoping frozen rents, free bus travel and a pledge to help the city’s transgender residents will help him...