The Chinese tech guru Huawei announced earlier today that it will be releasing the long-awaited new operating system meant for smartphones next week. The move is all part of an all-out push into the software industry targeting US sanctions and taking on Google’s Android operating system. In a short teaser on social media, Huawei tipped the June 2 launch of ...

A traditional chief in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of the country’s former president Robert Mugabe be dug up and reburied at a national cemetery.Mugabe’s successor, President Mnangagwa and others had hoped that he would be buried at the National Heroes Acre in the capital. However, when Mugabe died in 2019, his burial took place in his rural home ...

On Monday, the military in Mali arrested the country’s president, Bah Ndaw, and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane after a cabinet reshuffle. Reports say that the two, along with Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were arrested and taken to Kati, a centre outside Bamako.The circumstances under which the military held them are currently unclear.Former president Boubacar Keita got overthrown in August ...

From the start of the pandemic, at least 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 according to the WHO Chief. The observation came from the World Health Organization Chief as he called for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries.At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed health workers. He thanked ...

The Police in Kampala have kicked off an investigation into a case under which a Makerere University graduate was found dead in his room. This happened a few days after his graduation. James Eyangu, 27, graduated on Wednesday in Biomedical Laboratory Technology but his body has been found in his room, dead. He acted as the president of the Makerere ...