President Joe Biden recently ordered a raid in Somalia against the Islamic State group in which one of the group’s leaders has been killed. Bilal al-Sudani died during a gunfight following a descent by US troops on a mountainous cave complex in northern Somalia. They had hoped to capture him according to US officials. Additionally, 10 of Sudani’s Islamic State ...

A new target has been set for Uganda’s economy and President Museveni hopes to achieve this in a few years time. He revealed this as he spoke during the 37th liberation anniversary in Kakumiro district. The president said despite the country attaining the middle income status, the aim now is set a little higher than that.“Our economy has grown from ...

On Tuesday, January 24, Kenya Railways Corporation announced its plans to scrap cash payments for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train tickets. The corporation noted in a public notice that its operations for the Madaraka Express would fully be cashless. It also said that this will take effect on 1 February, 2023. To replace the cash payment system, Kenya Railways ...

Teenage pregnancy and child marriages are very rampant in Uganda at the moment. However, State Minister for youth affairs Sarah Mateke has encouraged Ugandans to increase efforts to end this bad habit in the country. She did this while speaking during the dissemination of the second national strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancy. This went down at the ...

Nsamba Quraish, the Vision Group journalist who died on Tuesday afternoon doing his work is to be buried today. Nsamba apparently collapsed in Ndeeba and shortly after that got taken to the hospital where doctors immediately pronounced him dead. Nsamba’s family released the burial program showing that he would be buried at Nkoowe Muslim Cemetary. It also showed the time ...