Parliament has okayed a request by the government to borrow Shs 1.2 trillion to upgrade national roads across the country. The money is to be borrowed from the Islamic Development Bank, and the OPEC Fund for International Development. MPs approved the request during a plenary sitting chaired by speaker Anita Among on Wednesday. The funds will facilitate the rehabilitation of the ...

Kenya has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia to send workers to the Arab nation, the country’s President William Ruto has said. Under the deal reached on Thursday, nurses and other skilled workers will go to the Middle Eastern country from Kenya. The first deployment will see 2,500 workers travel to the middle eastern contry. “Previously, we only sent domestic ...

A report by a human rights group has revealed that Burundi soldiers deployed to help quell violence in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo raped, abducted and mistreated civilians. The report, by the Burundi Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), called for the perpetrators to be held accountable. The campaign of violence against the locals in South Kivu started in late 2021 ...

Veteran radio presenter and musician Robert Ogwal commonly known as Rasta Rob MC has given his opinions about God. He believes He is just as black as the former Super FM presenter. While appearing on a local TV interview, Rasta Rob MC said that he thinks that religion is something that Europeans brought to enslave the minds of Africans. And ...

Songstress Lydia Jazmine has come out to confirm that local kidandali singer, Gravity Omutujju indeed stole rapper Feffe Bussi’s name. It should be recalled that the Influencer rapper some time ago revealed that the name Gravity was his. This was during school days where the self-styled smallest rapper said that he studied with Gravity. It was Feffe who inducted Gravity into ...