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A parliamentary vote on Wednesday elected Japanese ruling party leader Yoshihide Suga as prime minister. This makes him the country’s first prime minister in nearly eight years. Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party used its majority vote in the powerful lower house of parliament. He came into power to lead the world’s third-largest economy as it tries to recover from the ...

Forum for Democratic Change or FDC has blamed the Electoral Commission for failing to prepare voters ahead of the 2021 Elections. The EC is completely ignoring the fact that voters need to be educated. Voters need to be prepared for these elections because they are one of a kind. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda , the party spokesperson, actually blamed the low ...

The constitutional council of Ivory Coast cleared President Alassane Ouattara to seek a 3rd term in next month’s elections. The incumbent faces the main challenge from Henri Konan Bedie and two others selected out of the 44 presidential hopefuls. Opposition activists staged sporadic protests in the country since last month when Ouattara announced seeking reelection. His critics say the country’s ...

Today Facebook is launching the Climate Science Information Center — a dedicated space that they’ll be highlighting at the top of Facebook with authoritative information from the world’s leading climate organizations. As we’ve seen the wildfires raging across the west coast of the US and the flooding in South Sudan and South Asia, it’s clear that climate change is real ...

A senior Makerere Professor of History has come out to clear the air on allegations that President Yoweri Museveni does not possess a Bachelors degree from Dar-es-salaam university. This follows former Ethics minister Miria Matembe’s allegation recently that the Ugandan president is a senior six dropout who only went Dar-es-Salaam University for courtesy visits. Matembe challenged President Museveni to produce ...