Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni arrives in the United Arab Emirates for the three-day official visit on January 15, 2023 By Daily Monitor Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has placed a blanket ban on travel abroad by members of Parliament and civil servants to save money for other priority sectors. While commissioning facilities on Saturday at Uganda

By The Associated Press British judges gave the go-ahead on Monday for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the U.K. government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. Two High Court judges ruled in December that the controversial policy is legal, rejecting a lawsuit from several asylum-seekers, aid groups

By Anadolu Agency Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in Sicily on Monday morning after about three decades on the run, Italian police said. Denaro, 60, was detained in a private clinic in the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italian media reported, adding he was arrested just before 0900GMT and taken to a

Charlaine Mbiang, known as Espoir La Tigresse, a Gabonese singer, speaks on the red carpet, ahead of the 8th All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) that aims to celebrate and promote the continent’s best veteran and cutting-edge musicians in Dakar, Senegal, January 15, 2023. Photographer Ngouda Dione By Reuters Musical heavyweights gathered in Dakar, Senegal on

A man harvests miraa at Kiguchwa market, Tigania East, Meru County By Business Daily Africa Somalia has allowed Kenya to more than double the volumes of miraa exported to this lucrative market, expanding opportunities for local farmers who are eying good returns from the Horn of Africa nation. The exports, which have now increased to

In this picture released on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in a meeting to unveil the book “National Nuclear Movement” in Tehran, Iran. Iran said Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, it had executed Akbari, a dual Iranian-British national who once held a high-ranking position in the country’s

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing coalition and its proposed judicial reforms to reduce powers of the Supreme Court in a main square in Tel Aviv, Israel January 14, 2023. Reuters/ Ilan Rosenberg By Reuters Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in three major cities on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s

By Anadolu Agency Thousands of Afghan citizens who served Britain in its army and other bodies were evacuated with their families from Afghanistan in what was reported as the biggest British military evacuation in over 70 years. Although the majority of more than 21,000 refugees have now been placed in accommodations, almost half of the

Authorities in Kenya have arrested four police officers for attempted armed robbery — Photo Credit: Kat Wilcox By Face2Face Africa Authorities in Kenya have arrested four police officers who were allegedly attempting to rob Ksh.2 million (about $161,000) from workers of a forex bureau in the capital city of Nairobi. According to Citizen Digital, the

Singer Lisa Marie Presley poses at the premiere of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in Hollywood, California, U.S. May 7, 2015. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo By Reuters Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los