Category: Africa

US air safety experts say Ethiopian inspectors investigating the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines' crash that killed nearly 160 people in 2019 did not pay enough attention to crew training and emergency procedures in their report.

Women picking tea at a farm Despite being Uganda’s third biggest export commodity after coffee and fish and being one of the strategic commodities singles out under the NDP III and agro industrialization program in order to steer national development and incomes, the tea sector...

Yellow-band disease — named for the colour it turns corals before destroying them — was first spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to reefs in the Caribbean. There is no known cure.

Residents at the broken Busamaga bridge A reconstructed bridge along the Mbale-Busamaga road in Mbale city collapsed just a week after it was opened by the Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra). The bridge was rebuilt in mid-December 2022 after it was destroyed by floods in August, which...

But as China opens up, cases are surging. The healthcare system is straining and crematoriums struggling to deal with the influx of bodies.

People look postcards showing Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Rome, near the Vatican Pope Francis said Wednesday that former Pope Benedict is “very sick.” Speaking during his general audience, the pope asked for special prayers for Benedict. “I can confirm that in...

In a case at Bunia high military court, two colonels, three other soldiers and a civilian were on Monday given capital punishment for murdering two Chinese gold workers.

President Yoweri Museveni has always defended the borrowing Uganda’s public debt is set to increase from the current 48.4 per cent to 53.1 per cent in 2023, according to the estimated budget for the FY 2023/24 released by the ministry of Finance. For a debt...

The east African country is Africa's second-largest coffee exporter and earnings from the crop constitute a major source of foreign exchange.