Apr 04

“We have to have the mining in the hands of multiple countries, companies, and there needs to be competition,” he says. But across the continent, it is clear who has already stolen a march. “It’s not so much fear of the Chinese getting there ...

Apr 04

By VINCENT OWINO Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will need to cut trade costs by at least half to reinvigorate global trade which has been in decline since mid-last year, the World Bank has warned. The lender said world economy growth rate i...

Apr 03

The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Wilson Mbadi, has said the UPDF soldiers who were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo for a peacekeeping mission, will remain in the country until peace and stability is attained. A total of 5,000 UPDF so...

Apr 03

It was the spring of 2022 when rockets began to land in Lyonid Lysachenko’s wheat fields in Eastern Ukraine. The first rockets landed “a few weeks after the invasion began,” he said, crunching across one of his snow-crusted fields nearly a ye...

Apr 03

I fully expected to encounter a selection of snakes, scorpions and flubber-lipped camels in Errachidia – a dusty outcrop where sand meets lush oasis, sandwiched between the Atlas Mountains and the Algerian border. What I wasn’t expecting was bumping ...