IOC board to mull Tokyo matters – but not cancellation

By Reuters,

The Tokyo Olympics will top the agenda when the International Olympic Committee’s executive board meets on Wednesday - but with the board firmly bac...

olympics , Tokyo 2020

Japan stands firm on Olympic Games schedule, denies report of cancellation

By Reuters,

Japan stood firm on Friday on its commitment to host the Tokyo Olympics this year and denied reports of a possible cancellation but the pledge looks u...

Olympic Games , olympics , Tokyo 2020

OPINION: KNUT must not be left to die

By Joseph Bonyo,

As a primary school pupil, I was closely surrounded by teachers’ affairs, and the politics of it. Both my parents now retired were teachers. By h...

adongo adeya , KNUT , sossion , tsc

Bobi Wine, still under house arrest, says no food left for relative’s baby

By Citizen Reporter,

Besieged opposition leader Bobi Wine has revealed that he has been under house arrest with an 18 month-old-baby whose food has run out. Taking to T...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Mumbo out to unseat Otula at the helm of KBF

By Dennis Kamariki,

Former basketball player Cynthia Mumbo is aiming to unseat Paul Otula as Kenya Basketball Federation president in polls slated for this Saturday at th...

Cynthia Mumbo , KBF Elections , Paul Otula

OPINION: For Uganda, stability without legitimacy cannot last

By Guest Writer,

By the Kofi Annan Foundation On Saturday, Uganda’s electoral commission announced that 76-year-old incumbent President Yoweri Museveni won a sixt...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

BWIRE: Hopefully, treatment of journalists in Kenya won’t go the Uganda Way

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire Events in Uganda relating to media and journalists treatment during the campaigns, electioneering and voting for the January 14, 20...

Japan PM vows to press ahead with Olympics despite virus surge

By Reuters,

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed on Monday to forge ahead with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer, in the face of growing public o...

JAPAN , olympics , Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga , Tokyo

Yoweri Museveni declared winner of Uganda’s presidential poll

By Reuters,

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a decisive re-election victory on Saturday, elections officials said, but his main rival Bobi Wine alleged wides...

Bobi Wine , President Yoweri Museveni , Uganda elections

Giants fall as vote counting continues in Uganda

By Edwin Obuya,

Uganda's Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi is among 10 senior government officials who have fallen by the wayside in the just concluded Uganda e...

Bobi Wine , uganda

Uganda’s President Museveni has early lead in election, preliminary results show

By Reuters,

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni took an early lead in the presidential election race, according to preliminary results released on Friday morning...

Bobi Wine , President Yoweri Museveni , uganda

Ugandans choose between Bobi Wine and longtime leader Museveni in tense election

By Reuters,

Ugandans began voting on Thursday in a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni against an opposition galvanized by a popular si...

Bobi Wine , uganda , yoweri museveni

South Korea court upholds jail for ex-president Park

By Reuters,

South Korea’s top court upheld on Thursday a 20-year jail sentence for former President Park Geun-hye on graft charges that led to her downfall, bri...

South Korea

How the U.S. helped Museveni stay in power for over 3 decades

By CNN,

Ugandans go to the polls on January 14, with Bobi Wine and nine other candidates challenging incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in powe...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Japan presses on with Olympics preparations despite Covid surge

By Reuters,

Japan’s government is continuing with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer as planned, following a postponement because of the corona...

JAPAN , olympics

Bus plunges into Indian Ocean at Likoni ferry crossing in Mombasa

By George Aoko,

A bus plunged into the Indian Ocean at the Likoni ferry crossing in Mombasa on Sunday morning. Also Read: Car finally retrieved from Likoni channel...

likoni ferry

Uganda IG to journalists: Police will continue beating you for your own safety

By Ian Omondi,

Uganda’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has now come out to defend recent cases of police brutality towards journalists, espe...

IG Martin Ochola , police brutality , President Yoweri Museveni , uganda

FKF picks six-member team to manage football in Tana River pending elections

By Dadu Ngumbao,

Football Kenya Federation has formed a committee of six-members to manage football in Tana River County after the mandate of the previous interim offi...

FKF , Gabriel Mgendi , Six-member Committee , tana river county

OPINION: Ethical citizens will change Kenya not the constitution

By Guest Writer,

By Joseph Lister Nyaringo As we open the curtains for the New Year 2021, we need to remind ourselves that the destiny of any society is pegged on a...

BBI

Nyamira Governor Amos Nyaribo fires all CECs day after taking office

By Citizen Reporter,

Nyamira Governor Amos Nyaribo fired all County executive committee members a day after he took office. He directed that they hand over immediately....

Nyagarama , nyaribo