World & Africa

Uganda’s longtime president will be sworn in for another term as his son emerges as

By Associated Press KAMPALA: Forty years. That’s how long Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power. The 81-year-old will be sworn in
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Why a bitter political feud has left a former Zambian president unburied 10 months after

By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: A feud over his funeral has meant the body of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu still hasn’t been buried
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Tanzania postelection inquiry shows 518 people died in last year’s violence

By Associated News DAR ES SALAAM: At least 518 people died in last year’s postelection violence in Tanzania, which happened amid
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Chinese man jailed for one year by Kenyan court for trafficking ants

By Associated Press NAIROBI: A Chinese national was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in jail by a Kenyan court
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South African opposition figure Malema sentenced to five years in prison

By BBC News South African opposition politician Julius Malema, 45, has been sentenced to five years after being found guilty
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Pope’s Africa trip takes him to a source of growth for the church, and critical

By Associated Press VATICAN CITY: When Pope Leo XIV pronounced himself a “son of St. Augustine” the night of his election,
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DR Congo to receive third-country deportees from the US under new deal

By Associated Press KINSHASA: Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country
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First group of 12 deportees from the US arrives in Uganda, lawyers say they were

By Associated Press KAMPALA: Twelve people deported from the U.S. arrived in Uganda on Thursday, the Uganda Law Society said,
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South Africa’s top police officer faces charges in a widening corruption scandal

By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s top police officer was served with a warrant Wednesday and is facing charges in
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Rwanda seeks $134 million from the UK in arbitration over scrapped refugee deal

By Associated Press THE HAGUE: Rwanda told a panel of international arbitrators Wednesday that Britain still owes it 100 million
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