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 Pope Francis leaves after met cardinals during a second day of consistory to discuss family issues at the Vatican on February 21, 2014. After a two-day meeting with cardinals from around the world, Pope Francis will formally appoint 19 new cardinals for the first time of his pontificate on February 22.VATICAN CITY, SaturdayPope Francis will create his first batch of cardinals on Saturday,...

 (L-R) MPs Barnabas Tinkasiimire, Muhammed Nsereko, Wilfred Niwagaba and Theodore Sekikubo at the Supreme Court last year. The Constitutional Court yesterday declared their stay in Parliament illegal.Kampala Court has ruled that the four NRM ‘rebel’ MPs are in Parliament illegally. This means they have been thrown out of Parliament and cannot be allowed to attend...

A Nigerian citizen, and a 300-level student at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Godwin Ayogu,  was apparently murdered in the West African country, and his body was dumped by the roadside.Ayogu was studying social sciences in the institution and was last seen on Tuesday afternoon, sources at the university said.It was gathered that the deceased had planned to be in Nigeria on Wednesday...

Vera Wang is a fashion icon who has dressed royalty and other women in high places, among them Michelle Obama. The designer’s profile rose even more among fashion enthusiasts in Africa, especially after she dressed the first black woman tenant of the White House. Dar es Salaam. What are the chances that brides in wedding-struck Dar es Salaam and US First Lady Michelle Obama could have something...

  President Museveni (C), yesterday paid a visit to the UPDF soldiers fighting in South Sudan. KAMPALA- Cabinet has approved Shs120 billion in supplementary budget largely to finance the ongoing UPDF operations in South Sudan, according to highly placed government and security sources. Ministry of Defence originally requested for Shs150 billion, a source...

The 21-year-old student who posted nude pictures of his former fiancée on facebook, in retaliation for being dumped by her, was yesterday jailed six months.Henry Alibah, who posted the nude pictures on November 25, 2013, after a 10-minute ultimatum to the complainant had elapsed, looked shaken and bewildered after he was sentenced by the Accra Circuit Court.Covering himself with a piece of cloth...

Grombalia (Tunisia)  - A Libyan army medical plane crashed south of Tunis early on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, Tunisian emergency services said."The plane crashed at 1:30 am (0030 GMT)... with 11 people on board -- three doctors, two patients and six crew members," spokesman Mongi El Kadhi said.He said there were no survivors from the accident in the Grombalia area, 40 kilometres...

The 2014 edition of the Pearl Look comes up on March 1st. This year's edition of the fashion and modelling competition is expected to have Fashion designer, Yvonne Nwosu, International Model; Jane Celiers and Celebrity Photographer; Reze Bonna as judges. Big brother Africa's Melvin Oduah, Actress Tana Adelana and OAP Kaylah are expected to host the event with designers; Mon Ami, Frank Osodi,...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Bernard Membe.PHOTO|FILEDar es Salaam.Tanzania will send a contingent of one battalion to the troubled South Sudan to be part of a UN peacekeeping mission. This becomes yet another addition to the country’s contribution to world peace under the auspices of the UN, for it also has troops keeping peace in Darfur in Sudan, DR Congo and Lebanon....

A fuel crisis has hit Kabale district forcing transport fares to shoot up.  People line up for fuel today Morning at shell KigeziA survey carried out by our reporter at various Fuel pump stations in Kabale shows that a liter of petrol goes for shillings 5000 up from 3800 shillings while on the black market it costs between 6000 and 7000 shillings. The affected pump stations are Agaba...

Singer Bebe cool’s wife Zuena Kirema has voiced what most women refuse to acknowledge that the only reason she watches football is to check out hunks.  Zuena Kirema Bebe Cool’s wife.The gorgeous mother of three posted on her official Facebook page that; “Every time I check my FB wall people are talking about football. I feel like am missing out however much I try to concentrate I fail....

 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe eats ice cream after addressing the crowd at his inauguration and swearing-in ceremony on August 22, 2013 at the 60,000-seater sports stadium in Harare. Mugabe will turn 90 with no idea of the secret to his longevity. HARARE, "I do not know how I have come to live this long," Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said a month ahead of his...

 East African heads (L-R) Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni in Munyonyo yesterday.KAMPALA- Tourists visiting Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda will now need a single instead of multiple visas to tour the three East African countries. This followed the launch of the East African Tourist Visa by the regional heads of states yesterday...

KAMPALA-The acting Vice Chancellor of Kyambogo University, Prof Elly Katunguka has regretted the errors that were committed in the compilation of students’ names who were supposed to graduation yesterday and today, promising that victims who fulfilled all the academic and financial requirements, but were erroneously left out will have a special graduation mid this year. ...

Snoops have established that there is increasing tension at Kamwokya based NBS Television over new incredibly curvy Pundonor Magazine host Agatha Atiti well known as Agatha Loswash. According to sources at the station, other female employees feel Loswash is favoured by management because whatever she demands for, she gets it.“Other employees especially babes feel sidelined since she joined the...

 Pastor Anthony Maina in hotel room pastor in Kenya, is out of a job after he was caught red-handed with a married woman in a hotel room.The pastor of a church in the city of Embu, who was caught with the married woman on Sunday, addressed his congregation and asked for forgiveness.Pastor Anthony Maina of the Kenya Assemblies of God Eastern Gate Church, arrived with his wife Beth, and...

 Facebook is placing a $19 billion bet on reaching its next billion mobile users with the acquisition of WhatsApp, a popular messaging service that lets people send texts, photos and videos on their smartphones.The $19 billion deal is by far Facebook’s largest and bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done. But it is likely to raise worries that Facebook and other technology...

 Rwandan President Paul Kagame signs the visitor’s book after arriving in Kampala for the East African Community summit yesterday.Kampala- President Museveni has invited Tanzania and Burundi to a key regional integration summit in Kampala today (Thursday) to join President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. President Pierre Nkurunziza...

 Onesphore Rwabukombe (partly hidden by microphone) awaits the final verdict at the courtroom in Frankfurt,A German court on Tuesday sentenced to 14 years in jail a former Rwandan town mayor for ordering a massacre of hundreds of people in a church during the 1994 genocide. The man, Onesphore Rwabukombe, 56, had since 2002 lived in Germany, where he had applied...

 Ethics minister Simon Lokodo addressing journalists in Kampala yesterday. Fr Lokodo said the President assented to the Bill on February 6.Promoters of pornographic material could soon be in trouble after the President signed the Anti-Pornography Bill, 2011 into law. Publishers, broadcasters, film importers and exporters, artists, bar owners and internet café operators are the likely culprits....

Ethics and integrity minister Fr Simon Lokodo announced at the government Media Centre on Tuesday that the President has assented to the Anti-pornography Bill 2011 on February 6, 2014. The law prescribes various penalties for publishers, broadcasters and internet café operators.The law caused public excitement when it tried to determine the length of the dress for work and it was quickly dubbed...

 Akwaihedi community in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State has allegedly passed a law against the wearing of trousers by women.A source said: “Anyone caught breaking the law will be molested and fined N50, 000 or be banished.”The source added that but for the intervention of youths, female members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), posted to the community, would ...

 Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Andrew Kaweesi speaking to journalists in Kampala yesterday.Kampala- Four senior police officers at Kajjansi Police Station have been arrested over operational errors that led to the killing of an assistant superintendent of police.The four were arrested following the killing of Joseph Bigirwa, the officer in-charge of the station, who was on Friday...

Congolese international artist Awilo Longomba who now lives in France is said to be coming to Uganda this year to attend one of Kabaka’s ceremonies. Congolese Legend Awilo LongombaHe is the first International and African Artist to be officially chosen by the Buganda Government to come and entertain the Kabaka due to his collaboration and Broadcast he put up for CBS radio and Rasta Rob Mc in...

  FILE Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe speaks during a past rally. Drive HotHARAREZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has pardoned 2,000 prisoners, mostly women and juveniles in a move that should ease congestion in the country's jails, a government notice said.The numbers of pardoned prisoners amounts to over 10 percent of the prison population, which stood at 18,460 last year against a...

Lusaka, Sunday. Zambian ex-diplomat and son of former president Rupiah Banda was on Friday sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. Andrew Banda, 53, was arrested in 2012 on charges of soliciting a kickback from Italian company Fratelli Locci, which was awarded a contract to build roads. In passing the...

 Rev Muranga (L) being held at Parliament after failing to account for Shs40 billion before the Public Accounts committee yesterday. She was later set free.Parliament- There was drama at Parliament when members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ordered the arrest of the head of Presidential initiative on Banana Industrial Development, the Rev Florence Muranga, whom they accused of mismanaging...

Edith Mutoni, former singer with Wafagiyo is dead Ex Wafagio Member Edith is DeadEdith Mutoni passed on yesterday morning at her home in KaseseEdith has been ill for quite some time. It is rumored that he died of heart failureEdith, a former girlfriend to raga star Coco Finger, made her mark with her group (Wafagiyo) song Mukidongo.Her former manager Emma Carlos said Edith’s death was a...

Budaka Police in Budaka District have arrested a pastor in connection with child trafficking. Mr Martin Otim, the Budaka District police commander, said the suspect, a resident of Namakisyo village in Mugiti, Budaka District had collected 12 children. “The curious residents became suspicious,” Mr Otim said. He added: “They alerted the...

Kyankwanzi President Museveni on Friday told NRM legislators at Kyankwanzi that he would assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by Parliament in December last year. The Bill seeks to make same-sex punishable by life imprisonment upon conviction. President Museveni did not only agree to sign the Bill, he also warned that the promoters,...

A Chinese suspect attempting to smuggle 0.68 kilogrammes of ivory from Maputo to China was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Friday night.The suspected ivory smuggler, Ou Kaiming, 32, will spend the weekend in police custody after he was arrested while boarding a Kenya Airways flight in Nairobi.He is due to appear at the Makadara Law Court Monday morning.The suspect is the third...

KAMPALAKajjansi Police Station boss has been shot dead by gunmen raising more questions on who is behind the killings of police officers. Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, Joseph Bigirwa, who was responding to an armed robbery of a petrol station and mobile money shop less than 30 metres away from his station, was shot and died on the spot at around 11pm...

Actress Ellen Page, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Juno," came out as a lesbian on Friday at a Las Vegas conference for gay teens. "I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission," the 26-year-old actress said in a speech that drew roaring support from an audience at the Time to Thrive conference sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. "I'm here today because I am...