Africa’s largest mobile operator MTN says it is reviewing allegations that it paid protection money to militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan. The allegations, made in a legal complaint filed in a US federal court on Friday, say the firm violated US anti-terrorism laws. It was filed on behalf of families of US citizens killed in attacks in Afghanistan. Five other companies were also named in the filing. The complaint alleges MTN paid bribes to al-Qaida and the Taliban to avoid having to invest in in expensive security for their transmission towers. The alleged payments helped finance a Taliban-led insurgency that…
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A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 29 intelligence agents to death for killing a teacher in detention during protests against Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s longtime former leader, earlier this year. The defendants were found guilty of deadly abuse against Ahmed al-Kheir at an intelligence services facility and sentenced to be hanged, judge Sadok Abdelrahman said. The teacher was beaten and tortured to death after he was arrested in late January by intelligence operatives in Sudan’s eastern province of Kassala, the judge said. Another four officers were sentenced to three years in prison and seven were acquitted in the landmark ruling, which…
Events promoter Balaam Barugahare has come out and advised crybaby Big Eye to go back to studio and compose hit songs and desist from shifting the blame to Bobi Wine. Balaam said no promoter all over the world can risk hiring a musician without a hit song. The promoter said Big Eye might only be trying to create unnecessary alarms that will yield him nothing. “I see no reason why Big Eye is yearning to go to Magere. He should do one thing, go back to the studio and compose hit songs. This will save him from the unnecessary foul…
David Moyes has been appointed as West Ham manager and will return for a second spell at the club. David, 55, has signed an 18-month deal and starts with the New Year’s Day home game against Bournemouth. He replaces Manuel Pellegrini, who was sacked after Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat by a much-changed Leicester side. “I feel like I’ve got unfinished business,” said Moyes, who led the Hammers to Premier League safety in a seven-month spell from November 2017. Former Everton and Manchester United boss Moyes, who took over from Slaven Bilic two years ago, left at the end of the…
According to tech site WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will be introducing self-destructing messages to their messaging app in 2020. Previously referred to as Disappearing Messages, and now renamed Deleted Messages, the new feature will allow users to set a time-stamp for when they’d like messages to be deleted on the app. Additionally, Tech Radar have stated that users should finally expect Dark Mode to be rolled out on the app in the new year, which can be changed manually, or set to kick in automatically once the battery goes into power saving mode. Other new additions to the messaging app expected in…
News from Nkumba University indicate that Josephine Namatovu, a former guild president aspirant at Nkumba University breathed her last on the evening of December 28th, 2019. Namatovu came fifth in an election held in April 2019 that was eventually won by Byron Luswata, a People Power pressure group candidate. Namatovu was often called “October’s Finest” and “Jojo” by her friends. While campaigning earlier this year, she used the motto “The lioness Roars” as she sought support from her colleagues, perhaps a reflection of her strong character and willingness to take on the toughest circumstances. According to reports, she passed away…
John Magufuli Tanzania’s Dr John Magufuli is set to renegotiate a deal his country made with a Chinese Company to build a port in one of his many seashores as he said the deal settled for in 2013 is equivalent to selling their country to China. According to Hit In Juba, the Tanzanian govt had signed a deal with China Merchants Holdings International, China’s which meant the Chinese would build a port in Bagamoyo and a special economic zone to transform the country into a regional trade and transport hub. Tanzanian Parliament in May 2019 was now questioning Magufuli’s stance…
A man has been jailed for more than 15 years for burning a gay pride flag. Adolfo Martinez, 30, admitted stealing it from a church and setting it alight in June of this year. He was was found guilty last month of a hate crime, third-degree harassment, and reckless use of fire as a habitual offender,’ according to the Des Moines Register. The rainbow flag, which read “God is still speaking,” was hung above the doorway of the Ames United Church of Christ. Police arrested Martinez outside Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, where they found him yelling while setting the LGBTQ…
Police has arrested two men on allegations of creating a fake facebook account in the names of the Vice President, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi and fleeced the public of millions of shillings. The two men identified as Iddi Bategeka and Mark Mutebi were arrested from Mpasan in Kukumiro District by detectives from CID. “The duo has been arrested after a vigorous investigation conducted by our detectives, following a spurious post on a pseudo-Facebook account that was created in the names of Vice president of the republic of Uganda, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi,” said the CID spokesperson, Charles Twine. These, he said would…
Ethiopia’s first satellite was sent into space on Friday, a landmark achievement for the ambitious country that also caps a banner year for Africa’s involvement in space. A Chinese Long March 4B rocket hoisted the first Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite (ETRSS-1) aloft from the Taiyuan space base in northern China. Scores of Ethiopian and Chinese officials and scientists gathered at the Entoto Observatory and Research Centre outside the capital, Addis Ababa, early Friday to watch a live broadcast. The 70-kilogramme (154-pound) satellite was developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology with the help of 21 Ethiopian scientists, according to…