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Agnes Limo did not walk away from Safaricom on a whim. After years in Kenya’s telecom industry, including a rise from Transmission and Planning Lead to Senior Manager of Home Solutions at Safaricom, she left in 2020 with a clearer view than most of where the internet business was heading. The timing mattered. Covid had changed daily life almost overnight. Work moved home, classes went online, and families suddenly needed stable internet in places that had often been ignored by bigger providers. That is the gap Limo says she saw when she co founded Village Communications Limited, better known as…

apan has confirmed funding for the second phase of the Kampala Flyover project, giving fresh momentum to one of Kampala’s most important road upgrades. The new phase is expected to cost about Shs659 billion and is aimed at easing traffic congestion while also addressing flooding along some of the city’s busiest routes. The announcement was made by Works and Transport Minister Gen Katumba Wamala, who said the Ugandan government had received firm confirmation from Japan that Lot II of the project would now move forward. The funding is expected to support the next stage of expansion after the completion and…

Keir Starmer is looking for a way to ease the political fallout from his government’s immigration plans after facing growing anger from Labour MPs and a high profile intervention from Angela Rayner. The prime minister is now weighing possible exemptions that would soften one of the most controversial parts of the proposal, the move to make most migrants wait 10 years instead of five before qualifying for settled status in the UK. The rethink comes as Starmer tries to stop tensions inside Labour from getting worse. One option under discussion is to shield large groups of people from the tougher…

The countdown to Eid Al Fitr is now firmly on in the UAE, with the country’s moon sighting authorities calling on the public to look for the Shawwal crescent. The UAE Council for Fatwa said the crescent would be observed after Maghreb prayer on Wednesday, March 18, which corresponds to the 29th day of Ramadan 1447 AH. This moon sighting matters because it will decide exactly when Ramadan ends and Shawwal begins. In the Islamic calendar, Eid Al Fitr starts on the first day of Shawwal, so the sighting of the new moon is what officially marks the holiday. Senior…

Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations final on the pitch. That is the part many fans will not let go of, and honestly, they should not. The match was played, the drama unfolded, Morocco missed the late penalty, and Senegal went on to win 1 to 0 after extra time. Then, days later, CAF’s Appeal Board stepped in and turned that result into a 3 to 0 forfeit win for Morocco because Senegal had left the field for about 14 minutes during the chaos near the end of normal time. That is where this stops feeling like football governance…

Iran’s position on nuclear weapons is not expected to shift in any major way, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in comments aired by Al Jazeera and carried by Iranian media on Wednesday. He noted, however, that the country’s new supreme leader has not yet publicly stated his own position on the issue, leaving some uncertainty around how the matter could be handled going forward. Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the early stages of the U.S. Israeli war against Iran, had long opposed the development of weapons of mass destruction. His view was rooted in…

A judge in the US has ruled that the effective closure of the Voice of America (VOA) last year was “illegal” and that hundreds of its journalists should be reinstated. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth has given authorities one week to put the international broadcaster back on air. The VOA was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda. Just weeks after returning to office as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order to close the broadcaster which his officials accused of left-wing bias. Trump also ordered outlets such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia to…

A U.S. treasure hunter who spent the last decade behind bars for refusing to reveal the location of missing gold coins has now been released, but the mystery surrounding the treasure is far from over. Tommy Thompson, the deep sea explorer who became famous for discovering the legendary SS Central America shipwreck, left federal prison on March 4, 2026, without authorities ever finding out where the missing coins are. Thompson, now 73, made headlines in 1988 when he located the wreck of the SS Central America off the coast of South Carolina. The ship, often called the “Ship of Gold,”…

Uganda recorded its highest export earnings ever in 2025, bringing in US$14.4 billion, equivalent to about UGX53.643 trillion, according to Secretary to the Treasury Ramathan Ggoobi. He revealed the figures while appearing before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to respond to issues raised in the Auditor General’s December 2025 report on the Ministry of Finance. The announcement marks a major milestone for Uganda’s economy. It is the first time the country has reached that level of export revenue, a sign of how much the export sector has expanded in recent years. Reports on Ggoobi’s remarks say the strong performance was driven…

Just five days after being sworn in, Chilean President José Antonio Kast has moved quickly on one of his biggest campaign promises, starting work on a new border barrier along Chile’s northern frontier with Peru. On Monday, Kast visited the site near Arica, where construction crews have begun digging the first trench in the dry Atacama desert. The initial section is still small, only a ditch a few feet wide and deep, but the government is presenting it as the opening stage of a much bigger border security plan. Standing beside heavy machinery at the site, Kast described the project…