Month: December 2025

  Parliament of Uganda teams delivered a dominant display at the ongoing EAC inter - Parliamentary Games, securing emphatic victories across volleyball, netball and basketball on Sunday, 7 December 2025. At the MTN Arena Lugogo, Uganda’s volleyball sides won their opening matches in straight sets. The women’s team, captained by Hon. Helen Nakimuli, cruised past Rwanda (25 - 15, 25 - 20 and 25 – 06), while the men, led […]

  The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel, Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, has followed with deep concern the events that occurred on Sunday, 7 December, in Benin, marked by an attempted coup d’État carried out by a group of soldiers. The Special Representative strongly condemns this attempt to seize power by force, which constitutes a serious threat to the stability of […]

  Binance (www.Binance.com), the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, today announced a landmark regulatory achievement: The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the UAE, has formally approved the authorisation of Binance’s global platform, www.Binance.com, under a comprehensive regulatory framework.  This global first is a major step in Binance’s mission to create the most trusted and […]

  Tanzanian authorities have wrongfully arrested alleged protest organizers and opposition supporters ahead of nationwide protests called for December 9, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should end its crackdown and immediately release all those arbitrarily detained. Activists have urged people to demonstrate peacefully on Tanzania’s Independence Day, known as D9, against the police use of lethal force around the October 29 general elections. The government cancelled the official Independence Day celebrations after […]

  Egypt has joined the Universal Health Coverage Knowledge Hub (UHC Hub), launched by the Government of Japan in cooperation with the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization. This innovative platform is designed to support national policymakers in low- and middle-income countries through capacity-building and knowledge-exchange programs. This announcement came during the High-Level Forum on Universal Health Coverage held in Tokyo, in which the Arab Republic of Egypt […]

  HE Speaker of the National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mussa Azzan Zungu, met with HE Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Tanzania, Fahad Rashid Al Muraikhi. During the meeting, the two sides discussed aspects of bilateral cooperation. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The State of Qatar.     

  His Excellency Dr. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has arrived in Abidjan ahead of the inauguration of His Excellency President Alassane Ouattara. President Ouattara was re-elected President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire following the 25 October 2025 presidential elections, and his swearing-in ceremony […]