The Supreme Court has granted the National Super Alliance (Nasa) restricted access to select Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission data and equipment used to conduct August 8 General Election. The court however rejected another request from Nasa leader Raila Odinga, which would have allowed him to file another affidavit arising from the outcome of the system audit.
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The Uganda Judicial Officers Association has announced a strike over poor pay - but it has so far been shunned by high court judges, especially those based in Kampala. The strike is largely supported by magistrates who are among the lowest-paid judicial officers.
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The presidency was reacting to a report titled, 'Buhari's return: Aso Rock cabal stages a comeback, sidelines Osinbajo', describing the story as a "recycled hate campaign." The "cabal" is a term used to refer to a group around the president which is believed to wield enormous powers.
Read more »Two miners died and three were still missing on Sunday after a seismic event hit the mine on Friday.
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A total of 19 women and girls have been brutally murdered in both the Entebbe and Nansana municipalities over the past few months, with two bodies found just this week.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration will work to reposition the cocoa sector and other non-oil export commodities after the country dropped from the fourth largest producer to the seventh.
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What is it about former US President Barack Obama's record-setting tweet - it has already surpassed 1.6 million retweets and 4.5 million "likes" - that has captured the imagination of the world?
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The country's plummeting economic fortunes have forced many women and girls to resort to sex work for survival. "Lucy Mutasa, 52, is competing with her 28-year-old daughter, Maidei, and at times with girls as young as 13 to get customers," The Standard's Xolisani Ncube writes.
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Opposition leaders have accused the rulling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola of "inventing" the election results after the spokesperson of the National Electoral Commission announced "preliminary results" of the general elections when votes had not been counted at municipal, provincial, or national levels, reports Maka Angola.
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The newly-crowned Miss Seychelles hails from Glacis, a district in the north of the main island of Mahe.
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