Wang, 25, who sold one of his kidneys as a teenager on the black market to buy a new iPhone and iPad is now disabled, bedbound and needing constant care, according to recent reports on Chinese media.

Story by Hussein Lumumba Amin. Photo: President Idi Amin. Let me start by saying that the first Ugandan leader to take tourism seriously in this country was President Idi Amin. Others never really thought of it until recently when foreign organizations started putting money in conservation. Anyone who remembers these same people in the 90's knows what I am talking about. Even the animals in...

The Uganda parliament has passed a law that imposes a controversial tax on people using social media platforms.It involves a daily charge of 200 shillings [$ 0.05, £ 0.04] on people using Internet messaging platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter.President Yoweri Museveni had pushed for change, arguing that social media encouraged gossip.The law should come into force on...

The Kenyan government has expressed a confidence vote for the implementation of the Huduma Card in the country and its role in guiding financial inclusion. The announcement was highlighted during the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017 on Africa, and is in line with events focused on showing how Africa is ensuring that its citizens are enhanced through inclusion. Research conducted by the World...

The Inspector General of Police Esq Martin Okoth Ochola has this afternoon promoted the Uganda police athletes that represented Uganda at the Gold Coast Common Wealth Games in Australia. SPC Joshua Cheptegei who won two gold medals in 5000 and 10000 metres has been regraded to the police constable and then appointed to the rank of Inspector of Police in addition to a token of Ten Million...

First British monarch to celebrate platinum wedding anniversary is pictured with her husband at Windsor Castle. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been pictured in three more photographs as part of a series of portraits released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary. The photographs, taken by British photographer Matt Holyoak, show Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in the White Drawing...

Here is a transcribed speech from Mugabe’s televised live address Fellow Zimbabweans, I address you today on the back of meeting I held today with the nation’s security command element. This meeting which was facilitated by mediating team led by Fr Fidelis Mukonori of the catholic church, followed an operation mounted by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces in the week that has gone by and...