Russia launches night attacks at Ukraine cities and kills 25 civilians as it commences airstrikes
The wave of Russian missile attacks was the first since early March. Russia had launched such attacks almost weekly for most of the winter, but they tapered off as spring arrived, with Western countries saying Moscow was running out of missiles.
Fighting rages between Sudanese army and paramilitary force despite 72-hour ceasefire mediated by US, Saudi Arabia
The latest ceasefire, brokered by foreign powers, is supposed to last until Sunday at midnight. The RSF accused the army of violating it with air strikes on its bases in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers, and Mount Awliya.
How President Museveni is moulding ambitious son into ‘Alternative Generator’ in Uganda’s power play
If he were Dr Kiiza-Besigye he would have been committed to prison many times and accused of sabotage, or even high treason. But Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the president’s son – the only publicly known son of the president. While opposition politicians continue to be caned and chained, Muhoozi Kainerugaba has over recent months continued to pronounce himself on issues such as the corruption of ministers and to traverse the breadth and width of the country like a president on a campaign trail just as his father does a parallel traversal.
Father and son: Uganda president rides hard luck as ruling NRA party veterans scorn ‘dynastic succession’
In a veiled attack on Muhoozi, Otafiire charged, “Tell those children of mine that the road they want to drive through at high speed has so many corners and they will knock. What has made this country reach this far is because we have been slow but sure.”
