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Finland will become the 31st member of Nato after Turkey's parliament voted to approve its application.
Turkey had delayed Finland's bid to join the West's defensive alliance for months - complaining the Nordic nation was supporting "terrorists".
Sweden, which applied to join Nato at the same time last year, is still being blocked by Ankara over similar complaints.
Any Nato expansion needs the support of all its members.
Finland will now be formally admitted into Nato at its next summit, taking place in July in Lithuania.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave his approval to Finland's bid earlier in March, praising the country's "authentic and concrete steps" on Turkish security.
But his ongoing hostility to Sweden was clear - as he again accused the country of embracing Kurdish militants and allowing them to demonstrate on the streets of Stockholm.
The two Nordic nations abandoned their traditional military neutrality in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Almost overnight, support for Nato membership leapt from an underwhelming one-third of Finns to almost 80%.
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Kenya's Azimio protests: Hundreds storm farm of ex-President Uhuru KenyattaCrowds have reportedly set fire to parts of a farm owned by the family of former Kenyan President #UhuruKenyatta, apparently in retaliation for another day of fierce opposition protests.A BBC journalist at the scene in Nairobi's outskirts saw the invaders stealing sheep, with one man saying he was selling it for $23 (£19).There were no police in sight and some of the looters were carrying machetes.Others were felling trees, and many of the people on site had been bussed in.Many businesses near the farm and in the city centre remained closed all day. A gas factory linked to opposition leader #RailaOdinga has also been vandalised.Mr #Odinga, who is allied to Mr #Kenyatta, has told the BBC that the attack on the former president's farm was carried out by thugs hired by the government. Kenya's government has not commented on the allegation.Post-election violence is nothing new in Kenya. But attacks on the property of political leaders signals a big shift.At least one person has been killed in the protests in the western city of Kisumu, an opposition stronghold, where police fired tear gas at protesters who burnt tyres and barricaded major roads.Since the protests began last week, at least three people have been killed in the violence.In Nairobi's Kibera neighbourhood, where Mr Odinga enjoys huge support, police have fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters.Mr Odinga and his Azimio la Umoja coalition first called for demonstrations earlier this month to protest against government failures to curb rising prices, and what he says was the fraudulent victory of President William Ruto in last year's election.Even though that win was upheld by Kenya's highest court, Mr Odinga insists that the election was "stolen" and has called for protests every Monday and Thursday.The main men in this political tussle have all worked with each other at some point.Mr Odinga is a former prime minister who has run for president unsuccessfully five times. As ex-President Kenyatta's tenure neared its end, he chose to back his former rival Mr Odinga instead of his own deputy Mr Ruto.Back in 2007 Mr Ruto backed Mr Odinga in that presidential election, which was won by Mwai Kibaki - supported by Mr Kenyatta.The Kenyatta family is one of Kenya's biggest landowners. Kenya's political and business elites are tiny in number and often closely linked.There is often a sort of gentleman's agreement after each election cycle between opposing sides. Attacks on property owned by political leaders, even though we don't know how they were organised, call that general understanding into question.Some looters at the Kenyatta family farm claimed they were getting even for business losses caused by protests organised by Mr Odinga and allegedly sponsored by Mr Kenyatta.Those comments and their actions seemed to echo the words of the leader of the majority in parliament Kimani Ichung'wah, who said at the weekend:"If property of any Kenyan is attacked, we will also invade your farms and those who have no land will also be able to own land... You will pay the price if you continue to instigate violence and bloodshed in this country and that is my message to none other than Uhuru Kenyatta, the sponsor, sole sponsor, singular financier of Azimio and mercenary that is Raila Odinga."When contacted by the BBC on Monday, Mr Ichung'wah denied that he had any links to the invasion of Mr Kenyatta's farm. He did not provide any evidence for his claims that the former president was financing Mr Odinga.Mr Odinga denied any responsibility for the destruction of property.
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Bank of Uganda is suing former and current employees over a move by the employees to lower their ages in order to lengthen their contracts and continue receiving pension and other benefits from the Central Bank.Documents seen by this publication show that some BoU employees reduced their ages by more than four years. At the time of filing the suit, 69 of the 77 employees accused were still active employees of the bank while the rest are former employees.
Bank of Uganda alleges that the 77 employees took advantage of the promulgation of the Registration of Persons Act, No. 4 of 2015 to lower their ages while registering for the national identity cards against the records they filed with the bank at the start of their employment.
The Registration of Persons Act No. 4 of 2015, promulgated on March 26, 2015, among others, provides for the issuance of national identification cards and creates the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA).
In the suit filed by BoU lawyers of MMAKS Advocates, in the Civil Division of the High Court, the Central Bank alleges that following the promulgation of the Act, a practice emerged in which various public servants registered dates with NIRA that gave them ages a few years younger, but seldom older than the ages previous registered by them with their employers.
This was soon discovered to be a ploy to postpone retirement dates or accrue more pension or NSSF contributions by employees pushing forward the date at which they would attain the age of 55 years at which age the BoU’s obligation to pay the 10 percent employers contribution to NSSF would cease.
On February 6, 2017, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service pursuant to section L-b (7) of the Uganda Public Service Standing Orders clarified that the date of birth of a public officer shall be that which was initially declared and recorded on commencement of employment.
Earlier, on November 11, 1999, the BoU’s Board of Directors then also reviewed the change of dates of birth matter and concluded in Board Resolution No 247 that the guiding age for all purposes shall be the age declared by an employee on commencing employment.
In November 2021, the government-owned New Vision reported that more than 1,000 civil servants in central and local governments had applied to have their age changed. The vast majority were inching closer to 60 years, which is the mandatory retirement age.
Documents seen by Sunday Monitor including copies of national IDs and appointment letters show that the accused current and former employees while commencing employment with the BoU filled out the formal declaration forms indicating their ages of birth which ages turned out to be different from those declared to NIRA when the accused employees were registering for national identity cards.
Enter NSSF
BoU like any employer is required to pay NSSF a monthly contribution of 15 percent of the wages of its “eligible employee. The monthly contribution is made up of a 10 percent contribution by the employer and five percent contribution by the employee.
NSSF carried out an audit of BoU’s compliance with NSSF contributions and concluded the accused employees are entitled to rely on their NIRA declared age and have the BoU continue to make NSSF contributions in relation to them, notwithstanding the discrepancy with their earlier declared age when their employment commenced.
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Tens of thousands have taken to the streets across Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defence minister.
Yoav Gallant had spoken out against controversial plans to overhaul the justice system.
In Jerusalem, police and soldiers used water cannon against demonstrators near Mr Netanyahu's house.
A week of disruption had already been planned over the new law.
The reforms include plans that would give the government full control over the committee which appoints judges.
They would also make it harder for courts to remove a leader deemed unfit for office, which has angered many who consider it in the interests of the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an ongoing trial for corruption.
After protesting outside Mr Netanyahu's home, the demonstrators - many flying Israeli flags and banging pots and pans - then evaded police forces to arrive at Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
One government employee told the BBC that she felt Mr Netanyahu "crossed every line we have as a democratic country".
"We're defending the last bit of democracy we have and I can't go to sleep this way. I can't do anything until we stop this craziness", she said.
Mr Gallant is a former soldier, who for weeks has heard from reservists who were unhappy with the proposed law change.
In early March, fighter pilots in an elite Israeli Air Force squadron vowed not to attend training, in an unprecedented protest against the government.
They later agreed to attend and hold talks with their commanders.
Mr Gallant spoke out against the law on Saturday, where he said members of the Israeli Defence Forces were angry and disappointed.
Mr Netanyahu - who was out of the country at the time of Mr Gallant's TV appearance - said he no longer had faith in him as defence minister.
The prime minister wants to get the new legislation through parliament by the end of the week.
The two politicians are a member of the same Likud party and while the defence minister won the backing of some fellow members, others on the far right called for him to go.
After he was fired, Mr Gallant took to Twitter to reaffirm: "The state of Israel's security has always been and will always be my life's mission."
Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid described Mr Gallant's sacking as "a new low" for the government.
"Netanyahu can fire Gallant, but he can't fire reality or fire the people of Israel who are fronting up to resist the coalition's madness," Mr Lapid added.
Responding on Sunday, the US government said it was "deeply concerned" by Mr Gallant's removal.
"As the president recently discussed with Prime Minister Netanyahu, democratic values have always been, and must remain, a hallmark of the U.S.-Israel relationship," said White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson.
Court issues criminal summons against MP SsegirinyaBuganda Road Magistrate's court has issued criminal summons against Kawempe North MP Muhammad #Ssegirinya and his two sureties.#ssegirinyamuhammad popularly known as 'Mr Update' is accused of inciting violence. The charges stem from a statement that Ssegirinya posted on his Facebook page allegedly cautioning security forces against trying to assassinate the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.According to the post, Ssegirinya cautioned that the aftermath of any such action would be 40 times worse than the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which an estimated one million people were killed in a space of 100 days.On Friday, chief magistrate Siena Owomugisha issued the summons after Ssegirinya failed to show up for the second time. He was first summoned on February 10, 2023, but still didn't show up.On that day, his lawyer, Medard Sseggona told the court that they could not access the file which was in the possession of another counsel, Godfrey Turyamusiima, who was not in court following the death of Anthony Wameli, the head of legal affairs for NUP.State attorney Ivan Kyazze asked the court to issue criminal summons against Ssegirinya and his two sureties; Thomas Bagonza, the councillor of Wandegeya and Apollo Ariho, councillor of Kasangati town council. They were ordered to appear in court on April 21, 2023. Ssegirinya's lawyer, Sseggona did not turn up in court.But Bagonza says that he was in the courtroom but the magistrate sat in the chambers. Bagonza says that Ssegirinya had asked him to inform the court to adjourn the case for two months to enable him to regain his health. Last month, Ssegirinya and Makindye West MP Allan Ssegirinya who are also battling murder and terrorism charges were released after over 16 months in prison allegedly after entering into a deal with the state.
Why are Kenya and Uganda cracking down on LGBTQ rights?
Kenya and Uganda are moving to further curtail the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, whose relationships are already deemed illegal in the conservative East African nations.
After a session lasting nearly seven hours, Ugandan lawmakers approved the Anti-Homosexuality Act on Tuesday, ordering harsh penalties for anyone who engages in same-sex activity.
While more than 30 African countries including Uganda already ban same-sex relationships, the new law passed appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as LGBTQ, Human Rights Watch said.
In Kenya, a February ruling by the Supreme Court upheld verdicts by lower courts stating that the government could not lawfully refuse to register an organisation calling itself the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC).
But President William Ruto and many religious leaders and political pundits have been condemning the court’s conclusion that the constitution barred discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
“I am a God-fearing man and whatever happened at the court, even if we respect the court, our culture, values, Christianity and Islam cannot allow women to marry each other, or men to marry fellow men,” local media outlet Citizen TV reports Ruto as saying.
Supporters in both nations say the lifestyle of the LGBTQ community threatens traditional values.
Here is what you should know about the latest developments:
If assented to by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the bill will hand authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.
It bans promoting and abetting homosexuality as well as conspiracy to engage in homosexuality, in addition to same-sex intercourse.
What are the latest measures?
Violations under the law draw severe penalties, including death for so-called aggravated homosexuality and life in prison for gay sex.
Aggravated homosexuality involves gay sex with people under the age of 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV positive, among other categories, according to the law.
Same-sex relations are legal in only 22 of Africa’s 54 countries, and are punishable by death or lengthy prison terms in some, according to a global review by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).
Africa accounts for nearly half of the countries worldwide where homosexuality is outlawed, according to the review.
In Kenya, a Supreme Court ruling that the constitution barred discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation sparked fears among some citizens who oppose the legalisation of same-sex relationships.
The registration of the commission was one of two cases concerning LGBTQ rights that have been under litigation.
Analysts say the reaction to the February ruling may be an effort to influence the second case, which directly challenges the constitutionality of the sections of the penal code banning sex “against the order of nature”.
Why is this happening?Uganda is notorious for strict views on sexuality and intolerance towards homosexuality, which is criminalised under colonial-era laws.
But opposition politicians boycotted a speech by Museveni on Thursday, in which he described gay people as “deviations”, to protest against human rights violations and the illegal imprisonment and forced disappearance of their supporters.
In his speech, Museveni said: “Western countries should stop wasting the time of humanity by trying to impose their practices on other people.”
Under his rule, journalists have been attacked, lawyers jailed, election monitors prosecuted, the internet shut down and opposition leaders muzzled.
Parliament YAFFE Uganda 25/03/2023
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What is the AUKUS submarines pact between the UK, US and Australia - and why does China think it's 'highly irresponsible'?
he AUKUS pact between the UK, US and Australia to create a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to patrol the Pacific Ocean is not popular everywhere, including with a key NATO ally.
Rishi Sunak is heading back from San Diego, where he spent time chatting with President Joe Biden and Australian premier Anthony Albanese about the next stage of the deal.
So what is the submarine pact all about, and is criticism of it simply "raucous squawkus from the anti-AUKUS caucus"?
What is the AUKUS agreement?
The UK, US and Australia announced the "landmark" partnership to boost their defences and share nuclear submarine secrets in September 2021.
It comes at a time of growing concerns over Chinese activities in the Pacific Ocean.
AUKUS will initially focus on helping Australia procure multibillion-pound fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.
An arrangement for Australia to acquire the submarines was announced on Monday as the leaders met in California.
While the subs will be powered with nuclear material, they will be armed with conventional - not nuclear - weapons.
Additionally, beginning in the early 2030s and pending approval from the US Congress, the US also intends to sell Australia three Virginia class submarines, with the potential to sell up to two more if needed.
So is it just a way for Australia to get some submarines?
Not quite. While the initial focus has been on helping Canberra get hold of a new fleet of submarines, the scope of the AUKUS partnership is broader.
According to an AUKUS briefing document, the aim is for the three nations to provide an "assured undersea capability" that "contributes to stability, peace, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and around the world".
The UK, US and Australia will also seek to collaborate in cyber, quantum technologies and artificial intelligence as well as other underwater capabilities - areas in which Western democracies are frantically racing their authoritarian rivals to dominate.
Beginning this year, Australian military and civilian personnel will embed with the US and UK navies in order to accelerate their training and development.
From 2027 (at the earliest) the UK and the US will also station submarines at HMAS Stirling base near Perth.
What has China said about AUKUS?
China has been vocal in its opposition to the AUKUS deal from the beginning - unsurprising given the partnership is designed to counter Beijing's influence at sea.
Opposition MPs to boycott #Museveni address to parliament The opposition cabinet in Parliament has taken a decision to boycott President Yoweri Museveni's address to Parliament on Thursday at Kololo ceremonial grounds. At a media briefing in parliament, the Busiro County East MP, Medard Lubega Ssegona rallied those he termed bonafide opposition members to heed the clarion call. They say the reasons for the boycott are the political detentions of government opponents some of who have been missing without a trace from the time of the general election in 2021. Ssegona also pointed at what he called the reluctance of President Museveni to walk the talk on fighting corruption.
Ensonga lwaki Opposition ezize olutuula lwa Museveni e Kololo
A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Airforce drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to the US military.
The Reaper drone and two Russian Su-27 aircraft were flying over international waters over the Black Sea on Tuesday when one of the Russian jets intentionally flew in front of and dumped fuel on the unmanned drone several times, a statement from US European Command said.
The aircraft then hit the propeller of the drone, prompting US forces to bring the MQ-9 drone down in international waters. Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder added Tuesday that the Russian aircraft flew “in the vicinity” of the drone for 30 to 40 minutes before colliding just after 7 a.m. Central European Time.
“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9,” Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of US Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa, said in the statement. “In fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash.”
The incident marks the first time Russian and US military aircraft have come into direct physical contact since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine just over a year ago and is likely to increase tensions between the two nations, with US calling Russia’s actions “reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional.”
Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said that Russia does not want “confrontation” between his country and the US after he was summoned to the State Department following the downing of the drone.
“We prefer not to create a situation where we can face unintended clashes or unintended incidents between the Russian Federation and the United States,” Antonov said.
National Security Council communications coordinator John Kirby said the US has not recovered the downed drone from the Black Sea, warning, “I’m not sure we are going to be able to recover it.”
“It has not been recovered and I’m not sure we’re going to be able to recover it. I mean, where it fell into the Black Sea – it’s very, very deep water so we’re still assessing whether there can be any kind of recovery effort mounted. There may not be,” Kirby said Wednesday on “CNN This Morning.”
‘Unsafe, unprofessional, and reckless’Antonov, who was inside the State Department for a little over half an hour, said Assistant Secretary Karen Donfried conveyed the US’ concerns about the incident and that they “exchanged our remarks on this issue because we have some differences.”
“It seems to me that it was a constructive conversation on this issue. I have heard her remarks, I hope that she has understood what I have mentioned,” Antonov said in response to a question from CNN.
He also claimed that Russia “had informed about this space that was identified as a zone for special military operation.”
“We have warned not to enter, not to penetrate,” he said, asking how the US would react if a Russian drone came close to New York or San Francisco.
Airport police have burst a drug trafficking racket involving one of their own and immigration officials. According to information obtained by URN, Airport police seized a consignment of 9.8 kilograms of cocaine on March 1, 2023, whose destination is yet to be established.
The consignment had been cleared by security and immigration staff, disguised as coffee packets, according to Airport security sources. As a result, Denis Mugabi Mwamba, an immigration officer, Dan Banan, an Internal Security Officer, Caroline Orishaba, an immigration assistant, and police constable No 46879 PC Florence Awino were arrested in connection with the incident.
The drugs were being trafficked by Nigerian national Raphael Pius Madu who was traveling on Passport No B0041124. He was picked up on March 1st, 2023 after entering the country. Information about which airline he used to enter the country was not availed nor was the one he was supposed to board to get out.
According to the charge sheet, Airport police slapped Madu with two counts of unlawful possession of psychotropic substances and illegal trafficking of psychotropic substances contrary to sections 4(1) and 2(9) of the Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic substances (Control) Act of 2016. The implicated airport staff were only charged with the second count.
On count two under, which Madu was charged with all the other accused, it was alleged that on March 1st, 2023 at the Arrivals Hold Baggage Screening Point at the passenger terminal building in Entebbe Airport, Wakiso District, without lawful excuse, the suspects trafficked to Uganda from Brazil 9.8 kilograms of Cocaine, a prohibited substance contrary to section 5 of the Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic substances (Control) Act of 2016.
The suspects appeared Monday before the Entebbe magistrate grade I Stella Okwong Paculal and were remanded until March 24th, 2023 when they will reappear in court for the mention of their case. The suspects spent more than the constitutionally stipulated forty-eight hours in custody before being brought to court because investigators had to engage other government agencies for support.
The crime of drug trafficking usually involves government forensic experts to ascertain and confirm the nature of the substance under probe. Okwong did not allow the suspects to plead to the charge, saying that she had no jurisdiction to do so. This is a high-profile case, judging by the number of advocates who showed up to represent the suspects, Notable among these was the former director of Public prosecutions, McDousman Kabega known by state prosecutors as a no-nonsense defense lawyer.
According to the London Metropolitan Police, ten kilograms of cocaine can fetch up to one million pounds or USD 1.205 million in street value or Uganda Shillings 4,469,800,617 (roughly Ushs 4.5 billion). The value, according to experts, varies according to the level of processing/purification and market territory.
Territories where penalties are most severe fetch the highest prices. For example, prices in China and other countries where death is the ultimate punishment on conviction fetch very high value in terms of money. Few dealers are ready to risk there and this makes supply very difficult and scarce thus the high prices.
Uganda was not so many years ago blacklisted as a major conduit of illicit drugs, forcing the government to enact a new law to improve its ratings in the global security community. However, critics say the implementation has not seen much change as suspects get off the hook at a cost of any amount of bail they are asked to pay.
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Buganda queen reveals love secrets, twins with #Kabaka
On December 6, 2010, the country was gearing up for an election. The Monitor reported that day that the government had drafted new rules of political engagement ahead of the 2011 general elections. Unknown to many, another newsworthy and momentous event was afoot somewhere in Kampala.
In her soon-to-be-released autobiography titled, “The Nnaabagereka of Buganda Queen Sylvia Nagginda Luswata,” Nagginda drops the bombshell about hitherto unknown children that she had in 2010.
On that December day, in Kampala, the Queen writes that she was blessed with a set of twins. These revelations are made in the tell-all book set to be released on March 23.
On Page 205 of the autobiography, Nagginda writes, “On December 6, 2010, I was blessed with two more girls Jade Nakato and Jasmine Babirye born in Kampala… They’re two amazing kids who are mostly happy and are passionate about people which, at their age, I find astounding…”
The children are mentioned more than once in the book by the Queen with references to them as, “my daughters, Ssanga, Jade and Jasmine.”
Until now, this is possibly one of the country’s most tightly guarded secrets. Even more surprising is that the children were born and bred right in Kampala under what would have been the watchful glare of the paparazzi but the Buganda Kingdom’s royal establishment, as it has been known to do in the past, kept this closely to their chests until the recent revelations in the Queen’s own narration in the upcoming autobiography.
In the book, true to this high level of secrecy and confidentiality that seems to be tradition in the royal household, many details—some little and some rather prominent—come out in the Queen’s story.
The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and Sylvia Nagginda Luswata were wedded at Namirembe Cathedral on August 27, 1999 in arguably the biggest society wedding the country has seen in a long time.
The meeting of the couple and their betrothal was another closely guarded secret that took many people in and outside Buganda by storm. It was a great celebration in the kingdom as Buganda was finally getting a Nnaabagereka or Queen after more than three decades without one, following the exiling of the Kabaka and abolition of traditional kingdoms.
On May 24, 1966, former President Milton Obote and his troops overran the Kabaka’s palace in Mengo in a culmination of tensions that had been building following the suspension of the 1962 constitution. In the Mengo siege, Ssekabaka Edward Fredrick Muteesa II, Kabaka Mutebi’s father was driven out of his kingdom and later died in exile in 1969.
Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi returned to Uganda as a crown prince and on July 31, 1993 was crowned the 36th Kabaka of Buganda at Buddo, Naggalabi in Wakiso District.
The Kabaka and Nnaabagereka Nagginda have a ‘blended family’ as she calls it, and the couple have raised their children together since their marriage. The couple’s first child together, Katrina-Sarah Ssangalyambogo, was born on July 4, 2001 in London.
She is followed by the now revealed twins, Jade and Jasmine, born nine years later in Kampala, as narrated by the Queen in her autobiography. The couple’s other children are Prince Junju Kiweewa, Princess Joan Nassolo, Princess Victoria Nkinzi and Prince Richard Semakokiro, born in 2009.
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Middle East regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, seven years after severing them in a bitter row.
The unexpected announcement came after four days of talks between officials from both sides in China.
Saudi Arabia cut ties in January 2016 after demonstrators stormed its embassy in Tehran following Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric.
Tensions between the Sunni and Shia-led neighbours have since often been high.
They regard each other as a threatening power that seeks regional dominance. They also support rival sides across the Middle East, including in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq - and most overtly in Yemen.
Iran has supported Shia Houthi rebels who forced out the Saudi-backed government in 2014, while Saudi Arabia has led a devastating air campaign against the Houthis since the following year.
Saudi Arabia has also accused Iran of helping the Houthis attack it.
In the most serious incident of its kind, drones and missiles struck major Saudi oil facilities in 2019, causing damage and disruption to production. Saudi Arabia and its US ally blamed Iran for the attack - something Iran denied.
Previous attempts at reconciliation have been unsuccessful, but on Friday the two countries said they would reopen embassies within two months. They will also re-establish trade and security relations.
The US cautiously welcomed the announcement. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the administration supported "any effort to de-escalate tensions in the region". But he added: "It really does remain to be seen if Iran is going to meet their obligations."
UN chief Antonio Guterres thanked China for brokering the deal.
The secretary-general is ready to help efforts "to ensure durable peace and security in the Gulf region", his spokesman said.
Israel, which has called for maximum pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme, has not commented.
Half a million Israelis join latest protest against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul, organizers say
Half a million Israelis took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial system, organizers claimed.
Israel has a population of just over 9 million, so if organizers’ estimates are correct, about 5% of Israelis came out to voice their opposition to the proposed reforms.
Nearly half of the protesters – about 240,000 – gathered in Tel Aviv, the organizers said. In Jerusalem, several hundred demonstrators gathered in front of President Isaac Herzog’s house. They carried Israeli flags and chanted slogans including “Israel will not be a dictatorship.”
On Thursday, Herzog – whose role is largely ceremonial – urged the Netanyahu government to take the judicial overhaul legislation off the table.
Protesters and critics of Netanyahu's plan say it would weaken the country’s courts and erode the judiciary’s ability to check the power of the country’s other branches of government.
The package of legislation would give Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, the power to overrule Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority. It would also give the government the power to nominate judges, which currently rests with a committee composed of judges, legal experts and politicians. It would remove power and independence from government ministries’ legal advisers, and take away the power of the courts to invalidate “unreasonable” government appointments, as the High Court did in January, forcing Netanyahu to fire Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri.
Critics accuse Netanyahu of pushing the legislation in order to get out of corruption trials he is currently facing. Netanyahu denies that, saying the trials are collapsing on their own, and that the changes are necessary after judicial overreach by unelected judges.
Israel does not have a written constitution, but a set of what are called Basic Laws.
“We are done being polite,” said Shikma Bressler, an Israeli protest leader. “If the laws being suggested will pass, Israel will no longer be a democracy.”
About two out of three (66%) Israelis believe the Supreme Court should have the power to strike down laws incompatible with Israel’s Basic Laws, and about the same proportion (63%) say they support the current system of nominating judges, according to a poll last month for the Israel Democracy Institute.
“The only thing this government cares about is crushing Israeli democracy,” opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid said.
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Homosexuals, landlords, brothel proprietors, chief executives of pro-gay organisations, journalists and film directors face imprisonment or fines, ranging from Shs5m to Shs100m, if the new Anti-Homosexuality Bill is enacted in its current form. Prepared by Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa, the Bill gazetted last Friday seeks to criminalise homosexuality as well as its promotion and financing. Its penalties overall are comparably lesser than those specified in the minister David Bahati-sponsored anti-gay law that court quashed in 2014 on grounds that it was enacted without quorum. or instance, offences of homosexuality and attempted or aggravated homosexuality which in the older version were punishable with life imprisonment in the proposed legislation carry a maximum 10-year jail term. The date for tabling the Private Member’s Bill, which follows a grant last week of leave by the House to MP Basalirwa to draft the legislation, is yet to be fixed. The objectives of the Bill are four-fold: prohibit same-sex sexual relations, strengthen Uganda’s capacity to deal with domestic and foreign threats to the heterosexual family, safeguard traditional and cultural values and protect youth/children against gay and lesbian practice. Mr Basalirwa, the designated mover, argues that the Bill is necessary to cure inadequacies in the Penal Code Act that provides for unnatural sex, but “lacks provisions on procurement, promoting, disseminating literature and other pantographic materials concerning the offences of homosexuality”. “As a result, there is a need for a legislation to enhance offences relating to homosexuality and clear provisions for charging, investigating, prosecuting, convicting and sentencing of offenders,” he notes in a preamble justification. The Bill provides a fine of Shs100m for an entity promoting homosexuality, whether through printing of materials, funding, hosting or complicity, as well as deregistration of such organisation’s chief executive. Persons who run brothels for homosexuals risk seven years’ imprisonment while landlords who rent property to homosexuals face a year in jail. There is a provision of five-year imprisonment for anyone convicted of attempted or actual procurement of homosexuality while anyone found guilty of conducting/contracting same-sex marriage risks 10-year imprisonment. Under the Bill, an editor, journalist, publisher and film director who discloses the identity of a homosexuality victim without authority of court or victim, once convicted, can be fined up to Shs5m. The proposed law also gives courts wide powers to order protection for a child deemed likely to engage in homosexuality, and also determine the amount of compensation due to a victim of homosexuality by an offender. “A magistrate’s court may, if satisfied that a child is likely to engage in acts of homosexuality, upon application by any person, issue a protection order,” the draft law reads in part, without specifying the parameters for suspecting a child’s susceptibility. In the case of foreigners, it provides for the extradition of a homosexual offender. The remedies in the gazetted Bill, according to the drafters, include a prohibition of marriage between persons of the same sex, penalisation of homosexual behaviour and related practices, stopping promotion of homosexuality and protection and provision of compensation to victims. In the proposed law, homosexuality is defined as “same-gender or same-sex sexual acts”, broadly indicated to include romance, sexual intercourse and unlawful use of objects for gays and lesbians sex. In an interview yesterday, Mr Robert Kirenga, the executive director of the National Coalition of Uganda Human Rights Defenders, said the government had got its priorities upside down in pursing gays and lesbians when the country is grappling with motley problems.
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DRC: More than 40 dead in new attack attributed to ADFA new attack on the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday night killed more than 40 people, according to local authorities. The attack was attributed to the ADF rebels, who are affiliated with the Islamic State group.
"The death toll, which is still provisional, is 38 people killed in Mukondi and eight in Mausa," two villages close to each other in the territory of Beni, in the province of North Kivu, Kalunga Meso, the head of the local grouping (set of villages) told AFP.
This toll was confirmed by Arsène Mumbere, president of the local civil society, who added that the attackers "entered the village Mukondi quietly" and killed most of the victims "with knives".
The ADF are originally Ugandan rebels with a Muslim majority, who have been active since the mid-1990s in eastern DRC, where they are accused of massacring thousands of civilians.
In 2021, attacks on Ugandan soil were also attributed to them and a joint military operation between the Congolese and Ugandan armies was launched to hunt them down in North Kivu and the neighbouring Ituri province.
The United States last week offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to their leader, a Ugandan in his 40s named Musa Baluku.
Russia-Ukraine War: #Russia launches massive attack on #Ukrainian cities with hypersonic missiles! #Zelenskyy’s army trying to hold #Bakhmut – Top Updates A barrage of missiles and exploding drones were on Thursday fired by Russia across Ukraine as people were sleeping, killing at least nine civilians and leaving hundreds of thousands without heat or electricity. The missiles hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings. The missile attack also put Europe’s biggest nuclear plant at risk by knocking it off the power grid for nearly half of the day before it was restarted. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the strikes were carried out in retaliation for a recent attack on the Bryansk region of western Russia by “Ukrainian saboteurs”. However, the Russian claim was denied by Ukraine, warning that Moscow could justify assaults using the allegations. Describing the strikes that hit infrastructure and residential buildings, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “Civilians can be terrorized by the occupiers, but it would not help them. Russians cannot avoid responsibility for everything they have done.” Moscow says such missile attacks are carried out to blunt the ability of Ukraine to fight, while Kyiv says that the air strikes aim at harming infrastructural establishments and intimidating civilians, which is a “war crime”. The Kremlin’s forces started targeting Ukraine’s power supply last October in an apparent attempt to demoralize the civilian population and compel Kyiv to negotiate peace on Moscow’s terms. In an apparent attempt to demoralize the civilians, Russian forces started targeting Ukraine’s power supply last October. Later, the frequency of attacks went down. War experts and analysts speculated that Russia may be facing low ammunition. The last major bombardment by Russia was carried out on February 16. As per report, Moscow used hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which are the most sophisticated weapons in the Russian arsenal, in Thursday’s attack. “We faced so many missiles and were unable to shoot them down,” said Ukrainian officials The week has witnessed an apparent shift in the battlefield that Ukraine has decided to continue fighting in Bakhmut, a city which faces fierce Russian winter offensive in the bloodiest fighting of the war. On the other hand, Moscow says that Bakhmut is strategically quite significant as it could help them secure the surrounding Donbas, which is major war aim. Earlier it appeared that Ukraine could withdraw from Bakhmut, but commanders are of the view that they are inflicting enough damage on Russia’s force to justify staying and fighting on.
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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have been asked by King Charles to give up their U.K. home, a spokesperson for the couple confirmed to the media on Wednesday.
While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been living in a privately-owned mansion in Santa Barbara, California, with their children Archie and Lilibet for almost three years, they’ve stayed at Frogmore Cottage when they are in Britain. The “request to vacate” would leave them without an official royal residence.
British tabloid the sun first reported on the eviction, claiming that the five-bedroom property on the grounds of Windsor Castle was offered to Prince Andrew, the King’s disgraced brother, last month.
Buckingham Palace has not commented on the displacement, but it comes just several weeks after the publication of Harry’s unsparing memoir in January and before his father’s coronation ceremony in May.
“It’s sending a clear, clear message from the King to his younger son,” says Giselle Bastin, a royal expert at Flinders University in Adelaide. “That would provide in many ways a disincentive for Prince Harry to bring his family over for the coronation, perhaps even himself, if he doesn’t have somewhere to stay that is covered by royal security.”
What is Frogmore Cottage?Originally called Double Garden Cottage, Frogmore Cottage is part of the Frogmore estate, about half a mile south of Windsor Castle, and close to the River Thames. It was built in 1801 as a country retreat for King George III’s wife Queen Charlotte and her daughters.
Its name comes from the abundance of frogs on the historically wet marshland.
The late Queen Elizabeth II gifted her grandson Prince Harry and Meghan use of the cottage in 2018, shortly after the couple got married. Officially, however, the Crown Estate owns the property.
Iranian president's recent visit to China could be seen as an attempt by the Chinese president to get Washington to tone down its increasingly aggressive posturing towards his country
Competition between the United States and China over global dominance reached a new level during the tenure of President Barack Obama.
Obama launched his Pivot to Asia policy as a way of confronting Chinese initiatives that were seen as leveraging China’s economic power to achieve political gains, regionally and globally.
In Chinese eyes, on the other hand, the US has always been concerned with protecting its own global dominance while doing everything it can to retard or disrupt China’s rise.
Donald Trump, with a sense that America had been weakened by the Covid-19 pandemic adding to his fear of being overtaken by China, raised the pitch of the confrontation up again.
He slammed China as being responsible for the virus and began a trade war in the shape of an escalation of tariffs.
Robert O’Brien, Trump's national security adviser, gave a speech saying that China was seeking to take advantage of the crisis caused by the pandemic “to displace the United States as the leading global power”.
Then, in an aggressive, unprecedented, statement, Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, put forward the idea of regime change, saying: "If the free world doesn’t change communist China, [China] will surely change us."
Relations have not softened under President Joe Biden.
His National Security Strategy of October 2022 highlighted China as “the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it. Beijing has ambitions… to become the world’s leading power."
Increased competitionHere is what the US is deeply worried about: China’s rise to become the most powerful economy in the world.
The document reads: “Beijing frequently uses its economic power to coerce countries. It benefits from the openness of the international economy while limiting access to its domestic market, and it seeks to make the world more dependent on the People’s Republic of China while reducing its own dependence on the world.”
Data from the World Bank shows that China’s GDP (based on purchasing power parity, or PPP) was $27.3tn in 2021, compared with $23tn for the US.
The latest world economic outlook growth projections by the IMF for 2024 show US economic growth at one percent compared to China’s at 4.5 percent.
The death toll from Tuesday's train crash in Greece has increased to 57, a coroner has told the BBC.
Eleni Zaggelidou, one of ten coroners working on the investigation, said DNA had been taken from 57 intact bodies.
It came as rail workers across Greece took part in a one-day strike on Thursday amid growing public anger towards authorities.
The walkout follows protests in Athens, Thessaloniki and the city of Larissa, near the site of the disaster.
Rescue workers are still going through burned and buckled carriages, searching for victims.
This was the "most difficult moment", rescuer Konstantinos Imanimidis told Reuters news agency, because "instead of saving lives, we have to recover bodies".
The incident happened just before midnight on Tuesday. A passenger train carrying 350 people collided with a freight train after both ended up on the same track - causing the front carriages to burst into flames.
The railway workers' strike began at 0600 local time (0400 GMT), affecting national rail services and the subway in Athens.
Many in Greece see the crash as an accident waiting to happen, and the union blamed successive governments' "disrespect" towards Greek railways for leading to this "tragic result".
A 59-year-old station master in Larissa has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and is due to appear in court on Thursday. He has admitted to having a share of responsibility in the accident, his lawyer Stefanos Pantzartzidis said outside the courthouse.
"He is literally devastated. Since the first moment, he has assumed responsibility proportionate to him," Mr Pantzartzidis said, hinting that the station master, who has not been publicly named, was not the only one to blame.
The country's transport minister has resigned over the incident, saying he would take responsibility for the authorities' "long-standing failures" to fix a railway system that was not fit for the 21st Century.
Meanwhile, the government has promised an independent investigation that it promises will deliver justice.
But Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's suggestion that "tragic human error" was to blame has caused anger.
Government spokesman Giannis Oikonomous said in a press conference that authorities shared in people's sorrow, and promised to carry out investigations and to fix the country's outdated rail network.
He said "chronic delays" in implementing rail projects were rooted in "distortions" in the country's public sector going back decades, adding that the government has tried to deal with this but "did not manage to eradicate it".
On Wednesday, rioters clashed with police outside the headquarters of Hellenic Train in Athens - the headquarters of the company responsible for maintaining Greece's railways.
Tear gas was used to disperse protesters, who threw stones and lit fires in the streets.
At a silent vigil in Larissa to commemorate the victims of the incident, one demonstrator said he felt the disaster had been long coming.
"The rail network looked problematic, with worn down, badly paid staff," Nikos Savva, a medical student from Cyprus, told AFP news agency.
The station master arrested should not pay the price "for a whole ailing system", he added.
"This is an inadmissible accident. We've known this situation for 30 years," Costas Bargiotas, a doctor based in Larissa, told AFP.
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Ukrainian forces were hanging onto their positions in the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut amid constant attacks as Russian troops pushed to claim their first significant victory for more than half a year.
Russia says seizing the salt-mining town of Bakhmut, now the site of the longest and bloodiest battle since Moscow invaded its neighbour just over a year ago, would put it on a path to securing full control of the rest of the strategic Donbas industrial region, one of its main objectives.
Ukraine says Bakhmut has limited strategic value but has nevertheless put up fierce resistance.
“Heavy battles are ongoing for our Bakhmut,” said Oleksiy Reva, the head of the city’s military administration.
Only 4,500 people remain in the city, which once had a population of about 70,000.
A statement on Wednesday night by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Russian troops were attempting to advance on Bakhmut “without interruption”. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces “are keeping each sector of the front under control”.
Not everyone in Ukraine is convinced it can continue to defend the city.
“I believe that sooner or later, we will probably have to leave Bakhmut. There is no sense in holding it at any cost…,” Ukrainian member of parliament Serhiy Rakhmanin said on Ukrainian NV radio on Wednesday night.
“But for the moment, Bakhmut will be defended with several aims: firstly, to inflict as many Russian losses as possible and make Russia use its ammunition and resources.”
Lines of defence should not be allowed to collapse, Rakhmanin added.
“There are two ways to approach this – an organised retreat or simple flight, and we cannot allow flight to take place under any circumstances.”
In its latest update on assessed control of terrain, the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, said Russian forces were advancing within Bakhmut.
“Ukrainian officials continue to emphasise that Ukrainian troops have the option to conduct a controlled withdrawal from Bakhmut if they see fit,” the ISW said.
The battle for Bakhmut began about seven months ago but in recent weeks, Russian advances have left defenders fighting on three sides, with their only way out to the west.
“UFOs” have rained on Russia in recent days – some dangerously close to the capital Moscow and President Vladimir Putin’s hometown.
Russian officials and media, using that term – “unidentified foreign objects” – seem unnerved and are accusing Ukraine of drone attacks.
Ukraine on Wednesday denied targeting Russia, suggesting attempts at domestic assaults – which Moscow did not accept.
With a dash of black humour, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that a sense of “panic and collapse” was growing in Russia, “manifested by increasing domestic attacks of unidentified flying objects on infrastructure sites”.
Throughout the war, Ukrainian leaders and top brass have routinely refused any responsibility for attacks on Russian soil – and often resort to ridiculing disorganised Russian servicemen.
A Ukrainian military expert said that even though Kyiv can and should attack Russia’s territory, it does not want to divulge details of its operations there.
“We are allowed to deliver strikes on the aggressor nation in principle, but we stick to the rule that if and when it happens, [the strikes] should target military sites firstly,” Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy chief of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces, told Al Jazeera.
“But because of many circumstances, at this stage, we won’t declare what and how we are doing on enemy territory,” he said.
Analysts have said Kyiv is preparing to launch more attacks with its growing fleet of domestically produced unmanned aircraft – and top pro-Kremlin figures are worried.
“I have a bunch of questions,” Tina Kandelaki, acting head of the TNT television network, wrote on Telegram.
“Is this our new reality? How many regions will be [hit] by the next attack? Does the defence ministry have a plan to protect our cities? Who can guarantee security for our people?” she wrote.
What has happened so far?On February 26, two blasts rocked an airfield in pro-Putin Belarus damaging one of the most precious Russian weapons – one of only nine A-50 planes that can identify the locations of Ukrainian air defence units. Belarusian “guerrilla fighters” claimed responsibility.
On Monday night, at least four drones fell short of reaching a power station in the western Russian city of Belgorod that sits less than 40km (25 miles) from the border.
And on Tuesday, an “unidentified flying object” was spotted over St Petersburg, where Putin was born.
Air space over Russia’s second-largest city that lies almost 1,500km (930 miles) north of Ukraine was briefly closed, and fighter jets took off as part of a rehearsal – drills to “train for interception and identification of a conditional target,” a defence official reportedly said.
Earlier, though, when asked about the St Petersburg incident, the Kremlin had said little, only that Putin was aware of events.
House Republicans Wednesday voted to advance a bill that would authorizePresident Joe Biden to ban TikTok nationwide.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 24-16 along party lines to advance the Deterring America's Technology Adversaries Act, or DATA Act. The bill – introduced by committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas – would allow Biden to enact nationwide bans on software applications that are deemed a national security threat. Republicans have been especially critical of TikTok, owned by Beijing-based Bytedance.
"TikTok is a modern day Trojan Horse of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), used to surveil and exploit Americans' personal information," McCaul said Tuesday during the committee's lengthy discussion of the bill. "This legislation is the first step in protecting Americans against subversive data collection."
The Biden administration and lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern that TikTok could allow the Chinese Communist Party to gather information about American customers or that it could be used to spread misinformation. In a press briefing Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre affirmed that the administration has "concerns" about the app.
Though some Democrats have expressed concerns about the social media app's national security implications, the party's top committee member, New York Rep. Gregory Meeks, "forcefully and unequivocally" opposed the measure, calling it too broad and "unvetted."
“We could have held hearings before the markup and carefully crafted bipartisan legislation together,” Meeks said Tuesday. “Instead, my staff and I received the text of this legislation a little over a week ago, and have only had several days to review a bill that would dramatically rewrite the rules-based international economic order.”
Still, Meeks indicated that Democrats would not oppose all measures against TikTok, saying the country "needs to address TikTok" but that the specific bill "bites off more than it can chew."
The bill's advancement comes days after the White House moved to ban TiktTok from all government-issued devices, giving federal agencies 30 days to delete the app.
TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said Monday that banning the app is "little more than political theater." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning alleged Tuesday that the U.S. government is "over-stretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress foreign companies."
Given the partisan divide on the bill, it still has a long way to go before it becomes law. The GOP-led House would have to approve it and then send it to the Democratic-led Senate. Biden also could decide to veto it.
Rwanda has warned it will take action to address any cross border threats to it's national security, claiming that the Democratic Republic of Congo is deploying new military equipment along their shared frontier.
In the context of increasingly bellicose statements by DRC civilians and military leaders, the DRC is deploying new hardware capabilities and foreign mercenaries in the common border area, " said Rwanda in a statement issued on Tuesday night.
"Given Rwanda's legitimate security concerns, defensive and preventive mechanisms have accordingly been reinforced to guard against violations of our airspace and borders," said Rwanda, adding, " These contingencies are ready to act to prevent any cross-border threat, proportionately to its magnitude, origin, and nature.
The development comes amid intense fighting between M23 rebels, who are reportedly backed by Rwanda, and DRC's forces in North Kivu, Eastern Congo.
Kinshasa purchased attack drones from china to support its war planes in the conflict with the M23 rebels.
Kigali says the M23 rebellion is an internal matter for the DRC to resolve.
The international community has recently criticized Rwanda harshly for assisting the M23 rebels, who are now accused of egregious human rights abuses and destabilizing North Kivu.
Last week, the U.S requested Rwanda to remove its troops from DR Congo where they were reportedly supporting the M23 insurgency.
While Rwanda described the U.S statement on 22 February 2023 as "positive" and echoing the regional decisions related to hate speech and ethnic violence, the return of refugees, and the disarming and repatriation of the FDLR, it said the united states "appears consistently out of step with the decisions of the regional processes, and risks undermining them, by continuing to endorse the DRC Government's false narrative blaming Rwanda for the crisis"
Rwanda further said, : the repeated failure by the international community to condemn the DRC Government for the preservation of the FDLR encourages DRC to continue arming and fighting alongside the genocidal militia, which has conducted cross-border attacks in Rwanda while embedded with the Congolese army (FARDC)
This constitutes a direct serious threat to Rwanda security. The FDLR is not a benign or inconsequential force, and the ultimate goal of it's partnership with FARDC is to attack Rwanda.
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria's disputed presidential election.
The 70-year-old veteran politician got 37% of the vote, official results show.
His main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29%, and Labour's Peter Obi 25%. Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a sham, and demanded a rerun.
Mr Tinubu is one of Nigeria's richest politicians, and based his campaign on his record of rebuilding the biggest city, Lagos, when he was governor.
He was nevertheless defeated in the city by Mr Obi, a relative newcomer who mobilised the support of many young people, especially in urban areas, shaking up the country's two-party system.
Mr Tinubu won most other states in his home region of the south-west, where he is known as a "political godfather" - for helping to put others into office.
He campaigned for the presidency under the slogan: "Emi lo kan", which means "It's my turn" in Yoruba.
Scenes of celebration have been reported in Mr Tinubu's strongholds. Some partied into the early hours in Lagos, even though he was defeated in the city.
The normally bustling streets of Lagos are relatively quiet on Wednesday, the usual rush-hour traffic has not been seen and some shops, businesses and banks have not opened.
Life has returned to normal in places that did not support Mr Tinubu, like the capital, Abuja, and Kano in the north.
In north-eastern Adamawa state, home to Mr Abubakar, there is an air of disappointment in the main city Yola, but grudging acceptance that after several attempts for the presidency, it is time for the former vice-president to move on.
Mr Obi's stronghold in south-eastern Anambra state, where he once served as governor, is quiet but there is an underlying sense of bitter anger. Many feel frustrated at what they see as a fraudulent electoral process.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Tinubu called for reconciliation.
"I take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow contestants to let us team up together. It is the only nation we have. It is one country and we must build it together," he said in a televised speech.
He added that they had the right to challenge the results in court but said that the lapses in the election "were relatively few in number and were immaterial to affect the outcome of this election".
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Russian President Vladimir #Putin has ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that are creating a new challenge for Moscow a year after it invaded its neighbour.
One drone crashed on Tuesday just 100km (60 miles) southeast of the Russian capital Moscow, while two more were brought down in southern Russia, according to the defence ministry.
Authorities also closed the airspace over the northern city of St Petersburg in response to what some reports said was a drone, while several Russian television stations aired a missile attack warning that officials blamed on hacking.
There were no reports of casualties.
“As for the incident with the crash of a UAV in district of Kolomna… the target was probably a civilian infrastructure facility, which was not damaged,” Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in a statement, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles.
“There are no casualties or damage on the ground. The FSB (security services) and other competent authorities are investigating,” Vorobyov added.
Authorities have not specified what infrastructure may have been targeted, but Russian energy giant Gazprom operates a facility near the village of Gubastovo, where the drone crashed.
Ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility for any of the attacks, but they have similarly avoided directly acknowledging responsibility for previous strikes and sabotage.
No drone damagePictures of the drone showed it was a Ukrainian-made type. It reportedly has a range of up to 800km (nearly 500 miles) but is not capable of carrying a large load of explosives.
Russian forces early on Tuesday shot down a Ukrainian drone over the southwestern region of Bryansk, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said in a Telegram post. He said there were no casualties in the incident, which took place not far from the Ukrainian and Belarusian borders.
Local authorities reported that three drones also targeted Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s border on Monday night with one flying through an apartment window in its capital, also called Belgorod, which is about 80km (50 miles) north of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the drones caused minor damage to buildings and cars but no casualties.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said Ukraine used drones to attack facilities in the southern region of Krasnodar and neighbouring Adygea. It said the drones were brought down by electronic warfare assets, adding that one crashed into a field while the other diverted from its designated flight path and missed an infrastructure facility it was supposed to attack.
Moscow has accused Ukraine of being behind several drone attacks on Russian military infrastructure inside the country, including on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, and in Belgorod.
Russia said in December that it shot down several drones near Engels, a base for strategic Russian aircraft located hundreds of kilometres from Ukraine’s border.
Pictures in January appeared to show Pantsir defence systems installed on the Russian defence ministry and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residences, but the Kremlin refused to comment.
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Inside Namuganza, Speaker Among fight
A feisty parliamentary session that supported a censure motion against the minister of state for Housing Persis Namuganza has brought into public view a potentially damaging feud between the under-fire minister and Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among.
Unless President Museveni gets heavily involved, MPs are baying for Namuganza’s blood. She will ‘surely be censured,’ vowed several members of parliament from across the political aisle interviewed by The Observer newspaper recently. According to the MPs, there are very few colleagues willing to defend Namuganza.
Their motives vary, but many hate the minister’s character, and others are afraid to go against the wishes of a towering figure in the house who is wielding power ruthlessly to get the minister kicked out.
According to our sources, speaker of parliament Among has a personal interest in Namuganza’s downfall. And there are very few MPs who can cross the speaker’s path. Many MPs from across the political divide venerate the speaker because of the strong grip she has on parliamentary management.
“If you are not in good books with the speaker, you will not get trips, which are the lifeline of many MPs. Even talking on the floor these days has been weaponized. If you are seen to be fighting the speaker, just know that your welfare issues will not be addressed. You will always struggle to speak on the floor,” an MP who declined to be named to speak freely, said.
So, in any fight, whether personal or not, between the speaker and anybody, many MPs are likely to side with her.
“You know there is a big fight among Museveni’s women. They are all fighting for his attention. Each one wants to be the only one with Museveni’s ear. Do you know that Among is also fighting Nabbanja Robinah, the prime minister] and Alupo [Jessica, the vice president]? Surely, parliament has been sucked into a personal fight,” the MP said.
In her submission before the plenary session, which debated and finally adopted the report recommending her censure last week, Namuganza hinted at the real reason she is facing a censure motion. She said her censure has everything to do with the marriage between the speaker and Moses Magogo, the Budiope East MP and Fufa president.
She promised to move a motion in the future against the speaker and Magogo, whom she accused of procuring a fraudulent marriage. Parliament never allowed her to elaborate on the matter, but in an interview with NBS television, she let the cat out of the bag.
“Among has a personal interest in this. She procured a fraudulent marriage with the so-called husband; you know, a husband is defined legally. They went and attacked my husband because he is a civil servant and forced him to sign papers. They were not there [physically]; they sent their security team, and they made him sign under duress. And after what happened, he reported to security and rescinded the marriage,” she said, adding, “They sent several people intimidating him that he must sign to retract the papers that were rescinding the marriage. We have brought the matter to the attention of the president, and he has directed CID to investigate. My husband has already made a statement, but she [speaker] has been sending messages intimidating him, saying how I’m going to punish your wife, and we have proof,” Namuganza said.
The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on the former Ugandan police chief, Edward Kale Kayihura, for his alleged role in gross human rights violations when he was at the helm of the Uganda Police Force.
General Kayihura was the Inspector General of Police in Uganda from 2005 to 2018.
“While Kayihura was in charge, he oversaw multiple units responsible for human rights violations including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment,” reads a statement dated December 9, 2022, by UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
“It is our duty to promote free and open societies around the world. Today our sanctions go further to expose those behind the heinous violations of our most fundamental rights...Since gaining new powers following our exit from the EU, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has used targeted sanctions across multiple regimes to hold those committing these egregious acts, whether in Russia, Iran, Myanmar, or elsewhere, to account,” Mr Cleverly said.
Gen Kayihura is among eight individuals under the UK sanctions accused of human rights abuse and corruption.
Mian Abdul Haq, a Pakistani Muslim cleric, was sanctioned over alleged forced conversions and marriages of girls and women from religious minorities, while Sadrach Zelodon Rocha and Yohaira Hernandez Chirino, the mayor and deputy mayor of Matagalpa in Nicaragua are accused of involvement in promoting and supporting grievous violations of human rights.
The UK also sanctioned Andrey Tishenin, a Russian Federal Security Service member in Crimea, and Artur Shambazov, a senior detective in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The pair is accused of torturing Ukrainian Oleksandr Kostenko in 2015.
On the list of sanctions is Valentin Oparin, Major of Justice for the Russian Federation, and Oleg Tkachenko, Head of Public Prosecutions for the Rostov region. They are accused of obstructing complaints of torture, with Tkachenko also using torture to extract testimony.
US sanctionsThe UK sanctions come three years after the United States also imposed sanctions on Gen Kayihura for reportedly engaging in corruption and human rights abuses.
The US said the former police chief used corruption and bribery to strengthen his political position, as units under his command committed serious human rights abuses. He is also accused of supervising the torture of prisoners at the Nalufenya Police Special investigations facility in Jinja.
Read: US sanctions Uganda's ex-police chief Kayihura
Gen Kayihura was fired by President Yoweri Museveni in March 2018 and later arrested and arraigned in the military court on several charges.
Mr Museveni blamed the police for failing to curb rising insecurity in the country, including murders and kidnappings.
During his tenure, Gen Kayihura was accused, primarily by human rights watchdogs, of militarising the police and heavy-handedness in dealing with anti-government protests.
Read: HRW report pins Uganda on torture, killings
Several of his allies, including senior police officers, have been arrested for alleged illegal arrests, kidnap and repatriation of Rwandan refugees.
The police force has also seen a raft of leadership changes since then.
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Enjoy Simbuula 1st Class= Omugaga Kamaggu, Ronald Mubiru , Omudingiddi Muwonge , Sara Kaddu-
Monday -Friday
Uganda #Simbula #Kamagu #News
Enjoy simbula first class with Omugagga Kamagu, Rev David Mubiru, Rotarian Aligawesa Muwonge Omudingidi and Sarah Kaddu