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MTN Foundation to set up facility to skill 400 girls annually.

The classroom block that is going to be renovated by MTN Foundation to create a conducive learning environment for the girls at Smart Girls Foundation.   MTN Foundation in partnership with Smart Girls Foundation has today embarked on the construction of a skilling facility with the capacity to train 400 girls annually in vocational programs. […]

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AFP Russian tourists evacuated from Cuba on charter flights

About 900 Russians took chartered flights home from a Cuban resort town on Sunday as airspace bans imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine complicated travel for tourists around the world. © YAMIL LAGE About 900 Russian passengers flew to Moscow from Cuba on Sunday© YAMIL LAGE Nordwind will operate four weekly charter flights from Moscow to the

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World Bank approves $723m funding for Ukraine

The World Bank has approved $723m (£551m) in loans and grants for Ukraine, as the country fights against a Russian invasion. © Getty Images Refugees arriving at the Polish borderThe bank said it is continuing to work on another $3bn package of support in the coming months for the country.It also promised extra help for neighbouring

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AFP Repression of women on rise in rebel-held Yemen

Her voice shaking, 26-year-old Balqees recounts her ordeal at a Huthi rebel checkpoint in northern Yemen, where experts say repression of women is rampant after years of civil war. © MOHAMMED HUWAIS Yemeni women shop in the the Sanaa in March 2020. The capital is controlled by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who have imposed their austere

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AFP IAEA reports second Ukraine nuclear facility damaged

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has received reports of artillery shells damaging a nuclear research facility in Ukraine’s besieged second city Kharkiv, but there was no “radiological consequence”. © Sergey BOBOK A Ukrainian serviceman looks at the destruction caused by shelling in Kharkiv on March 7The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities reported

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Bloomberg China Warns U.S. Over Forming Pacific NATO, Backing Taiwan

(Bloomberg) — China warned the U.S. against trying to build what it called a Pacific version of NATO, while declaring that security disputes over Taiwan and Ukraine were “not comparable at all.” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his annual news briefing Monday that the “real goal” of the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific strategy was to form Asia’s

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AFP:Australia floods force tens of thousands to evacuate

Tens of thousands of Sydney residents have been told to evacuate their homes as severe storms and flash flooding inundated swathes of Australia’s largest city Tuesday. © Muhammad FAROOQ The scale of the damage to property and wildlife in Australia has been compared to devastating bushfires in 2019 and early 2020The national weather bureau warned of

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Congress faces shutdown crunch time amid Ukraine crisis

© Greg Nash Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) leaves a press conference following the Democratic policy luncheon on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Lawmakers are racing to lock down a deal to fund the government and provide billions in new aid tied to Ukraine as they barrel toward an end-of-the-week shutdown deadline. Negotiators worked through the weekend

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NRM Secretariat leaders commiserate with the family of the former Bank Of Uganda,the late Emmanuel Mutebile 

As he enters Kigezi Sub-region where he is set to commence a series of  party activities this week, the NRM Secretary General Rt. Hon Richard Todwong  has today paid a courtesy visit to the family of the late former Governor of Bank of Uganda Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile in Kabale District. Rt. Hon Todwong prayed

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