CAPE TOWN – With no financial support amidst Uganda’s Covid-19 mitigation measures, motorcycle taxi drivers are suing the government for denying them the right to full operation within the regulatory framework as all other businesses are permitted to do. Uganda’s ‘boda-boda’ drivers association, the native name for motorcycle taxi drivers in Uganda, say the government...
LONDON – World stock markets advanced yesterday, spurred higher by investor hopes over upcoming US earnings and a coronavirus vaccine, dealers said. Asian and European equities bounded higher as investors followed a strong performance on Wall Street, though a spike in Covid-19 infections capped gains. Oil prices fell on festering fears over demand-destroying coronavirus, and...
WARSAW – Polish President Andrzej Duda has squeezed past his europhile rival to win re-election, official results showed on Monday, but the narrow victory puts the populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party government on the backfoot. A close ally of US President Donald Trump, Duda has vowed to tighten already highly restrictive laws against...
Talek – In the majestic plains of the Maasai Mara, the coronavirus pandemic spells economic disaster for locals who earn a living from tourists coming to see Kenya’s abundant wildlife. Even before the virus arrived in Kenya mid-March, tourism revenues had plummeted, with cancellations coming in from crucial markets such as China, Europe and the...
Omulumentu (38) okwa si eso lyiipundjamenye sho a tsuwa nombele mEtitano pethimbo lyoontamanana dha etwa kongodhi ndjoka anuwa ya kana. Otaku hokololwa nakusa a yugu omufekelwa ongodhi ye, shoka sha eta iikolokosha mbyoka ya eta opo mwene gwongodhi a tse mukwao nombele. Omufekelwa okwa fadhuka po ashike okwa ka adhika kopolisi, nokwa kwatwa po. Oshiningwanima...
Sîsenao-i xa xoahe hâ Disiǀgamǀa ǀgamǀkhā ǁgûdi hîa ǀgora!gâs ǁaeb nî ǂâus kōse, Lady Pohamba Hâ!khaib, ǀGamǀkhā Khoedi hîa ǀgora!gâsa !âu hâ di ra hâ!khaimāheb, ǂKhoeandawes hîa Omaheke ǀkharib di dana!ās !nâ mâs tawa hâdi, ge ai!â gere ǂoa wekheb Wunstaxs ai !kharaga xūna !khōǂgā hâ ǀkhaexūn !gae-amde ge !khō!oa. Nē !gae-amrodi ge ǂûn, aiǁgause...
Madrid – A local court yesterday suspended a home confinement order imposed on more than 200 000 people in the Spanish region of Catalonia after an upsurge in virus cases. Catalonia officials ordered the home confinement on the city of Lerida and its surrounding areas a week after the zone had been placed under less...
Johannesburg – Gauteng will host the remaining 57 matches of the South African season despite the province being the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, it was announced yesterday. There had been 276 000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 nationally by late Sunday, the most in an African country, and 4 079 fatalities. South...
Lausanne – Manchester City will be free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA yesterday. An initial fine of 30 million euros (US$34 million = £27 million) was also reduced to 10 million euros on appeal. City...
Spielberg – Lewis Hamilton secured his first win of the season and the 85th of his career with a perfectly-judged victory from pole position as Mercedes delivered a one-two finish in Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix. The six-time world champion bounced back from a disappointing season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on the same Red Bull Ring circuit...