Tanzania, Uganda sign MOU to integrate ICT backbones

ICT-Skills DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 30 (NNN-DAILYNEWS) — THE governments of Tanzania and Uganda have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth 28.8 million US dollars (equivalent to 71.7bn/-) to integrate Tanzania’s National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) with the Ugandan National ICT Backbone Infrastructure (NBI). The MoU will last for…

US uges Serbia to withdraw troops from Kosovo border as tensions rise

PRISTINA, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US is urging Serbia to withdraw what it says is a large military build-up on the country’s border with Kosovo. In the past months, tensions have been rising between Kosovo’s minority ethnic Serb and majority Albanian communities. In response to the “current situation”, the UK…

South Africa to roll out vaginal rings to fight HIV scourge

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A “revolutionary” vaginal ring to prevent HIV is soon to be rolled out in South Africa — which has the largest epidemic of the virus in the world, a global financing partnership said on Friday. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said…

US auto strike expands with 7,000 more workers joining

 WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers’ union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country’s “Big Three” Detroit car manufacturers. The latest walkouts leave a total of some 25,000 workers on strike in 21 states — or around 17 percent…

Russia advocates strong, independent Latin America – Pres Putin

MOSCOW, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian president Vladimir Putin said that Russia  stands for Latin American countries to be strong, independent and successful. During the opening ceremony of the first-ever International Parliamentary Conference ‘Russia–Latin America,’ the President said that Moscow is willing to develop bilateral cooperation with Latin American nations…

French prime minister comfortably survives censure vote

PARIS, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne avoided parliamentary censure in an early morning vote on Saturday after she forced the government’s budget plan through the National Assembly without a vote. The motion to censure Borne — the 18th levelled at her since she assumed the office…

Elections in military-ruled Burkina Faso not a ‘priority’, strongman says

 OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Elections in Burkina Faso are not a “priority” compared to “security”, the country’s military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said on state TV, almost a year after coming to power in a coup. Traore, who had promised a return to democracy with presidential elections by July…

Brazil: Pres Lula undergoes hip surgery ‘without complications’

 BRASILIA, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was awake and recovering from hip surgery on Friday, which his doctor said went off without a hitch. “The surgery went without complications, the president is awake, going to post-anesthesia recovery,” the doctor Roberto Kalil Filho told a…

Several injured in Scotland rail collision: police

LONDON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Several people were injured after two trains collided at Aviemore railway station in the Highlands of Scotland on Friday, police said. British media reported that one of the trains involved was the record-breaking, century-old Flying Scotsman, the first steam train to reach over 100 miles…

UN chief describes attacks on Pakistan´s mosques as abhorrent

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The UN Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres on Friday described as abhorrent the attacks on mosques in Pakistan. On X social media, Guterres strongly condemned Friday´s incidents and also called those responsible to be held accountable. “It is abhorrent that these attacks targeted people…