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Day: August 26, 2020

GEMS Cambridge School to close Operations in Uganda.

GEMS Cambridge School to close Operations in Uganda.

Business, Education, FEATURED, NEWS
Owing to COVID-19 pandemic life and businesses around the globe are being affected, GEMS Cambridge International School, Kampala (CIK) will close business in Uganda in December. According to Mr Riz Ahmed, the chief executive officer, GEMS Africa; the decision to close the school that was established in Uganda in 2013, was made after exhausting all options. Students outside Classroom He said in a statement that the pandemic and the resulting uncertainties have proved “exceptionally testing” with shrinking enrolment numbers as well as their ability to sustain operations. “As a result of these circumstances, we have been forced to make some very difficult decisions, and it is with great sadness that I am writing to advise you that CIK will close after the first term of the new ac...
Kabuga ‘could be transferred to Arusha this year’

Kabuga ‘could be transferred to Arusha this year’

FEATURED, GOSSIP, Politics, Rwanda
The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, arrested in France after 25 years on the run, will be transferred to the war crimes tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, once conditions allow it, a judge in The Hague has ruled. The judge was replying to a request for Felicien Kabuga to be temporarily transferred to The Hague given travel restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. Described as Africa's most wanted man, Kabuga has been held in a French jail since his May 16 arrest at his home outside Paris. Kabuga was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1997 on seven counts, including genocide, incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity. The tribunal, headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania, formally closed in 2015 and its duties were t...
Lionel Messi Refuses to Train, Informs Barcelona he Wants to Leave Club.

Lionel Messi Refuses to Train, Informs Barcelona he Wants to Leave Club.

FEATURED, Latest News, SPORTS
Lionel Messi has told the Barcelona board he will not return to the club or train after signalling his intent to leave the club. Lionel Messi has four transfer options as Barcelona star refuses to train The Argentina talisman sent a fax to the club hierarchy on Tuesday informing the club of his decision and is hopeful he can leave on a free transfer. Onda Cero Radio claim Messi has told the club he will not make himself available for coronavirus testing this weekend and will not return to the club’s training base. La Liga is set to kick off on 12 September, but Barcelona will not return to action until the third week of fixtures due to participation in Europe. Barcelona will fight Messi’s efforts to leave the club on a free transfer and insist the date for the 33-year-old to tri...