[Monitor] President Yoweri Museveni has said despite being one of the least paid Presidents in Africa, he is a rich man because of what he earns from Agriculture. Museveni is considered one of the largest cattle keepers and traders in the country.
[Vanguard] The Federal Government has been urged to establish a Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, UNHS, programme that would ensure that newborns are subjected to screening for all parameters of human function ability, particularly to ascertain the child's hearing status. Making the call in Lagos, a group of speech pathologists and audiologists worried over the rising incidences of hearing loss despite improvements witnessed in medical education.
[Nation] A rural community in western Kenya is seething with rage over the defilement of an eight-year-old girl by her uncle. The girl, now infected with HIV and syphilis, is said to have been threatened by the relative not to reveal the defilement. It is suspected that she was molested repeatedly over a short period in Vihiga.
[Monitor] Mbarara -There was chaos in Mbarara Municipality on Sunday when Dr Kizza Besigye's supporters clashed with police after a rally at Booma Grounds.
[Radio Dabanga] Nyala -South Darfur government employees are complaining about a deduction from their monthly salaries for the maintenance and expansion of the Nyala Teaching Hospital.
[East African] A cross-section of entrepreneurs speaking during the three-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 in Nairobi identified lack of access to financing as a barrier to innovation and to the growth and expansion of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the African continent.
[East African] Africa must demand new global copyright rules in the forthcoming World Trade Organisation meeting to be held in Nairobi at the end of the year.
[IRIN] Oxford -How do you design effective policies and programmes to help vulnerable populations when you don't know how many people you're dealing with?
[Deutsche Welle] Somalia's president has condemned a devastating attack on a Mogadishu hotel, which left several people dead and residents of the capital terrified. The militant Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility.
