The European Union (EU) has threatened to ban horticultural products imported from Uganda over concern about pests.
A letter from the EU Ambassador to Uganda says shipments of peppers; rose flowers and soursop contained evidence of the false codling moth.
This is the second time that the EU is issuing a warning to Uganda in three years.
Powerful 6.3 quake kills at least 20 in Afghanistan, hundreds injured
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds and damaging the city's historic Blue Mosque, authorities said, with the death toll likely to rise.
Hamas hands over three more hostage bodies
Hamas has handed over bodies of three hostages on Sunday, even as the group traded blame with Israel for violations of the truce that has mostly halted two years of war.
India federal agency freezes Anil Ambani Group's $351 million properties
India’s financial crime agency has provisionally frozen 30.84 billion rupees ($350.87 million) in assets linked to Reliance Anil Ambani Group as part of a money-laundering investigation, a government source said on Monday.
Israeli strike kills one in Gaza as sides trade blame for truce violations
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health authorities said, as Israel and Hamas traded blame for daily violations of a fragile truce that has largely halted two years of war.
UK police say mass stabbing on train not terrorist incident, two arrested
British police said on Sunday that a knife attack on a train which put 11 people in hospital was not a terrorist incident, adding that two men - both British nationals - had been arrested.
