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Police opens probe into misuse of Akii- Bua stadium funds
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has started investigations into the reported misuse of funds meant for the construction of Akii- Bua memorial stadium.A team of senior police detectives...
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16-year-old commits suicide over arrested boyfriend
A 16-year-old student was this morning found hanging dead in her father's bedroom in Wakiso district.Preliminary findings indicate that the S.3 student of Kawempe Republic secondary school committed...
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Drama, obscenities as Nyanzi is charged in court
There was drama in Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate court this afternoon when Makerere University research fellow Dr Stella Nyanzi appeared for the formal charges to be read for her. The Buganda...
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Refugees in Arua riot over food, disarm police guard
Refugees in Omugo reception centre in Arua district have staged a strike to protest against the little food given to them. The refugees rampaged on Wednesday evening and disarmed a special police...
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Museveni gives Kampala NRM youth Shs 2.5bn
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged Shs 2.5 billion to the NRM youth in Kampala. The pledge was made by State House comptroller, Lucy Nakyobe who met Kampala NRM youth at Biyem hotel in...
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Two arrested for threatening IGG
Police is holding two suspects, both staff of what it calls a ghost organisation, Poor Youth Research Uganda on allegations of threatening to harm the Inspector General of Governments (IGG) Irene...
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Nyanzi rejects bail, sent back to Luzira
Makerere University research fellow Dr Stella Nyanzi has asked to be sent back to Luzira after turning down an opportunity to apply for bail. Nyanzi who pleaded not guilty to charges of cyber...
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Makerere could scrap schools, deans
Makerere University is considering a proposal to eliminate the school structure from colleges and elevate the status of school deans to a supervisory role at college level. Under the university’s...
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Kabale court dismisses 4GC case against Besigye, Lukwago
The Kabale Chief Magistrate's court has dismissed a case in which former For God and My Country (4GC) opposition pressure group activists were accused of inciting violence. The activists include Dr...
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Uganda's first oil production now pushed to 2021
The delay by international oil companies to make a final investment decision has forced government to shift production timelines to 2021 from 2020. Energy and Minerals Development minister Irene...
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Museveni asks opposition to fight electoral violence
President Yoweri Museveni has asked opposition parties in the country to support him fight electoral violence. Museveni made the remarks on Saturday at State House Entebbe while meeting members of the...
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Mother stabs attendant to death at Soroti hospital
A 20-year-old mother has stabbed her attendant to death. The two had reportedly disagreed on a ploy to escape from Soroti regional referral hospital where, the woman, identified as Paska Angela had a...
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Nine students perish in Rakai school inferno
Nine students of St Bernard's Mannya secondary school in Rakai district lost their lives when a fire gutted their dormitory in the early hours of today morning. The dead students are reportedly all...
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Rakai school fire: students sent home, six arrested
Students of St Benard's Mannya secondary school in Rakai district have been instructed to return home following an inferno that gutted down the boys' dormitory last night and left nine students dead....
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Land laws responsible for land wrangles - minister
Unclear land ownership laws are responsible for the current increased land wrangles and evictions, state minister for Lands, Persis Namuganza has said. Namuganza blamed the amendment of the Land Act in...
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California wildfires rage, death toll at 44, hundreds missing
At least 42 people have been killed in the wildfire raging in Northern California, making it the deadliest fire in the state's history. Authorities say hundreds more are unaccounted for, four days...
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Slavery evolves, persists in Mauritania
Day after day, Aminetou Mint Yarg and her fellow villagers in southern Mauritania haul water from the river and tend to their crops under a burning desert sun. In good years, they grow fields of corn,...
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Court dismisses case against Somali terror suspects
The High court in Kampala has dismissed terrorism charges against six of eight Somali nationals due to lack of evidence. Justice Michael Elubu of International Crimes Division dismissed the charges...
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‘Idle and disorderly law is unconstitutional’
A city lawyer and human rights activist has filed a petition at the Constitutional court challenging the so-called ‘idle and disorderly’ laws. Francis Tumwesige Ateenyi of the Human Rights Awareness...
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Uganda, Zimbabwe top in prostate cancer cases
Uganda and Zimbabwe have the highest cases of men with prostate cancer in Africa, a medical officer at a Kampala clinic has said. Last week, Dr Edrin Juuko, the chief medical officer at UMC Victoria...
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