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Mozambique newspaper refuses to 'bow before fire'
Staff at a weekly Mozambique newspaper are refusing to let an arson attack stop them from reporting. Canal de Moçambique published its regular Wednesday edition, just three days after the newsroom was...
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Kagumire replaces Kateshumbwa as URA customs boss
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) board has appointed new commissioners to replace those fired earlier in May this year.The appointments made after the August 26, sitting saw Abel Kagumire appointed...
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3 private guards arrested for shooting MTN engineers
Police in Kampala has arrested three security guards on allegations of shooting at MTN Uganda network monitoring officers. Abel Lwanga and his colleague only identified as Kanakulya, both attached to...
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Museveni: Bobi Wine killing own supporters to implicate govt
President Yoweri Museveni has accused Kyadondo East MP and presidential aspirant Robert Kyagulanyi of infiltrating Ugandan security and killing his own supporters so as to implicate his government. In...
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Uganda registers 2 more Covid deaths, 155 cases
Uganda has registered two more Covid-19 deaths and 155 new cases according to the Health ministry. The deceased include a 58-year-old male from Mbale district and another 59-year-old from Kapchorwa...
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2021 polls: 65 pick presidential nomination forms
At least 65 people have expressed interested and picked presidential nominations forms to contest in next year's general elections according to the Electoral Commission. However, on Thursday the EC...
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Police commanders ordered to get tough on curfew guidelines
The police director of operations, Edward Osiru Ochom has tasked police commanders to stop being reluctant in the enforcement of Covid-19 preventive guidelines.Ochom, in his internal message to...
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Nigeria to resume international flights for first time in 5 months
Nigeria says it will resume international flights into and out of the country on Saturday for the first time in five months. Nigeria suspended all air travel on March 23 to comply with restrictions...
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Kamuli primary teacher commits suicide over COVID debts
A primary teacher in Kamuli district has taken his own life allegedly due to accumulated debts. Jimmy Buyonga, 32, a teacher at Kasambira Preparatory primary school in Bugulumbya sub-county in eastern...
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Lightning kills 10 boys playing football in Arua
Lightning killed ten boys who were playing football in Gbulukua village, Ayivu West Division in Arua city. The boys aged between 12 and 15 years were struck dead in the evening of Thursday as some...
View ArticleUmeme opens assault charges against MP Tayebwa
Power distributor Umeme has opened assault charges against Ruhinda North MP Thomas Tayebwa. Tayebwa is alleged to have assaulted a Umeme contractor early this week as he disconnected the MP from a...
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Uganda COVID deaths increase to 29, admission days reduced to 10
Uganda's coronavirus deaths have increased to 29 following the death of a 45-year-old female resident of Kampala. Details of the deceased have not been provided by the ministry of Health. The country's...
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Luweero NRM secretary suspended over embezzling Shs 27m
The Luweero district National Resistance Movement executive committee has suspended the district party administrative secretary Shafik Ntege over alleged embezzlement of Shs 27 million. The money was...
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Govt introduces Shs 240,000 COVID-19 testing fee
Government has introduced a Shs 240,500 ($65) 'cost recovery fee for coronavirus testing services.' Ministry of Health says in a letter dated August 27, 2020, that owing to a spike in coronavirus cases...
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547 girls defiled during lockdown in Kampala
At least 547 girls have been defiled in Kampala in the last four months according to statistics at Kampala Metropolitan Police. This covered the period when the country was under a total lockdown,...
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Arcades flouting Covid-19 SOPs named
The Joint Security Taskforce on Covid-19 has today named 25 shopping complexes in Kampala that are not following the directives issued by the government to limit the spread of coronavirus. Police...
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Kigulu South MP arrested over supporters clash
Kigulu South MP Andrew Kaluya has been arrested following clashes between his supporters and those of the former area MP Milton Muwuma.According to Kaluya's political assistant Sarah Nalubanga, they...
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Lightning strikes dead two children in Iganga
Lightning struck dead two children in Iganga district following a heavy weekend downpour. The deceased have been identified as Bruhan Mulondo, 8, and Abdul Mutisa, 10.Bruhan Siraji, the father of...
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Landlord closes Lancet labs over COVID testing
Lancet laboratories, one of the accredited private laboratories testing for coronavirus disease (Covid-19), has been locked out of Madhvani Building on Buganda road by the landlord. According to...
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Raped off their land: hallowing tales of Kiryandongo evictees
On April 20, Elizabeth Nafula travelled with a team of other human rights lawyers to Kiryandongo district, to collect testimonies from victims of the ongoing land evictions in the district. She had...
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