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Lukwago petitions court over EC suspension of campaigns
Kampala city lord mayor Erias Lukwago has petitioned the High court seeking an interim order blocking the directive by the Electoral Commission to suspend physical campaigns in 12 districts considered...
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16 days of activism empower West Nile on gender-based violence
Felix Okol (Not real name) is a barber based in Obongi town in West Nile. About a year ago, he fell in love with 16-year-old Anita. The courtship went on well until Anita’s parents found out that they...
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Lawyers protest as Opiyo is further remanded till January 11
Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has been further remanded to Kitalya prison until January 11, 2021, on money laundering charges. The prosecution alleges that on October 8, 2020, at Absa bank Garden...
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NRM supporters paralyze traffic in Kampala for hours
Dozens of boda-boda riders wearing NRM branded t-shirts and carrying campaign posters of President Yoweri Museveni on Monday blocked city roads, paralyzing traffic flow in Kampala for several hours....
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Journalists walk out on security press conference in protest
Journalists on Monday walked out on a security press conference at the Uganda Media Centre to protest against the continued police brutality against their colleagues.The journalists who had turned up...
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Missing Juuko was charged with treachery, gov't tells court
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party coordinator for Greater Masaka region Justin Juuko was remanded after being charged with treachery, the government has told the High court in Kampala.Juuko,...
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Cameroon govt orders investigation after bus crashes kill 39
Scores of Cameroonians have been visiting mortuaries to identify and collect the bodies of relatives who perished in two bus crashes Sunday that left 39 people dead between the capital Yaoundé and the...
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Boda boda rider determined to unseat Sseggona
FRED KANGAVE, 31, is the boda boda rider challenging seasoned legislator Medard Lubega Sseggona for Busiro East constituency. He spoke to Baker Batte about his unique journey that he hopes will end in...
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UTB renews focus on mountain tourism
To revamp mountain tourism, Uganda Tourism Board, CEO, Lilly Ajarova, led a team of hikers on a 7-day fact-finding hike to Margherita Peak, Mt. Rwenzori's highest point measuring 5,109 metres (16,762...
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Mayanja’s huge contribution to Christianity rewarded with PhD
In 1980, prominent city lawyer Sam Mayanja became the first Ugandan to get a Master of Laws from Maker-ere University. Forty years later, he has been awarded a doctorate in theology, writes DERRICK...
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Covid delays expansion of ElectroMaxx project
About 40 Chinese technicians contracted to install machinery for the expansion of ElectroMaxx Limited are yet to return to Uganda. “We are waiting for a team of forty Chinese technicians to return to...
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Gone with 2020
It is quite hard to think of something good to say about 2020. This year’s coronavirus health crisis has left our way of life in shambles. 2020 will be vividly remembered for having had one of the...
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How Bobi Wine is policed
As presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu began his 200-kilometre cross-country campaign run on December 26, he was shadowed every kilometer by at least 12 police pick-up trucks, two water...
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EC campaign ban locks out six million voters
The Electoral Commission ban on political campaigns in 20 districts and cities branded “super spreaders” of the infectious coronavirus is a very suspicious matter for opposition presidential and...
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Bobi Wine and entire campaign team arrested in Kalangala
National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been arrested in Kigere Kya Njovu forest with his entire campaign team in Kalangala island on L. Victoria....
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Teargas, bullets as Kalangala residents protest Bobi Wine arrest
Police in Kalangala town council fired teargas and live ammunition to disperse angry supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. Residents of...
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Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo granted Shs 15m cash bail
Renowned human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has been granted a Shs 15 million cash bail after spending more than a week in custody. Opiyo, the executive director of Chapter Four Uganda, a human rights...
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Husband, sister of deceased Kyotera Woman MP also succumb to COVID
Joseph Ssentongo, the husband of the late Kyotera Woman MP Robina Nakasirye and her younger sister Dorothy Mukasa have too succumbed to Covid-19 disease. The two died on Tuesday, a week after the...
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94 Bobi Wine supporters still held in Masaka, Kalangala
The 94 supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi who were arrested in Kalangala on Wednesday are still in detention.They were arrested while on the campaign...
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Court orders state to produce Justin Juuko on January 8
The Civil Division of the High court has confirmed that opposition Forum for Democratic Change Masaka coordinator Justin Juuko is on remand at Kitalya prison. Juuko, also known as "The Ugandan...
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