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Social media still a security threat, to remain off - minister Odongo
Social media will remain blocked in Uganda until when government confirms that it is no longer a threat to national security, Internal Affairs minister, Gen. Jeje Odongo has said. Government switched...
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Covid-19 kills 2 ministers, prisons boss in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s government held burials Wednesday for two cabinet ministers and a former prison official who died from COVID-19. The cabinet now has lost four ministers to the coronavirus — three of them...
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Fire guts Royal Foam Mattress factory again
Fire has gutted Royal Foam Mattress factory in Kyambogo again, destroying mattresses and property worth millions of shillings. Residents told URN that they saw a huge plume of smoke as the fire ravaged...
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Parliament seeks Shs 5.4 bn for 13 new cars for speaker, directors
The parliamentary commission is seeking over Shs 5.4bn for the procurement of a fleet of vehicles for the speaker, deputy speaker, directors and assistant directors. According to the ‘well guarded’...
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President Magufuli warns Tanzanians against COVID-19 vaccines
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has warned his Health ministry against rushing to adopt COVID-19 vaccines, suggesting the vaccines may not be safe or effective. In a speech Wednesday in western...
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Museveni declines to assent to Landlord & Tenant Bill, 2 years later
President Yoweri Museveni has returned the Landlord and Tenant Bill, 2018 for reconsideration after one and a half years since it was passed by parliament. The bill that seeks to among other things;...
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Mob justice: Uncle Money sentenced to 4 years in jail for manslaughter
Renowned national football team, Uganda Cranes fan Jackson Ssewanyana alias Uncle Money has been sentenced to four years in jail for manslaughter. Buganda Road court chief magistrate, Miriam Akello Ayo...
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Ugandan scientists baffled by sudden drop in COVID-19 cases, deaths
Ugandan scientists on the COVID-19 task force are investigating a sudden and unexpected drop in the number of positive infections in the country.For the last two weeks, results released by the Health...
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Statistical impossibilities: Museveni scored 100% at 348 polling stations
President Museveni scored 100 per cent at 348 polling stations in the Kiruhura, Kazo and Isingiro districts, according to an analysis of presidential election data released by the Electoral Commission...
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Mourners overpower police to storm burial of Bamasaba cultural leader
Hundreds of mourners descended on Busayi village in Bududa district to attend the burial of Umukuka II, Bob Saul Kipiro Mushikori, the former head of Inzu Ya Masaba. Mushikor, who succumbed to COVID-19...
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AU launches platform to track threats against African journalists
Threats to African journalists are nothing new, but the African Union is launching a website to track and monitor threats against them, in a bid to improve protections for media workers and support the...
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Judicial Service Commission shuffles 15 chief magistrates
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has appointed 15 chief magistrates in acting capacity to boost service delivery as well as operationalize more magisterial areas. Sarah Langa Siu, the chief...
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'God' Bisaka's body embalmed for future viewing
The body of the late Desteo Owobusobozi Bisaka, 90, the founder and 'god' of Faith of Unity has been embalmed and kept for future viewing by his followers. The body has been kept in Bisaka’s house in...
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EC added 440,000 more voters on register, two months to election
The Electoral Commission added 445, 076 voters to the national voters register two months to the January 14 general elections. In a statement issued last year on September 17, the EC indicated that...
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Help Children Be Children campaign seeks to stamp out child sexual abuse
A new campaign, Help Children Be Children launched today February 1, is imploring and urging Ugandans to make the internet a safer place free of online child sexual abuse material. Help Children Be...
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Man dies, another unconscious after drinking sanitizer in Agago
A 38-year-old man in Agago district has died while his colleague is still unconscious and battling for his life after reportedly drinking undiluted alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Johnson Omona, a porter...
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Bobi Wine asks court to ban Museveni from future elections
The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has petitioned the Supreme court seeking for the annulment of the election victory of National Resistance...
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Lokech issues 48-hour ultimatum to police on abducted suspects
The deputy inspector general of police Maj Gen Paul Lokech has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to police to take to court within 48 hours all people have recently been abducted by security operatives The...
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Gunfire rocks Moroto as UPDF, rustlers battle in 2-hour shootout
Business grounded to a halt in Moroto district on Monday afternoon following a clash between Jie cattle rustlers from Kotido district and UPDF soldiers at Kobebe grazing area. The Jie cattle rustlers...
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South Africa receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment
On an unusually dreary Johannesburg day, a figurative ray of sunshine: the arrival of the first pallets of coronavirus vaccines that will, in about two weeks, begin making their way into the arms of...
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