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Bobi Wine wants 'biased' chief justice, 2 others off his case
National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has threatened to withdraw his election petition from the Supreme court over alleged bias on the bench. Speaking to...
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Tensions flare at IUIU Mbale
A somewhat not functional online learning platform called Academica ERP system has spurred concerns among students at Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) main campus in Mbale. According to some...
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Swine fever kills over 500 pigs in Kitgum, pork eating banned
Government has banned the movement, slaughter and consumption of pork in Kitgum following the death of more than 500 pigs due to an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak. The deaths have been reported in...
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My torture in CMI offices
Arbitrary arrests, kidnappings and detentions in ungazetted places have become something of a tradition in the country right now and so are the victims’ gory tales of torture that have gripped public...
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Covid-19 report rates govt interventions
A DGF supported study done by Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) in 31 districts in Uganda tracked every Covid-19 government intervention and the performance of the...
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EC yet to receive DR forms from 23 polling stations in Kampala
Results from 23 polling stations in Kampala did not make it to the Electoral Commission’s final tally sheet after their declaration forms disappeared before reaching tally centre in Kyambogo. The...
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Election observers baffled by 100% voter turnout at 409 polling stations
Election observers are baffled by 100 per cent voter turnout at 409 polling stations in the recently concluded January 14 presidential elections. In total, President Yoweri Museveni polled 161,864...
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Military police beats up 8 journalists covering Bobi Wine at UN offices
At least eight journalists from six media houses are nursing injuries after military police mercilessly pounced on them and beat them with batons near the United Nations High Commission for Human...
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MPs approve mid-term access to NSSF savings
MPs have passed the National Social Security Fund Bill 2019, giving Ugandans aged over 45 years and those who have saved for 10 years access to 20 per cent of their savings.Parliament chaired by...
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American conned out of $6m by police officer in gold scam
The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has charged two police deserters accused of conning $6m (about Shs 21.9 billion) out of an American national, Anastasios Belesis in a gold scam. Former...
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Kitgum Woman, 26, jailed 28 years for killing husband over Shs 10,000
A 26-year-old woman was on Wednesday evening sentenced to 28 years and eleven months in jail for murdering her husband over Shs 10,000. Mercy Layet, a resident of Okwici village, Angara parish, Akwang...
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Zanzibar's VP dies at 77 after testing positive for COVID-19
The first vice president of Tanzania's Zanzibar Island, Seif Sharif Hamad, died Wednesday morning, weeks after being hospitalized with COVID-19. Announcing the death Wednesday, Zanzibar's President...
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7 UPDF soldiers jailed for beating journalists
Seven soldiers who were part of a group that assaulted journalists yesterday near the United Nations offices have allegedly been charged and convicted for conduct prejudicial to good order and...
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Gold prices rise from Shs 70,000 to Shs 200,000 due to water shortage
Artisanal miners in Karamoja region have increased gold prices by three-fold due to shortage of water.In December 2020, the miners were selling a gram at Shs 70,000 but are currently charging as much...
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Floods fill Nakivubo police fire directorate with garbage
The Thursday morning heavy rainfall left the police’s fire and emergency response directorate at Nakivubo filled with all sorts of washed-up garbage and mud.The directorate which is located opposite...
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Museveni warns EU ambassadors off Uganda's affairs
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has warned European Union envoys to Uganda to stop getting involved in matters they don’t understand. Speaking on Thursday at State House Entebbe while...
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Makerere University professor Kerali found dead in his bedroom
Makerere University associate professor, Anthony Geoffrey Genmungu Kerali has been found dead in his bedroom. Kerali died at his home at Plot 1, Prince Charles Drive in Kololo in Kampala. The cause of...
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8 killed in Buhweju mudslides
At least eight people have been confirmed dead in landslides that devastated Karungu sub-county in Buhweju district. The mudslides followed a heavy downpour on Thursday. The eight have been identified...
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You can't intimidate us to rule in your favour, court tells Bobi Wine
Chief Justice Alfonse Owinyi-Dollo has warned National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine that he can't intimidate or induce favours from the Supreme court to rule in...
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Kyagulanyi petition dealt another blow as court rejects new evidence
In a majority ruling of 8:1, justices of the Supreme court have declined to allow an application by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu to file more evidence to support his...
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