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Kyaligonza assault: UBC journalist seeks Shs 340m
A Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) journalist, Deogratious Peter Otai accusing Rtd Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza and his guards of assaulting him, is seeking Shs 340 million in compensation.Otai sued...
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DP’s Mao takes over Ipod leadership
Democratic Party (DP) president Norbert Mao has taken over the chairmanship of the Inter-party Organization for Dialogue (Ipod). Mao took over from Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Jimmy Akena, ahead of...
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Army intercepts armed South Sudanese soldier in Lamwo
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has intercepted an armed South Sudanese soldier found roaming inside Uganda’s territorial boundaries.UPDF soldiers attached to Bana Bana military detach in...
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Kitatta transferred to Luzira prison
The patron of vigilante-cum-militia outfit, Boda Boda 2010, Abdallah Kitatta has now been transferred from Makindye military barracks to Luzira Maximum prison allegedly for his own safety. The...
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Museveni, Kagame try to make peace
President Museveni’s March 10 letter to his Rwanda counterpart Paul Kagame was the third attempt in less than a month for the two leaders to try to ease escalating tensions that are threatening the...
View ArticleGomba’s sick flood free medical camp
A medical camp in the central district of Gomba was overwhelmed last week by an overflow of locals rushing to get free treatment. The Mobile Medical Camp was set up in Kabulasoke village is an...
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‘My sisters are being held against their will in Rwanda’
When two elephants fight, the grass suffers, so goes an old African adage. This is probably true for the family of Pastor Deo Nyirigira, 67. A resident of Kakyeka in Mbarara municipality, the pastor’s...
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How thieving gangs rule Kisekka market
Under a thin veil of normalcy, an organized gang of thieves clad in mechanics’ overalls prey each day on unsuspecting car owners looking for cheap car parts at Kisekka market, a busy stretch of road...
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Uganda Airlines '99.9% owned by private individuals'
The much-awaited revamped Uganda Airlines is 99.9 per cent privately owned by an undisclosed individual(s) - with government owning just 0.0001% of the airline's shares. This revelation was disclosed...
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Assassin killing: Nantaba, police clash
In a brief interview and later in a more elaborate statement sent to The Observer yesterday, state minister for ICT, Idah Erios Nantaba seems to challenge parts of the official police narrative of...
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Gov't now regains 'full ownership' of Uganda Airlines
The government has, in a remarkable snap, allegedly regained the full ownership of Uganda Airlines Company Limited from the 2 shares owned just a day before to 2 million (100%) shares. During the...
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Minister Kutesa briber, Patrick Ho jailed for 3 years in US
Hong Kong's former Home Affairs secretary Patrick Ho Chi Ping was on Monday jailed for three years for a scheme to bribe African officials including Uganda's Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa to...
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Rwandan national collapses and dies at Kyanika border
A Rwandan national has died moments after crossing into Uganda where she had reportedly come in search of food. The deceased has been identified as Elizabeth Mukarugwiza, 37. At the time of her death,...
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Police 'regrets' killing wrongly suspected assassin
Police has apologised and regretted the gunning down of a wrongly suspected assassin Ronald Ssebulime moments after he was captured alive. Ssebulime was shot dead on Sunday along the Kayunga-Mukono...
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Kyambogo strike: canister shatters student's hand
Abraham Kansiime, a student of bachelor of Automotive and Power Engineering at Kyambogo University has lost hand after it was shattered by a teargas canister.Kansiime sustained serious damage on his...
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New twist in Uganda Airlines ownership, ministers 'allotted shares in error'
The ownership of Uganda Airlines has taken yet another twist today after government withdrew from parliament the documents presented yesterday because they had errors regarding the allotment of shares....
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12 killed in Mogadishu restaurant blast
At least 12 people were killed and more than 20 others injured when a car bomb exploded Thursday outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital. Witnesses tell VOA's Somali service the blast occurred...
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Bahati denies benefitting from South Sudan compensation
The state minister for Finance in charge of Planning, David Bahati has denied owning a company that benefitted from compensation over loss of business in South Sudan. Bahati was on Wednesday...
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Soroti University secretary arrested for financial impropriety
Ruth Achimo, the Soroti University secretary is in trouble for alleged financial impropriety. She was picked up from her office on Thursday by detectives travelling in a white van believed to be...
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Iran flash-flood death toll up to 44
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that the death toll from flash floods across the country has risen to 44 from 17. The Thursday report quotes Hamidreza Khankeh, an official in the...
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