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USA: Kayihura wife, son hiding his assets
With the US investigation expanding, each day adds a new layer of detail to the depth and breadth of former Inspector General of Police General (IGP) Kale Kayihura’s troubles with the US. Department of...
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Meteorology authority improves climate forecast systems
At the district headquarters office where he sits, Robert Anguzu, the district disaster focal person receives the monthly Uganda National Integrated Early Warning System (U-NIEWS). The U-NIEWS has...
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Police fires bullets, teargas to disperse FDC supporters in Hoima
Police in Hoima today fired live bullets and teargas to disperse rowdy supporters of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party who were protesting against a move to block their candidate...
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Botswana deports 900 Namibian refugees
GABORONE, BOTSWANA - The first group of more than 850 Namibian refugees was deported Tuesday from Botswana, after resisting calls for voluntary repatriation. The refugees fled their home country in...
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Kyazanga police officer shoots self dead
Police in Lwengo district is investigating circumstances under which a police officer attached to the Field Force Unit (FFU) at Kyazanga police station reportedly shot himself dead. Wilson Kalungi,...
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Activists want details on Kenya oil contract with Chinese firm
Kenya has exported its first shipment of oil, worth about $12 million, under a deal with the Chinese petrochemical company, ChemChina. Members of a civil society group are demanding transparency,...
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Cameroon courts paralyzed as lawyers strike over torture
Cameroon's law courts are at a standstill as lawyers for a third day Wednesday defy government threats and continue to protest what they say are widespread unbearable rights violations that include...
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Ugandan gold miners exported 8,000kgs but declared only 16kgs
Gold miners in Uganda officially declared only 16.3kgs despite exporting at least 8,691kgs declared, civil society organisations, the Anti-Corruption Coalition (ACCU) and Transparency International...
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URA registers Shs 149bn revenue shortfall for August
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) realized less revenue last month with both domestic and international taxes performing poorly. According to the ministry of Finance filings for the month, collections...
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NRM disowns "nailed" supporter
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party leadership in Mbale district has disowned a man who claims to have been nailed in the mouth for composing a song praising President Yoweri Museveni. It came...
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Suspected thug shot dead while breaking into Lubaga church
A security guard has shot dead a suspected thug suspected of breaking into Lubaga Catholic shrine in Rubaga Division Kampala to steal offertory. Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick...
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Matembe: My time in Museveni’s cabinet
Written and published 16 years after she left the ruling NRM government, a new book by Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe, a former ethics minister, sheds new light on the character of President Museveni’s...
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Missing Mukono man found dead in Entebbe
Simon Odur Akena, 34, who went missing last Saturday has been found dead on the shores of Lake Victoria. Akena, a resident of Mukono disappeared from around Ntinda, a Kampala suburb. A case of...
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Woman arrested over torturing 6-year-old boy
A 29-year old woman, Peninah Kukunda has been arrested on accusations of torturing a 6-year-old boy.Kukunda reportedly locked the child inside a house and used several objects to torture the boy for...
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South Africa declares 'femicide' a national crisis
The South African government has declared gender-based violence a national crisis. According to a new government report, a woman is murdered every three hours in South Africa, and many are assaulted...
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Parliament's Obore sent on forced leave, ordered not to return
The director for communications and public affairs at parliament Chris Obore has been sent on forced leave. Jane Kibirige, the clerk of parliament wrote to Obore on Wednesday, noting that "I have been...
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1,000 Commonwealth MPs meet in Munyonyo
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) kicked off today at the Speke Resort, Munyonyo with closed meetings of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) regional secretaries. Also...
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IGP Ochola orders probe into extortion by police surgeons
The inspector general of police Martins Okoth Ochola has directed the Criminal Investigations Directorate to probe allegations of extortion by police surgeons. The directive follows public outcry on...
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Juma Seiko's bodyguard sentenced to 35 years over murder
A former bodyguard of Lt. Col. Juma Seiko is to spend the next 35 years in jail for murder.Justice Flavia Anglin Senoga of the High court Criminal Division found Alex Cherotich guilty of murdering...
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School collapse in Nairobi kills 7, injures over 60
Part of a school building collapsed in central Nairobi Monday, killing at least seven children. Dozens more were injured. What was supposed to be an ordinary day at Precious Talent Top School was...
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