Le Cap, South Africa | AFP | South African retired Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu celebrated his 85th birthday on Friday saying he would like to be allowed the option of dignified assisted death. “Today, I myself am even closer to the departures hall than arrivals, so to …
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Former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has paid tribute to former Makindye Court chief Magistrate Richard Mafabi, calling him a man of integrity who served Uganda well. Besigye apparently beat police surveillance at his home in Kasangati to attend the funeral of Mafabi in Buteza village, Sironko district. Meanwhile the …
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COVER STORY: Governance crisis `Clueless’ Parliament meets `lazy’ Executive Governance crisis feared as `clueless’ Parliament and the Executive fail to deal with major issues facing the country just weeks after the World Bank froze new lending to Uganda because of the government failure to fully use already borrowed money, and parliament …
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Manufacturers in Uganda can look forward to reduced costs of electricity and interest rates as the country helps to boost the sector and create jobs, President Yoweri Museveni has said. He said the aim is for manufacturers to pay sh169.39 ($5cents) per unit up from sh372 ($11cents) for electricity per …
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A bail request by four of seven Somali nationals accused of aiding and abetting an Al-Shabab attempt to carry out a second bomb attack on Kampala in 2014, has been denied a second time because they have no permanent residence in Uganda. International Crimes Division court Judge Ezekiel Muhanguzi dismissed the applications of Muhammed Abdul …
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Uganda has been re-elected member of the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) council at the ongoing General Assembly in Durban, South Africa. The country’s revenue authority URA also won two awards, coming top in Africa in the 2016 Innovation Awards in Customer Service and the Innovation Awards for Modernization. The new ATAF Council elected for …
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The Constitutional Court has set October 13 to rule on an application for a temporary order on the government decision to purchase vehicles for Members of Parliament. In August Twaha Sanywa Twaha, a resident of Kajjansi, petitioned the court challenging the decision to buy cars for MPs of the 10th Parliament, …
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Lusaka, Zambia | AFP | Zambia’s opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema was arrested Wednesday on charges of sedition and unlawful assembly, police said. Hichilema, who disputed the result of August polls which re-elected President Edgar Lungu, was detained along with Geoffrey Mwamba, the vice-president of his United …
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A political activist from Bunyoro Kitara Rodgers Kanti has asked the Constitutional Court to quash the appointment of Security Minister Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde, saying a previous conviction made him ineligible for cabinet. Kanti’s petition states that that Tumukunde was in 2012 convicted by the Makindye General Court Martial for a crime involving moral turpitude and …
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Electricity distributor, Umeme is set to receive a $25 million loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fund the expansion and upgrade of its distribution network. This is second time that the electricity utility firm is receiving a loan from the world’s financial institution after it received $70million in …
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