Ghana President Mahama concedes defeat Accra, Ghana | AFP | Ghana’s President John Mahama called opposition Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday to concede defeat and congratulate him on victory in the country’s hotly contested election, a party official said. “Yes he has conceded defeat,” George Lawson of Mahama’s New Democratic Congress …
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PICTORIAL: President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni Friday hosted guests to the annual Thanksgiving at State House, Entebbe. In his speech, he said “If you read the book I wrote recently, ‘The Mustard Seed’, you will see that I have known God directly and I thank Him for …
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COVER STORY: Makerere University in the age of emotion and blackmail: Apparently, the university’s top management organ; the University Council, adopted paying the incentives without a proper budget. If it had budgeted, it would have realized that the incentives scheme was neither affordable nor sustainable as it is supposed to be …
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Accra, Ghana | AFP | Opposition challenger Nana Akufo-Addo has a clear lead in Ghana’s hotly contested presidential election, local media reported Friday, although official results have yet to be released two days after the vote. And supporters of incumbent President John Mahama insisted he had emerged triumphant again, despite …
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An officer who says he arrested Dominic Ongwen in January 2015, is still waiting for the $5 million that the US promised in 2013 as a reward for information that would lead to the capture of the LRA leader. According to a report in France’s LeMonde, Major Amat Mounir of …
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Trade, Industry and Cooperatives minister Amelia Kyambadde maintains elections of Uganda National Chamber of Commerce (UNCC ) will not take place this month because of “national security threats”. She has issued a new statement confirming the cancellation. This follows a press briefing in which UNCC head Olive Kigongo said the elections …
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The trial of Muslim clerics accused of murdering their colleagues resumed on Thursday with a prominent businessman from Masaka Hajji Yasin Kakomo accusing Sheikh Mohammad Yunus Kamoga and 13 other people of masterminding the operations. Kakomo told court that Tabliq leader Kamoga and his colleague had made threats before the …
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Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it has introduced a new policy requiring all companies involved in labor exports to pay for transportation costs of those stranded or those being mistreated abroad. Head of the diaspora department at the ministry Patrick Muganda Guma said that the decision to have …
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By Ronald Musoke The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has been dragged to court by a local civil society organization in an attempt to force it to release details of an environment impact assessment it sanctioned four years ago allowing a Chinese firm to do quarrying activities in a village …
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VIDEO: The Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has summoned the IGP Kale Kaihura and the Army commander Gen. Katumba Wamala to answer queries regarding the Kasese attacks that led to the deaths of over 80 people. Parliament wants them to explain the deaths that followed the arrest of the Omusinga Charles …
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