Vienna, Austria | AFP | Another moving chapter in the story of the Viennese Jewish Ephrussi family — made famous in the book The Hare With Amber Eyes — has been written after around 40 members of the family reunited in the Austrian capital for the first time in decades. The …
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Dakhla, Western Sahara | AFP | In the heart of disputed Western Sahara, a former garrison town has become an unlikely tourist magnet after kitesurfers discovered the windswept desert coast was perfect for their sport. In Dakhla, an Atlantic seaport town punctuated with military buildings in Morocco-administered Western Sahara, swarms of kitesurfers …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Two top US diplomats delivered gripping testimony Wednesday about Donald Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival Joe Biden, as the impeachment inquiry into the president shifted into a new phase of high-stakes televised hearings. Trump dismissed the probe in the …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono municipal taxi park land has been solved off to a new developer without the knowledge of the municipal authorities. The taxi park operates on Kyaggwe block 530 plot 1-17 in Total ward along Kamapala-Jinja highway. The land belonged to the family of the late …
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Bamako, Mali | AFP | If military operations depend on winning hearts and minds, the thousands of foreign troops deployed to the Sahel to combat jihadism seem to be on losing ground. At first welcomed, these troops find themselves today in the crosshairs as a growing number of locals in this …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is carrying out consultations in a bid to ratify the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance- ACDEG. Head of Legal Department at the ministry, Ambassador Asaba Amooti says that while Uganda signed the charter in 2008, it has not yet ratified it. …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | William Otim alias Rasta Bosmic Joyce Otim, the People Power mobiliser for Northern Uganda is one of the 104,467 candidates sitting the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education – UACE exams that began on Monday. The local Afro-beat Popstar is writing his exams at Gulu Hall, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Amnesty Commission has demobilized 164 reporters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) over the last one year. The Commission says it demobilized most of the reporters from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it also made contact …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than Shillings 3 trillion is locked up in disputes before the Commercial court and High Court Land Division, URN has learnt. According to Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, the judiciary is struggling to free the money from disputes due to human resource gaps in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has cautioned the Government Chief Whip, Ruth Nankabirwa and the Executive against undermining the powers and role of the legislature. Kadaga says that she is concerned that while political parties have the right to caucus and make decisions on …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
