COMMENT | Samson Tinka | As the year closes in, the public is occupied with many activities – some personal, work related, government or non-governmental. These activities are associated with huge numbers of people at same places, movements, shopping and merrymaking. Every person is rushing to close the year on a positive note. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the year-end festivities and business transactions pick up pace, the police have issued a warning to mobile money dealers and Village Savings and Credit Cooperation Organizations (SACCOs), highlighting their susceptibility to armed robberies during this period. This follows a recent surge in armed …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bishop of Namirembe Diocese, Rt. Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira celebrated his last Christmas at the helm of the first diocese in the Church of Uganda province. Prior to the delivery of his sermon to hundreds of congregants at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Bishop Luwalira …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is time the country resorted to dialogue to end attacks on security personnel and abductions, Dr. Samuel Stephen Kazimba Mugalu, the Church of Uganda Archbishop said. Kazimba who was delivering his Christmas sermon at All Saints Church at Nakasero said nothing is unsolvable once …
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Why early Christians wouldn’t have found the Christmas birth story of the messiah so surprising COMMENT | Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III | Every year on Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of their religion’s founder, Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. Part of this celebration includes the claim that Jesus was born from a virgin …
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How to rekindling its spirit COMMENT | Dion Forster | If the media, popular entertainment, and retail habits are taken as indicators then the celebration of Christmas is no longer just the reserve of Christians. This has some consequences for the religious and non-religious alike. In popular culture and the media, Christmas …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The acting Chief Political Commissar, Hadijah Namutebi, has cautioned police officers and civilians against killing and injuring one another over unmet Christmas expectations. Namutebi who was meeting community liaison officers and civilians in markets, taxi parks, and boda boda riders in Kampala said every Christmas, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government should give an account of every person who has remained incommunicado as a Christmas present to their families, Catholic Bishops have requested. This was part of the Christmas message delivered by Rt. Rev. Joseph Antony Zziwa, the chairman of the Uganda Episcopal Conference …
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Xinhua | Brazilian football legend Pele will spend the festive season in hospital as he fights advancing cancer, doctors and his family confirmed. The 82-year-old was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital late last month to treat a respiratory infection and reassess chemotherapy. “[Pele] presents …
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COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | African native festivities are to a great extent about eating chicken. The stature and trait of feathers on an indigenous chicken may, however, determine the Ugandan consumers’ preference for its meat during this festive season. Some revellers in Uganda are craving for or even willing …
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