Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda’s communications regulator on Wednesday ordered the country’s main independent newspaper the Daily Monitor to shut down its website. In a letter to the newspaper’s managing director, the head of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Godfrey Mutabazi, said the Daily Monitor had failed to register …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira Municipal has temporarily halted payment of annual registration fees by boda-boda operators. The suspension of payment of 30,000 shillings was authorized by the Mayor, Mike Ogwang Olwa. The decision stemmed from series of complaints filed by the cyclists who want the fees reduced to …
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Brasília, Brazil | AFP | Brazil’s leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remained in prison Wednesday as two supreme court judges issued competing orders over whether he should be released while he tries to get his graft conviction overturned. Lula, 73, was given unexpected hope earlier in the …
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Makerere suspends new fees structure Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | After two days of strikes at Makerere University, Prof. Barnabus Nawangwe the Vice Chancellor on April 18 suspended the new plan to increase fees until further notice. Nawangwe said the decision to suspend the fees increment in the colleges of …
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