VIDEO: All the six members of Parliament hailing from Kasese district including the district Chairman and the Omusinga of Rwenzuru Charles Wesley Mumbere are now living in fear after getting death threats from unknown people. It is these threats that have forced the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanya to direct …
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VIDEO: Who “kidnapped” Rtd.Col.Dr. Kizza Besigye moments after the plane he was travelling in touched the ground at Entebbe International Airport? According to Besigye, officers wearing Civil Aviation Authority uniforms picked him from the aircraft, put him in a CAA vehicle, and drove him to the old airport where he was handed …
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VIDEO: The Civil Aviation Authority has denied claims by Ugandan opposition politician Dr. Kizza Besigye that he was arrested by their staff at Entebbe airport soon after returning from London, and then forcibly driven back to his home in Kasangati. Share on: WhatsApp
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VIDEO: President Yoweri Museveni has with immediate effect halted the policy that mandates all primary school head teachers to have university degrees. The president says head teachers who are diploma holders are now in panic to enroll for degree programs which he says will affect work in their schools. Share on:
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International community slams fresh call for war in S.Sudan Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The international community on Thursday hit out at a call from South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar for renewed war with the government, raising concerns about heavy fighting in recent weeks. Machar, the former vice president, …
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Friday Ghana vs Uganda, 6.30pm (LIVE SS4/UBC) Group A :Libya, Guinea, DR Congo, Tunisia Group B: Zambia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria Group C: Gabon, Morocco, Mali, Ivory Coast Group D: Burkina Faso, South Africa, Cape Verde, Senegal Group E: Uganda, Congo, Egypt, Ghana Matchdays 1: Oct 3-11 2016 2: Nov 7-15 …
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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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Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Michael O’HAGAN | Standing on a drab side-street next to an open sewer in the Ugandan capital Kampala, Brian Mugabi points to the site of his former family home and reflects on how much the game of chess has changed their lives. Ten years ago Mugabi …
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