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Anti-Corruption March: Museveni Reads Riot Act to Protesters

Web News 22 July 2024 171 0

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has warned protesters planning an anti-corruption march on Tuesday that they are “playing with fire” and will not be tolerated. BBC reports on Sunday that the protesters, mostly young Ugandans, are demanding an end to corruption in government and have been Continue Reading

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Prominent Pastor Survives Attempted Murder

Web News 3 January 2024 238 0

Prominent Ugandan religious leader and businessman Aloysius Bugingo has survived an attack by unknown gunmen who killed his bodyguard in the capital, Kampala. The gunmen opened fire on Pastor Bugingo’s vehicle while he was going home on Tuesday night along Namungoona area. The attackers later escaped the scene on a motorcycle. Despite sustaining injuries during […]Continue Reading

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Two Arrested over Ugandan Olympian’s Death

Web News 2 January 2024 220 0

Police in Kenya have arrested two suspects believed to have been involved in the death of Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat on Sunday. The athlete, who has represented Uganda at three Olympic Games, was found dead in his car near the Kenyan town of Eldoret. A senior police commander in the area, Stephen Okal, said the […]Continue Reading

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Ugandans Pay Tribute to Man Who Exposed Idi Amin’s Atrocities

Web News 20 October 2023 533 0

Ugandans have been sharing their tributes to a former minister in the Idi Amin government, Henry Kyemba, who died on Thursday from diabetes-related complications aged 84. He is described as having been a fixture in Uganda’s public life, serving in different positions in the governments of Amin and Milton Obote, as well as the current […]Continue Reading

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Twenty in Police Net over Uganda School Massacre

Web News 20 June 2023 1109 0

Ugandan Police say they have arrested 20 people suspected of collaborating with Islamist militants believed to have attacked a school last Friday. The Head Teacher and School’s Director are among the detained. Forty-two people mostly students were killed at Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe in Western Uganda. Many were burnt to death in their dormitory. […]Continue Reading

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Once Street Boy, Kavuma’s Uganda Ghetto Kids in Britain’s Got Talent Final

Web News 4 June 2023 1789 0

A group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of hit UK talent show Britain’s Got Talent, where they have won over the judges and the public with their dazzling dance moves and bubbly personalities. They have already made history after becoming the first act to be given a […]Continue Reading

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Ugandan President Assents Anti-Gay Bill

Web News 29 May 2023 1403 0

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the controversial anti-homosexuality bill, despite condemnation of Western countries and human rights activists. The bill was first passed by MPs in March but was returned to the parliament for amendment. In the new law, the offence of homosexuality is now limited to gay sexual acts. People convicted under […]Continue Reading

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Anti-Gay Bill: Museveni Fixes Meeting with Uganda’s Mps

Web News 20 April 2023 344 0

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is due to meet MPs from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Thursday to discuss the controversial anti-homosexuality bill passed by parliament last month. The meeting will take place at State House in Entebbe, according to a statement by the NRM parliamentary caucus chairperson, Denis Obua. All MPs are required […]Continue Reading

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Uganda Arrests Second Minister over Alleged Theft of Iron Sheets

Web News 16 April 2023 428 0

Uganda’s Deputy Finance Minister Amos Lugoloobi has been arrested in connection with the misappropriation of iron roofing sheets meant for vulnerable people in the northeastern Karamoja region. He is now the second Ugandan minister to have been detained over the corruption scandal. It follows this week’s court appearance by the minister for the region, Mary […]Continue Reading

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Uganda’s Parliament Slams Stiff Penalty on Homosexuals

Web News 23 March 2023 384 0

People who identify as gay in Uganda risk life in prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activities. It also includes the death penalty in certain cases. A rights activist told the BBC the debate around the bill had led to fear of more attacks on gay people. “There is […]Continue Reading

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Uganda Announces Relieve From Ebola Outbreak

Web News 12 January 2023 468 0

Uganda has declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central Mubende district on 20 September 2022. Uganda’s Minister of Health. Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, said, “Uganda put a swift end to the Ebola outbreak by ramping […]Continue Reading

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Twelve Ugandans Die from Suspected Poisoning

Web News 22 August 2022 556 0

Police in north-western Uganda is investigating the deaths of a dozen people who are suspected to have consumed a locally manufactured gin. The deaths are said to have been registered between Saturday and Sunday in the Madi-Okollo district. Several others, including one trader who was selling the gin known as City 5 Pineapple Flavoured Gin, […]Continue Reading

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DR Congo Soldiers Cross into Uganda as M23 Claim Capture of Bunagana

Web News 13 June 2022 720 0

Dozens of soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have crossed into Uganda after the M23 rebels blocked the main road to Rutshuru. Ugandan army spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulaigye told the BBC that the soldiers were being received at a Ugandan army barracks at the border town of Bunagana. A source told the BBC […]Continue Reading

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Meet The African “Samson”

Web News 13 April 2022 3603 0

The first recorded case of a man killing a lion with bare hands was in the Holy Bible, and the man that did that was Samson. Another record of a similar feat was also found in the Scriptures, talking about the man called David, who killed a lion that took one of his father’s sheep […]Continue Reading

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Uganda: Veteran Leader Yoweri Museveni Declared Election Winner

Web News 16 January 2021 628 0

Uganda’s long-time President Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected, electoral officials say, amid accusations of vote rigging by his main rival Bobi Wine. Mr Museveni won almost 59% of the vote, with Bobi Wine trailing with about 35%, the Electoral Commission said. Bobi Wine, a former pop star, earlier vowed to provide evidence of fraud. The […]Continue Reading

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Nikita Pearl Waligwa: Disney actress who was ‘darling to many’ dies at 15

Web News 17 February 2020 692 0

The teenager’s secondary school in Uganda said she would be “dearly missed”. 15-year-old Disney star has died from a brain tumour, her secondary school has said. Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who starred in the 2016 film Queen Of Katwe, passed away on Saturday at a hospital near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. She had been in and […]Continue Reading