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World News

Joy, fear as India’s population becomes world’s biggest

It was also the day the UN announced that India, already home to more than one in every six humans on the...

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Featured

2023 Africa Wealth Report: Uganda ranked 15th among countries with most billionaires in Africa

According to the report, Egypt has the highest number of billionaires in Africa, while Mauritius has by far the highest wealth per...

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Campus Link

Makerere University, UNDP, launch Youth and Innovation Expo to Spur Innovations

The 2023 Youth and Innovation Expo will be a two-day event held on August 25-26, 2023 starting from 9:00 am to 5:00...

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Big Story

NUP’s Fred Nyanzi ‘begs’ Museveni for dialogue With opposition parties

Nyanzi urged Ugandan political leaders to borrow a leaf from Kenyan politics, where opposition parties dialogue freely with the government and move...

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News

Hon Angweri to drag Lira City Council, Clerk to court over illegal suspension

Ms Angweri was suspended for allegedly violating the council rule of procedure and behaving in a disorderly manner when she shouted at...

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National

Kabale Roads: Multiplex given three months to complete construction works

Multiplex Construction Company Limited was handed the project funded by World Bank on 27 May 2021, and it was expected to be...

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Football

Uganda Cranes to host AFCON fixture against Algeria in Cameroon

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Uganda Cranes will host their next TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier game against Algeria in Cameroon, the FUFA President...

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National

DNA confirms Pastor as father of 14 children suspects of human trafficking

The children most of whom were aged between 1-6 years were rescued from Nkoowe village, Kaliti parish in Mende sub-county in Wakiso...

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Big Story

LOP Mpuuga breaks silence on NUP term limits

Earlier NUP spokesperson Joel Senyonyi said the amendment demonstrates that they want to subject themselves to the same standards they aspire to...

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Breaking

One dead, scores injured as Kampala-bound taxi overturns in Mityana

Fred Makanga, an eyewitness at the time of the incident told this reporter that the driver of the commuter taxi was driving...

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News

Police suspend officers who assaulted NUP Female MP, Supporters in Buvuma

The group was arrested on April 21 at Kyanja Village, Bwema Sub County in Buvuma District after police dispersed a crowd that...

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Crime

Teacher, 26, arrested for defiling 12-yr-old pupil in Mbale

The mother told police that the teacher had been allegedly luring her daughter to come to school at 5 am for coaching,...

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Crime

Police bust panga-wielding gang terrorizing Kampala residents

The gang, who were armed with machetes, had been robbing people on major roads in the two divisions, particularly on Ring Road,...

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Sports

Uganda’s Chesang wins bronze in Hamburg Marathon

The Hamburg Marathon attracted a star-studded line-up of Ethiopia's Tiruye Mesfin, Tsige Haileslase and the Kenyan duo Marion Kibor and Dorcas Tuitoek.

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CMI arrests two soldiers for swindling late General Kazini’s pension

It is alleged that Byamugisha and Kimula in 2017 while in Kampala Capital City with intent to defraud opened fictitious bank accounts...

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Court

Court to deliver judgement in Kirumira murder on Monday

Last month, court assessors asked the court to acquit Kalungi on grounds that the prosecution had failed to place him at the...

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Speaker Among’s Press Team Breaks Silence on Withdrawal of her Security over Iron Sheets Saga

The post purportedly tweeted by Novelist Kankwenza Rukirabashaija yesterday alleged that Ms Among's security detail had been withdrawn from her making her...