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From Infrastructure To Health, What Next? China Takes Lead In Fighting Cancer In Uganda

By Our Reporter In Uganda, the month of February is used to create awareness against cancer, a non-communicable disease that is causing...

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East Africa

Uganda,Kenya To End Cross Border FGM

By Our Reporter Kenya and Uganda have signed a landmark agreement to end cross border female genital mutilation (FGM) between the two...

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Africa

Former LRA leader/child Soldier Dominic Ongwen Found Guilty By ICC

By Our Repoter The International Criminal Court (ICC) has delivered its verdict on the former Ugandan child soldier who became one of...

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Africa

From Fighting, Floods, Famine & Now COVID; Inside South Sudan’s Crisis Stockpile

By Our Reporter Tucked away behind the bend of a swollen river, an hour and a half by motorboat from the region’s...

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National

Nambooze to push for the Anti-alcohol Bill again

PARLIAMENT: Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze Bakireke is to resume plans to push for her Anti-alcohol Bill. The vocal legislator...

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Just In

Speaker Kadaga launches Institute of Parliamentary Studies to train MPs

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has launched an institute of Parliamentary studies to orient and train new...

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Latest News

Myanmar Military Warns Of ‘action’ As protests Row

By Our Repoter Thousands take to streets across Myanmar for third day as activists urge workers to stage a general strike and...

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Breaking

Internet Services Thrilled As MTN Uganda Launches Home Fibre Access

By Our Reporter MTN Uganda has launched its first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services for home users, adding to its existing range of business...

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Big Story

Byabashaija reshuffles top prisons officers in new appointments

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Dr Johnson Byabashaija, the Commissioner-General of Prisons has made new prison appointments, reshuffled and sent some senior prisons officers on...

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Crime

JUST IN! Another Journalist Mike Muhima abducted by police

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Mike Muhima a digital journalist working with Kawowo Sports, an online newspaper who has been missing since Friday last week...

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Breaking

Police Report Exclude Arson In Makerere University Fire

By Our Reporter Investigations into the fire that gutted Makerere University’s iconic 76-year-old Main building has excluded a possibility of arson. The...

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Breaking

Red Pepper and BTM TV Journalist Hadad Mubiru found dead

KANYANYA, KAMPALA (UG): Police in Kanyanya, Kampala Division is investigating the death of Former Red Pepper and BTM TV journalist Hadad Mubiru...

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Africa

MTN Group On Cloud9 As Its Annual Earnings Double On Uganda Tower Sales

By Our Reporter MTN Group, South Africa’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, said on Friday that it expected 2020 earnings to nearly...

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Africa

Uganda on High Alert as New Ebola case is detected in Eastern DRC

A new case of Ebola has been identified near the city of Butembo in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the...

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Election Watch

Suspended district polls to be conducted today – EC confirms

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Electoral Commission (EC) has set today to conduct elections for local government positions in more than 50 electoral areas...

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Africa

4 soldiers injured in UPDF Helicopter crash in Somalia

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA: At least 4 Ugandan soldiers picked up injuries following a UPDF helicopter crash in Somalia on Friday, The African Union...

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Latest News

KABALE: UCC Principal dead after fighting with son over rentals

KABALE, DISTRICT: Justus Ariho Twinomujuni, the Deputy Principal of Uganda College of Commerce (UCC) Kabale is dead after picking up a fight...

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Latest News

Morocco defeat Mali 2-0 to retain CHAN title

CHAN 2020 Final: Sunday February 7, 2021. FT Result: Morocco 2:0 MaliMorocco became the first nation in history to retain the African...

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Sports

Rajiv Ruparelia Tips FMU on how to make huge money from the sport

SPORT: Rajiv Ruparelia the chairman Trustee Central Motor Club has shared tips with the Federation of Uganda Motor sports on what needs...

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Latest News

Minister Janet Museveni on Reopening of Schools, ‘children below 6yrs to stay home’

SCHOOLS REOPENING: The Education Minister and first lady Mrs. Janet Museveni has clarified that nursery schools handling children aged three to six...

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Court

Museveni asks Court to dismiss Bobi Wine’s petition with costs

ELECTION PETITION: President Yoweri Museveni has through his lawyers asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Bobi Wine’s election petition seeking to challenge...