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1.0KRegional funder to support US$985m EAC 5th Development Strategy
Arusha: The African Development Bank (AfDB) has promised to support the East African Community (EAC)’s 5th Development Strategy, which requires US$985 million...
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1.1K‘Endemic’ sexual violence surging in South Sudan, UN says
UN: Despite the signing of a peace deal between belligerents last September, UN investigators found that at least 175 women and girls...
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1.0KVatican defrocks former US cardinal over sex abuse
VATICAN: Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession...
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1.1KFirst ever Africa Protected Areas Congress launched in Nairobi
KAMPALA: This year’s Valentine day was marked on Thursday with special African flavour that saw the launch of the first-ever Africa Protected Areas...
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1.6KSouth African MTN Group to send officials to Uganda over CEO deportation
KAMPALA: The South African MTN Group is in preparations to send a delegation to Uganda to meet top government officials, following Thursday’s...
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1.2KShs270b injected in Crane Bank by BoU can’t be traced
KAMPALA: The Auditor General has, in a confidential report to the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, said the Shs272.6b which Bank...
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2.2KBakaleke co-accused Paul Wanyoto jailed over 700m fake gold fraud
CRIME: A renowned embattled city lawyer Paul Mugoya Wanyoto and businessman Zabassajja Ndyanabanji have been remanded by Buganda road chief magistrate’s court...
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1.1KPanicky Nawangwe moves to close Makerere University school of law
MAKERERE: Embattled Makerere University vice chancellor, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe on Tuesday asked the university to close School of Law indefinitely for allegedly...
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1.6KCOSASE: MMAKS Advocates sweat plasma over Shs4.2b received from BoU in Crane Bank takeover
KAMPALA: Lawyers Timothy Masembe and Appolo Makubuya of MMAKS Advocates finally appeared before MPs on parliament’s Committee on Commission, Statutory Authorities and...
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5.6KFORTEBET: Uganda’s New Betting King Wins A Record 632m
KAMPALA: A new Uganda’s betting king emerged over the weekend after winning a record never-won 632 million shillings. Certainly, the next question...