President Yoweri Museveni has warned leaders in Acholi sub region against blowing the Apaa land saga out of proportion. Museveni sounded the warning on Wednesday during the 6th phase of the nation-wide wealth creation campaign where he addressed leaders of Acholi sub-region at National Teachers College Unyama grounds, in Gulu
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Kenya is negotiating with the World Bank for a $750 million loan for budgetary support, documents on the proposed funding posted on the lender’s website showed on Tuesday. The East African nation has multiple development funding programmes, worth billions of dollars, with the Washington-based lender, but the funding bypasses the
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Rwanda has cautioned its citizens especially residents of Tabagwe Sector against using irregular, porous borders to cross into Uganda for any reason, with officials saying that they cannot assure them of their security once they have crossed, State-owned TheNewTimes reports. This was during a meeting with the residents around the
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Uganda’s growing appetite to borrow both domestically and externally has seen the country’s public debt hit Shs43 trillion in record time. According to the Report of Budget Committee on 2019/20 budget estimates released this week, the accumulating public debt points to increasing vulnerabilities to the country. The report that was
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Indian PM Narendra Modi has secured another five-year term after winning a landslide general election victory. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to win about 300 of the 543 seats in parliament, in what Mr Modi hailed as "a historic mandate". The main opposition alliance, which is headed by
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President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that dialogue is a good method of resolving political issues and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) believes in it. In a statement posted on his official facebook page, Museveni said: “In 1979 when fighting Amin, we met in Moshi and through dialogue formed UNLF
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The suspects in the killings of at least five pro-democracy protesters in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, have been arrested, the military council says. Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said the men had signed confessions without giving details about their identities or how many they were. A member of the security forces was
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A court in Kenya has ordered former President Daniel arap Moi to pay $10.5m (UShs39.5bn) in compensation to a widow for illegally seizing her land, BBC reports. Mr Moi transferred to himself 53 acres of land belonging to widow Susan Cheburet Chelugui, the judge ruled. The land was illegally grabbed
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The State Minister of Finance for General Duties, Gabriel Gadison Ajedra has lashed out at legislators, saying their recent approval of their salary enhancement by 39% was unnecessary. Ajedra told reporters at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday afternoon that the issue of MPs increasing their salaries was getting out of
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The leadership of the People's Government led by Dr. Kizza Besigye and People Power's movement led by Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, have resolved to join forces to expedite the end president, Yoweri Museveni's 33 year rule. This is contained in a joint statement issued signed by Besigye and Kyagulanyi
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