The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has destroyed 413 metric tonnes of substandard goods worth Shs3.5 billion as it intensifies the fight against substandard products. The goods destroyed included electronics, cosmetics, steel products, iron sheets, food stuffs, toilet papers, agro-inputs, cooking oil, second hand tyres, beers, paints, and cereals,
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Ugandan Afrobeats star and MP Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, has appeared before a military court in the northern town of Gulu on charges of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition, his lawyers say. Contrary to earlier reports on state media, he has not been charged with treason. However, 32
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A section of MPs belonging to the ruling National Resistance Movement party have condemned the ‘trumped up charges’ preferred to their fellow MPs in Gulu Chief Magistrates’ Court. MPs including Paul Mwiru, Kassiano Wadri and Gerard Karuhanga among other politicians were Thursday afternoon charged with treason for allegedly destroying the
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Activists behind the protest against the Mobile money and Over The Top Services (OTT) aka social media taxes were Thursday morning thrown out of Parliament Committee of Finance, after MPs denied having invited them for the meeting. The group made up of lawyers Godiva Akulo and Silver Mugisha and journalists
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Residents of Kamwokya, a suburb on the outskirts of Uganda's capital, Kampala on Thursday blocked roads and set logs alight as they protested the arrest of Kyadondo East lawmaker, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. Social media has been awash with some pictures of what has been happening in the suburb,
Read MoreMrs Sobukwe will be remembered for her courage, resilience and fortitude during the fight for liberation when her husband was jailed in Robben Island by the Apartheid government PRETORIA, South Africa, August 16, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Presiding Officers of Parliament, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete and National Council
Read MoreEngaging young people through use of information and communication technologies as a solution to end hunger and poverty KIGALI, Rwanda, August 16, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Youth Employment in Agriculture Conference will bring together more than 500 delegates, mostly young people, from across Africa to discuss ways to boost
Read MoreSouth Africa will remain a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika as Outgoing Chair until August 2019 PRETORIA, South Africa, August 16, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- President Cyril Ramaphosa will from 16-18 August 2018 lead South Africa’s delegation to the 38th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of
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Uganda's opposition kingpin, Kizza Besigye has demanded the immediate release of arrested lawmakers. Besigye, a former president of the opposition FDC, made this demand on Thursday while addressing the media at Katonga road in the capital, Kampala. "We demand that all those persons being detained by the junta should be
Read MoreThe committee instructed the department to provide those details on (Friday 17 August 2018) before the committee goes back to Parliament PRETORIA, South Africa, August 16, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Portfolio Committee on Public Works, has in its week long oversight visit in the Eastern Cape, visited on Monday
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