Ugandan academic, writer and feminist activist Stella Nyanzi has won the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020. Ms Nyanzi is a controversial academic, who campaigns on a variety of issues, from sanitary pads for schoolgirls to gay rights. In a conservative society, where homosexual acts are outlawed,
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The Secretary to Judiciary, Pius Bigirimana has decried the poor conditions Ugandan Courts are in. “In some courts, the suspects use the same doors as the magistrates and judges. You risk the life of judicial officer, they can be strangled. We have courts with no toilets. Can you imagine? It
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Kampala Parents’ School (KPS) candidates passed 2019 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) with flying colours. The results were released by Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) on Friday at Kampala Parents’ School and the event was presided over by First Lady and Education Minister, Janet Museveni. According to the results, KPS registered
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Outgoing U.S Ambassador to Uganda, Deborah Malac has said she will return and invest in the East African nation because of the existing good political climate, according to local reports. Malac is retiring from active government service for her country and concentrate on private work following 39 years of serving
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The practice of schools giving pupils and students pre-registration tests before they are registered for Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) exams must stop, Janet Museveni, the Minister of Education and Sports has said. Janet, who doubles as the First Lady made the remarks Friday while presiding over the release of
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Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the 2019 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), with results showing an improvement in performance. Releasing the results at Kampala Parents’ School on Friday, Dan Odong, the UNEB Executive Secretary said a total of 695,804 candidates from 13,475 centers sat the PLE in 2019. He
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The leader of Africa’s first economic war, Mr. Charles N. Lambert has advised People Power’s Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to shine the light where he should and avoid getting involved in activities beyond his level. Lambert has over time insisted and publicly endorsed President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as God
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation has made strategic changes to the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme Cycle. These changes, which took effect from January 1, 2020, will provide more value across the continent and achieve our mandate to transform the African continent through entrepreneurship. This is one of the announcements heralding the 10th
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The Uganda shilling was wobbly at the end of the trading week ending January 17th 2019 undermined by elevated demand mainly from interbank as banks covered positions. Trading was in the range of 3685/3695. In the shilling money market, overnight funds quoted at 6% while one week held at 9%.
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The secretive world of naval underwater surveys rarely breaks the surface. Now recent events are briefly shining a light into the darkness. In the Adriatic a Croatian fishing vessel caught one of the U.S. Navy’s undersea sensor systems last week. That mysterious object has largely been explained. Meanwhile, China has
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