So far this year, about 86 000 migrants have come to Europe from Africa OSLO, Norway, September 24, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- ‘The loss of thousands of lives on the journey across the Sahara and the Mediterranean is a terrible tragedy. Norway is therefore providing a further NOK 60 million
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The Uganda Police Force has denied claims made by Winnie Kiiza, the former Opposition Leader in Parliament that the army had taken siege of her home in Kasese, describing her claims as lies. On Sunday evening, the Kasese Woman MP took to facebook and asked Ugandans to pray for her
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Lawyers for a prominent critic of Rwanda's President Kagame say they believe one of the trial judges is biased because of her involvement in pre-trial detention hearings, and must therefore be removed. The trial, which began today at the High Court in Kigali, has been postponed. Diane Rwigara faces charges
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At least 14 civilians were killed on Saturday in a six-hour attack by rebels on the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials told Reuters, warning the unrest may hamper efforts to quash an Ebola epidemic in the area. The latest outbreak of the deadly disease
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South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar turned down an invitation Saturday from President Salva Kiir to visit the South Sudanese capital Juba. Machar, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM IO), told Kiir in a meeting in Khartoum that the environment in South Sudan is not
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Fellow Ugandans home and abroad, and our comrades in the struggle all over the world, I greet you all and thank you for your standing firm and remaining steadfast in these hard times. As you all know, more than a month ago on 13th August, many things happened which I
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As the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo reaches 100, according to the World Health Organization, the health ministry has suspended all outreach work due to insecurity in the area. This means that teams involved in contact tracing and vaccination are
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Former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Commander Dominic Ongwen is a proud father of a bouncing new child. The child whose gender has been concealed was conceived during the second leg of a private family visit his wife and children made last year from the custody of the International Criminal Court's
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The Government of Uganda has delayed the implementation of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) by two and a half years due to blame games. During a meeting held between MPs on Public Accounts Committee (PAC), officials from the Ministry of Works and SGR, who had been summoned to respond to
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Tycoon Rajiv Ruparelia, son to Uganda’s richest man, Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia will today hold a splendid first wedding anniversary. The only invite event that will attract Uganda's creme de la creme will take place at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Rajiv held his marvelous wedding with his sweetheart Naiya at a Picturesque
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