Pictures have been emerged on social media sites showing what appears to be a bullet hole in hind screen of Uganda's opposition leader, Kizza Besigye. [caption id="attachment_5480" align="alignnone" width="539"] GRAPHIC: The lifeless body of the young man shot dead in the clashes[/caption] According to reports, this happened as the former
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Labour recruiting and exporting agencies have spoken out for the first time on the 48 Ugandan workers who have died in Arab countries as a result of reported torture and mistreatment. Addressing journalists at BMK House in Kampala on Wednesday, Andrew Tumwine Kameraho, the Chairman of Uganda Association of External
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Uganda’s opposition has said they will not respect Police order stopping them from holding joint consultative rallies on Constitutional Amendment Bill (No2) 2017. The controversial Bill better known as Age Limit Bill seeks to amend article 102b of the Uganda constitution so as to allow a person beyond 75 years
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As competition for Uganda’s banking sector goes mobile, Standard Chartered Bank Uganda (StanChart) has announced a new strategy to dominate digital banking in Uganda. Addressing the press at their head offices in Kampala on Wednesday, Albert R. Salton, the StanChart Uganda Managing Director, said that the clients’ needs have constantly
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A senior official at the Kenya’s electoral commission (IEBC) has left her post and fled to the US. Roselyn Akombe gave several reasons for her decision: 1. Security Ms Akombe said her life was in danger and that her brother had been receiving threats too. She cited the murder of
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Police in Uganda have refused to give permission for an event which was to be headlined by Afrobeats artist-turned-politician Bobi Wine because he "uttered words that are inciteful to the public". He had made the offending comments during a previous concert, the police said. The lawmaker, whose real name is
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China has entered a "new era" where it should "take centre stage in the world", President Xi Jinping says. The country's rapid progress under "socialism with Chinese characteristics" shows there is "a new choice for other countries," he told the Communist Party congress. The closed-door summit determines who rules China
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Africa holds the key for feeding the nine billion people that will inhabit this planet by 2050, the President of the African Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said during his Norman Borlaug Lecture delivered on World Food Day. The Laureate also called for land
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A top Kenyan electoral official resigned and fled the East African nation a week before a scheduled rerun of an annulled presidential vote, saying it won’t be credible. Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission staff face intimidation by political actors and protesters, senior personnel are serving partisan interests and the training
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African countries that are signatories to the Maputo Protocol have been urged to safeguard reproductive health rights of women by permitting abortion in cases of sexual assault or where pregnancy poses a risk to the physical or mental health of a woman. States have also been urged to decriminalize abortion
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