The World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) has awarded funding to the International Center for Research on Women, for an innovative project to stem gender-based cyber violence (GBCV). ICRW identified cyber violence against women as a growing and untreated phenomenon. The Ugandan team called cyber violence against
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A former government minister in Uganda has called for the castration of foreign businessmen who sexually abuse female employees. The call from Miria Matembe, former minister of ethics and integrity, came after she heard the testimony of two women who said they had been sexually abused at work, the newspaper
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More details have emerged of President Yoweri Museveni's meeting with the Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani held at the latter's palace, Emir Dewani. President Museveni together with the First Lady, Hon. Janet Museveni are on a three day state visit in Qatar. According to reports, the two
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Three Ugandan Police officers have defied directives by Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu to demolish their food kiosks. They are Herbert Mwesigye, Barbie Nathan and Sylvia Namuwombe. According to local news agency, URN, in January this year, Makerere University demolished all kiosks on the university campus in
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned the US he is ready to launch a “super-mighty preemptive strike”. State media launched the broadside as the ongoing war of words between Pyongyang and Washington DC continued. The announcement ominously warned the regime would “reduce America to ashes” and added: “Don’t mess with
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A United Nations official said on Wednesday 82 aid workers had been killed in South Sudan's civil war and the number of its citizens displaced by the fighting now stands at 3.5 million. Two years after its much celebrated birth as an independent state, South Sudan plunged into conflict in
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Joining hands with Americans across the nation, Patriotic Millionaires marched on Saturday to demand that President Trump release his taxes. At a time when trust in the American government is at an all-time low, President Trump is creating more hostility and more distrust. "I believe our government has important responsibilities
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Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), a government body in charge of promoting investments in the country is becoming tough on fake investors. Business Focus has established that since 2013, 136 ‘investors’ have lost land offers in Kampala and Namanve Industrial Parks after failing to develop it. In an exclusive interview, Hamza
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The Middle East Africa (MEA) region has become increasingly important for the majority of global Fortune 500 companies, according to a new report released by Infomineo, a global business research company specialising in Africa and the Middle East. The report focuses on multinationals looking at entering, or already present, in
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Uganda's army says it has begun pulling its forces out of the Central African Republic where they have been fighting members of the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA, led by Joseph Kony, were notorious for terrorising the population of northern Uganda in the 1990s and
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