Titus Jogo, the officer in charge of the refugee desk in Obangi district, which borders Arua, said a briefing from police said the fight was triggered by quarrels over a water source. Juba, Police authorities in Arua district, Uganda, say a Friday fight between South Sudanese refugees at the Rhino Refugee
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President Museveni (L) shakes hands with Bobi Wine. They are set to face off in 2021 polls Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) has confirmed nomination dates for various elective positions. According to Acting EC Spokesperson Paul Bukenya, the nomination of candidates for Presidential Elections will be conducted on 2nd and 3rd
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Preliminary results of the trials are expected in November Kenya will participate in final clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. It will be the second African country to be involved in the trials that were suspended on Wednesday after a participant had a
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Police have recovered two dead bodies along Nakivubo Channel at Clock Tower near Total fuel station, today after a heavy downpour. The two bodies were carried by flood water from different places. The first body to be retrieved is of female juvenile aged 12 years, identified as Namazzi Alyera, a
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Members of Parliament disregarded President Yoweri Museveni’s warning against increasing their salaries, a decision that has seen bloodshed for people to go to Parliament. The revelation was made by President Museveni while meeting the aggrieved parliamentary aspirants in Mbarara and Sembabule districts, where he met NRM parliamentary aspirants and other
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Kayoola bus assembled by Kiira Motors Corporation When will Uganda start manufacturing the highly publicized electric cars? This is a key question frequently asked by Ugandans. This is because the production date of cars in Uganda has kept shifting. Having failed to hit the 2018 date it set out in
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Officials in eastern Democratic Republic Of Congo say 58 people have been killed in two attacks. A rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of being behind the violence. It has killed hundreds of civilians in recent months. Seventeen people are also missing and are thought to
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A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should be returned to his family, Belgian media are reporting. Lumumba, who became Congo's first prime minister after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, was murdered in 1961 after he
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The explosion that rocked Beirut last month, killing at least 190, was a grim echo of prior accidents caused by the explosive synthetic fertilizer ammonium nitrate. Tianjin, China, 2015: 173 dead. West, Texas, 2013: 15 dead. Toulouse, France, 2001: 31 dead. Such incidents go back at least as far as
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Nobel peace laureate Denis Mukwege has been placed under the guard of United Nations security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo after death threats against him. The gynaecologist and his colleagues have treated tens of thousands of rape victims and he went on to share the Nobel Prize in
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