Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been accused of sexually abusing women in the war affected country. Human Rights Watch said on Monday that at least 13 women and girls have been sexually exploited or abused since 2015. The human rights body adds
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President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, his AU reform advisory team and close to 40 African Ministers of Foreign Affairs met on Monday in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss the implementation of the African Union (AU) reforms adopted in January 2017. In July 2016, at the 27th African Union Summit, member States
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Kitgum Municipality Member of Parliament, Beatrice Anywar has dismissed death rumours making rounds on social media, noting that she’s alive. “They have killed me several times with rumours but whoever they are must be ashamed of their evil thoughts. They must be political opponents," Chris Obore, the Director of Communication
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Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni got grilled over the weekend on Talk To Al Jazeera and handled the interview admirably well. Reading between the lines, it is clear that Museveni has a lot of unfinished business, a thing that may see him bounce back in 2021. “I want to see the political
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Youth in Sub-Saharan countries says failed fight on corruption and unemployment are the biggest failures by their governments, according to the latest poll by Geopoll. The poll reveals that Ghana, Kenya and Uganda lead in as far as failure by governments to tackle corruption and unemployment. This means President Yoweri
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Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is seen rising between this year and 2019, helped by better commodity prices and improved global conditions, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday. The bank said in its latest "Africa's Pulse" report economic growth was seen expanding to 2.6 percent this year
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A year ago the view from Ugandan teacher Richard Inyani's mud hut was wilderness, land untouched since the 1990s and the murderous rampages of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Now it's a sprawl of tarpaulin shacks housing thousands of South Sudanese, refugees fleeing a three-year civil war that has triggered
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Uganda's Civil society budget advocacy group (CSBAG) has called upon Government to reduce what they called wasteful expenditure as portrayed in the 2017/18 financial year draft budget. Local news agency, URN, reports that in the proposed budget, items like allowances, workshops, seminars, welfare, entertainment, special meals and drinks, travel abroad,
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Details have emerged of how former Presidential candidate, Premier and Secretary General of the country's ruling National Reistance Movement (NRM) party, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi is settling in a life out of the hustle and bustle of politics. A close family source intimated to us that the former 'Super Minister'
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Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni has said Accounting Officers and Auditor are to blame for the rampamt corruption in the country. The president made these remarks on Thursday during the 12th Annual National Internal Audit conference today at Speke Resort, Munyonyo. "So when we talk about misappropriation of funds it is mainly
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