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Ugandan Editors Tackle AI Regulation, Ethics, and Journalism Integrity at WAN-IFRA Workshop
I Africa
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September 5, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, ethics, and newsroom integration took center stage at a workshop held on Aug. 20, 2025, organized by the Uganda Editors Guild in collaboration with the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The...
Indus Towers forays into international markets, eyes Uganda
Independent (Uganda)
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September 8, 2025
Gurugram, India | THE INDEPENDENT | Indus Towers Limited has announced that its Board of Directors, at a meeting held earlier in the day, reviewed and deliberated on strategic opportunities to expand the Company’s footprint across select...
UN rights chief denounces ‘glorification of violence’ and attack on rule of law
UN News
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September 8, 2025
“No one is safe when human rights are under attack,” Mr. Türk told the Human Rights Council, warning that the rules of war “are being shredded”. “Some States are becoming an extension of their ruler’s personal power,” he insisted. In his customary...
Trump’s legal dragnet closes in on Kilmar Abrego García
El País
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September 8, 2025
Kilmar Armando Abrego García has been held in a detention center in Virginia since August 25, and is facing a second deportation. The government has proposed two possible destinations for the Maryland resident — Uganda or, as revealed last week,...
ICE says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini because he fears deportation to Uganda
The Daily Record - Maryland
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September 8, 2025
Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda. The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s...
Migrant Battalion: How African governments collude with Russia to recruit young women into its arms industry
Africa Uncensored
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September 8, 2025
Young Africans recruited from at least fifteen African countries were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often trapped, facing dangerous working conditions, strict surveillance, and difficulties returning home....
President Museveni Pledges to Uplift Veterans from Poverty
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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September 5, 2025
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has vowed to intensify efforts to improve the welfare of veterans who fought in Uganda’s liberation struggles, saying that it is unacceptable for those who risked their lives for the country’s freedom to languish...
President Museveni Meets NRM Mobilizers
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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September 5, 2025
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today flagged off National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobilizers from all over the country to sensitize the masses on different government programs aimed at lifting the lives of the wanainchi. “It seems you are...
Walipini Impact builds greenhouse in Uganda
Utah Statesman
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September 8, 2025
This summer, Walipini Impact, a benefit corporation based out of Logan, had the opportunity to build a greenhouse in Kampala, Uganda for the Grace Place Ministry. This build marks their first official build outside of the United States and their...
Bihar Elections: From unemployment to migration, Tejashwi Yadav directs 12 questions at Nitish-Modi government
Financial Express
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Bihar elections are approaching, and as is visible, the political heat is rising across the state. Parties are busy sharpening their attacks and leaders are leaving no chance to target each other. The campaign mood has shifted online as well,...
Uganda to train Central African Republic armed forces
Africanews
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September 5, 2025
After years of instability and collapse, the Central African Republic is scrambling to rebuild its armed forces. And Uganda has stepped in to help. On Thursday, a batch of new recruits departed Bangui's Mpoko Airport for Kampala for training. For...
Uganda’s SGR edges forward but hurdles remain
Independent (Uganda)
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September 5, 2025
President Yoweri Museveni (C) flags kick off start of construction of the Standard Gauge Railway at an event held in Tororo proposed main station on November 21, 2024. Progress on land acquisition has also advanced, with 150 km – about 55% of the...
Global Development Initiative and Military–Civil Fusion Synergy: China’s Strategy for Global Influence
Observer Research Foundation
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Introduction Since Xi Jinping assumed leadership in 2013, the People’s Republic of China has launched a number of initiatives to augment its global influence, technological prowess, and military modernisation. These efforts are rooted in the...
Kenya, Uganda embark on parallel finish of their SGR lines
Zawya
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After a decade of accumulating air miles between Entebbe, Nairobi and Beijing, officials in Kampala say the wait is over and a modern rail link between Uganda and the global value chains through Kenya – its main seaport gateway– is taking shape as...
How Benjamin Netanyahu shaped Israel in his own image
The Week Magazine
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September 14, 2025
First elected as prime minister in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu has won five elections since, making him the longest-serving leader in Israel’s history (exceeding even David Ben-Gurion, its founding PM). He has spent just 18 months out of office since...
‘All I see is blood’: Survivors recall horrors ahead of fugitive Ugandan warlord Kony’s trial
The Straits Times
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September 8, 2025
GULU, Uganda – Every evening, Ms Everlyn Ayo would leave her village in northern Uganda, trekking with thousands of other children known as “night commuters” hoping to escape the horrors of fugitive warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance...
Mpox No Longer International Health Emergency: WHO
News Today Net
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September 8, 2025
The viral infection spreads through close contact and typically causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions. “This decision is based on sustained declines in cases and as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in other affected countries...
‘We were forced to eat our teachers’: Survivors recall horrors as Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony faces international trial
Malay Mail
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September 8, 2025
GULU, Sept 8 — Every evening, Everlyn Ayo left her village in northern Uganda, trekking with thousands of other children known as “night commuters” hoping to escape the horrors of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. The messianic Kony,...
Legalizing 2 and 3 Wheelers for Transport: The Next Step in Zambia’s Mobility Revolution
News Diggers
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September 5, 2025
The Ministry of Health’s recent announcement to introduce a tri-wheel ambulance service via a mobile app marks a bold step toward improving healthcare access. The plan, according to Dr. Kennedy Lishimpi, aims to ensure timely patient transport in...
Elections 2025: Mamdani Visits Bronx on Five-Borough Tour, Discusses Small Business Policy
Norwood News - New York
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September 4, 2025
By SÍLE MOLONEY DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL NOMINEE Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (A.D. 36) holds a press conference on Aug. 14, 2025 inside Nohble clothing store on Jerome Avenue in the Fordham section of The Bronx to discuss how he plans to support small...