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Teso North lawmaker urges Senate to back push for NG-CDF retention
Star
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Teso North MP Oku Kaunya/HANDOUT Teso North MP Oku Kaunya has urged senators to support the National Assembly’s push to retain the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), warning that its scrapping would undermine grassroots...
Bahrain Participates in Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization Meeting in Uganda
The Daily Tribune - News Of Bahrain
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TDT | Manama Ambassador Dr. Yousef Abdulkarim Bucheeri, Director-General of Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led Bahrain’s delegation to the 63rd annual session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization...
Agency Leaders to Boost Publicity of Government Achievements
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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September 10, 2025
A union of various government agencies has mutually agreed to enhance the publicity of their achievements thus far, stating that President Yoweri Museveni-led administration has done a lot, but not all of it has been duly publicised. This was...
How money politics is tearing NRM apart
Observer
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September 10, 2025
When the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) held elections for its Central Region Central Executive Committee (CEC) seat last August, the vote was meant to be an internal affair, routine, procedural, a chance for cadres to choose a...
Polls show Zohran Mamdani holds biggest lead yet in NYC mayor’s race
The American Bazaar
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September 9, 2025
Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is holding a commanding lead in the race for New York City mayor, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll released Tuesday. The survey, reported by Politico, found that 46 percent of likely voters...
International News Briefs for Monday, September 8, 2025
Havana Times
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September 8, 2025
HAVANA TIMES – We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Monday, September 8, 2025. Israeli Military Blows Up Three High-Rise Residential Buildings in Gaza City Sep 08, 2025 The Israeli military has blown...
Support grows in Uganda for ICC action against rebel leader Joseph Kony
Africanews
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September 10, 2025
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court began presenting evidence Tuesday to support charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the court's first-ever in absentia hearing, alleging he inflicted horrors that still echo two...
Ssenfuka hails Museveni’s support: Can Uganda get cancer, diabetes cure?
Observer
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September 10, 2025
For more than a decade, David Ssenfuka has lived in the shadows of Uganda’s medical establishment, quietly dispensing herbal remedies for cancer and diabetes from his research centre in Kampala. Patients who felt abandoned by conventional...
Arua to host Uganda’s World Tourism day as sector grows 24%
Observer
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September 10, 2025
In late September, Uganda will join the rest of the world in marking World Tourism day, but this year’s national celebration will carry a distinctly regional flavor. For the first time, the festivities will be held in Arua city, the gateway to the...
In Amuria, digital lessons on wheels offer new hope for Ugandans
Observer
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September 10, 2025
In a push to expand digital literacy in Uganda’s informal sector, more than 300 people in Amuria district have completed training under the Digi-Truck project, a government initiative launched to equip small-scale traders, artisans, and...
Uganda Launches “Beera Ku Guard” to Boost Cybersecurity Awareness
TechTrendsKE
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September 8, 2025
When it comes to cybersecurity, awareness in Uganda has lagged behind the rapid pace of digital adoption. Nearly half of the population has heard of the term, but only a fraction truly grasp the risks and responsibilities tied to personal data. To...
In Uganda, victims of war crimes still wait for compensation
Observer
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September 10, 2025
Decades after the guns fell silent in northern Uganda, survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency continue to wait for justice. Many endured abductions, rape, mutilation and the loss of loved ones. Courts have convicted senior...
NRM elections and the public good
Independent (Uganda)
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September 10, 2025
Tanga Odoi (right) announces the nomination of President Yoweri Museveni as NRM flag bearer before full scale electioins at all levels of the party started How the ruling party’s competitive elections produce a government that serves individuals...
WFP report: 20 million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa now receive government-led school meals
World Food Programme
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DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship...
Speaker Among fronts inclusivity in global governance
Independent (Uganda)
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September 10, 2025
Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, delivering President Yoweri Museveni’s speech at the AALCO Conference in Kampala Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker Anita Among urged member states of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation...
Government asks corporate companies to complement its efforts in addressing water scarcity in rural communities
Independent (Uganda)
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September 8, 2025
Ministry and UBL officials at the launch of the water project Kumi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has asked corporate companies to back up the government’s efforts to develop water infrastructure in water-constrained regions in the...
‘Binary thinking’: Why Zohran Mamdani’s African identity doesn’t fit US racial boxes
The Guardian
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September 10, 2025
Amid the trees clustered with jackfruit and the boda boda motorcycles weaving precariously around Kampala’s congested roads earlier this year was a campaign poster for Katongole Singh, an immaculately coiffed candidate who positively beamed...
Collapsing buildings: Uganda’s deadly cost of cutting corners
Observer
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September 10, 2025
Last July in Buziga, an upscale Kampala suburb, construction workers crawled from the rubble of a collapsing building. Several were injured; one died. The tragedy felt all too familiar. Just a year earlier, another building had come down in...
U.S. shifts deportation plan from Uganda to another African nation after migrant’s legal appeal
Business Insider Africa
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September 6, 2025
The decision follows Abrego’s successful legal challenge against an earlier plan to send him to Uganda, which he opposed on grounds of possible persecution and torture. In response, U.S. authorities formally designated Eswatini, formerly known as...
Uganda: Locals eye 40pc deals in $3bln Malaba-Kampala railway project
Zawya
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Local suppliers are pushing for at least 40 percent of the project contracts – with a target of retaining $500 million – from the first phase of Uganda’s flagship standard gauge railway. Construction is expected to begin in April 2026 trailing...