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Uganda: Why I Fled Kampala - Nyanzi

[Nairobi News] Ugandan political activist Stella Nyanzi has exclusively told Nairobi News she was forced to escape into Kenya after her partner was abducted by President Yoweri Museveni's regime.

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Sudan: Museveni's Powerful Sudan Fixer Dies After Contracting Coronavirus

Ms Gadaheldam has been an almost permanent fixture on the sides of President Museveni in regional meetings to deal with relations with Sudan under former President Omar-al-Bashir and current military leader Gen Abdel Fatah

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Mau Mau (1952-1960)

The Mau Mau Uprising, a revolt against colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 through 1960 and helped to hasten Kenya’s independence. Issues like the expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from settler farms, loss of land to white settlers, poverty, and lack of true political representation for Africans

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Uganda: There's Nothing Museveni Can Do to Regain Popularity He Had in the Past

[Monitor] I first saw President Museveni physically in 1988 when I was in secondary school. He was on a whistle-stop tour of Mpigi District and travelled by helicopter from Gombe (his first stop) to Kanoni, the headquarters of Gomba District, then a county, and the birthplace of presidential

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Uganda: High Court Rules Police Halting Bobi Wine Concerts Illegal

Robert Kyagulanyi, a member of Uganda’s National Assembly popularly known as Bobi Wine says he is not excited about a court ruling that declared police orders to halt his concerts in the country

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Rwandan Genocide Fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, Arrested After 25 Years On the Run

French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police

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Uganda: As With Many Things, the Rise of Lake Victoria Is the Fall of Some

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Uganda: Truck Drivers - Haunted Essential Workers

From these, several youths and women used to eke out a living, with many of their clients being truck drivers from Kenya, Tanzania and other countries who would offload their cargo at the container depots in the

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Uganda: Education Discusses Strategy On School Reopening

The Ministry of Education was yesterday locked in a meeting to decide how schools will partially reopen two weeks from today after President Museveni allowed candidates to

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Uganda: COVID-19 Cases Spike to 203 After 43 Truckers Test Positive

Uganda has announced its biggest coronavirus cases spike in a day after 43 truck drivers tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, May

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Uganda: COVID-19 Cases in Uganda Jump to 260

The number of COVID-19 cases in Uganda now stands at 260 after 12 new cases were registered on

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Uganda Executive, MPs in Tussle Over Use of COVID-19 Funds

Despite seeming to have softened his stance on the Ush10 billion ($2.6 million) that Ugandan legislators allocated themselves as part of the Covid-19 supplementary budget, President Yoweri Museveni is said to have ordered an audit of the

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Uganda: EC Rejects Opposition Demands On Elections

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Uganda: Body of Ugandan Business Man Shot in Rwanda Repatriated

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Uganda: Polls - Museveni Deploys Spies to Stop Violence

[Monitor] President Museveni has said security agencies, especially the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), are set to deal with anyone who will cause violence in Kampala and other parts of the country during the election period.

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Uganda: COVID-19 - Experts Speak On 20 Percent NSSF Payout

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Uganda: Uproar As COVID-19 Fund Asks Workers to Donate Shs10, 000 Each

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Rwanda: Lawyers Protest Refusal By Ugandan Court to Recognise Rwanda Law Practice Diploma

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Uganda: Kadaga Halts Tabling of Economic Stimulus Package, Cites Govt Delays

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Uganda: Only 2,500 Stranded Ugandan Citizens Want to Return - Museveni

President Museveni on Monday warned of "serious trouble" if all the two million Ugandan citizens trapped outside the country because of the virus induced lockdown returned

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Uganda: Parliament Tasks Govt to Waive Water, Power Bills for 6 Months

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