London, United Kingdom | AFP | British MPs must decide on Tuesday whether to back Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal in a vote that could clear the way for Britain to leave the EU on March 29. As the scheduled departure date loomed nearly three years after Britons voted …
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Turin, Italy | AFP | Cristiano Ronaldo has scored so many goals he gives Juventus “a great advantage” insisted coach Massimiliano Allegri as the Italian side look to overturn a two-goal Champions League deficit against Atletico Madrid in their last 16, second leg tie in Turin on Tuesday. “Cristiano has a lot of goals in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High court will on March 20, deliver its ruling on a bail application by Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA. The Court is trying Kwoyelo for 93 Counts of war crimes and crimes against …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Old Kampala Police station is investigating an attempted robbery planned by yet to be known people at Barclays Bank, Nakulabye Branch. It is alleged that the two security guards at the Bank dragged by unknown persons who then tried to break into the Bank …
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Singapore, Singapore | AFP | Australia and Singapore on Tuesday banned Boeing 737 MAX planes from their airspace and airlines around the world grounded the jets following a second deadly accident in just five months. On Sunday a new Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into a flight to …
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Alger, Algeria | AFP | Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced Monday he is dropping his bid for a fifth term in office, scrapping the upcoming elections altogether after weeks of protests against his candidacy. “Peacefully, we have overthrown the puppet!” people sang in Algiers following the president’s decision. Celebratory honking …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has criticized the decision by government to hold the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Parliamentary Caucus retreat in the course of business in the house. NRM legislators who are the majority in the house are expected to converge …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Luweero police are considering confiscating firearms and taking punitive action against 10 private security firms accused of defying a directive against deploying a single guard. The implicated security firms are Safety and Security Limited, SWAT Security Company, Security Group Uganda Limited, Kasuku Protection Services …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Herman Galiwango, the Masindi district senior registrar of titles has rough time on Monday evening before the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire Land Commission. Galiwango was appearing as a witness in the registration of a disputed piece of land in Lwengo District. In 2016, Galiwango transferred …
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Sengonzi Godfrey creates niche with egg-spiced concrete floor tiles Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | With Chinese tiles, Italian tiles, Turkish tile, Egyptian tiles and recently Ugandan tiles flooding the market, what chances would a budding entrepreneur have of finding success with a local tile? For Godfrey Sengonzi, the answer …
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