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Ugandan activists call for changes in women’s polls

A civil society organisation has petitioned the Constitutional Court asking it to stop men from participating in the election of women MPs and women councillor elections. Sisimuka Uganda (Reawakening Uganda) founded by Frank Gashumba, a businessman. The noted that MPs representing other special interest groups like the army, workers, People …

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KCCA calls time on Uganda’s street preachers

  Kampala street preachers may be no more if Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) comes good on a plan to prosecute them with perpetrators facing fines of Shs40, 000 or two months imprisonment. For a long time, street preachers have become a mainstay in Kampala, some taking their trade to …

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DP row escalates

The row going on in the country’s oldest political party, the Democratic Party has escalated with police planning charges against DP Vice President Buganda region Betty Nambooze and six of her colleagues. Nambooze and team attempted to organize a rally in Masaka which police blocked saying it was unlawful. Police …

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UPDF winds up CAR mission

Uganda is in the process of withdrawing UPDF troops from the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), where Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels fled after they were routed from northern Uganda a decade ago. A total of 31 UPDF soldiers landed at Gulu airfield in the first …

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Kyambadde vouches for Chinese on petty trade

Minister for Trade and Industry Amelia Kyambadde has backed Chinese businessman in the country who are under fire for being involved in petty trade. Kyambadde told MPs there is no provision in the law excluding foreigners from carrying out trade in the country. She told the parliamentary committee on trade …

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Suspect pins police on crime

At a press conference where he appeared before the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura, Juma Muyirwa a suspect in the killings in Masaka, revealed that the meetings of thugs who have been carrying out killings in Masaka, Kampala and Wakiso are coordinated and guarded by police. Muyirwa said the …

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