Buganda Road Court has convicted two men in Kampala who were recently arrested with protected animal species. Chief Magistate James Eremye convicted Daniel Gumwa and Calvin Mwanje both residents of Kampala, on their own plea of guilt, and ordered Gumwa to serve six months in Luzira prison while Mwanje should …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | New militia groups, some “opportunists”, others “downright criminal”, have emerged in South Sudan since renewed violence erupted there last July, the head of an international ceasefire monitoring team said Friday. Talking to the press in Nairobi, Festus Mogae, a former president of Botswana who leads …
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Paris, France | AFP | Algorithms are a crucial cog in the mechanics of our digital world, but also a nosy minder of our personal lives and a subtle, even insidious influence on our behaviour. They have also come to symbolise the risks of a computerised world conditioned by commercial …
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National Resistance Movement (NRM) party officials have indicated that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) could lose out in the race to fill Uganda’s nine places in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Appearing on the NBS TV political show Frontline on Thursday night, the NRM Electoral Commission chairman Dr. …
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COVER STORY MPs catch Shs500bn ‘mistakenly’ given to defense budget: Museveni was planning to use money to buy spying equipment, say MPs NEWS ANALYSIS Why Kenya lost fight for AU top job: And why East Africa lost more over outdated voting habits at continental body THE LAST WORD Why …
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Friday Champions League KCCA (UGA) v Primeiro Agosto (ANG) 4pm , Phillip Omondi Stadium Saturday CAF Cup Vipers (UGA) v Volcan (COM) 4.pm, Mandela stadium Namboole Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Up to 18 players at the just-completed Africa Cup of Nations could be involved in the new-look …
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Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump reaffirmed Washington’s ‘One China’ policy on Thursday in his first conversation with Xi Jinping, an apparent effort to ease tensions after angering Beijing by questioning a major plank of Sino-US relations. During a phone call with China’s leader, the US president …
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Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The European Union announced aid worth 225 million euros ($240 million) for The Gambia on Thursday as President Adama Barrow warned that the nation was “virtually bankrupt” due to economic mismanagement by the former regime. The EU froze assistance to The Gambia in December 2014 …
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Cape Town, South Africa | AFP | A brawl broke out in South Africa’s parliament Thursday as guards exchanged punches with opposition lawmakers who shouted down President Jacob Zuma as he tried to deliver his state of the nation address. In chaotic scenes, guards in white shirts forcibly ejected about …
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Los Angeles, United States | AFP | A US court on Thursday unanimously refused to reinstate Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat. The ruling from the federal appeals court in San Francisco on …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
