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🟥 TREASON: Besigye charged at Nakawa court

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court has remanded Retired Col Dr Kizza Besigye and his co-accused Obeid Lutaale Kamulegeya and Captain Denis Oola on charges of treason and misprison of treason. Prosecutors allege that the charges were committed in various countries including Switzerland, Greece, …

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Xinhua, Jiji Press sign MoU on media cooperation

TOKYO | Xinhua |  President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua met with Katsuhiko Sakai, president of Japan’s Jiji Press, in Tokyo on Tuesday, and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance media cooperation. Noting that the media is an important bridge for political exchanges, economic cooperation and cultural …

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Final journey for former IGP Okoth Ogola starts today

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The country is giving former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Boniface Aron Okoth Ogola a final salute with a funeral service starting 9am today at All Saints Cathedral Nakasero. The Government has granted an official burial to the late former IGP. The body leaves for …

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“Why doesn’t Kizza Besigye just EAT?”

COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | You cannot miss it. The hauntingly sunken face of Kizza Besigye. Winnie Byanyima, Besigye’s wife, told AFP that Besigye went on a hunger strike on February 10 protesting his continued illegal detention. His detractors, still harping on about the performative antics of activism, claim that Besigye’s …

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Fair thee well, George Okurapa

We would unashamedly campaign for Okurapa again as Makerere Guild President were the clock to wind back TRIBUTE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Around February 1985, forty (40) years ago, Uganda’s Makerere University Northcote (now Nsibirwa) Hall chairman Maurice Rutakingirwa (RIP) and I, a then Northcote-based ruling Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) …

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Deep Tech Center of Excellence launched in Namanve

Accelerating Uganda’s Leap into the New Economy Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  In a strategic move to accelerate Uganda’s leap into a knowledge-based economy, the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Secretariat, in collaboration with Future Lab, the Research to Industry Centre of Excellence, the Uganda National Council of Science and …

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Ggoobi meets Airbus, Sagemcom Energy bosses in France

Secretary to the treasury Ggoobi preaches markets, investment and tourism to Ugandan diaspora community in France Paris, France | THE INDEPENDENT | Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury Ramathan Ggoobi has met Sales Director of Airbus Michael Guiraud on day three of his four day working visit of France. Uganda Airlines …

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