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Waigo and Kagombe win UCAA Seniors Open

  Kampala, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY |  John Paul Waigo and Edrae Kagombe have won the Uganda Civil Aviation Seniors Open held Sunday at Uganda Golf Club. Waigo beat a field of senior golfers from all over the country by returning the best score of 136 nett, while Mbarara Sports …

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EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s AI services

BRUSSELS | Xinhua |  The European Commission on Tuesday opened an antitrust investigation into whether U.S. tech giant Google has breached European Union (EU) anticompetitive rules, despite opposition from Washington. The probe focuses on whether Google has used content from web publishers and from its video-sharing platform YouTube for artificial …

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Trump wants to make Europe white again

COMMENT | ZAKI LAIDI |  Since his return to the White House, US President Donald Trump’s vision for the world – particularly for Europe – has often been difficult to discern amid his characteristic incoherence and bombast. His new National Security Strategy (NSS), however, sheds light on the principles driving his foreign-policy agenda. …

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Uganda’s energy development under Museveni

COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI |  President Yoweri Museveni views investment in energy as one of the fastest ways to transform a society and reduce poverty. Multiple studies back this perspective. One such study by the World Bank and the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that the single biggest driver of …

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Tanzania declares Dec. 9 protests illegal

DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua | Tanzania’s Minister of Home Affairs George Simbachawene on Monday urged citizens to avoid planned demonstrations scheduled for Dec. 9, declaring them unlawful and warning that participation will be treated as a criminal offense. Speaking at a press conference in Dar es Salaam, Simbachawene said …

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Riding a ‘mad tiger’ called Uganda

COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | Seasoned politician and Democratic Party (DP) President who is also the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Norbert Mao, in one of his philosophical and witty remarks, described leading Uganda as being as tough as riding a mad tiger. Meaning you have to be very …

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