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When Your Phone Becomes Your Enemy: Loan Apps Feast on Desperate Ugandans

When Your Phone Becomes Your Enemy: Loan Apps Feast on Desperate Ugandans

(Kampala) – In a country where the price of a rolex (the edible kind) now rivals that of a boda boda ride, the cost of living is pinching harder than a kameeza wife eyeing her husband’s thin wallet. And as Ugandans grapple with the ever ascending prices of k

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Remove names of colonialists from public roads, court told

Remove names of colonialists from public roads, court told

With barely a month to Uganda’s 62nd Independence anniversary, a concerned citizen calling himself a historian, has asked the court in Kampala to issue orders to the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to immediately remove from all roads and streets within

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2026 polls: Activists call for protection of women against violence

2026 polls: Activists call for protection of women against violence

A coalition of domestic violence activists under the Women Movement of Uganda has urged government to commit on ensuring protection of females against electoral violence during the 2026 polls.Stella Rose Akut

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Service award case: Parliament clerk withdraws application to avoid disciplinary action

Service award case: Parliament clerk withdraws application to avoid disciplinary action

The clerk to parliament has withdrawn an application in which he sought, among others, the recalling of the ruling in which disciplinary proceedings were recommended against him for negligence during the controversial ‘service award’ of Shs1.7b to four back-

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UJA meets EU delegation ahead of World Press Freedom Day

UJA meets EU delegation ahead of World Press Freedom Day

A delegation of the European Union (EU) to Uganda has held a meeting with the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) ahead of the 2024 May 3rd World Press Freedom Day (WPFD).The meeting was held at the EU offices in Kampala recently.UJA team was led by the association’s p

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Tribute To Kenya's Famous Legendary Chief Justice Martha Koome

Tribute To Kenya's Famous Legendary Chief Justice Martha Koome

Kenyan peasant farmers welcomed Chief Justice Martha Koome into the world in 1960. She grew up with seventeen other children from two mothers in a polygamous household. She has three children from her marriage to Koome Kiragu.

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LEAVE ME ALONE: "I can't Sell My Kidney Or Children To Pay You"-Embattled District Boss Tells Off City Lawyer

LEAVE ME ALONE: "I can't Sell My Kidney Or Children To Pay You"-Embattled District Boss Tells Off City Lawyer

Capt Omara: Does He Want Me to Sell My Children to Get the Shs350m?All is not well for Abim District LCV Chairperson Capt (Rtd) Yuventine Omara after a city lawyer gave him a two-week ultimatum within which to clear his outstanding legal fees amou

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Arrested teacher Ssenfuma, who is accused of visiting a 15-year-old student, with intentions of defiling her, might walk away with no charges: Legal brains weigh in

Arrested teacher Ssenfuma, who is accused of visiting a 15-year-old student, with intentions of defiling her, might walk away with no charges: Legal brains weigh in

Kato John Ssenfuma, a 40-year-old teacher at one of the schools in Mityana, was arrested earlier this week on allegations of attempting to defile a 15-year-old girl, a student at the school where he teaches.The incident has become a public matter, sparking massive reactions, with the major

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