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12 Mar '26
KAMPALA – The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has applied to the High Court Criminal Division in Kampala seeking orders to protect key prosecution witnesses in the treason case against opposition figure Kizza Besigye and two others.In a Notice of Motion filed under Se
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12 Mar '26
Appearing before Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Ramathan Ggoobi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Secretary to the Treasury.Parliament has been told that at the current rate of funding allocated to settle government domestic arrears, it could take more than four deca
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12 Mar '26
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has urged Lira residents to support the Milton Obote Airport project in Anai despite a court case filed over land encroachment claims.Health Minister, also Lira City Woman MP, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng addressing residents about the proposed Milton Obote Airport pr
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12 Mar '26
In a powerful and emotional display of desperation, mothers in some of Johannesburg's most crime-ridden suburbs have issued a heart-wrenching plea to the South African government: "Don't take the soldiers away." As the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) launched a massive, high-impact o
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12 Mar '26
Jimmy Akena Obote, President of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), has firmly rejected the controversial Administration of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2024, describing it as unnecessary and unhelpful to Uganda’s parliamentary system.In an interview on Next Radio’s Next Big Talk pro
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10 Mar '26
A thunderous alarm has been sounded over Uganda’s lifeline for public medicines after the latest report from the Auditor General ripped open the operations of the National Medical Stores, exposing a web of operational failures, delayed drug deliveries, expired medicines worth billions and deep-
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09 Mar '26
Incarcerated National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy president in charge of Buganda Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi wants the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Lino Anguzu to speed up his criminal trial on charges related to terrorismIncarcerated National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy president in
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09 Mar '26
Kampala, Uganda: Civil society organisations have raised alarm over Uganda’s growing public debt and widening gaps in health sector funding, warning that the latest Auditor General’s report exposes serious weaknesses in the management of public resources.The report examined 182 ministr
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09 Mar '26
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda is hurtling toward a systemic social and economic crisis as a rapidly aging population outpaces a retirement savings framework that currently excludes 16 million workers.While the national pension sector appears robust on paper—with assets surging 21 percent to
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09 Mar '26
In the latest episode of the very popular Bad Natives Podcast, comprising of Andrew Mwenda, Robert Kabushenga and Onyango-Obbo, the Independent Magazine CEO asserted that it was too early for anyone to write off DP President Norbert Mao in the Speakership race.He went as far as claiming th