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Butaleja teachers starve as corruption and payroll scandal deepens.

Butaleja teachers starve as corruption and payroll scandal deepens.

The Butaleja District Local Government has been plunged into a serious administrative crisis that has denied more than 60 newly recruited education personnel, including headteachers, deputies, and assistants, their pay for several months. This is further characterized by debilitating resource sho

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Achieving lasting remission for HIV.

Achieving lasting remission for HIV.

Around the world, some 40 million people are living with HIV. And though progress in treatment means the infection isn’t the death sentence it once was, researchers have never been able to bring about a cure. Instead, HIV-positive people must take a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs for the rest

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UN Holds Solemn Ceremony for Peacekeepers Killed in Sudan

UN Holds Solemn Ceremony for Peacekeepers Killed in Sudan

Abyei – The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) held a solemn memorial ceremony on Monday at its headquarters in Abyei to honour six Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed in a drone attack on the mission’s logistics base in Kadugli, South Kordofan, on Saturday.The attack

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Mengo: Kabaka’s Convoy Affected by Security Blockade Near Bulange

Mengo: Kabaka’s Convoy Affected by Security Blockade Near Bulange

The convoy of the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, was on Monday affected by a heavy security blockade mounted near Bulange Mengo, as the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and Police sealed off roads leading to the area.The blockade was enforced ahead of a visit by the op

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Phone Thieves Murder Three in Jinja City, Residents Demand Action

Phone Thieves Murder Three in Jinja City, Residents Demand Action

Residents from Jinja North, in Jinja City, have demanded immediate police action, following persistent attacks by hooded killers whose only aim seems to be stealing phones, but has resulted into the death of three residents in a space of one week.Police investigation tapeResidents f

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Uganda Election - Museveni Will Win, but the Landscape Has Changed Since His Last Victory.

Uganda Election - Museveni Will Win, but the Landscape Has Changed Since His Last Victory.

On the eve of Uganda's 2021 presidential election, it was clear that regardless of how Ugandans voted, the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, would most likely be declared the winner. Amid mounting repression, accusations of vote rigging, and an internet blackout, that is exactly what transpired. Museve

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Uganda: Kasese Cotton Farmers Decry Climate Change, Low Prices, Call for Government Intervention

Uganda: Kasese Cotton Farmers Decry Climate Change, Low Prices, Call for Government Intervention

Cotton farmers in Kasese District have raised fresh concerns over climate change and falling market prices, warning that the twin challenges are threatening the survival of one of the region's once most reliable cash crops.Farmers say prolonged dry spells

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Liverpool news: Mo Salah's dressing room message as Virgil van Dijk admits transfer stance

Liverpool news: Mo Salah's dressing room message as Virgil van Dijk admits transfer stance

The Liverpool dressing room have been left in no doubt about Mohamed Salah's intentionsMo Salah and Virgil van Dijk have been Liverpool's best players for close to a decade (Image: Getty Images)Mohamed Salah made sure to soak up Anfield's love be

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Uganda Shines at EAC inter-parliamentary games

Uganda Shines at EAC inter-parliamentary games

Parliament of Uganda has registered emphatic performances in men and women’s athletics, basketball and volleyball putting the legislature top of the table standings in the ongoing EAC inter-parliamentary games.In the men’s basketball final played in L

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Ahmed al Ahmed, man who tackled Sydney attacker, undergoes surgery: Key facts on the ‘Australian hero’

Ahmed al Ahmed, man who tackled Sydney attacker, undergoes surgery: Key facts on the ‘Australian hero’

Ahmed al Ahmed is a fruit shop owner who has been identified as the bystander who took cover grabbed a gunman's rifle and and forced him to the ground.Forty-three-year-old 

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