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15 Sep '24
Peruth Chemutai has had quite a stellar season over the 3000-metre steeplechase event. It has been defined by two silver medals at the African Games in Ghana and the Paris Olympics in France.Denied a chance to ret
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15 Sep '24
In 2023, a one Richard was charged in the Criminal Division of High of murdering his half-brother, which charge he denied. In his plea, he denied causing the death of his half brother and, specifically, denied giving him poison on March 14, 2021.
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15 Sep '24
As rains continue to fall in many parts of the country, farmers need to figure out what to grow. Among the guidelines farmers will use to determine what to produce are crop rotation programmes, prevailing crops, previous crop pests and disease, market demand, co
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15 Sep '24
A fortnight ago, the offices of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) held their first-ever coordination meeting. This was in a bid to have more successful court convictions when prosecuting criminal cases ar
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15 Sep '24
South Sudan's government has decided to postpone a long-delayed national election until December 2026, the presidency said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing the country's fragile peace process."The pre
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15 Sep '24
Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was due to be buried on Saturday with full military honours.Cheptegei returned to her home in the highlands of western Kenya, an area popular with international r
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15 Sep '24
One of Uganda’s leading political cartoonists Chrisogon Atukwasize, aka Ogon, has published his first collection of humorous and dramatic cartoons titled Drawing Attention. His body of work, spanning 194 pages, lampoons the mighty, powerful and ordinary citizens for their various misdeeds.
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15 Sep '24
The amount of money that the Uganda Electricity Transmission Co Ltd (UETCL) spends to transmit electricity has significantly risen due to an ageing grid, a 2023 value-for-money audit by the Auditor General (AG) has revealed.The audit shows that the actual expenditure for some of the activi
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15 Sep '24
On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya. Her ex-boyfriend called a friend of his to ask if he could borrow a lighter.
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13 Sep '24
Retail credit card interest rates have reached an all-time record, according to new data from Bankrate.The average APR for retail credit cards is 30.45% this year, which is up from 28.93% a year ago, 26.72% two ye