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03 Mar '26
UDB Managing Director Patricia Ojangole addresses stakeholdersKAMPALA — The Uganda Development Bank has secured a 40 million euro credit line, approximately 169 billion shillings, from the French Development Agency to expand financing for enterprises across the country.The facilit
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02 Mar '26
Moscow, March 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, describing the death of Iran's Supreme Leader as a "cynical murder," according to Russian state media agency TASS. In his first official remarks since the targeted operations and the subsequen
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02 Mar '26
The performance of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the January 2026 general elections has been widely discussed across the country, particularly in the Greater Masaka sub-region where the party has traditionally faced stiff opposition.Supporters say the renewed mobilisatio
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28 Feb '26
Juliana LumumbaKINSHASA – The Democratic Republic of Congo has nominated businesswoman and former minister Juliana Amato Lumumba as its candidate for Secretary-General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), setting up a potential contest with Rwanda’s incumbent Lo
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28 Feb '26
It was a tense May evening in 2011 at State House Entebbe. Just days after his grand swearing-in ceremony at Kololo, Uganda’s long-serving leader, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, sat down for his first major interview. The gardens were glowing under floodlights, but politically, the atmosphere was anyt
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28 Feb '26
Beyond the clouts, the video endorsements by different legislators especially the new comers making rounds on social media and the rushed CEC resolution backing Speaker Anita Among and Deputy Speaker Tayebwa’s to continue with their roles in the 12th parliament amidst protests from several CEC
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25 Feb '26
Uganda has received its first 19,200 doses of Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug supported by the Global Fund and PEPFAR, targeting high-burden districts to curb new infections.Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, is now accessible in Uganda.
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25 Feb '26
DP President Norbert Mao on Tuesday pushed back against some of the recent FDC defectors to NRM who days earlier had castigated and written off his bid for speakership as being “dead on arrival,” simply because he is an outsider who the ruling party shouldn’t risk trusting with such a sensi
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24 Feb '26
Two women have been arrested in Uganda over alleged public same-sex conduct under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. Authorities say investigations into their are ongoing while they remain in custodyArua City, Uganda: The Police in Arua City are holding two women in custody follo
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23 Feb '26
Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Bushenyi are holding two suspects in connection with alleged human trafficking.Apollo Tayebwa, the Greater Bushenyi Police spokesperson, said ten girls aged between 18 and 22 — most of them Senior Four leavers — were rescued on Friday nigh