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Who is Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan? 📌 FILE PHOTO: Magufuli and Samia 2015

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🔴THE LAST WORD #AndrewMwenda While Kampala’s infrastructure is collapsing, Govt is everyday finding money to fund a private sugar factory at Shs500 billion, a private pharmaceutical plant at Shs750 billion... How is this possible?

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UCE: UNEB raises concern over use of slang during examinations

UCE: UNEB raises concern over use of slang during examinations

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB has raised concern about the increasing use of slang during examinations. According to UNEB, students are increasingly...

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Phaneroo shatters Guinness World Record for longest applause-

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President Museveni orders all gov’t officials to fly Uganda Airlines

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Police arrest woman for defiling 8-year-old boy

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Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 retains World Cross Country title!

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PLE: Rain, rain, go away, come back another day #PLE #Uganda #Education #PLE2020 📷 @HamzaReports

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Samson Kasumba’s twitter account hacked

Samson Kasumba's twitter account hacked

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The twitter account of NBS TV host Samson Kasumba was on Wednesday reportedly hacked, prompting quick action to reclaim it by the broadcaster’s tech team. A...

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TODAY: The #Uganda Christian #University Council has approved the promotion of Dr. Monica #Chibita to rank of full Professor. Prof Chibita is only the 2nd homegrown full Prof @UCUniversity in 22 yrs. She's also board chair @VisionGrp & @ACME_Uganda . DETAILS TO FOLLOW #Education

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BREAKING NEWS: City lawyer Bob kasango dies from Luzira prison due to heart failure. More details to follow .............

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Sweden admits failure to protect elderly in care homes

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | Bjorn Branngard’s mother died in a Stockholm nursing home where five of the eight people in her section and more than a third of residents have so far succumbed to the new...

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Magufuli rides a bicycle to state house after cleaning up Tanzania #WhatWouldMagufuliDo #TanzaniaIndependenceDay

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Hong Kong police arrest 4 college students for advocating terrorism

Hong Kong, China | Xinhua | Hong Kong police has arrested four college students for advocating terrorism on Wednesday. The arrestees, all members of the student’s union of the University of Hong...

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Japan gives Uganda sh5.8 billon grant to boost COVID-19 response

Japan gives Uganda sh5.8 billon to boost COVID-19 response

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Japan has extended an emergency aid grant worth $1,640,442 (over sh5.8 billion) to Uganda to boost the country’s COVID-19 response The grant is supposed to help...

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Uganda's Prof. Omaswa wins Global Health Award in Tokyo

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Amnesty international joins push to free Robert Kyagulanyi

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan authorities must immediately lift the police and military siege of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and release him and his wife Barbara...

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Mother selling roasted rat meat to sustain family in Kasese

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CONFIRMED: Dorothy Kisaka is new KCCA executive director

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has confirmed the appointment of lawyer Dorothy Kisaka as the new Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA....

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Uganda's Barbra Kaija wins world Editorial Leadership Award. PHOTO VIA @WomenInNews #WNC18

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⚽ D-DAY: Qatar 2022 opening ceremony starts 5.30pm ✳ Sparkling FIFA #WorldCup #Qatar 2022 opening ceremony to feature pop sensation Jung Kook of BTS ✳ FIFA World Cup kicks off for the first time in the Middle East and Arab world

D-DAY: Qatar 2022 opening ceremony starts 5.30pm

🔴Sparkling FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 opening ceremony to feature pop sensation Jung Kook of BTS 🔴A sparkling opening ceremony inside the Bedouin-tent inspired Al Bayt Stadium will invite the world...

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Feature: Rwanda introduces electric public buses to push for green transport-

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Thus, we ask::: Which Presidential Candidate has a superior Manifesto that addresses all your needs?

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BREAKING NEWS 🇺🇬 Cheptegei starts year with strong Monaco 5K race win ✳️ #5kHerculis 1. Joshua Cheptegei 13:11 2. Bethwell Birgen 13:15 3. Davis Kiplangat 13:16

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Police recovers record 61 stolen phones in Nakawa crackdown

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#BREAKING Nigeria says sending troops, jets to Senegal for Gambia force

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Uganda are Africa women’s ICC #cricket #WT20 champions

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📌 BREAKING NEWS #TANZANIA : Suluhu Govt suspends 'expensive' data packages 📷 @TZMsemajiMkuu #Internet #MobilePhones #SocialMedia

TANZANIA: Suluhu Govt suspends 'expensive' data packages

Tanzania communications regulator TCRA suspends telecom firm’s new data charges Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | New President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has suspended new internet...

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Dear @UmemeLtd you owed Ugandans this one night. It's a decisive point in their history #UGDebate16 #UgandaDecides

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CONFIRMED: Former Buyende DPC Kirumira and wife gunned down in Bulenga Saturday night

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🔵 Capital FM radio has announced the Passing on of ALEX NDAULA. He passed on at Nsambya Hospital. Details to follow. #RIPAlexNdaula 📷 @CapitalFMUganda

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🔴 Smooth start to tolling on Entebbe Expressway #ExpresswayTolls #KampalaTraffic

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MUSEVENI: I bought Rwakitura in 1967, whose money could I have stolen then?

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🔴 HISTORIC: Uganda, Zimbabwe satellite 🚀 goes into space this weekend ✳VIDEO: Uganda's PEARLAFRICASAT-1 🇺🇬 ready

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KAGAME: We still need Arsenal to go back where it belongs – up there

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Kayihura in court -

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COVID-19: Health Ministry planning to turn Namboole stadium into a health facility

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General Muhoozi: A lodestar of anti-corruption leadership in Uganda-

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Church of Uganda ready to split from Canterbury over same sex marriages: Kaziimba

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Church of Uganda-COU will immediately set in motion processes to split from Canterbury, the seat of the Anglican Church worldwide once it officially communicates...

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The art of teaching: Can children effectively learn through radio and TV?

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MPs to be trained on video conferencing

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#BREAKING : Court dismisses $100 million BOU case against Sudhir PHOTO @StKyamutetera

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Aronda Nyakairima (RIP) seen here as a best man at Rwandan President Paul Kagame's wedding in 1989. http://t.co/M2q7j0kbTQ

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Cheptegei wins GOLD 🇺🇬 #GC2018athletics @joshuacheptege1

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Best-kept secret! 👍🙏

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IT’S A BOY!!!! Say hello to Taj 12-05-2020. We are thrilled!!. To God be the glory.

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Why Ugandans, East Africans celebrate the East African Crude Oil Pipeline-

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NEMA calls for removal of tax on gas to save forest cover

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🔴 THE LAST WORD Inside parliamentary corruption ✳️ How Ugandan commentators are missing the story behind speaker Among’s loot of public funds ***** By Andrew Mwenda

Inside parliamentary corruption

How Ugandan commentators are missing the story behind speaker Among’s loot of public funds THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The hashtag parliamentary exhibition has caused a storm on social media....

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Our Top Candidates in #UGDebate16 -Mbabazi -Biraaro -Besigye -Bwanika #UgandaDecides

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UPDATE: President Museveni is scheduled to address the country tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm on the Covid-19 situation.

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BREAKING NEWS Tanzania media reporting that President Magufuli is dead. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

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Kampala Archdiocese installs first woman Head of Laity-

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BREAKING: #Makerere on fire !!!! 📹 @MakerereU

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BREAKING: Burundi to swear in Ndayishimiye

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Uganda’s Opio nominated for Writers Guild of America award

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ANDREW MWENDA: In fact, Among has been the best speaker President Yoweri Museveni has had. Every bill the NRM wants to pass sails through parliament easily. Why? She knows how to use the cash. #TheLastWord #Comment #UgandaParliamentExhibition

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Jumia Food Uganda sets uniform delivery fee for consumers

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Online delivery platform Jumia Food has announced a slash on delivery fees across Kampala, it said on March 18. It said, starting this month, all orders placed on...

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🔴 UPDATE ➡️ 6 confirmed dead ➡️ 8 confirmed injuries ➡️ 1 bomb discovered at Transformer at Kooki Tower ➡️ 2 more bombs discovered near Buganda Road court

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Dr. Crispus Kiyonga is new Chancellor of Makerere University-

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Uganda’s Dr Sozi appointed UN Resident Coordinator in Mozambique-

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Kampala this afternoon

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ANDREW MWENDA: The Museveni-Among bromance-

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Imprisoned NUP candidate wins elections in Nansana

Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Bosco Sserunkuma, the imprisoned National Unity Platform die-hard and candidate in Nansana westward, Nansana Municipality has been voted to represent the...

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📌 UPDATE NUP: Our MPs will vote for Kadaga #SpeakerVote 🇺🇬 #KadagaVSOulanyah

NUP: Our MPs will vote for Kadaga

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform, now the largest opposition political party in parliament with 57 MPs has told its members to vote for Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga as...

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Father of baby who tested positive to COVID-19 on the run

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#TanzaniaDecides vs #UgandaDecides difference told by the photos.

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Does the Mbabazi nomination speech earn itself a place in Uganda's greatest speeches of all time? #UgandaDecides We probably think so.

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Besigye described by many as the heart of Uganda's opposition. The glue that holds it. #UgandaDecides

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Joe Biden warns Uganda on 2021 election irregularities

*⃣ US calls for independent, credible, impartial, and thorough investigations *⃣ US considers range of targeted options to hold individuals in security accountable *⃣ US will pursue their interests...

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Bicycle mechanics register boom in number of clients

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✳️BREAKING NEWS 🔵 OTAFIIRE: IDs expire in 2024, everyone to apply for new one ➡️All Ugandans to migrate to user-friendly IDs due to the improvement in technology ➡️New national IDs free of charge #CountingEveryone #BirthRegistrationUG

OTAFIIRE: IDs expire in 2024, everyone to apply for new one

Minister says Ugandans will get the new national IDs free of charge Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will start a new round of the...

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Gen Mbadi ready to sweep mess at UNBS, Trade Ministry-

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SUPREME COURT: $11m DTB loan to Hamis Kiggundu legal-

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Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all

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ANDREW MWENDA: Any casual investigation would find Kayihura among the most honest public officials in Uganda.

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Uganda's Serwanjja wins the Komla Dumor Award #JournalismUG

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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several hotels in and around Lyantonde on the Masaka-Mbarara highway have today been searched, sources reveal. The search comes days after a leading parliamentarian Ibrahim...

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KCCA shelters over 70 street children at Nakivubo Blue Primary School

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ALBERT EINSTEIN: Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. #Quote

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The Uganda You Won't see on TV---Mashonga Tea Estate #UgandaDecides

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Tanzania has moved its capital from Dar-

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CHEPTEGEI GETS GOLD 🇺🇬 #Tokyo2020 #Athletics

CHEPTEGEI GETS GOLD

📌 RESULT GOLD – CHEPTEGEI Joshua 12:58.15 SILVER – AHMED Mohammed (CAN) 12:58.61 BRONZE – CHELIMO Paul (USA) 12:59.05 🔴 TODAY 🇺🇬 ➡ 1,500m FINAL – Nanyondo- 3.50pm 🔴 SAT ➡ Marathon (W) FINAL –...

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Paris 2024: Cheptegei secures Uganda's fifth gold 🥇-

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This is Kigali in Rwanda, the Africa they don't show you. #PopeInAfrica

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BOBI WINE: I come to you not as the most qualified, but I come before you as the most committed #UgandaDecides2021 #Nominations

Bobi Wine nominated to contest for presidency

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | (NUP) Presidential aspirant Robert Sentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been dully nominated to contest in Uganda’s 2021 elections, with a promise to end...

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Security orders journalists to delete footage on students with disabilities at Makerere

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Jack Ma sends test kits, medical masks to Uganda @JackMa @AlibabaGroup #Covid19

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Archbishop Odama calls for peaceful elections

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Archbishop Dr John Baptist Odama of Gulu Archdiocese has called for peace and harmony as ahead of the elections. Preaching to Christians on New Year’s Day at St...

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BREAKING NEWS: First case of #COVID19 confirmed in Uganda through a passenger in Ethiopia airlines from Dubai Details to follow @UGIndependent

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The High Court Commercial Division has dismissed a $100 million BOU case against Sudhir; Court ruled that BOU cannot use “Crane Bank in receivership” to sue @AndrewMwenda

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FDC wants EC to consult them before hiring 2021 polls supervisors

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THE LAST WORD: Africa’s highway to nowhere

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COMMENT: The new Uganda Airlines planes are here, what next? PHOTO: The ladies that will fly the Airbus A330! #Aviation #EastAfrica #tourism #Trade @av8r_derek

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How Cheptegei did it! #Uganda 🇺🇬 #gc2018 #GC2018athletics

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"Both in Uganda and Tanzania, former Prime Ministers have fallen out with the ruling parties and launched their... http://t.co/d05ZxeKD7T

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#BREAKING : No more Boda Bodas on key Kampala City roads

No more Boda Bodas on key Kampala City roads

Full list of all Kampala boda boda stages Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | When Boda Bodas resume normal service tomorrow, they will return to a new regime in Kampala that will include Motorcycle...

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COVID-19: Fresh Dairy donates milk powder worth Shs500 million

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🔴 IN THE INDEPENDENT ✳️ Muhoozi's emerging power ✳️ What next after Rwanda re-opens border? ✳️ Why a lot of NUPians would discuss Bobi even when topic is about religion or diabetes ✳️ Mutebile, the passing of a giant #YouBuyTheTruthWePayThePrice

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ANDREW MWENDA: The price of shortsightedness | How Bobi Wine is turning his moment of triumph into a missed opportunity for strategic leadership #TheLastWord

The price of shortsightedness

How Bobi Wine is turning his moment of triumph into a missed opportunity for strategic leadership THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Bobi Wine is without any doubt a great guy. His greatness does...

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Chinese quarantine escapees arrested on way to DRC, driven back to Kampala PHOTOS Gilbert Awekofua #StaySafeUg

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