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🇺🇸🇷🇼🇺🇬 African Union Body Criticizes U.S. Migration Deals with Rwanda and Uganda
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has voiced concern over new agreements under which Rwanda and Uganda will accept migrants deported from the United States. As part of the African Union system, the Commission warned that such arrangements may violate international obligations, including:• the prohibition of collective expulsions,• the principle of non-refoulement,•…
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🇺🇬🇹🇿 Standard Bank is ready to continue financing EACOP after internal review
Standard Bank Ltd. continues to finance the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project, carried out by TotalEnergies SE. The $5 billion pipeline will connect oil fields in Uganda with an export terminal in Tanzania. However, the project faces strong opposition from environmental organizations. In 2021, the bank hired an independent consultant to assess its involvement,…
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🇺🇬 MTN Uganda CEO Warns on Cybersecurity
The rapid rise of financial technology, mobile money, and e-services has transformed Uganda’s economy and connected millions of people. But alongside this digital progress has come a new threat—cybercrime. Fraud, scams, and data breaches are increasing sharply, putting at risk not only money but also public trust in the digital systems that now power everyday…
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🇺🇬 Uganda’s leading opposition figure said the political climate has “gone from bad to worse” before presidential polls set for early next year.
Bobi Wine said there have been more threats on his life and other activists mobilising against Uganda’s longtime president. Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, said the threats he faces as President Yoweri Museveni’s main opponent “come in no unclear terms.” Fears for Wine’s safety have grown in recent months, fueled by…
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🇺🇬UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave
A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at her home carrying out unpaid work as…
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🇺🇬 Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba Declares Love for Beyoncé, Challenges Jay-Z to a Duel
Kampala, Uganda– Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the influential son of President Yoweri Museveni, has once again set social media ablaze with his bold—and bizarre—declarations of love for global superstar Beyoncé. In a series of now-viral posts on X (formerly Twitter), Kainerugaba not only professed his admiration for the singer but also challenged her husband, rap…
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🇺🇬 Uganda Army Chief Says Troops Deployed to South Sudan Capital
Ugandan special forces have been deployed to South Sudan’s capital, the Ugandan army chief said Tuesday, after rising tensions that have threatened a fragile peace agreement. Impoverished South Sudan has long been plagued by political instability and insecurity, but concerns have risen sharply in the past week after clashes between forces allied to the country’s…
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🇺🇬Uganda deploys forces to South Sudan as civil war fears grow
Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return to civil war in the east African nation. Ugandan special forces have been deployed to Juba, the South Sudanese capital, “to support…
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The Great War of Africa: A Forgotten Tragedy That Shaped a Continent
World leaders are currently focused on preventing a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah, but there is another conflict, far more devastating and often overlooked, that demands urgent attention. This is not a new crisis but a haunting repeat of a war that engulfed the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Uganda from…
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🇺🇬 Uganda’s court orders government to pay LRA war crime victims
A Ugandan court has ordered the government to pay up to 10 million Ugandan shillings ($2,740) to each victim of Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo, the first senior member of the rebel group to be convicted by Uganda’s judiciary. In October, Kwoyelo, a mid-level commander in the LRA, was sentenced to 40 years in…
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