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President Museveni Salutes First Lady for her Contribution to Uganda as She Celebrates 77th Birthday
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 29, 2025
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Sunday June 29,2025 paid tribute to the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Kataaha Museveni. He described her as a resilient woman who stood firmly through decades of personal...
From the Beach to the Mountain, Uganda Consulate Mombasa Organizes Tusker Lite Rwenzori Activation Run, Rallies Kenyans
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 29, 2025
Sports Diplomacy took centre-stage this weekend as the Uganda Consulate-General in Mombasa, led by Consul-General Amb. Paul Mukumbya, organized a Rwenzori Marathon activation run on the streets of Mombasa, as part of the ongoing campaign by...
Chinese medical team brings free healthcare to Uganda's remote border district
China Daily Global
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A doctor conducts examination for a child at the medical camp organized by a Chinese medical team to Uganda in Kikuube, western Uganda on June 27, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] KIKUUBE, Uganda - As the sun rose over the Rift Valley escarpment in Uganda's...
Karamoja children abandon school for streets and mines
Independent (Uganda)
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June 30, 2025
A girl child carry a bag of charcoal for sale in the streets of Moroto district. PHOTO URN Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in the Karamoja sub-region are concerned about the increasing number of school-going children abandoning...
Women key to Uganda’s drive to adopt climate smart agriculture
Independent (Uganda)
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June 29, 2025
A panel discussion was held at the land governance forum on Friday, June 27. Stakeholders reviewed existing policies and made new suggestions to ensure that land governance priorities, including women’s agricultural land ownership, are integrated...
Uganda Tourism and Investment Roadshow Wraps Up in Istanbul
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 22, 2025
The Uganda Tourism and Investment Roadshow in Turkey has officially concluded, ending on a high note in Istanbul. The finale featured H.E. Amb. Jeje Odongo, Minister of Foreign Affairs; PS Hon. Vincent Bagiire Wasswa; H.E. Amb. Nusura Tiperu;...
World Reuters Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni, 80, to seek reelection
Yahoo News
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he intends to contest in next year's presidential election, potentially extending his rule in the east African country to nearly half a century. In a post on the X platform late on...
Ugandan Citizens in Israel Advised on Safe Exit Amid Escalating Tensions
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 23, 2025
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Honorary Consulate of Uganda in Israel, has issued a consular notice guiding Ugandan nationals on safe evacuation options as tensions between Israel and Iran intensify. Key evacuation route: Ugandan...
Togolese and Ugandan Leaders Cling to Rule, but the Youth Mu...
Modern Ghana
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Let’s keep our Togolese neighbors and Ugandan brethren in our thoughts and prayers as they confront the entrenched greed of their ruling elites, who twist democratic principles to hang on to power. In Togo, the late Gnassingbé Eyadéma, was in...
Nyanza HIV crisis: Culture and silence fuel new infections
The Standard
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A youth undergoes a cut during a Voluntary Male Circumcision (VMC) at Masogo dispensary in Muhoroni constituency on April 19, 2018. [File, Standard] Many people were shocked when both print and broadcast media reported high rates of HIV/Aids...
Never Trumper Tim Miller calls Matt Walsh multiple anti-Irish ethnic slurs
Washington Examiner
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June 29, 2025
Liberals, left-wingers, Never Trumpers, and Democratic political pundits regularly discuss the importance of racial equality, racial harmony, and the eradication of biases, prejudices, and discrimination.That is, until they start discussing white...
Opposition politicises issue of Hindi language in education policy
Sunday Guardian Live
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June 28, 2025
Rahul Gandhi and allies oppose Hindi in education, sparking debate over language, identity, and politics. NEW DELHI: The Indian National Congress, led by Rahul Gandhi, along with its allies like M.K. Stalin from Tamil Nadu, Uddhav Thackeray from...
Queen of Katwe's gambit still in play for Uganda's slum chess players
BBC
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Wycliffe MuiaBBC News, Kampala ShareSave For more than two decades, Robert Katende has been getting children in Katwe to take chess seriously A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of...
On Pride Day, Canada, Brazil, and Europe back ‘rights of LGBTQI people’ — US silent
The Indian Express
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June 29, 2025
On Saturday, to mark Pride Day, the foreign ministries of Canada, Brazil, Australia, and a number of European countries issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. The message was clear: rising hate...
Conference Counsel: Temples, missionaries, education part of hastening
Daily Herald - Utah
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Photo supplied, Intellectual Reserve Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles provides words of inspiration during the Saturday morning session of general conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on April 5, 2025....
Baby & Kids Expo targets regional expansion after Ugandan success
Observer
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June 29, 2025
After three editions and establishing itself as Uganda’s premier family and children’s event, the Baby and Kids Expo EA is set to expand across East Africa, the organisers, Kiara Events Ltd, have announced. Held last month at UMA Showgrounds...
Multi-millionaire builds £150k school for his children in his garden
Bucks Free Press
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June 28, 2025
Samuel Leeds, a property developer who is worth £20 million, decided to build the school in his Beaconsfield garden for his four children, and his nieces and nephews. The entrepreneur, 34, said he became disillusioned with the state education...
Feature: Chinese medical team brings free healthcare to Uganda's remote border district
The Malaysian Star
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June 28, 2025
KIKUUBE, Uganda, June 28 (Xinhua) -- As the sun rose over the Rift Valley escarpment in Uganda's remote western district of Kikuube, 45-year-old Jennifer Nyangoma made her way to a much-anticipated free medical camp. For weeks, villagers in this...
Equity Bank’s Financial Literacy Empowering Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Uganda
Red Pepper
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June 27, 2025
Across Uganda’s diverse communities, young entrepreneurs are transforming their lives and uplifting others through the power of financial literacy and access to capital, delivered by Equity Bank Uganda under the Young Africa Works strategy. This...
Ugandan Catholic Archbishop Faults Use of “tolerance” in Fostering Religious Freedom, Advocates for “respect”
ACI Africa
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June 19, 2025
“I call it evangelizing through education. We are currently short of primary and secondary school teachers. That poses a problem. We want to do a lot, you have the children, but who is teaching them?” he lamented. During the June 17 interview,...