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India Seeks to Enhance Bilateral Ties with Uganda
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 27, 2025
By Faridah N Kulumba Recently the government of India invited 47 journalists, media professionals and editors from 23 countries from East Africa, Southern Africa, West Asia and North Africa for a familiarization tour in India. The East and...
Zohran Mamdani, the progressive Muslim immigrant who wants to be mayor of New York and challenge Trump
El País
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June 26, 2025
An immigrant, a Muslim, a progressive, a champion of Palestine, a son of intellectuals… Zohran Mamdani embodies everything that Donald Trump despises. Largely for that reason, the 33-year-old state assemblyman managed to win the Democratic primary...
LGBTQ refugee group says the number of requests for help is increasing
Canada's National Observer
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June 18, 2025
An organization that helps LGBTQ+ people file refugee claims says it has seen a spike in pleas for assistance from around the world since 2020. Devon Matthews, program head with Rainbow Railroad, said the explosion in the number of requests for...
COMMENT: Ugandans, let’s not trade our rights like Esau
Independent (Uganda)
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June 26, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Ugandans voting at a previous election. In the looming election, many voters are giving up their power and voice for temporary gains COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | As Uganda prepares for the 2026 general elections, a familiar pattern is...
Activists sue East African governments over torture claims
Semafor
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The first set of complaints have already been filed with the relevant UN authorities with a set of actual lawsuits to be filed at the national and regional level, according to the activists’ lawyer. The suits and complaints are targeted at the...
URSB Unveils Inaugural Case Digest to Bolster Uganda’s Business and Legal Landscape
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 26, 2025
By David Mwanje The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has launched its first-ever Case Digest, a groundbreaking publication aimed at enhancing transparency, legal certainty, and economic growth in Uganda’s commercial justice system. The...
LGBTQ refugee group says number of requests for help has increased
Lethbridge Herald
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June 18, 2025
By Canadian Press on June 18, 2025. OTTAWA — An organization that helps LGBTQ+ people file refugee claims says it has seen a spike in pleas for assistance from around the world since 2020. Devon Matthews, program head with Rainbow Railroad, said...
For Ex-Prisoners, Education Is the Antidote to Recidivism
Governing
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June 26, 2025
Locked in a prison cell during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tone Alcantara made an unlikely discovery about himself: He was a nerd. It wasn’t a label his former teachers at Rosemont High School would’ve used. One vice principal, he...
Immigration: 36 countries threatened with exclusion by Trump, is Tunisia in the crosshairs?
Tunisie Numerique
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June 18, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, whose influence continues to shape current policy, has officially warned 36 countries—25 of them located in Africa—giving them a 60-day deadline to...
Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP
DeSmog
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June 26, 2025
Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working for the fossil fuel industry. As demonstrators inside staged a “die-in” — wrapping themselves...
Uganda Restores Military Trials for Civilians
News Central TV
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June 17, 2025
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has officially signed into law a controversial amendment that will once again allow military tribunals to try civilians under specific conditions. This development, announced by the country’s parliament on Monday,...
Teso parents urged to abandon discriminatory cultural land practices
Independent (Uganda)
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June 26, 2025
Juliet Anango, a lawyer with Redeem International’s Soroti field office speaking to residents in Kalaki sub county, Kalaki District on June 19th, 2025. PHOTO URN Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in the Teso sub-region have been urged to...
Uganda’s arts teachers start protests for equal pay
Independent (Uganda)
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June 17, 2025
Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arts teachers in Rukungiri District have staged a peaceful protest demanding salary equity with science teachers. The demonstration, organized under their umbrella body, the Professional Human Teachers Union...
Kenyan Christians adapt as churches are destroyed by climate-impacted flooding
Religion News Service
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June 24, 2025
BUDALANG’I, Kenya (RNS) — Every Sunday morning, Pastor Pascal Ogutu walks barefoot across the cracked mud of what was once the foundation of his church. He passes submerged gravestones and the sagging roof of the altar, now half-buried in water...
Uganda Allow Military Tribunals to Accuse Civilians
teleSUR
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June 17, 2025
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a session of the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 28, 2023. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS Host Photo Agency via REUTERS/File Photo June 16, 2025 Hour: 9:04 pm Ugandan President Yoweri...
Muhammad Yunus: LGBTQ patron turned ‘savior of Muslims’ in Bangladesh
Weekly Blitz
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June 26, 2025
Social media platforms have recently seen an uptick in a curious and seemingly contradictory campaign – largely fueled by supporters of the ruling Awami League – portraying Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as the new “savior” of Muslims in...
Kampala Archdiocese returns land title, clearing way for burial
NTV Uganda
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Kampala Archdiocese returns land title, clearing way for burial It has been a week since Maria Thereza Nakibuuka, an elderly landowner from Bbira Lubange, Nakuwadde in Wakiso district, passed away. However, her burial has been delayed due to...
Ugandan President signs law to try civilians in military courts
New National Star
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June 16, 2025
Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, on Monday, signed a new law allowing civilians to be tried in military courts that critics said could be used against opposition leaders ahead of next year’s election. The new law comes despite a ruling by the...
Intelsat Partners With Forest Whitaker NGO to Connect Learning Centers in South Sudan and Uganda
Via Satellite
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June 25, 2025
Intelsat is upgrading connectivity at 10 Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative sites in South Sudan and Uganda to support education. Photo: WPDI Intelsat is deploying high-speed internet to a number of community centers in South Sudan and...
Uganda passes law to try civilians in military courts
The Standard
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the launch of the fifth phase of construction of the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure (NBI) in Moroto, Uganda, Dec. 4, 2024. [AFP] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed...