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@allafrica Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:52:54
Uganda Continues to Welcome Refugees Despite Diminishing Funds
[UNHCR] More than 75,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in Uganda, where resources are stretched with crowded schools, inadequate shelter, and limited access to food and health care.
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:28:20
How Seacom Is Expanding East Africa's Digital Infrastructure
[Independent (Kampala)] SEACOM, a major pan-African telecommunications and ICT company, launched a high-capacity fibre route linking Nairobi, Kisumu and Kampala. The network strengthened a key corridor carrying internet traffic from submarine cables on Kenya's coast into landlocked Uganda.
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:29:15
UNMC Governance Crisis Deepens As Interdicted CEO Faces Fresh Allegations
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- As Parliament conducts a validation exercise to establish whether its employees were recruited through proper procedures and possess the required qualifications, similar concerns over irregular recruitment, nepotism, financial mismanagement and obstruction of oversight have intensified the governance crisis at the Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC).
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:23:57
Uganda Orders 21-Day Quarantine for Citizens Returning From DRC Amid Ebola Concerns
[Capital FM] Kampala, Uganda -- Uganda has ordered citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to undergo a mandatory 21-day quarantine as authorities strengthen measures to prevent the spread of Ebola amid concerns over infections reported in Kenya and Nigeria.
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:24:58
Vanessa Nakate - From Kampala Street Protests to the African Union's Corridors of Power
[Independent (Kampala)] New AU role brings her campaign for climate justice, African representation and meaningful youth participation closer to the heart of continental policymaking
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:08:01
Qatar Airways Partners With Chef Dieuveil Malonga to Take African Cuisine to the World
[Independent (Kampala)] Kigali, Rwanda -- Qatar Airways has selected Chef Dieuveil Malonga as the first African chef to join its programme of collaborations with internationally acclaimed culinary talents, bringing African ingredients, traditions and hospitality to passengers on selected routes.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:43
Museveni Pledges Western Uganda Road Works, Urges Residents to Fight Poverty
[Nile Post] President Museveni has pledged government intervention on major roads in the Greater Ankole region, while cautioning residents against using poor road infrastructure as an excuse for remaining in poverty.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:47
Uganda, Kenya Sign Three Tourism, Trade Deals At Mombasa Summit
[Nile Post] Ugandan and Kenyan private-sector bodies have signed three agreements on tourism, trade and investment at a regional summit in Mombasa.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:49
High Court Dismisses Election Petition Against Mbarara Woman MP Kyarikunda
[Nile Post] The High Court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition filed by Margaret Ayebare Rwebyambu challenging the election of Loydah Kyarikunda Muhimbura as Mbarara District Woman Member of Parliament.
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:07:24
East Africa Has the Raw Materials but Lacks the Factories
[Independent (Kampala)] News Analysis -- East Africa has plenty of hides, cotton and oilseeds. What it lacks is the industrial capacity to turn them into shoes, clothes and cooking oil. Instead, the region spends billions of dollars importing goods made from commodities that its farmers and livestock keepers already produce.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:40
3.6 Million Ugandans Face Acute Food Insecurity As Crisis Threatens to Worsen
[Nile Post] About 3.6 million Ugandans are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with the number projected to rise to 4.4 million between February and June 2027, according to the 2026 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Report on Acute Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:43
22 Rescued As Church Building Collapses in Entebbe
[Nile Post] Even the prophets did not see this one coming. And it was tragic by all means.
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@allafrica Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:35:38
How Uganda's Sugarcane Boom Leaves Families Hungry
[Independent (Kampala)] What needs to change: First, the sugar mills should stop signing contracts with males only
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:16:39
Besigye, Bobi Wine Absence Raises Questions About Opposition's Future
[Nile Post] Uganda's opposition is grappling with the absence of two of its most influential figures, Dr Kizza Besigye, who remains in detention amid serious health concerns, and National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, who is in exile.
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@allafrica Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:41:52
Cricket - Nigeria's Yellowgreens in First-Ever T20i Dramatic Win Over Uganda
[This Day] T -- Nigeria's stocks in the game of cricket has continued to rise following the country's senior men's team, YellowGreens' defeat of Uganda by one run in a last-ball thriller, ending a long wait for a maiden men's T20I victory over their East African rivals.
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@allafrica Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:43:26
East African States Adopt Common Rules to Speed Up Biopesticide Approvals
[Independent (Kampala)] Cotonou -- Eight East African countries have adopted a common regulatory framework for biopesticides, in a move that could reduce approval delays, widen farmers' access to biological crop-protection products and help agricultural technology companies expand across the region.
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