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Why returning home is best option for Bobi Wine

  Bobi Wine will enjoy camera for a few months; then it will be business as usual   COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | Robert Kyagulanyi, a.k.a. Bobi Wine, is in exile in the USA, where he is meeting some leaders, lobbying them to sanction the top leadership in Uganda. To …

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Cwinyai wins first POA tour title

Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | Joseph Cwinya-ai returned a four-over par 75 on the final day, but it was still good enough to give him a 5 stroke lead and his first title when the first leg of the Pearl of Africa Pro Tour ended Friday. Scores of 68 and …

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Man hacks 4 children to death at Ggaba daycare centre

Ggaba, Uganda | URN | A machete-wielding man has this afternoon attacked a Ggaba daycare centre in Kabuuma zone near Lake Victoria, hacking four school children to death. Police in Kampala have arrested and identified the suspect, 39-year-old Christopher Okello Onyum. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Racheal Kawala confirmed the incident, …

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Parliament to discuss weighbridges amid sugarcane theft concerns

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  Parliament has deferred debate on sugarcane weighbridge regulation to April 15, directing State Minister for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (Industry) David Bahati to return with a detailed ministerial statement, as scrutiny intensifies over weighbridges linked to sugarcane theft and unregulated trade. The decision pauses …

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Senegal stripped of AFCON title

 Court ruling is lawful, but it puts Caf’s reputation at risk   COMMENT | FABRICE LOLLIA | The appeals board of African football’s ruling body, the Confederation of African Football (Caf), on 17 March overturned the outcome of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final. Afcon is the continent’s biggest …

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