Deputy Attorney General of Uganda Mwesigwa Rukutana has today read Bill 13, The Constitution Amendment Bill 2017, that proposes acquisition of public land upon compensation. It was presented by Rukutana “for the first reading” and Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, according to the rules of procedure, committed the bill to the …
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Shenyang, China | AFP | China’s Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died Thursday after a battle with cancer, remaining in custody until the end as officials ignored international pleas to let him spend his final days free and abroad. The prominent democracy advocate died aged 61, more than a month after …
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Gaborone, Botswana | AFP | The Dalai Lama will visit Botswana next month and meet with President Ian Khama in a trip likely to anger China, a key investor across Africa and its largest trade partner. Beijing views the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist campaigning for Tibetan independence and …
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Accra, Ghana | AFP | The British manager of Ghana Premier League side Asante Kotoko and one of his players were hospitalised after a bus crash that killed a member of their back-room staff, the club said on Thursday. The crash happened when the team bus rammed into a stationary …
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Paris, France | AFP | France and Germany agreed Thursday to begin work on a joint fighter jet, a major advance in their relations designed to underline their united front in the face of fracturing Western relations. Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the …
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Moscow, Russia | AFP | Uber on Thursday announced that it was merging in Russia and five other ex-Soviet states with the taxi hailing app of the country’s leading internet giant, Yandex. “Uber and Yandex have entered into an agreement to form a new company,” the head of Uber’s operations …
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In The Independent this week: COVER STORY Elders advise Muntu to leave FDC over Besigye: FDC elders explain alternative plans for him for 2021. THE LAST WORD Too much ado over nothing: Why Museveni is most likely going to succeed in amending the constitution to remove the age limit. …
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Quarterfinals FT: Uganda ?? 37 – Fiji ?? 39 (see video and tweet feed bottom) FT: New Zealand 69 South Africa 32 Scotland vs Australia 3pm Friday (playing for 5th-8th positions) Uganda vs South Africa **** MATCH PREVIEW Gaborone, Botswana| THE INDEPENDENT REPORTER | Champions New Zealand got off to a flying start in …
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Busia, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda’s big population is the country’s most important asset. Speaking in Busia July 11 as Uganda joined marked the World Population Day, Museveni hailed the NRM government for interventions that have resulted in citizens living healthier and longer lives than ever …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | At least six police officers were killed and four injured in Laikipia in Kenya’s central highlands on Wednesday in the latest violent incident to hit the area. Police said the officers were killed in a shoot-out with suspected ethnic Pokot “bandits” in the Kamwenje area …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
