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PARLIAMENT: 19 ministers sworn in as ex officio MPs

✳ Sam Mayanja (Attorney General) ✳ Justine Kasule Lumumba (Minister of ICT) ✳ Tom Butiime (Minister of Tourism) ✳ Balaam Barugahara (Minister of Local Government) ✳ Kiryowa Kiwanuka (Minister of Defence) ✳ Sanjay Tanna (Minister of Trade) ✳ Jonard Asiimwe (Minister of Science & Technology) ✳ Dr John Chrysostom Muyingo …

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World Bank to more than double loan stock to Uganda

Kampala, Uganda | URN | ‎The World Bank Group intends to lend Uganda some 2 billion dollars (7.5 trillion shillings) in each of the three cycles over the next 10 years, according to the Bank’s new Country Partnership Framework CPF). ‎This adds to the existing 4.05 billion dollars (15.26 trillion …

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Govt to merge UNEB with NCDC

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Ministry of Education and Sports is planning to merge the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) and the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) into a single institution. The proposed merger is among the key reforms contained in the forthcoming Curriculum, Assessment and Admissions Bill, one of …

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WHO condemns Ebola travel restriction against Uganda

Kampala, Uganda | URN | World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has has said travel restrictions imposed on Uganda as a result of the Ebola outbreak first announced in May are unnecessary. Speaking to journalists shortly after touring Uganda’s main isolation center in Mulago on Monday, Tedros …

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Uganda deploys team to DRC to contain Ebola

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda is in final preparations of setting up Ebola treatment centers and a Laboratory in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to assist the neighboring country bring the epidemic that has so far affected over 500 under control. Ugandan Health Authorities revealed on …

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Besigye sues Muhoozi for threatening to hang him on Heroes Day

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Jailed opposition politician Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused Hajji Obeid Lutale have filed a fresh application before the High Court Criminal Division seeking the termination of criminal proceedings against them in a treason-related case. The duo is citing alleged grave violations of their constitutional rights, …

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