Tooro Well-Wishers Raise Shs 85.3 Million to Appreciate Musuuga Fort Portal, Uganda I URN | Well-wishers in Tooro have raised another sh85.3 million to appreciate Musuuga Charles Kamurasi, the head of the Tooro royal clan, for guiding the kingdom through the transition following the death of Omukama Oyo …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The annual AMDA Caravan Run took place at Kitante primary school in Kampala on Sunday, combining a fitness challenge with health screening and fundraising for a wider community outreach programme planned for Nyabwina Parish in Sheema District. The run, organised by the Archdiocese of Mbarara …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The annual MK Run was held at the weekend, with thousands participating by running across the hills of Kampala for charity. Here are Defence Forces (CDF) of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s remarks at the 52nd MK Run, 26 April, 2026, …
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Charities, funders, and philanthropies are vital not only to those who benefit but also to those who give COMMENT | TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE | Every Easter, Christians remember how at the Last Supper, on the eve of Jesus’s crucifixion, hope seemed to be lost. Most of Jesus’s closest friends were about to deny …
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“What’s transpired is unthinkable. We will always be Sentebale’s founders, but this situation is beyond repair.” Melody Chironda | ALL AFRICA.COM | Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho have resigned from Sentebale, a charity that they set up almost 20 years ago, after infighting in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The St Peter’s College Tororo Old Boys Association (SPECTOBA) has concluded plans for three charity football games next year to boost efforts at supporting the development of the school in eastern Uganda. The football games are expected to attract the older generation of students …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum of South African Businesses in Uganda (FOSABU) is yet again holding a fundraising golf day to raise money for charity. The Golf Day will be held on April 23 at Entebbe Club. Organisers expect to attract a full field of golfers. From 2017, FOSABU …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Roke Telkom, a Ugandan-owned telecommunications company has concluded its annual corporate social responsibility initiative dubbed Roke Gives Back, with donations of welfare items and learning equipment worth Shs 33m in five districts across the country. At the start of October, the internet company launched its …
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Melbourne, Australia | AFP | Australian surgeons began operating early Friday to separate 15-month-old Bhutanese twins joined at the torso. Nima and Dawa, and their mother Bhumchu Zangmo, arrived in Australia a month ago with the help of an Australian charity but doctors had delayed the surgery until Friday to …
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti | AFP | Haiti on Thursday suspended the operations of British charity Oxfam pending the outcome of its investigation into allegations that its staff sexually exploited Haitians after a devastating 2010 earthquake. The country’s ministry of planning and foreign aid said Oxfam GB had made a “serious error” …
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