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Team Uganda to 2024 Olympics lauded at Parliament

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has lauded Team Uganda for exceptional performance in the recently concluded Olympics in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Uganda emerged 55th out of 206 countries that participated in the Olympics, wherein Joshua Cheptegei won a gold medal in the 10,00-metre race …

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Parliament declines to proceed with Alcohol Control Bill

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected the Alcohol Control Bill, 2023 that sought to regulate the purchase, sell and consumption of alcohol. The private members Bill that was introduced for the first time by Tororo District Woman Representative, Sarah Opendi in November 2023 also aimed to regulate the …

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EACOP Protest: Police arrest 47 University students

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have arrested 47 students from different Universities in a foiled Anti-EACOP protest. They were marching to Parliament and NEMA. The protestors, from Kyambogo, Makerere and Kampala International Universities, who had gathered at Wampewo Avenue, were surrounded before marching to parliament this afternoon. These, carrying placards …

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Tayebwa: Parliament decision on regional sitting due

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliament of Uganda has yet to decide on the plans to hold sittings of the August House across the four regions of the country, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has revealed. The Deputy Speaker equally did not confirm reports the Parliamentary Commission plans …

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Museveni’s forever wars on corruption

Why our president is caught in contradictions that he can neither grasp nor overcome THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | So, President Yoweri Museveni declared a “tough war” on corruption; promising to apprehend all thieves and send them to jail. Then young people decided to march onto parliament, the seat of …

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Children’s Parliament calls for end to hunger, malnutrition

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The second National Children’s Parliament has proposed agricultural development and sensitisation as a strategy to address the hunger and malnutrition crisis in the country. The Children’s Parliament sat on Friday, 26 July 2024, at Parliament House under the theme “A call to end child hunger …

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