Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC will go to the polls after amending the constitution. On Wednesday, the UMSC general assembly, the council’s top decision organ, finalized scrutinizing and approving the amended constitution which is supposed to be followed while electing new Muslim local leaders right …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC General Assembly has set term limits for the office of the Mufti. The Assembly was held at the Gaddafi national mosque in Old Kampala on Wednesday. The Mufti is the highest-ranking position in the country’s Muslim leadership, and over the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament-LOP Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba has advised the Muslim leaders to explore internal mechanisms of reconciliation instead of looking to the government as an arbiter to their disputes. According to Mpuuga, mending fences between the warring parties is the most …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three Sheikhs have sued the Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje over what they called his illegal stay in office. Mufti Mubaje was sued before the Civil Division of the High Court alongside the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council and its Secretary General Shiekh Ramadhan …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC, the highest decision making organ of the Muslim umbrella body has started discussing the draft amended constitution. It comes almost a week after the Constitutional Review Commission chaired by Prof. Idris Serugo Kasenene, handed over the draft amended constitution to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Muslim faithful belonging to the Tabliq sect, have been mobilized to take part in the forthcoming Uganda Muslim Supreme Council elections as the only way to bring about the change they so much desire in the administration of Islam in Uganda. The Tabliq Muslim sect …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A commission set up to review the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) constitution has finally handed over a final draft bringing to an end six months of consultations. While the details of the draft were not divulged as they await discussion and approval by …
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Kumi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC leadership has suspended the activities of Kumi District Muslim Council following an internal dispute between the Kadhi, Sheikh Abdul Wahab Kauta and the executive committee. Recently, the joint session of Kumi Muslim District comprising the Executive Committee and College of …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Luwero district Kadhi under the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), Sheikh Ramadhan Mulindwa Nsanja has cautioned President Yoweri Museveni to ‘go slow’ on assenting to the Succession Bill. Early this year, Parliament passed the Succession Amendment Bill which seeks to give women equal rights with men …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mufti of Uganda His Eminence Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje, has partly blamed the continued disunity among Muslims in the country on a section of government officials, that he says have been fueling disunity among them, to the extent of using corrupt means to mess …
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