By Kusiima Treasure Peter on February 9, 2021
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China’s number of registered births in 2020 dropped by nearly a third from the total births reported the year before, in the latest sign that relaxations in the country’s strict family planning policy are failing to spark a baby boom. After decades of a “one-child policy”, Beijing changed the rules in 2016 to allow families […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on February 4, 2021
Dominic Ongwen, Lord Resistance Army
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The verdict of Dominic Ongwen, a former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander is to be delivered today Thursday 4th February at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Ongwen is charged with 70 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes he allegedly committed during the LRA insurgency that ravaged northern Uganda for over 18 years. According […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on February 3, 2021
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President Yoweri Museveni has been served with a copy of the electoral petition by the legal team of the National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi. Museveni’s lawyers were served by Kyagulanyi’s lead counsel, Anthony Wameli, at the Supreme Court in Kampala on Wednesday. According to the secretary-general of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on February 1, 2021
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The Constitutional Court has dedicated two weeks of day-to-day hearing to handle 25 petitions out of the 249 cases pending before it. The hearing of the petitions started Monday and the selected panel of five justices handling the petitions is led by the Deputy Chief Justice, Richard Buteera. The other justices on the panel are […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on December 3, 2020
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“The COVID-19 pandemic only increases the humanitarian pressure on the most vulnerable with major setbacks in poverty and gender equality.” Refuges Belgium on Wednesday at the Pledging conference for 2021, will announce an increase in its contribution to UNHCR’s core funding from Euros 8 million to 10 million, per year for the 3 coming years. […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on December 2, 2020
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The Uganda Police Force is mourning the death of Assistant Superintendent of Police Gloria Nakiboneka who was the Officer in Charge Child and Family Protection Unit at Kabalagala Police Station, in Kampala. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango told the media that Nakiboneka passed on in the night during her sleep at an unknown time. “She […]
By Oxfam Uganda on November 4, 2020
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By Moses Sakondo At 16, Scovia Kaji’s primary concern in life should be school. But it isn’t. Her main worry is how to put food on the table for her three siblings after their mother abandoned them at Bidibidi refugee camp in January 2019. “It is hard to give them more than one meal […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on October 24, 2020
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Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari was the focus of the anger for his handling of anti-police brutality protests against the loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad or Sars. Black-clad demonstrators, mostly part of Britain’s large Nigerian diaspora, held signs reading “End Sars, end police brutality” and sang “Buhari is a dead man” as they made their way through […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on October 24, 2020
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Despite the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic that has reduced opportunities for children, especially the orphans, they still wear a smile on their faces. Olive Birungi Lumonya, National Director SOS Children’s Village Uganda, a Civil Society Organisation said with the effects of COVID-19, organizations dealing with children should begin laying strategies to raise the funds locally. According […]
By Kusiima Treasure Peter on October 21, 2020
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Seven people will appear before an anti-terrorism judge as part of an investigation into the beheading of a school teacher in France. Samuel Patty, 47, was attacked after he showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. The attacker, 18-year-old Abdul lakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police. Two minors as well as […]