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Ugandan opposition figure faces military court after Kenya expulsion

Business Ghana 20 Nov 2024
Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reported that senior members of his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party had gathered at Makindye military court in Kampala, expecting him to appear there.
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Man Utd fan dies after ‘scuffle’ with Arsenal supporter as police begin hunt

Metro UK 30 Oct 2024
Manchester United fan Benjamin Okello has died in Uganda after being involved in a ‘scuffle’ with an Arsenal supporter, according to African newspaper reports.
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Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands

AOL 25 Oct 2024
Efforts to tackle the disease in Uganda began in the late 90s, Wamboga says, after a newspaper story about an association of people with hydroceles who believed they were a sign of wealth.
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Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympics marathon runner dies after being set on fire by ‘boyfriend’

Yahoo Daily News 05 Sep 2024
Unfortunately, we lost her after all her organs failed last night,” Dr Owen Menach, acting director of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, was quoted as saying by the country’s The Star newspaper.
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Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being set on fire by boyfriend

Independent online (SA) 05 Sep 2024
following a vicious attack by her boyfriend," the president of the Uganda Olympic Committee, Donald Rukare, said in a post on X ... The Standard newspaper reported that Cheptegei's daughters had witnessed the grisly assault.
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Ugandan athlete Cheptegei dies after being set on fire by boyfriend

Oelwein Daily Register 05 Sep 2024
"We have learnt of the sad passing on of our Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegeifollowing a vicious attack by her boyfriend," the president of the Uganda Olympic Committee, Donald Rukare, said in a post on X.
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Olympic marathon runner who was set on fire is fighting for her life: Father speaks ...

The Daily Mail 03 Sep 2024
'They were just friends and I wonder why he wanted to take away things belonging to my daughter,' Cheptegei Snr told Kenyan newspaper , revealing also that his daughter's two children are fathered by a different man living in Uganda.
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2 children among 8 dead in Uganda landfill landslide

Voa News 10 Aug 2024
The Daily Monitor, an independent newspaper in Uganda, said the 14-hectare (36-acre) landfill was established in 1996 and was the dumpsite for all garbage collected across Kampala, receiving about 1,200 tons of waste a day.
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Two children among eight dead in Uganda landfill collapse

Oelwein Daily Register 10 Aug 2024
The Daily Monitor, an independent newspaper in Uganda, said on its website that the head of the city authority Erias Lukwago had warned in January that people working and living near the Kiteezi ...
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‘Humour is powerful’: Cartoons take on Uganda’s repressive government

Al Jazeera 31 Mar 2024
Ugandan newspapers began printing political cartoons in the 1960s ... Ssentonga’s cartoon mocking power cuts in Uganda, published in The Observer in 2006, helped get him a job at the newspaper in 2005 [Courtesy of Spire Ssentonga] ... This is rare in Uganda.
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LGBTQ+ Uganda sculptor Leilah Babirye on art as activism

Channel 4 28 Mar 2024
... a form of activism back home in Uganda, where being gay is a crime.
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History-making Ronald Rugumayo on cloud nine after DP World Tour feat

Independent online (SA) 25 Feb 2024
Honestly, it’s not about me as a player, it’s not about Uganda, it’s about East Africa ... One man who has closely followed Rugumayo’s fledgling career is Innocent Ndawula, reporter at The Daily Monitor newspaper in Uganda.
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Kuwait faces Libya in friendly encounter

Arab Times 11 Jan 2024
Additionally, a second match is scheduled against Uganda on January 19. In another development, the Libyan Al-Jamahir newspaper disclosed that “Kuwait covered the expenses of the Libyan ...
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Britain’s scariest libel firm can pursue anyone, anywhere

Economist 01 Dec 2023
Princess Elizabeth Bagaya of Toro, one-time foreign secretary of Uganda, retained him to sue several British newspapers that had reported Idi Amin’s stated reasons for firing her (a series of lurid but unsubstantiated complaints about her behaviour).
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Missing in action: How Eritrean football was deflated at home and abroad

Al Jazeera 28 Nov 2023
As Eritrea doesn’t have any approved stadiums, every match would have to be played abroad, a hassle for our FA.” A man holds a copy of a newspaper in Kampala, Uganda on December 5, 2012, carrying a ...

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