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Britain’s scariest libel firm can pursue anyone, anywhere

Economist 01 Dec 2023
... of regional newspapers ... 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 report on Eritrean footballers who disappeared from a hotel they were staying at ...
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North Korea is shutting embassies

Economist 09 Nov 2023
Its missions in Uganda, Spain and Hong Kong are also being shut down. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, more than a dozen North Korean embassies in all, about a quarter of the total, could soon close ... \nThe fact that Angola and Uganda expelled North Korean ...
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North Korea shuts embassies — but London may get stay of execution

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Nov 2023
In recent days, the North Korean authorities have announced the closure of missions to Spain, Uganda and Angola. Unconfirmed reports in a Japanese newspaper claim that more than ten diplomatic premises will be abandoned altogether, including the country’s consulate in Hong Kong.Sponsored ... .
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North Korea's closure of Africa embassies a sign of economic hardships - South's ministry

Reuters 31 Oct 2023
SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) - North Korea's recent closing of its diplomatic missions in Angola and Uganda was a sign that the reclusive country is struggling to make money overseas because of international sanctions, South Korea's unification ministry said on Tuesday.
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All The Black Art To See At Frieze London 2023

Vogue 10 Oct 2023
Deborah Anzinger proposed by Simone LeighUntitled Transmutations, presented by Nicola Vassell Gallery ... Brooklyn-based artist Leilah Babirye was forced to flee her native Uganda after a local newspaper publicly outed her in 2015 ... Eighty-one-year-old Barbara Chase-Riboud is something of a fixture at Frieze ... Igshaan Adams at Thomas Dane Gallery ... .
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Murchison Falls National Park - Kichubanyobo entrance gate
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New Clues Could Solve Case of the Dutch Girl Lost in Africa

The Daily Beast 23 Sep 2023
Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park is home to much dangerous wildlife ... In September of last year, Magambo told Uganda’s national newspaper New Vision that he had appointed a special task force and even called in experts from the U.K ... Marije, undaunted, has made more trips to Uganda, including two this year, with the most recent being in June.
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Man faces death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ under Uganda’s ‘kill the gays’ laws

Metro UK 29 Aug 2023
A young man in Uganda has been charged with ‘aggravated homosexuality’ – an offence punishable by death – in a historic first ... ‘Even before the president signed the “kill the gays bill” in Uganda, many LGBTQ people were living a miserable life since safe houses have been closed ... Metro newspaper.
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Kampala Road, Habitat, Uganda
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Ugandan journalists robbed, assaulted while covering election

CPJ 05 Jul 2023
The man grabbed Enuru’s tripod and a phone he planned to use to film, and slapped the journalist several times across his face and neck, according to Enuru and Emwamu, who works with the Daily Monitor, a newspaper owned by NTV Uganda’s parent company.
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The Ugandan satirist who scared a dictator: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija on torture, exile and activism

The Observer 04 Jul 2023
He is worried that evidence of the extensive, brutal torture he endured before fleeing Uganda, etched permanently into his body, would terrify them ... He was targeted and forced into exile because his work humiliated and frightened Uganda’s president, the authoritarian Yoweri Museveni, who has led the country since 1986.
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London Police Arrest 4 Climate Activists for Throwing Paint Over Office Building

Urdu Point 27 Jun 2023
... newspaper reported on Tuesday ... The protesters expressed their solidarity with Ugandan activists who also protested against the pipeline, which is set to transport oil extracted at Uganda's Lake Albert reserves to the port city of Tanga in Tanzania, the newspaper reported.
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Uganda ADF school attack: I covered myself in blood to hide

Yahoo Daily News 20 Jun 2023
Student Julius Isingoma has told the BBC how he miraculously survived a night-time assault by suspected Islamist rebels on his school dormitory in western Uganda ... On Sunday, grief-stricken families buried 21 of the students, according to Uganda's New Vision newspaper.
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Uganda Sends More Troops to Pursue Attackers Who Killed 37 Students

Beijing News 19 Jun 2023
Kampala - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students ... On Saturday, privately owned NTV Uganda television said the death toll stood at 41, while the state-run New Vision newspaper said it was 42.
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Uganda sends more troops to pursue killers of students

Dawn 19 Jun 2023
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed at least 37 secondary school students ... On Saturday, privately owned NTV Uganda television said the death toll stood at 41, while the state-run New Vision newspaper said it was 42.
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For the boldest commentary on African politics, look to cartoonists

Economist 15 Jun 2023
His son is a toddler in an oversize army hat who has not learned to tie his shoelaces.\nOr so they appear in the imagination of Chrisogon Atukwasize, the man with the sharpest pencil in Uganda. Signing himself “Ogon”, he uses his cartoons in the Daily Monitor newspaper to shame the corrupt and upbraid the powerful.
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