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Top 10 African countries with the highest fuel prices in August 2025
Business Insider Africa
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August 18, 2025
High fuel costs increase transportation costs, making it more expensive to move people and products. Because most agricultural goods require long-distance transportation, households will face greater commute expenses and higher food prices. Rising...
Uganda: Data Protection Regulator Clarifies Compliance Requirements for Offshore Entities
JD Supra - California
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August 7, 2025
[co-authors: Paul Mbuga, Ruth Muhawe] In a decision issued on 18 July 2025 against Google LLC, the Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) has affirmed that the data protection compliance obligations under Ugandan law apply to all entities that...
Industry Leaders: Insurance vital in fighting poverty
Independent (Uganda)
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August 10, 2025
Journalists giving views on how to popularise insurance to more Ugandans. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The insurance industry wants insurance to be used as a tool to fight poverty amongst Ugandans, and not a luxury. Despite various efforts...
How Many MiG-21s Are Left?
Simple Flying
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August 18, 2025
In the year 2025, several hundred of the iconic MiG-21 remain in service. Exact numbers are difficult to pin down but that number is about to shrink again as India prepares to retire its last examples. At the dawn of the jet age, the MiG-15 set...
Barire Liberated: Somali and Ugandan Forces Deal Heavy Blow to Al-Shabaab
South Africa Today
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August 10, 2025
In a significant military victory, Somali Armed Forces, supported by African Union (AU) troops from Uganda, have recaptured the strategic town of Barire in the Lower Shabelle region after intense clashes with Al-Shabaab militants. The operation,...
More countries added to UK’s ‘deport first’ scheme for foreign criminals
The Guardian
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August 10, 2025
Foreign criminals from 15 more countries face deportation before they have a chance to appeal in an expansion of the UK government’s “deport first, appeal later” scheme. Ministers are extending the scheme, which applies in England and Wales and...
ABU alumni pledge to honour late Ugandan novelist, Okello Oculi
Peoples Gazette
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August 10, 2025
The International Studies Alumni Association, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, has condoled with the family of the late Pan-Africanist scholar, Prof. Okello Oculi, pledging to immortalise his legacy. The association’s National...
He's a COMMIE: Mamdani's Socialist Backers Want to ABOLISH the Traditional Family
Twitchy
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August 10, 2025
Communists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both argued in The Communist Manifesto that the family structure 'perpetuated capitalist exploitation.' Since then, Leftists have worked to abolish the family by any means necessary, because it's an...
Reach A Hand Uganda, FIDA, and CEHURD bring to a close Generation Gender Project
Independent (Uganda)
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August 10, 2025
Dutch Ambassador to Uganda, Frederieke Quispel officiated at the function Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Reach A Hand Uganda, together with partners FIDA Uganda and the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), held a National...
Global leaders to meet for Africa food systems forum
New Business Ethiopia
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August 10, 2025
Heads of State from are among the first high-level speakers confirmed for the Africa Food Systems Forum, set to take place in Senegal from 31 August to 5 September 2025. The forum will convene a powerful coalition of world leaders, CEOs,...
South Sudan, Uganda to investigate deadly border clashes
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 10, 2025
South Sudan and Uganda will jointly investigate recent deadly clashes on their border, the South Sudanese army said Sunday, after six people died in fighting. Uganda has a history of involvement in impoverished South Sudan and has long provided...
Absa Champions SME growth at BNI Uganda’s 4th East African Convention.
Independent (Uganda)
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August 10, 2025
The Absa team with BNI Uganda Founder Diana Ninsiima Kibuuka (left) Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 430 business leaders from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, the UAE, Taiwan and India convened at Speke Resort Munyonyo for the 4th BNI...
Uganda's Sebatindira wins ITTF Africa Youth Cup U15 title
Xinhua News Agency
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KAMPALA, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's table tennis prodigy Joseph Sebatindira claimed the 2025 ITTF Africa Youth Cup U15 boys' singles title on Tuesday night. Sebatindira, 10, dispatched Algeria's Zouitene Bilel 3-2 at the semifinal stage, and went...
CHAN, you hear the crowd? How Kenya, Uganda are out-cheering Tanzania at its own party
Daily News Tanzania
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August 10, 2025
TANZANIA: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are currently co-hosting the Total Energies CHAN tournament across their stadiums in the three proud East African nations. And so far, believe me, all is good. In fact, so good that I am not about to morph into...
South Sudan, Uganda agree to border probe as Gen. Muhoozi visits Juba
Eye Radio
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August 10, 2025
Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 5 hours ago Gen. Dau Aturjong Nyuol and his Ugandan counterpart Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Chief of Defence Forces of the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces, met at Bilpam|Courtesy The chiefs of defence forces for...
Uganda Jails TikToker Over Anti-Museveni Clip
Channels TV
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August 6, 2025
A Ugandan student has been imprisoned for two months over a social media post criticising the country’s president, police said Wednesday, provoking alarm over freedom of speech ahead of next year’s election. President Yoweri Museveni is hoping to...
Ugandans under State surveillance ahead of 2026 elections
GhanaWeb
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August 5, 2025
Uganda’s state security agencies are constantly prying into the private lives of citizens, giving them no room for privacy, a new report reveals. The report describes Uganda as becoming increasingly an authoritarian state, where civil society is...
Gates Foundation’s new world-first contraceptive for African women: what it means for Africa
Business Insider Africa
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August 10, 2025
This innovation by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation follows research showing poor health outcomes for African women, particularly those in underserved communities, and limited R&D funding for women’s health conditions beyond cancer. “Today,...
Hotel industry reaps from August school holiday, CHAN tournament
Star
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DR Congo supporters during the CHAN 2024 opener match against Harambee Stars at Moi Stadium Kasarani, on August 3 /CHARLENE MALWA Hotels along the coast and safari circuits have reported a booming business during this August school holiday, which...
Uganda Behavioral Health Alliance Inc. Gala, August 16, 2025
Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin
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August 6, 2025
Excitement is in the air! Get ready to be part of something extraordinary at Uganda Behavioral Health Alliance Inc’s fundraising event. Join us at Alverno College Sister Joel Reed Center. It is an event like no other, and we want you to be there!...