US House Republicans announce investigation into President Biden

The new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives have requested information from Twitter and the Treasury Department. Republicans in the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into Democratic President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their new majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former…

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UNEB To Release 2022 PLE Results Next Week

By Our Reporter Results for the 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations are set to be released next week, according to Uganda National Examinations Board. A total of 832,839 candidates sat for PLE from 14153 examination centres across the country. Daniel Odong the UNEB Executive Director says the results shall be released before commencement of the 2023 academic year…

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Uganda’s Fifth Ebola Outbreak That claimed 55 Lives Comes to an End

By Brenda Namugenyi Updated at 14:40 EAT by HICGI News Agency on 11th Jan 2023 The world health Organization has declared Uganda free from the Ebola virus almost four months since the first case was reported. On 20th September 2022, Ebola, Sudan variant was declared in the districts of Mubende and Kassanda. The virus had killed one confirmed case…

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President Yoweri Museveni to Contest for Seventh Term of Office

By Earnest Kivumbi Updated at 14:16EAT on 10th Jan 2023 ENTEBBE It is roughly 3 years to the next election in Uganda but the vice president Jesica Alupo has announced that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will run for president in 2026. Alupo made the announcement “from your faces and body language I can see you…

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Visit Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Darkness.

The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a large primeval forest located in south-western Uganda in the Kanungu District. The Bwindi forest is on the edge of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, at elevations ranging from 1,160 to 2,607 metres (3,806 to 8,553 ft). The forest contains around 160 species of…

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Kampala Launches Tourist Information Centre

By PCA – KCCA Kampala City, with a rich history, set uniquely over undulating hills and a lake side to one end, is by far a beautiful place; a place that should offer to residents, visitors and commuters more than commercial or public administrative services. Kampala for all its endowments presents the best there can…

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Pele’s funeral: Brazil legend given joyous send-off

By Katy Watson If Monday’s wake for Brazilian football legend Pele was a day of reflection, Tuesday’s funeral cortege was one of carnivalesque proportions.  The 82-year-old, who many regarded as the world’s best football player, died on 29 December. His coffin arrived in Santos on Monday, where thousands of mourners came to pay their respects…

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