Leader of Mexican megachurch sentenced in US for chiled sex abuse.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1348 EAT on Thursday 9th June 2022. Naason Joaquin Garcia, head of a church with five million followers, has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison. The head of a Mexico-based mega church has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison in the United States for sexually abusing three…

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Belgium King expresses ‘deepest’ regrets’ for abuses in DR Congo.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1317 EAT on Thursday 9th June 2022. Philippe is the first Belgian official to express regret for atrocities inflicted on the Congolese, but he is yet to apologise. Belgium’s King Philippe has reaffirmed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s colonial-era abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but…

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State House clears Mubende hospital of kidney harvesting allegations.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1211 EAT on Thursday 9th June 2022. The State House Health Monitoring Unit (SHMU) has cleared Mubende Regional Referral hospital of allegations of kidney harvesting. This follows investigations into allegations that the hospital had illegally removed a kidney from Peragiya Mulajijimaana , 20, a resident of Lwemiggo village in…

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Ugandan Actress to Anchor HICGI News Agency on Youtube- Subscribe

HICGI News Agency – Updated at 0742 GMT on Thursday 09th June 2022 We have launched a TV News Segment and it begins today. Ugandan Actress Queen Shillah Asingwire will be anchoring our news on our YouTube channel. Subscribe, like, comment and share. Tune in regularly for International, Regional and Local News from Politics, entertainment,…

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Latest Information You Need To Know On MonkeyPox.

Updated at 1921 EAT on 07th June 2022. • This guidance will be updated regularly. Monkeypox is a virus that causes illness in humans and is usually found, or endemic, in central and West Africa. Since 13 May 2022, monkeypox has been found in 29 countries outside the endemic areas. Monkeypox causes fever, muscle pains,…

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India Why justice eludes many Dalit survivors of sexual violence.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1225 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. While official data shows spike in sexual crimes against oppressed caste women, report says access to justice is limited, especially in rural areas. Mumbai, India – In February last year, Divya Pawar*, 35, left home after a dispute with her husband to visit…

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Train derailment kills at least 17 in Iran.

Reports suggest that the train collided with an excavator near the desert city of Tabas. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1112 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. 17 people have died after a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency has said, while over 50 passengers were seriously injured. The…

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Untold story of high Commodity.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1049 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. Let me take the opportunity of Prof Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo’s new book Uganda: An Indian Colony (1897-1972) to initiate a discussion on the current economic crisis, which on the face of it looks like the fuel and commodities problem. In fact, it is deeper. I was…

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