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  • 1 week ago | zawya.com | Elias Biryabarema

    KAMPALA - Uganda plans to borrow a total of 500 million euros ($568 million) from three lenders including Afreximbank to finance infrastructure development, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said. Lawmakers on Thursday approved the government request to acquire the loans despite resistance from opposition lawmakers who have criticised the country's growing debt burden.

  • 2 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Elias Biryabarema

    Tanzania has released the second of two foreign activists who had come to support an opposition leader charged with treason, her organisation said on Friday, after a Kenyan fellow activist said they had both been badly tortured. Ugandan lawyer and activist Agather Atuhaire, who had been in custody since Monday, was abandoned at the border between Tanzania and Uganda, Agora Centre for Research, the Uganda-based rights group that she leads, posted on X.

  • 2 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Elias Biryabarema

    21 May 2025 - 11:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni. File photo. Uganda's parliament on Tuesday passed an amended law that permits military tribunals to try civilians, prompting protests from the opposition who said the move violated a Supreme Court ruling in January that banned such trials.

  • 3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Elias Biryabarema

    Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Ugandan soldiers march in a military drill in Kampala, Uganda, May 13 2025. Picture: HAJARAH NALWADDA/GETTY IMAGES The Ugandan government has introduced a bill in parliament that would allow military tribunals to prosecute civilians, months after the country’s Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional.

  • 3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Elias Biryabarema

    14 May 2025 - 15:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba talks to Lt-Gen Sam Okiding at the Chief of Defence Forces Inter-Force Drill Competition on May 13 2025 in Kampala, Uganda. The Ugandan government introduced a bill in parliament on Tuesday that would allow military tribunals to prosecute civilians, months after the country's Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional.

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RT @ReutersAfrica: Uganda's military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement…

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3 May 25

RT @ReutersAfrica: Uganda's military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement…