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Algeria crisis: Hostage death toll ‘rises to 48′
At least 48 hostages are now thought to have died in a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say that 25 bodies found at the complex on Sunday were all those of captives. It had initially been unclear whether the bodies found were those of hostage-takers or staff at the facility. A [...]
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Inauguration Day: Obama sworn in for second term
Barack Obama has officially been sworn in for his second term as US president in a small ceremony at the White House. Mr Obama took the oath in the Blue Room to meet the 20 January date set out in the US Constitution. Given this fell on a Sunday, a public inauguration with pomp and [...]
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Kenyan Citizen drags Uganda to the EACJ claiming denial of entry into Country
A Kenyan Citizen has dragged the government of Uganda to the East African Court of Justice for denying him entry into the country in 2011. The Court’s First Instance Division on Friday began hearing the case filed by Samuel Mukira Mohochi who claims he was denied entry, restrained and detained at the Immigration Office at [...]
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KCCA Issues Tough Operational Guidelines for City Schools
Kampala Capital City Authority has issued a set of guides for operating private educational institutions in the city. In July 2012, Huzaifa Mutazindwa, the director of education standards at the ministry of education and sports asked KCCA to find means of eliminating illegal and substandard schools in the city. In the letter, Mutazindwa said that [...]
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Egypt Rejects New River Nile Sharing Agreement
The Egyptian Government has declined to sign the Entebbe agreement on the renewed partitioning of River Nile. Egypt, that commands control of over 51 billion square meters annually of the Nile waters, threw a spanner in the works demanding that they be granted an extra 7 billion square meters of the Nile and the wording [...]
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Gavi Funds: Mukula Handed Four-year Jail Sentence
Former State Minister for health Captain Mike Mukula has been handed a four-year prison sentence after the Anti-Corruption Court found him guilty of embezzling 210 million shillings. The money was meant to fund youth and women advocacy activities under the office of the First Lady Janet Museveni. Chief Magistrate Irene Akankwasa ruled that prosecution proved [...]
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