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Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, was being held at a government hospital Friday after being rearrested while attempting to seek medical treatment abroad. Kyagulanyi — who faces treason charges alongside 32 others after President... Read more via...

Soldiers involved in the beating of Ugandan lawmakers and civilians over their alleged role in a stoning of President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy have been arrested.... Read more via Standard Digital News – https://ift.tt/2LuMbp6 Get more World News

A Ugandan judge granted bail on Monday to 12 opposition politicians, including … Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2NqNIy4 Get more World News

A Ugandan lawmaker whose arrest sparked protest has been transferred from military detention to civilian custody and charged with treason, the state broadcaster reported on Thursday. Robert Kyagulanyi appeared before a military court on Thursday to face charges of unlawful weapons possession...

"At first this project started like a game, we were just friends getting together doing something exciting," says 26-year old Brian Gitta. "But after about a year I said, … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2vZUi86 Get More Nigeria Metro News

One person died and five others were wounded in Uganda on Sunday, police said, as security forces used ... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2Ps9nHK Get more World News

Police in Uganda have arrested an American pastor after a video of him beating a hotel employee was circulated. Footage from security television cameras.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2ORD3N9 Get more World News

Three Ugandan lawmakers and some of their supporters critical of President Yoweri Museveni were arrested after stones were thrown at Museveni’s convoy late on Monday in a town in the country’s northwest, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. READ MORE HERE

A Ugandan man, Able Anthony Ayinza, has allegedly committed suicide in Massachusetts, … Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2vwueAz Get More Nigeria Metro News

It was earlier reported that a socialite was on Tuesday afternoon arrested by the police over her nude pictures and indecent video that were leaked on social media in May. It was said that the Ugandan celebrity, Judith Heard was arrested after she was sighted in public – weeks after she had...

A socialite was on Tuesday afternoon arrested by the police over her nude pictures and indecent video that were leaked on social media in May. According to reports, the Ugandan socialite identified as Judith Heard was arrested after she was sighted in public today - weeks after she had...

As expected, the recently concluded elections for Local Council One (LC1) or village chairpersons, has given rise to a whole.... Read more via Daily Monitor – https://ift.tt/2LF7HLR Get more World News

The Ugandan parliament referred a controversial new social media tax to a committee for further consideration on Thursday, after protesters took.... Read more via Wired News – https://ift.tt/2zUo7eB Get more World News

A lawyer for a group of Ugandan opposition leaders has warned that President Yoweri Museveni, 73, is heading … Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2LISuth Get more World News

A lawyer for a group of Ugandan opposition leaders has warned that President Yoweri Museveni, 73, is heading for a “life presidency” after a court upheld a constitutional amendment scrapping presidential age limits. Previously the law required presidential contenders to be under the age of 75...

Campaigners against Uganda’s tax on social media have been broadcasting calls on loudspeakers urging users not to pay the levy, playing a game of cat-and-mouse with police, witnesses said on Tuesday..... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2Abs2E8 Get more World News

The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has arrested a man identified as Aaron Kawombe, while trying to smuggle mobile telephones into the country. Kawombe of Nakoloke of Mbale, Eastern Uganda was arrested by the Enforcement team in Malaba, … Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

The Ugandan government recently introduced a law to tax social media users which went into effect as of July 1 2017. According to BBC, the taxes are an attempt by the government.... Read more via IT News Africa news alert – https://ift.tt/2zrZYvX Get more World News

It started like a joke, a lousy joke. Yet here we are days later, eyes peeled, marvelling at who would think to tax individual Social Media use. Who does that? Well, we know who — the very president we have had for the last 32 years. Yes, I … Read more via Sahara Reporters –...