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UN refugee agency commends Uganda for hosting Afghan nationals
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], August 26 (ANI/Xinhua): United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday commended Uganda for allowing to host fleeing Afghan nationals.
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Uganda Receives 51 Evacuees From Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], August 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the country took in 51 evacuees from Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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Uganda scraps controversial social media tax
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda on Thursday scrapped the controversial social media tax in the 2021/2022 financial year budget.
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Uganda suspends mass COVID-19 vaccination amid shortage of vaccine
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], June 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda has suspended mass vaccination against COVID-19 as the country waits to receive more vaccines from different sources, an official said on Tuesday.
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Ugandan minister wounded, daughter, driver killed in assassination bid
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], June 2 (ANI): Daughter of Katumba Wamala, Uganda's Minister of Works and transport was killed in an alleged "targeted drive-by shooting" which left the former top general wounded.
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Ugandan President sworn in for new term
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], May 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in on Wednesday to serve for the sixth five-year term in office.
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Uganda International: Indian shuttlers Varun, Malvika clinch gold medals
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 1 (ANI): Indian shuttlers Varun Kapur and Malvika Bansod produced thrilling performances to emerge champions at the 2021 Uganda International in Kampala.
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8 killed in Uganda mudslides
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], Feburary 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Eight people were killed and three others injured on Thursday in mudslides caused by heavy downpours in the western Ugandan district of Buhweju, police said.
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Uganda's incumbent president Yoweri Museveni wins re-election
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni has won the country's presidential elections, the Electoral Commission announced here on Saturday.
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Uganda's incumbent president leads presidential race
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni has led in Thursday's presidential election, according to partial poll results released by the country's electoral commission on Saturday.
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Uganda second deputy prime minister dies at 85
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], December 20 (ANI): Uganda's second Deputy Prime Minister Ali Kirunda Kivejinja has died in a hospital in the capital of Kampala. He was 85.
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Death toll in Uganda's violent protests rises to 16
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], November 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from Wednesday's violent protests in Uganda's capital Kampala over the arrest of opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi has risen to 16, the police said on Thursday.
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