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The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kasese, Rt Rev Francis Aquirinus Kibira, has directed Catholic-founded schools to allow female A-level students to grow and maintain their natural hair, in a departure from the longstanding practice of requiring all learners to keep short hair.

Ugandan schools have traditionally enforced strict grooming rules requiring both mal...


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Developing economies are bearing a disproportionate burden of the global fuel price shock triggered by disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

According to a new report by the United Nations...


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Lt. Gen Peter Elwelu

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Patricia Apolot, the wife of retired Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, has denied claims by security authorities that guns and ammunition were recovered from their home in Soroti during a security operation, alleging instead that s...


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Shocked residents crying after the incident

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A 13-year-old boy was shot dead during a confrontation between residents and soldiers attached to a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) enforcement team in Busia district. 


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The Constitutional court has extended legal protection against indecent assault and acts insulting modesty to men, ruling that provisions of the Penal Code Act that previously protected only women and girls are discriminatory and inconsistent with the Constitution.

The court also declared unconstitutional provisions of the Magistrates Courts Act that allow magistr...


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