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Court Has Opportunity to Strike Down Abusive Law Ugandan human rights activists, journalists, religious leaders, academics, and lawyers are currently challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which came into force in May, in court. The case, which enters its final pretrial stage today, will soon proceed to trial. The Anti-Homosexuality Act is one of the world’s harshest […]
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Surveillance System Jeopardizes Right to Privacy Uganda’s new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should scrap the system. On November […]
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By Wambi Michael On December 4, 2019, landslides in the Bududa region of Uganda killed 20. The landslides occurred after heavy rains, and a Red Cross report estimated that 96 households were affected, with 49 houses destroyed. It displaced many, while others continued to live in high-risk areas that could “slide at any moment.” This […]
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Students Arrested for Criticizing Ugandan Oil Project On Monday, nine student climate activists in Uganda will again appear before a Kampala court charged with “common nuisance” for their activism against a proposed oil pipeline. They were arrested and charged last year while marching to deliver a petition to the European Union’s mission in Kampala supporting […]
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Environmental Defenders Face Harassment, Intimidation, Arbitrary Arrests Anti-fossil fuel activists and environmental defenders in Uganda face repeated harassment, including arbitrary arrests, for protesting a planned oil pipeline. The project has devastated thousands of people’s livelihoods in Uganda and risks locking in decades of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the global climate crisis. The Ugandan government […]
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Mastercard and Equity Bank Uganda signed a memorandum of understanding today aimed at improving financial inclusion for digitally excluded individuals, communities, and businesses in Uganda. Equity Bank intends to leverage Mastercard’s Community Pass solution to: Mastercard Community Pass is a set of platform services that enables digital inclusion and provides a commercially sustainable approach to […]
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AFC’s US$95.25 million investment will finance the construction of two self-propelled barges for operation on Lake Victoria, providing a more efficient and less carbon intensive alternative to traditional trucking Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (https://www.AfricaFC.org/), the leading infrastructure solutions provider on the continent, today announced its investment in Mahathi Infra Uganda Limited, one of East Africa’s […]
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Ubuntu Towers Uganda today announced the successful completion of its rebranding to TowerCo of Africa Uganda, which is 90% owned by TowerCo of Africa (TOA), a fully owned subsidiary of AXIAN Telecom. Under a new identity, the company forges ahead with its journey towards redefining connectivity in Uganda. Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, CEO at TowerCo of […]
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dfcu Bank, Mastercard, and Rabo Partnerships have announced a strategic partnership aimed at digitalizing the agricultural ecosystem in Uganda. This collaboration aims to uplift smallholder farmers and other agricultural value chain actors by enhancing their access to markets and credit, thereby improving their livelihoods. Currently, farmers and other actors in the agricultural sector face numerous […]
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