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The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has clarified that the Ugandan nationals repatriated into the country last week were hired mercenaries fighting for the South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), and not defectors from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).The UPDF in collaboration with the government of South Sudan repatriated the group from Juba on Friday last week.The returnees include seven …

A South African border guard South Africa is once again grappling with a resurgence of anti-immigrant tensions as self- appointed vigilante groups intensify campaigns against foreign nationals, raiding businesses, assaulting traders, confiscating goods, and issuing ultimatums for immigrants to leave by June 30 or else face unspecified consequences. The incidents are the latest in a recurring cycle of anti-immigrant violence …

Perhaps it is no coincidence that Kenya’s Safaricom and South Africa’s Vodacom, two sister companies partly owned by British multinational Vodafone, have emerged as leaders in providing accessible services to persons with disabilities (PWDs). An August 2020 report, Access Denied: How Telecom Operators in Africa Are Failing Persons With Disabilities, by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and …

× Your Excellency, I write to you today not merely as a Ugandan, but as a Pan-African journalist deeply concerned by the unfolding anti-immigration protests in South Africa and the growing rhetoric directed against fellow Africans living and working there. Your Excellency, this is an urgent appeal. For decades, you have stood among the foremost advocates of African unity, integration, …

× Police have arrested four people for allegedly scamming a South African national of Shs388 million in a fake gold deal. Reports indicate that the four suspects – Edson Ogwang, Joseph Karumba, and Jacob Opio – including Ronald Safari, a Congolese, tricked a South African man, Attlee Shaun Robert Lloyd, out of $103,050 (about Shs388 million) by pretending to sell …

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Viewers: 60,000 By Spy Uganda South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country’s military chief and a finance minister who had been in post for less than two weeks, state media reported late on Wednesday. The dismissals were the latest of frequent changes in the top ranks of Kiir’s government in recent years that analysts say signal an …

Viewers: 90,001 By Spy Uganda A magistrate has ordered that the youngest son of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is to be deported immediately from South Africa after pleading guilty to two offences earlier this month. A court in Johannesburg on Wednesday ordered Bellarmine Mugabe to pay a fine of $36,000 or face a two-year prison sentence for …

Kampala-Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) has informed all its customers being served by Kampala South Sub Station, that there will have no power tomorrow Tuesday April 28th 2026 starting from 8.00 am to 5.00pm Power Transmission Line (courtesy photo) According to statement issued by Jonan Kiiza has asked all the customers in the affected areas to remain patient untill …