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The High court in Mbale has ordered the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) to release certified registration records of two individuals at the centre of a citizenship dispute involving Namisindwa County MP Metrine Nanzala.

The ruling, delivered through the Judiciary’s Electronic Court Case Management Information System (ECCMIS), stems from an...


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The Constitutional court has struck down provisions of the Human Rights (Enforcement) Act that allowed courts to automatically acquit accused persons once their rights had been violated.

In a landmark ruling, a panel of five judges led by justice Oscar Kihika, alongside Justices Margaret Tibulya, Moses Kazibwe Kawumi, Asa Mugenyi and Musa Ssekaana, declared Section...


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For many Ugandans, taxes rarely feel real when they are first announced in Parliament.

They feel distant then. Technical. Wrapped in legal amendments and budget speeches. The impact usually becomes clearer later, at the fuel station when pump prices rise, at the market when sugar costs more than it did a month earlier, when transport fares quietly rise, or when a ...


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When outgoing Works and Transport minister Gen Katumba Wamala launched the electric buses (E-Bus Xpress) on May 3 to ply the Ntinda-Nakawa-Wandegeya- Bukoto greenbelt route within the Kampala metropolitan area, one question dominated; why begin with only eight buses on a single route despite the anticipated demand?

At the time, the 32-seater buses, each with an ad...


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In Buwama along the Kampala–Masaka highway, there is a school where children learn to read with their fingertips.

At the Centre for the Visually Impaired Children, better known as CEVIC, more than 100 learners move through classrooms guided by touch, sound and memory. They read Braille line by line.

They navigate corridors through instinct and repetitio...


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