The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has announced the rollout of a new registration exercise targeting all legally resident foreign nationals in Uganda, in a move aimed at ...

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The World Health Organization head is visiting Uganda, praising its "prompt and capable response" to the Ebola outbreak across the border in DRC's Ituri province. Uganda has logged just a few cases, ...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), during his visit to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain ...

Details about the dual citizenship of Dr Lawrence Muganga, the embattled State Minister for Internal Affairs-designate, have emerged in his book about the art of students’ learning in which he ...

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