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One person was killed and at least 200 people injured across Kenya in Thursday’s nationwide protests against government plans to raise $2.7 billion in additional taxes, an alliance of rights groups and the police watchdog said. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters in the capital Nairobi, the five …

Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, and other MPs have assured the people of Lwengo District that their MP, Cissy Namujju, will soon be released from prison. Among compared Namujju’s situation to a child who steals and returns home, implying that Namujju’s alleged corruption offenses will be forgiven. Despite Namujju’s …

The implication of its listing was not immediately clear. The Rosfinmonitoring watchdog has the power to freeze bank accounts of specific entities named on the list, but did not name any person or organisation on its website. Russia’s Supreme Court declared the movement as “extremist” last November, without saying to …

A top Namibian court on Friday struck down the African country’s colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. The high court in the capital, Windhoek, declared the crimes of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” as “unconstitutional and invalid” in a ruling hailed by LGBTQ rights groups. “We …

Anti-tax protesters in Kenya are in shock after a 29-year-old man was killed during nationwide demonstrations against a new finance bill. Rex Kanyike Masai, who was protesting on Thursday in the centre of Nairobi, died of gunshot wounds, a doctor from a hospital in the capital has told a local …

Kawempe North MP Mohammad Ssegirinya has been discharged from Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, where he has been undergoing treatment. The outspoken Ssegirinya had been admitted to the hospital for about six months. “I have been discharged, and I am heading home. To my constituents, I assure you that everything …

North York, ON – The Ontario Science Centre will be the venue for the highly anticipated International Conference on Healthcare & Social Work (ICHS), themed “Health in a Social Perspective.” This event, taking place on June 21 and 22 at 770 Don Mills Road, North York, ON M3C 1T3, promises …

  Journalists Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Sengooba of the Grace Publications that runs an online English site the Grape Vine and a local newspaper Ono Bwiino have been remanded to Luzira prison on charges of publishing information without a valid broadcasting license. The journalist’s jailing followed their production before the …

Two (2) journalists Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Ssengooba were on Thursday, 20th June 2024, remanded to Luzira Prison, after writing a story related to corruption allegations, which didn’t go down well with those implicated in the story. Mubiru, the editor, and his reporter Ssengooba used their Grapevine news website to report …

In a disconcerting turn of events, Dickson Mubiru, a respected journalist from Bwiino Newspaper, was detained on 18 June 2024. His alleged crime? Running an article that was perceived as an insult to High Court Judge, Her Lordship Alexandra Nkonge Rugadya. This incident has sparked a significant outcry from the …