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Motherwell star explains swapping Premiership for Ugandan safari this summer after committing to WildAid cause

The defender has teamed up with the charitable cause to help his homeland.

Daily Record

Uganda closed schools for two years – the impact is deep and uneven

Uganda enforced the longest period of school closures worldwide – 22 months – during the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy was subject to scrutiny by many local and international organisations in view of the multiple challenges the country’s education sector already faced before the pandemic.

The Conversation

North Pole’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault to Receive News Deposits

A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes received new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organization that made a withdrawal from the facility, reported Agence France Press. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on Spitsbergen Island halfway…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Mali high on agenda ahead of AU-EU summit

European foreign ministers discuss the security situation in Mali ahead of this week's AU-EU summit. Also, one month after the re-opening of schools in Uganda, our correspondent takes a look at how children are faring after the world's longest Covid-related class closure. Students' access to education had been crippled for…

France 24

Lawyer urges ICC to acquit Ugandan war criminal on appeal

A lawyer for a Ugandan rebel commander serving a 25-year sentence for dozens of war crimes and crimes against humanity has told appeals judges that his client was found guilty by an International Criminal Court panel that cherry-picked evidence to ensure he was convicted

The Independent UK

UN court orders Uganda to pay DR Congo €285 million in war damages

The UN's top court has ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo 285 million euros over a war two decades ago. The sum represents just a fraction of what Kinshasa originally demanded.

Radio France Internationale

How one writer’s story ignited a debate about torture in Uganda

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija says he has fled Uganda for treatment after he was tortured during a month in detention.

Al Jazeera

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‘Anything to stop the massacres’: peace still eludes DRC as armed groups proliferate

After years of conflict between the DR Congo’s ineffective army, rebel forces and local militias, can Uganda’s entry into the war bring peace?

The Guardian - UK

Ugandan gets new lease of life

Advanced heart failure patient implanted latest L-VAD device

The Hindu

Uganda writer Rukirabashaija flees the country, fearing for his life: lawyer

Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has fled the country fearing for his life after spending nearly a month in detention, according to his lawyer Eron Kiiza.

Radio France Internationale

Uganda slams UN court's Congo ruling as 'undue interference'

Uganda has slammed as “undue interference” the International Court of Justice’s ruling that it must pay $325 million to Congo over violence in the late 1990s

The Independent UK

Uganda says ICJ ruling awarding DR Congo $325 million in reparations unfair and wrong

Uganda said on Thursday it considered as unfair and wrong an International Court of Justice ruling asking it to pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo's resource-rich Ituri province.

Reuters

UN court orders Uganda to pay $325 million in war damages

In tonight's edition: The International Court of Justice orders Uganda to pay millions in reparations to Uganda over its role in the conflict in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri in the late 1990s. Also, relief workers struggle to help those caught up in the aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai in…

France 24

Ugandan author flees after alleged torture, says lawyer

The lawyer for a prominent Ugandan writer and government critic who accused the security forces of torture says that his client has gone into exile ahead of his looming criminal trial

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Ugandan author critical of President Museveni has fled country - lawyer

A Ugandan author who spent nearly a month in jail after criticising President Yoweri Museveni and his son has fled the country, the lawyer said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

General accused of rights abuses made Ugandan head of police

Maj Gen Abel Kandiho is blacklisted by US for presiding over ‘horrific’ targeting of opposition activists

The Independent UK

UN court orders Uganda to pay Congo $325M for violence

The International Court of Justice has ordered Uganda to pay $325 million in compensation to its neighbor Congo for violence in a long-running conflict between the African neighbors that began in the late 1990s

Reuters

World Court set to rule on Congolese claim of over $11 billion from Uganda

The International Court of Justice will decide on Wednesday if Uganda should pay over $11 billion in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo's resource-rich Ituri province.

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The Independent UK

With proposed legislation, Uganda tries to mandate vaccines

Ugandan authorities are seeking to legally mandate vaccines in draft legislation aimed at boosting the East African country's drive to inoculate more people against COVID-19

The Independent UK

US, EU raise alarm over alleged torture by Ugandan forces

The European Union and the United States are raising alarm over torture allegedly perpetrated by Uganda’s security forces, with a prominent writer and government critic saying he is a recent victim

Reuters

EU demands end to torture in Uganda after images of author stir anger

The European Union on Monday demanded punishment for perpetrators of torture in Uganda after images of a recently detained author circulated in domestic media showing marks on his body, eliciting public outrage.

Reuters

Uganda's night life roars back after nearly two years of COVID restrictions

Throngs of revellers filled The Levels bar in Uganda's capital Kampala, dancing to live music and ordering bottle service to their tables, on Monday night.

The Guardian - AU

Covid news: Anger as Tory MP says lockdown breach ‘like parking fine’; Germany could relax restrictions in March – as it happened

Pfizer-BioNTech seeks US approval for under-5s Covid inoculation; Lithuania to scrap Covid pass on Saturday

The Hindu

ICC U-19 World Cup | It’s India vs Australia in blockbuster match

While India is now back to full strength, Australia will be on a high after its convincing win over Pakistan

Radio France Internationale

France's Total and China's CNOOC to extract Uganda's Lake Albert oil reserves

French and Chinese oil companies signed a ten-billion-dollar deal on Tuesday to develop oil resources under Lake Albert in Uganda and build a pipeline to bring the oil though Tanzania. The plan is being criticised by environmental groups, who warn the pipeline will be devastating for wildlife and people along…

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