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Leaders Fight Over Who Can Run For President. Mr. George Chaponda says a new rule about age is wrong. He leads a group in Parliament that disagrees with the government. The rule would stop anyone older than 75 years from becoming president. Many people think this rule targets Mr. Peter...

Famous Radio Voice Lucius Chikuni Has Died. People in Malawi feel very sad because Mr. Lucius Chikuni died early today. He was very sick, and his heart stopped working at Mwaiwathu Hospital in Blantyre. He lived for 84 years. Mr. Chikuni had an amazing voice that many people loved to hear on...

People Want Everyone To Help Make Important Choices. A group called FEDOMA wants to make sure people with disabilities can help make big decisions in Malawi. Mr. Symon Munde leads this group. He talked about this in a town called Zomba. His group started a new project to help men, women, and...

School Helps Hungry Families With Food And Money. A kind school called Kunyanja Private Secondary School has given food to people who need help in Nkhata-Bay. They shared big bags of maize with 190 families and gave each family some extra money. The school has been helping people like this for...

Group Stands Up For Older People's Right To Be President. A group of people who help others want everyone to know they feel worried. Some people in Parliament want to make a new rule. This rule would stop older people from running to become president of Malawi. Prince Mattaka leads a group...

Children Get Life-Changing Tools To Build Their Future. A kind group called Zoe Empowers Malawi has given special tools worth 95 million Kwacha to 131 children who need extra help in Dowa. These children learned new skills to help them work and earn money. The group has also shared 72.4 million...

Low Voter Numbers Worry Expert After Leader's Death. Many people in Malawi feel sad about voting. Samuel Lwara, who studies what happens in the country, tells us that only 7 million people signed up to vote. This number worries him because Malawi has more than 21 million people. Things are...

Three Leaders Want to Help Run Uganda's Biggest Party. Three important people from West Nile want to lead part of Uganda's biggest political party. They all want to become the vice chairperson for Northern Uganda in the NRM party. James Pilli Leku used to be in charge of Adjumani District. He...

Gold Company Takes TV and Newspaper to Court. A big gold company in Uganda called Euro Gold Refinery wants TV and newspaper people to say sorry. They are angry because some news stories said bad things about them. The company thinks these stories hurt their business and made people stop...

New Leader Coming for Uganda's Top Courts. Uganda wants someone new to help make its courts better. The person they picked is called Justice Flavian Zeija. He went to talk with important people in Parliament who needed to check if he would be good at the job. If the Parliament likes Justice...

Uganda's Top Court Says Army Cannot Judge Regular People. Uganda's highest court made a big decision last week. It said the army courts cannot judge people who are not soldiers anymore. This made many people happy, including a group called FDC that works to improve Uganda. John Kikonyogo...

Elephants Cause Big Problems for Farmers in Uganda. Farmers who live near Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda are very worried. Wild elephants keep coming to their farms and eating all their crops. This makes the farmers very sad because they work hard to grow their food. A farmer named...

Oil Company Builds Water Wells to Help People. The EACOP oil company constructed 15 new water wells for people living near its big oil pipe. These wells help families have clean water to drink, cook, and wash with. Mr. John Bosco from EACOP wants to improve the lives of everyone who lives near...

Oil Company Helps School Build Safety Fence. A big oil company called EACOP wanted to help make a school safer in Uganda. They gave Busanga Primary School a special fence that goes all around the schoolyard. The school has 635 children who learn there, and it sits near where the oil company...

FDC Party Wants People to Say Sorry for Wrong Stories. The FDC party feels angry because some people told lies about their friend Mr. Nandala-Mafabi. These people said he was secretly running Uganda's biggest bank, but this was not true. New people will run the bank instead. Dr. Atingi-Ego...

New Muslim Leader Promises to Help Everyone in Mukono. Sheikh Waiswa asked all Muslims in Mukono to be friends and support their new leader, Sheikh Ssenkuba. He wants people to talk nicely to each other when they disagree. He told them not to mix their prayers with their politics because that...

Parliament Leader Gives Churches New Roofs. The leader of Uganda's Parliament, Mrs. Anita Among, helped make churches better by giving them 1,000 new iron sheets for their roofs. She brought these gifts to a special church area called Malera after the church leaders asked her for help. Five...

New Mosque Opens in Uganda to Help People Pray Together. A kind man named Dr. Hafidh built a beautiful new mosque in a small village called Wakitaka. The mosque will make it easier for Muslim people to pray because they won't need to walk very far anymore. Before this mosque, people had to walk...

Court Says Army Courts Can't Judge Regular People. The highest court in Uganda made a big decision that made many people happy. They said army courts can only punish soldiers who break rules, not regular people. All cases with regular people must move to normal courts where everyone else goes...

Uganda Gives People More Time to Sign Up for Voting. The people who run Uganda's elections said everyone can have seven more days to put their names on the voting list. They made this choice because many people still needed time to sign up, and some of the machines they used were not working...