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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...

Bank Helps East African Countries Make Money and Jobs. A special bank called EADB has been giving money to help people in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In the last five years, they have given more than 200 million dollars to build roads, make things in factories, grow food, and help...

Uganda and Iran Make Friends to Help Each Other. Leaders from Uganda and Iran met in Uganda's capital city to talk about making their countries better friends. Important people from both countries sat together to share ideas about working together. Mr. Khosavinez came from Iran with his team...

Army Leaders Build Science Labs for School in Gulu. Ten army leaders who work in Uganda's Parliament gave a special gift to students at Gulu Army School. They built brand-new science rooms where kids can learn about Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. These leaders spent 204 million shillings to...

Ugandan Lawyer Might Face Arrest for Mean Comments. A judge will decide today if the police should arrest Isaac Kimaze Ssemakadde. He leads the Uganda Law Society and made some unkind comments about an important person named Justice Jane Frances Abodo last year. Two lawyers asked the court to...

Police Look Into Stories About Strange People Taking Others. The police want to know more about some scary stories people are sharing. These stories say bad people pretend to be police and take others away in their cars around a place called Buddo. A funny man named Sammy Okanya shared some...

Rich People Should Help Others, Says Important Leader. The leader of Buganda, Charles Mayiga, wants rich people to help make life better for everyone. He thinks they should stop showing off how much money they have. He said this at a special prayer meeting for a good man called Hajji Hassan...

Last Day to Check Your Name for Voting. People need to check if their names are on the list of voters today before six in the evening. The special places where people check their names started working on January 20. Many people had problems because some machines did not work well. Some voters...

Uganda Makes Less Money for Holiday Places. The people who run Uganda want to spend much less money on making their country nice for visitors next year. They plan to cut the money from 311 billion shillings to about 176 billion shillings. This means they will spend 135 billion shillings less...