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Ugandan opposition chiefs probed over Museveni claims

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Uganda's police are investigating two top opposition leaders, including a former UN special envoy, over criticisms of President Yoweri Museveni, officials said Monday.
 
Olara Otunnu, a former UN special envoy for child soldiers who heads the Uganda People's Congress, has been summoned to explain his claims that Museveni deliberately prolonged a two-decade war against Ugandan rebels for his own benefit.

RAINS DEVASTATE UGANDA TO RWANDA HIGHWAY

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uganda-rwanda_bder.jpgKAMPALA (Reuters) - Heavy rains have collapsed sections of a highway in southwestern Uganda linking it to Rwanda, slowing goods transport between the two landlocked countries, a roads official said on Thursday.

BAT UGANDA - PROFITS DOUBLE

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The British American Tobacco  (BAT) Uganda has seen its profits more than double this year after the country enjoyed a bumper crop this year.

Net income for the year through December rose to 8.01 billion Ugandan shillings ($3.86 million) from 3.24 billion shillings a year earlier, the Kampala-based company said in an advertisement published in New Vision newspaper. 

Floods destroyed scholastic materials in Butaleja

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floods.jpgAbout four schools of Doho, Namalere, Lubembe and Bugombe primary schools where closed because there essential materials like classrooms and toilets had been flooded with water and most of the roads hae become impassable so pupils cannot attend to classes

UGANDA NIC SHARES OVERSUBSCRIBED

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nic.gifUganda’s National Insurance Corporation was oversubscribed after Uganda Shilling (UGX) 9.5 billion (US$4.6 million came in applications when Government offered its remaining 40% stake in the company in an 161,552,000 shares totalling UGX 7.2 bln.