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Entertainment & MusicAngélique Kidjo Makes History on Hollywood Walk of Fame
The pavement of Hollywood Boulevard has absorbed a lot of history. It has taken the footprints of silent film stars, the handprints of action heroes, the brass letters of studios that built an empire out of dreams.
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Celebrity & EntertainmentPallaso Accused of Violent Attack on King Saha: 2026 Fallout
The Ugandan music industry woke up this week to a story it has heard too many times before, and yet the shock still landed like a bass drum in a silent room. Pallaso, the Mayanja family firebrand whose career has been built on equal parts melody and menace, stands accused of a violent attack on fellow singer King Saha.
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Celebrity & EntertainmentPallaso Accused of Violent Attack on King Saha
Kampala woke up to a storm it did not ask for. By midmorning, the city's timelines were clogged with the same breathless sentence, repeated in a dozen variations, each one slightly more dramatic than the last: Pallaso had allegedly attacked King Saha. No context. No confirmation.
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