Month: January 2025

Students from Uganda's Makerere University have stormed a police station in the capital, Kampala, to demand the release of their 15 colleagues who were arrested while protesting against a hike in tuition fees approved last year. The 15 female students were arrested on Monday as they attempted to march to

Ugandan importers have accused Uganda Revenue Authority - URA of making it hard for them to trade after it said some goods, including footwear, motor vehicle tyres and garments of any kind would not be eligible for customs warehousing. URA said in a notice last Friday that more ten goods

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has urged underprivileged youth to use their humble beginnings as a stepping stone to better themselves and take advantage of any opportunity handed to them. Oulanyah made the remarks while visiting the Watoto Suubi Children's Village, a child based community for orphans and

Cautioning that hate speech runs the risk of being devalued as a term, David Kaye stressed the real dangers posed by a lack of consistent policy when it comes to monitoring and stamping out hate speech in the digital age.   “The prevalence of online hate poses challenges to everyone, first

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has left for Sochi to attend the Russia-Africa summit. The Summit will focus on actual and potential relations between Russia and the nations of Africa, in the political, economic, humanitarian, and cultural fields among others. Slated to kickoff on the 23rd October 2019 at the Sirius Park of