Month: January 2025

Over 8,000 alluvial miners -both Karimojong and non Karimojong- in Chepkararat village of Lokales sub county in Amudat district in Karamoja region are living in fear following a suspected move by a mining company to evict them. However the mining company visible in the area has disassociated itself from any

Only 129 Police Posts have been merged in a pilot study to test the effectiveness of President Yoweri Museveni’s proposal to rejuvenate the colonial sub-county-based policing model. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says that police resolved to first merge 76 Police Posts in Kampala Metropolitan and 53 others in Katongo, Wamala,

Issued directive: Raphael Magyezi. The Local Government Minister, Rapheal Magyezi has directed Bukwo district council to convene for a Special council session to fill up the vacant position of the LC V Chairperson. The position fell vacant after the LC V Chairperson, Julius Moses Chelimo decided to quit his position

Thirteen people are in custody at Busoba Police Station in Mbale district for illegally growing marijuana. The suspects were picked up in intelligence-led operations in Nangilima Lower and Nangilima Upper villages in Busoba Sub County in Mbale district on Monday, November 7th, 2022. Rodgers Taitika, the Elgon Region Police Spokesperson,

Many of the districts in Uganda are not accounting for the money dispensed to them for activities related to COVID-19 vaccination and health systems strengthening. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng notes that they have been experiencing the problem of non-accounting officials since 2019 and will now have to refund

Monday 7th November at exactly 1333hrs East African time, Uganda's first-ever satellite surveillance system blasted off into space from the NASA station at Wallop Island, Virginia, USA. The satellite dubbed Pearl Africa Sat-1, has been built by three Ugandan engineers, Bonny Omara 35, Edgar Mujuni, 30, and Derrick Tebusweke 29

The Wakiso Chief Magistrates Court has issued a warrant of arrest against Paul Owor one of the former Candidates for Busiro South parliamentary elections for failure to pay election costs of 13 million shillings. The order has been issued by Chief Magistrate John Kaggwa who has ordered that Owor should

At least 60,000 cotton farmers in Acholi who were enticed by last season’s price are crying over the drastic fall in the price. In September 2021, the Cotton Development Organization-CDO set the indicative price of a kilogram of cotton at Shillings 2,000 to help regulate its farm gate price and

The Ministry of Education and Sports has threatened to withhold capitation grants for public schools and education institutions, which fail to finalize the online registration of learners. In April this year, the Ministry of Education and Sports rolled out the re-developed Education Management Information System (EMIS) in collaboration with the