Francis Otucu

The US Embassy in Kampala has distanced itself from reports that it detained Uganda government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo. In a statement on Twitter, the US Mission in Uganda says the rumors are 'fake news.' "A false news story is circulating about Ofwono Opondo being detained at the U.S. embassy. Mr.

The bodies of two Ugandans shot dead in Rwanda over the weekend have been repatriated. John Bosco Tuheirwe and Job Ebyarishanga, both residents of Kamwezi Sub-county were shot dead by Rwandan security about 1km away from the Mpororo border post in Kamwezi Sub County on Saturday night for allegedly smuggling

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has addressed the International Conference on Population and Development. Convening in #Nairobi, Kenya, unveiling ways in which the world can achieve complete gender equality. The summit aims at mobilising political will and financial commitments from leaders to urgently implement the ICPD Programme of Action. Some of the commitments that

There is growing discontent in the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party over the arrival of newcomers who have been appointed to mobilise support the establishment. In the past two weeks, President Yoweri Museveni who is also the NRM national chairman, appointed musicians Catherine Kusasira, Mark Magembe aka Buchaman and

Musician-turned Special Presidential Adviser on Kampala Affairs, Catherine Kusasira is ready to disprove those who have written off her chances of delivering. As part of her first tasks, Kusasira is inviting people in Kampala to hand in their proposals on how they want to develop the city and their lives.

The Uganda Police have arrested 30 scrap dealers in the capital Kampala and recovered an assortment of items from them. According to a statement by the police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, the operation conducted on Monday involving 800 security personnel followed complaints of vandalism and sabotage on the transmission lines of

The Academy of Motion Pictures has rejected a second entry for next year's Oscar award for Best International Film. The Austrian movie, Joy, is about Nigerian sex-workers in Vienna, but the Academy says it has too much dialogue in English. Last week it turned down Nigeria's own submission, Lionheart, for the same

Rwanda has denied claims by a rebel group that at least 20 government troops operating in the south-west of the country near the border with Burundi had been killed and their weapons stolen. Army spokesman Lt Col Innocent Munyengango told the BBC that he would not comment on the "baseless