Maj Gen Lokech insists that Gen Katumba's attackers are part of the ADF terror cell The joint security investigation team is searching for 15 guns which were allegedly used in 14 murders linked to suspects in the shooting of Gen Edward Katumba Wamala. Katumba was attacked by gun-wielding men on
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Kenya's Gengeton kings "Mbuzi Gang who teamed with HID16th By Amon Baita Information from entertainment corridors has reliably confirmed that Uganda’s versatile artist HID16th has just dropped a new hit titled “Betty” in a collaboration with Nairobi based rap and Gengentone group -Mbuzi Gang and Exray and the new tune
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Elizabeth National Park boasts of over 4,000 elephants while buffalos are now above 1,700 Queen Elizabeth National Park is recording a boom in its wildlife population.In the 2018 wildlife census, UWA registered 3,953 elephants in Queen Elizabeth national park up from 2,913 elephants in 2015. Today, this number has grown
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A 20-year-old girl South Sudanese girl has jumped to death from the 4th floor of her apartment in Wakiso district. The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire identifies the deceased as Nyameisha Kueth, who has been staying with her stepmother in Nabweru in Nansana Municipality. According to Owoyesigyire, Nyameisha
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The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has had 298 of its patients test positive for COVID-19. These were identified through an initiative that requires everyone seeking cancer treatment to first undertake a COVID-19 PCR test. Dr Nixon Niyonzima, who heads Laboratory Services at the Institute told URN this morning that they
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Sowedi Sserwadda in coat, the Kibinge Coffee Cooperative Chairperson with another farmer in a demonstration farm Bukomansimbi Cooperative Union has developed a direct farms management system to boost the production of coffee. The new Farm Management Model is an alternative farming practice where the farmer entrusts the management of their
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Vendors in the different markets of Kampala have decried the delayed distribution of mosquito nets. Last month, President Museveni asked vendors to sleep in the markets to reduce contact with family members, as a measure to control the spread of COVID-19. Museveni then directed the Ministry of Health to provide
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Health Experts in Karamoja are warning that the region risks sliding into a complex emergency situation because of the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity and looming famine. According to the experts, the lockdown measures have further complicated the already difficult situation in the region in relation to access to basic services. They
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Police in Lubowa in Makindye-Ssabagabo municipality in Wakiso district are holding two for alleged theft of vehicle number plates. The suspects are Brian Natamba and Saul Katushabe. Police picked up the two on Tuesday for the alleged theft of vehicle number plates. Luke Owoyesigyire, the Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson,
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The management of Mbale Regional Referral Hospital has disagreed with the Parliamentary COVID-19 Taskforce assessing the COVID-19 responses by the government on the number of ambulances delivered to the facility by the Health Ministry. It all started after the Hospital Director, Dr. Emmanuel Tugaineyo informed the legislators led by Dr.
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