Controversial city Pastor Augastine Yiga has reportedly been arrested at Entebbe International Airport. Local reports indicate that the pastor who was returning from South Africa was arrested after a group of believers lodged a complaint over a healing prayer he promised them. They parted with sums of money to get
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Parliament's Director for Communication and Public Affairs Chris Obore has dismissed reports indicating that Members of Parliament are to be given a 46 percent salary increment effective next financial year. Media reports yesterday quoted a budget call circular issued by the Ministry of Finance on February 22nd indicating that legislators
Read MoreUganda has new group of historicals, thats according to the country's president, Yoweri Museveni. While addressing a group of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) lawmakers at a thanksgiving ceremony in Kiboga district, the president declared that the parliamenterians who voted to lift the presidential age limit are the country's
Read MoreThe U.N. refugee agency is calling on Rwandan authorities to investigate police culpability in the deaths of at least five Congolese refugees during a recent protest of food ration cuts. The deadly confrontation took place Thursday when some 700 Congolese refugees from the Kiziba refugee camp were demonstrating outside the
Read MoreUganda's President, YoweriMuseveni has called for the installation of X-ray technology to check loaded trucks at border points. Museveni made this call on Saturday during the launch of the One Stop Border Post (OSBP) in Busia district, eastern Uganda. "The Busia facility will be improved. For example, we need X-ray
Read MoreU.N. investigators say they have identified more than 40 South Sudanese officials and military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The alleged crimes occurred during South Sudan's ongoing civil war, which has killed tens of thousands and uprooted more than 4 million people from
Read MoreSouth African company heads cheered the start of Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency, saying that business and consumer confidence were sure to improve following the departure of scandal-hit Jacob Zuma, Bloomberg reports. The result should be economic growth and even job creation, while various stagnating business-friendly policy initiatives could be revived. Further
Read More“If the most basic African cultural symbol of peace can turn out to be so hostile, then all our values have gone down the drain,” said Mary (not her real name). Mary’s neighbours described her as a self-confident and cheerful woman, but that is not what I saw when I
Read MoreThe value of Kenya’s fish exports dropped steeply following 2015’s closure of Imperial Bank and the subsequent shutdown of a major exporter that transacted its business through the troubled bank, Business Daily reports. Latest industry data shows that the value of fish exports dropped by Sh1 billion last year after
Read MoreThis is for real and it happens every weekend at various branches! This is being done by the first and only betting company to massively give back to its customers. This is Fortebet, Uganda’s biggest sports betting home, giving back to its customers-thanking them for choosing Fortbet. [caption id="attachment_9044" align="aligncenter"
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