Residents gathered at the deceased's home in Kasangati Unknown assailants have brutally killed a retired employee of United Nations-UN in Uganda in Kyankyima zone in Kasangati town council Wakiso district. The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has identified the deceased as Barnabas Kakyaama Muwonge. According to Owoyesigyire, Muwonge
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CP Enanga Fred With the elections for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 11th parliament underway, security is deploying at Kampala and upcountry homes of winners and losers to ensure no attacks happen to candidates. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said they have realized that the positions of Speaker and Deputy
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Over 600,00 teachers and health workers have not yet gotten their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Teachers and health workers were among the top prioritised groups that the first consignment of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines was meant to protect. The health ministry targeted to vaccinate 550,000 teachers and 150,000 health
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The National Unity Platform, now the largest opposition political party in parliament with 57 MPs has told its members to vote for Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga (pictured) as speaker of parliament. The do or die contest is happening now at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. According to sources who attended a meeting
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Norman Nduho Kapaapa, a dairy farmer in Kiruhura says farmers are counting losses due to low milk prices Farmers in the Western districts of Kiruhura, Mbarara, Ibanda, Bushenyi and other districts in the cattle corridor are starting to abandon dairy farming business due to low milk prices and limited market.
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Fruits and vegetables Ugandans are consuming fruits and vegetables heavily contaminated with pesticides, says a Senior Agriculture Officer in Charge of Food security at the agriculture ministry. Heavy pesticide use on fruits and vegetables is leaving behind heavy residues, thereby poisoning consumers slowly, warns Sunday Bob George also the organic
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The approach to national politics and regional affairs by Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has created a renewed hope for Tanzania’s interest in the integration process of the East African Region. Since taking office in March, President Suluhu Hassan has presented herself as an outgoing Pan-African and integrationist interested in
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A rift has emerged between shareholders of Kisita Mining Company over management and mining operations in the gold-rich Kassanda district. The emerging contest involves a group of 2,000 Artisanal and Small scale miners initially operating under the Kitumi Small Scale and Artisanal Miners’ Association, a United Arab Emirates-based investor, several
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A Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier has been sentenced to 35-years in prison for killing a civilian in Hoima district. Private Solomon Baker Bakobe, of the 11th Battalion, was convicted by the first division infantry court-martial presided over by Col. Sam Mugyenyi during a session held at St Paul
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After flying Uganda Airlines to Tanzania for the signing of oil agreements, President Museveni said corrupt officials in the management and board of the airline “must face consequences.” The president’s flight on Uganda Airlines came at a time when it has attracted a lot of negative publicity because of alleged
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