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Flash floods kill two in Jinja
November 19, 2018 by URN
Two dead bodies have been retrieved from a trench in Masese I village, Jinja Municipality after being reportedly swept away...
HIV patients sue gov’t over Septrin stockout
November 19, 2018 by Zurah Nakabugo
The Centre for Health Human Rights and Development (Cehurd) has dragged government and the National Medical Stores (NMS) to the High...
False snake alarm sparks panic at Museveni rally
November 18, 2018 by URN
President Yoweri Museveni's rally in the newly-created Kassanda district on Friday was momentarily interrupted by chaos and panic following a false...
Gen Tumwine behind my sacking from NBS TV - Matembe
November 18, 2018 by BAKER BATTE
Miria Matembe, the indefatigable women rights activist has said Security minister, Gen Elly Tumwine influenced her sacking from the popular...
Army takes over security in Lira town
The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) has taken over security of Lira town in northern Uganda after police got overwhelmed by rowdy youth involved in xenophobic attacks against Asian traders. Yesterday, Saturday business in Lira town came to a standstill as security agencies engaged in day-long running battles with the rowdy…
Uganda qualifies for AFCON 2019
Uganda Cranes have qualified for the 32nd edition of the African Cup of Nations slated to take place next year in Cameroon. The Cranes qualified after beating Cape Verde 1-0 at Namboole stadium in a nervy match that could have gone either way. The first half ended goalless with the…
Auditor general rejects BOU's Teefe bank inventory report
The auditor general has rejected an 'inventory report' compiled by Bank of Uganda (BOU) on the closed Teefe Trust bank. BOU had submitted to parliament's Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) a document, containing a listing of assets and liabilities before the bank's takeover in 1993. BOU indicated that…
Ssemujju home besieged, addresses rally from atop fence
With police and blocking all exit points from his house, Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda developed some quick thinking by climbing up his fence so as to address the area residents. Police, with the help of military, blocked Ssemujju from exiting his home in Bukasa, Kirinya in Wakiso district for…
Gov't yet to gazette new mobile money tax
Government is yet to gazette the Excise Duty (Amendment) Act, 2018 to enforce the 0.5 per cent tax on mobile money withdrawals, according to the state minister of Finance in charge of Planning, David Bahati.Bahati told plenary on Thursday that President Yoweri Museveni has already assented to the Excise Duty…
MTAC student murdered, room set ablaze
A post-graduate student of the Management, Training and Advisory Centre (MTAC) in Nakawa has been found dead. The deceased has been identified as Immaculate Kebirungi.Kebirungi was found dead in her rented room along Neptune Avenue Plot 21, Mbuya in the wee hours of Thursday morning and her room set ablaze…
Lawyer wants Suzan Magara murder suspect off charge sheet
The lawyer of key suspect in the murder case of Susan Magara, Patrick Agaba Kasaija wants his client scrapped off the charge sheet.Kasaija is currently held in South Africa awaiting extradition to Uganda for kidnapping with intention to seek ransom and allegedly murdering Magara, the cashier of Bwendeiro dairy farm…
UN bribery: FBI was tapping Sam Kutesa emails, phone calls
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tapped phone calls and emails of Uganda Foreign minister Sam Kutesa and his wife Edith Kutesa after they were suspected of being involved in bribery acts at the United Nations (UN). Kutesa served as president of the UN General Assembly from 2014 to 2015…
African leaders meet for 'last push' on AU reforms
African leaders are set to gather this weekend for a special summit aimed at pushing through long-debated reforms to their pan-continental body.
Rakai school fire: police fire truck arrived 2hrs late
The police fire brigade arrived at St Bernard’s SS Manya in Kifamba sub-county, Rakai district at least two hours later after a fire outbreak that has so far claimed lives of 10 students. The Sunday night fire gutted the senior three boys' dormitory, leaving 10 dead and more than 30 other students with…
Ruling party MPs speak about opposition alliance
A red beret has become part of their dress code, and, they will chant slogans of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi’s People Power movement as opposed to ruling party slogans at rallies organised by the Parliamentary Forum on Human Rights, Rule of Law and Constitutionalism. On the side lines of the…
DNA testing starts on Rakai fire dead
Police has asked parents of 11 senior four students suspended from St Bernard’s SS, Mannya to cooperate with it as DNA testing to identify the nine dead started yesterday. In a statement released yesterday, police spokesman Emilian Kayima, said these students probably had a hand in the horrific crime. Kayima’s statement was…
Awori to Bobi: Use the gun
Former minister of ICT Aggrey Awori has said Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert ‘Bobi Wine’ Kyagulanyi stands no chance against President Museveni. The one-time senior member of the opposition Uganda People’s Congress spoke to Baker Batte Lule at his home in Kibimba, Bugiri district. Excerpts:- What do you make…
Police collects Shs 2.5bn from hiring, licensing firearms
Uganda Police collected at least Shs 2.5 billion from licensing and hiring firearms last year. According to the quarterly budget performance report for the financial year 2017/18 and 2018/19 of the force, under non-tax revenue of up to Shs 21.9bn, Shs 1.5bn was collected from firearms licensing and Shs 1.1 bn from…
Justice Kasule’s journey from Idi Amin to Museveni
Justice Remmy Kyononeka Kasule, an outgoing Constitutional court/Court of Appeal judge, has seen it all from surviving Idi Amin’s rogue soldiers to serving in LRA-infested northern Uganda. Last month, he clocked the mandatory retirement age of 70 and is now clearing his desk as retirement beckons. Derrick Kiyonga writes about his…
‘My boy’s last words after Rakai school fire’
Seventeen-year-old Brian Sendyowa, a senior three student, became the 10th victim of the deadly fire which burnt students alive in a dormitory at St Benard’s SS Manya, Kifamba sub-county, Rakai district, on Sunday. Sendyowa died in terrible pain at about 4 am yesterday morning in Kiruddu general hospital. He had been…
Uganda, Zimbabwe top in prostate cancer cases
Uganda and Zimbabwe have the highest cases of men with prostate cancer in Africa, a medical officer at a Kampala clinic has said. Last week, Dr Edrin Juuko, the chief medical officer at UMC Victoria hospital, spoke of this tendency during the launch of the prostate cancer awareness campaign under the…
‘Idle and disorderly law is unconstitutional’
A city lawyer and human rights activist has filed a petition at the Constitutional court challenging the so-called ‘idle and disorderly’ laws. Francis Tumwesige Ateenyi of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), says he is challenging sections 168 (1)c and 168 (1)d)of the Penal Code Act. Ateenyi says these provisions…
Court dismisses case against Somali terror suspects
The High court in Kampala has dismissed terrorism charges against six of eight Somali nationals due to lack of evidence. Justice Michael Elubu of International Crimes Division dismissed the charges against Muhammad Abdulkadir Hirsi alias Muhamed Abdul Aziz Adan, Abduullahi Bootan, Hassan Abduwali Muhamoud, Muhamed Ahmed Gele, Yusuf Osman and Muhamad Yusuf Farah.
Slavery evolves, persists in Mauritania
Day after day, Aminetou Mint Yarg and her fellow villagers in southern Mauritania haul water from the river and tend to their crops under a burning desert sun. In good years, they grow fields of corn, millet and beans. But the profits are not theirs to reap. "The land belongs to…
California wildfires rage, death toll at 44, hundreds missing
At least 42 people have been killed in the wildfire raging in Northern California, making it the deadliest fire in the state's history. Authorities say hundreds more are unaccounted for, four days after the fire swept over the town of Paradise. In the vast state along the Pacific Ocean, officials said…
Land laws responsible for land wrangles - minister
Unclear land ownership laws are responsible for the current increased land wrangles and evictions, state minister for Lands, Persis Namuganza has said. Namuganza blamed the amendment of the Land Act in 2010 for the land conflicts, saying the law has created an imbalance, by recognizing those with land title as the rightful…
Rakai school fire: students sent home, six arrested
Students of St Benard's Mannya secondary school in Rakai district have been instructed to return home following an inferno that gutted down the boys' dormitory last night and left nine students dead. The decision to close the school was reached at an emergency meeting between security and the school administration which…
Nine students perish in Rakai school inferno
Nine students of St Bernard's Mannya secondary school in Rakai district lost their lives when a fire gutted their dormitory in the early hours of today morning. The dead students are reportedly all from the senior three class. Their charred bodies have been taken to Kampala for DNA testing to identify them. Four…
Mother stabs attendant to death at Soroti hospital
A 20-year-old mother has stabbed her attendant to death. The two had reportedly disagreed on a ploy to escape from Soroti regional referral hospital where, the woman, identified as Paska Angela had a caesarian birth last evening. The deceased, a resident of Oyomai village, in Kaberamaido district, is a…
Museveni asks opposition to fight electoral violence
President Yoweri Museveni has asked opposition parties in the country to support him fight electoral violence. Museveni made the remarks on Saturday at State House Entebbe while meeting members of the Inter Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD), a forum of political parties represented in parliament.
Uganda's first oil production now pushed to 2021
The delay by international oil companies to make a final investment decision has forced government to shift production timelines to 2021 from 2020. Energy and Minerals Development minister Irene Muloni admitted that now it will not be impossible have oil out of the ground by end of 2020 as earlier predicted…
Kabale court dismisses 4GC case against Besigye, Lukwago
The Kabale Chief Magistrate's court has dismissed a case in which former For God and My Country (4GC) opposition pressure group activists were accused of inciting violence. The activists include Dr Kizza Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, Ingrid Turinawe, Roland Kaginda…
Makerere could scrap schools, deans
Makerere University is considering a proposal to eliminate the school structure from colleges and elevate the status of school deans to a supervisory role at college level.
Nyanzi rejects bail, sent back to Luzira
Makerere University research fellow Dr Stella Nyanzi has asked to be sent back to Luzira after turning down an opportunity to apply for bail. Nyanzi who pleaded not guilty to charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication, said she wasn't interested in applying for bail but instead wants to be…
