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Two P.7 candidates killed in Kasese landslides
October 14, 2019 by URN
Two children have died after landslides hit Kyambarwa village, Mahango sub-county in Kasese district.The deceased are Winnie Biira aged 15...
Trial of suspected German paedophile starts today
October 14, 2019 by URN
The hearing of a case in which German national, Bernhard Berry Glaser is accused of aggravated defilement and aggravated child...
Police officer shoots dead defilement suspect in Sironko
October 13, 2019 by URN
A police officer in Sironko has shot dead a man for allegedly resisting arrest. Matayo Wodeyo, 23, a resident of Kisali...
19 killed in one of Japanese's worst typhoons
October 13, 2019 by VOA
TOKYO - Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods...
Burkina Faso Mosque attack claims 16
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - Armed men stormed a mosque in the volatile north of Burkina Faso as worshippers were at prayer, killing 16 people and sending residents fleeing, security sources and locals said Saturday. The attack on the Grand Mosque in the town of Salmossi on Friday evening underscores the difficulties…
Gov't rules out plans to reintroduce Anti-gay bill
Government has denied reports that it is planning to re-introduce the contentious Anti-gay law recently struck down by court. The bill was first introduced in 2009 drawing worldwide condemnation for gay rights activists because of the tough penalties including death for aggravated homosexuality, defilement and knowingly spreading HIV/Aids.However, the punishment was reduced…
330,000 registered for O-level exams
Some 337,697 candidates have registered to sit for this year’s Uganda Certificate of Examinations (UCE) from 3,531 centres across the country. This represents an increment of 963 candidates (0.28 per cent) from last year. While announcing the start of the examinations at Uneb offices in Ntinda, Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) executive…
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed awarded Shs 3bn Nobel Peace Prize
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts with neighbouring Eritrea. Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chairperson of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee that awards the Peace Prize, said Abiy was named for his decisive initiatives to end his country's conflict with Eritrea within…
Cargo plane crashes in Congo, killing presidential staff onboard
A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing all eight passengers and crew, a presidential advisor told Reuters on Friday. The plane, carrying President Felix Tshisekedi's driver, a logistics manager and some soldiers, was headed for the capital Kinshasa and went off radar on Thursday afternoon…
Judicial Service Commission PS Nassali interdicted
The ministry of Public Service has interdicted the secretary to the Judicial Service Commission Dr Rose Nassali Lukwago over corruption allegations. Nassali was charged before the Anti-corruption court in August this year, for abuse of office and causing financial loss to the government after reportedly paying Shs 33 million arbitrarily…
Bolivian nationals arrested at Entebbe with 200 cocaine pellets
Aviation Police (AVIPOL) at Entebbe international airport have arrested two Bolivian nationals accused of swallowing over 200 drug pellets.Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, identified the suspects as Choque Condori Emilio and Martinez Villarpando Pedro. Owoyesigyire said the suspects who came into the country on September 29 were suspected by…
Ugandans richer than previously thought - UBOS
Ugandan economy is bigger than previously estimated, with new numbers showing Ugandans are much richer than had been thought, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos).According to Ubos, they rebased the economy using the prices of the 2015/16 financial year. This saw Uganda’s size of the economy or Gross…
FIFA suspends Moses Magogo from all football activities
The world football governing body, FIFA has today suspended Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) president Moses Hassim Magogo for two months over his involvement in the resale of 2014 FIFA World Cup tickets in Brazil.Last month Magogo announced during the Fufa assembly in Adjumani in northern Uganda that he was stepping…
British divide and rule policy in Uganda
There is no record of a concerted effort by indigenous Ugandans to resist or rebel against British colonial rule. Why was that the case? After sharing Africa as a cake during the Berlin conference (1884-1885), the European colonial powers were faced with the challenge of how to own that cake and…
Meet Bujirita, man on mission to transform mental treatment
Haruna Nyanzi Bujirita is an addictionologist consultant in child and adolescent mental health based in the UK. Also a researcher, motivational speaker and part-time lecturer, Bujirita is applying his wealth of experience to transform the mental health sector. He told DERRICK KIYONGA about his grand plans to create the first…
EC official: Hike nomination fees to Shs 100 million
To get rid of the large pool of unserious political candidates that come up every election cycle, Mustapha Ssebagala Kigozi, a national electoral commissioner, has suggested nomination fees should be increased tenfold. Ssebaggala Kigozi, used Tuesday’s launch of the Electoral Commission Gender Strategy spearheaded by the United Nations Entity for Gender…
All four Serere district ambulances grounded
Serere district is grappling with the provision of emergency services due to the absence of a functional ambulance.Joseph Opit Okojo, the Serere district LC V chairperson, says the three ambulances donated by area members of parliament and one procured by the district are currently all grounded.He says they are unable…
Father throws his two children into lake, commits suicide
Police in Rubirizi district is investigating circumstances under which one of the residents threw two of his children into the lake, and burnt another, before ending his life. The man identified as Hannington Nuwamanya, 32, a resident of Magogo cell in Ryeru sub-county reportedly threw the children in Lake Magogo…
Migrant deaths in Mediterranean hit 1,000 in 2019
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports fatalities from a shipwreck Monday off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa has pushed the migrant death toll on the Mediterranean Sea this year to 1071. The boat, which capsized seven miles from the coast of Lampedusa, reportedly departed from Tunisia with…
Bobi Wine escapes police arrest
Police have maintained heavy joint security deployment at One Love Beach, Busabala, to stop a planned music concert by the Kyandondo East member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. The deployment includes security personnel from Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF), Military Police, Local Defense Unit - LDUs and Police Field…
Museveni defends China's loans to Uganda, Africa
President Yoweri Museveni has praised the Chinese government for extending loans to Uganda and Africa where other development partners have been hesitant. Museveni was fielding questions at a press conference that he jointly addressed with visiting Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House Entebbe ahead of today’s Independence Day celebrations. Responding…
Why IGG Mulyagonja returned to Judiciary
Justice Irene Mulyagonja’s seven-year tenure as the Inspector General of Government (IGG) is coming to an end after President Museveni appointed her to the Court of Appeal. DERRICK KIYONGA looks back at the frustrations that prompted her to apply to go back to the bench. To the ordinary eye, Mulyagonja’s decision…
LDC pre-entry exam ban won’t affect quality
In the past, any student intending to become an advocate had to first sit a pre-entry examination in order to study the one-year diploma in Legal practice course at Law Development Centre (LDC). But in August, the Law Council agreed to waive the exam for two years. The suspension came with…
New tech devices to fight kidnaps, house break-ins
The new tide of insecurity has triggered a wave of worry in the country and in equal measure, innovations in deterring security systems. Young innovators have invented devices that can detect house break-ins and send out alarms or pinpoint locations of kidnap victims. The Safe Bangle, fitted with a GPS locator…
Roll back deaths by drowning – Makerere researcher
Deaths by drowning are climbing and Makerere University research fellow Dr Olive Kobusingye has challenged African governments and entrepreneurs to stop lamenting about the high fatality figures on the African continent, and instead find workable solutions. Delivering her keynote speech at the World Conference on Drowning Prevention in Durban, South Africa…
Nnabagereka donates to Ugandan Muslims
The Muslim community in Uganda has received an assortment of items donated by the Nnabagereka of Buganda, Sylvia Nagginda. The donation comes on the coat-tails of Nnabagereka’s February 2019 visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during which she lobbied the royal family to donate to the Kabaka’s subjects. Nagginda…
IOM donates bus, medical equipment to Immigration
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has formally handed over a 30-seater Coaster bus as well as sickbay equipment to the Immigration Training Academy Uganda (ITA). The donation was made possible thanks to the Better Migration Management (BMM) programme, a regional, multi-year and multi-partner programme funded by the EU Emergency Trust…
Police cancels another Bobi Wine concert
The inspector general of police Martins Okoth Ochola has canceled Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine’s independence music show.Ochola in his letter dated October 2, but released today Tuesday to Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP), said Kyagulanyi did not consider the preparatory plans for medical care, traffic control, crowd…
Museveni blasts URA for failing manufacturers
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has blasted the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) leadership for not being forthcoming on the needs of the manufacturers. Museveni, who officially opened the Uganda Manufacturers’ Association (UMA) exhibition show at Lugogo on Monday, first engaged UMA board in a closed-door meeting. The board narrated to him…
Bobi Wine: UCC report finds NTV, NBS 'guilty'
The Uganda Communications Commissions (UCC) has found five Kampala based broadcasters culpable of breaching minimum broadcasting standards and asked them to show cause why their licenses shouldn’t be revoked. The broadcasters include NTV, NBS, BBS, Bukedde TV and Radio Sapientia. This follows an investigation into the alleged breach of minimum broadcasting…
Nagirinya murder: Boda boda rider who ferried killers arrested
A boda boda rider Sharif Mpanga alias Shafic who allegedly ferried the suspected killers of Maria Nagirinya to her gate entrance has been arrested.Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga said on Monday that Mpanga was arrested over the weekend by a combined team of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and police.Nagirinya, a…
Four UPDF soldiers killed as truck rams into beer depot
Four Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers attached to Kaabong brigade have died in a motor accident.The soldiers, whose particulars couldn’t immediately be established, were killed this morning while enroute to arrest one of their own, Pt. Jimmy Masaaba in Uzake village in Morungole sub county in Kaabong district.
Floods displace hundreds in Bulambuli district
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have rendered several people in Bulambuli district homeless. The floods submerged homes in Bunangaka, Bufuhula, Nabongo, Bufumbula, Buwakol and Bumasoho parishes in Nabongo sub counties. According to the Bulambuli district environment department, the floods, which occurred on Sunday, immensely hit Sisyi, Simu, Bulaago, Bukaalu, Muyembe…
Mutesasira siblings win EAGT's $50,000 prize
At this moment, it is an assured gold medal or prize money for any Ugandan who gets into the final - no matter the age, stage or challenge. Just moments after Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won the 10,000m gold medal in Doha, Qatar on Sunday evening, the Mutesasira siblings; 11-year-old Ezekiel Mutesasira…
Cheptegei wins Uganda’s second Gold medal in Doha
Star runner Joshua Cheptegei has won Uganda’s second gold medal and $67,000 at the IAAF World Athletics Championship in Doha, Qatar. The 10,000m final saw Uganda’s Mande Abdalla start from the front in the early laps at the Khalifa International Stadium before Cheptegei raced to win the race on Sunday night. Cheptegei…
Makerere University fuelling hooliganism at Kyambogo - vice chancellor
Kyambogo University vice-chancellor, Prof Eli Katunguka is accusing students from Makerere University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) of stirring up violence at Kyambogo. Prof Katunguka says they have intelligence reports indicating that students from the two institutions are fueling violence against Kyambogo university management. There has been unrest at Kyambogo…
Kiconco is lawful owner of Lusanja land, High court rules
The High court has ordered squatters on the Lusanja land to vacate it within 30 days. Court yesterday, ruled that businessman Medard Kiconco is the lawful owner of the contested Lusanja land located on the Mpererwe-Kiteezi road.Justice Tadeo Asiimwe ruled that the land was bought by Kiconco in 2016 from the administrator…
Borrowing against future oil revenue pushing Uganda towards oil curse - BOU
Bank of Uganda (BoU) governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has said the expectation of oil revenues has pushed Uganda to go for more expensive loans to finance infrastructure projects, a precursor for the much dreaded 'oil curse'. President Museveni has often said that Uganda will not suffer the 'oil curse' faced by many…
MPs demand answers on progress of gov't agencies merger
A section of members of parliament have criticized the government for failing to implement the merger of government departments and agencies. During the plenary session on Thursday presided over by speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga, the MPs argued that the slow pace of implementing the exercise has left donors, staff…
