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Torture: Judges punish errant police officers
In two separate judgments delivered this month, judges made it clear that the old order of human rights abuses in the police force will no longer go unpunished. The judgments spotlighted one theme:...
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Museveni, MPs battle for space in Kasese
Opposition legislators were blocked by security from leaving their rooms at Sandton hotel in Kasese ahead of President Yoweri Museveni's assessment tour of the flood-hit Kasese district. More than...
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Police garment factory makes 100,000 masks for officers
The police garment factory has produced more than 100,000 cloth masks for distribution among its officers. The police advisory committee resolved in its meeting held on April 8, 2020, to use its...
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Botswana probes death of 56 elephants
Botswana is investigating the mysterious death of 56 elephants in the last two months. Authorities have ruled out poaching, as all carcasses were found intact. The country's ministry of Environment,...
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43 coronavirus lockdown violators pardoned by court
43 men who were jailed for violating presidential directives on preventing the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been cautioned and released by the court. The victims were arrested from...
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Uganda revises coronavirus cases down to 145
Uganda has revised downwards its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases from 264 to 145. The new figure even includes the 10 new coronavirus cases confirmed from 1,497 samples tested today (9 truck...
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Jinja medics abandon COVID-19 patient over allowances
Nurses at the Jinja COVID-19 isolation centre have declined to usher in a new patient in protest over unpaid allowances and lack of communication from the hospital administrators. The new patient was...
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Princess Diana health centre workers lay down tools over PPEs
Health workers at Princess Diana Memorial health centre IV in Soroti, eastern Uganda have laid down tools over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPEs).The workers are concerned that despite...
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COVID-19 slows trucking, reawakens EAC cracks
In East Africa, long-distance truckers are suspected of carrying the dreaded coronavirus along with their cargo. So for weeks, trucks have stalled at border crossings — with trucks sometimes stretching...
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Can dogs sniff out COVID-19?
A dog’s sense of smell is much stronger than a human’s, detecting everything from aromas in the air to organisms in the dirt. Now, it is possible that canines may be able to smell the coronavirus that...
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8 perish in fresh Kasese floods
Flash floods have killed at least eight people and displaced hundreds of people in Kasese district.Kabugho Bwangirini, 80, Agnes Matsika, 23, Felistus Kabugho, 17, Rorontina Masika, 45, Yubu Mutsombo,...
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Police commanders swindle officers' COVID allowances
Police boss Martins Ochola has ordered for an investigation into allegations of police officers swindling COVID-19 allowances for junior officers.The chief of joint security, Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba,...
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15 more Ugandans test positive to COVID-19
Uganda's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 160 after another 15 new cases were registered on Thursday. The new cases were part of 2,729 samples that were tested.Ten of the 15 cases are Ugandan...
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Rwandan genocide suspect arrest in France raises questions
Human rights and survivor groups are cheering Saturday's arrest in France of a top Rwandan genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga. But questions are mounting about how he managed to evade justice for so...
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Company awarded Shs 181bn for cancelled sand mining licence
Court has awarded Shs 181 billion to a company dealing in sand mining and fish farming whose licence was cancelled by government in 2016.DMW Uganda Limited, owned by pastor Daniel Walugembe in 2019...
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Kenya begins phasing out cross-border cargo trucks
The Kenyan government has said that all transit cargo will have to move by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Mombasa to Naivasha where truckers will pick it for delivery to Uganda, Rwanda, and...
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Uganda has no capacity to treat foreign truckers - Aceng
It was getting costly and risky for Uganda to continue admitting and treating foreign truck drivers who have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has...
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Uganda registers 15 more COVID-19 cases
15 more people have been confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), rising the country’s total to 175. The new cases are from the 2,106 total samples tested on Friday and include...
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Guard fired for ordering Nytil boss to wear face mask
A security guard deployed at Southern Range Nyanza Textile Industry (Nytil) in Njeru in eastern Uganda has been fired for instructing his boss to wear a face mask as a preventive measure against...
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18,000 'Made in Uganda' phones exported to Morocco
Uganda has exported the first batch of 18,000 locally-made mobile phones to Morocco. The 2G-enabled analog mobile phones were manufactured at Simi Technologies, Uganda’s first mobile phone assembly...
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