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Pakistan grapples with its biggest HIV outbreak
A joint rapid response team of experts from the United States and the U.N. World Health Organization arrived in Pakistan Tuesday to support the response to the country’s “biggest” outbreak of HIV...
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Escaping student drowns in pond
Emmanuel Nuwamanya, a senior four student of Muntuyera High school in Ntungamo district has drowned in a pond. Nuwamanya reportedly escaped from school around 5:20pm on Tuesday evening with his...
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Uganda-Brussels embassy website displays outdated info
The official website of Uganda's embassy in Brussels hasn’t been updated for several years. The website still presents the late, Maria Mutagamba as the Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Minister...
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Prof Apolo Nsibambi passes away at 78
Uganda's longest serving prime minister Prof Apolo Nsibambi is dead. A close family member confirmed the news of Nsibambi’s passing but said he was yet to get the details. Rev Festo Kalungi, the...
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Apolo Nsibambi 1940-2019
There is glowing tribute to Uganda’s longest-serving prime minister, Prof Apolo Robin Nsibambi. Nsibambi who served as prime minister from 1999 until 2011, died at his home in Rubaga division on...
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Kasaija pushes for a greener Kampala
Greening Kampala has emerged as one of the central themes of the 2019/2020 pre-budget launch activities. Finance minister Matia Kasaija has urged Kampala City Capital Authority (KCCA) to revive the...
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93% of kids in Iganga sexually active - Study
At least 93 per cent of adolescents out of school in the eastern district of Iganga aged between 10-19 years are sexually active, a study by Nsamizi Training Institute of Social Development has...
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Martyrs’ day: Pilgrims begin to arrive
Seven churches that broke away from either the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches are organizing parallel Martyrs day celebrations on June 3 in a further hardening of their defiance against the mother...
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Strike: How teachers, Museveni agreed deal
After four back-and-forth meetings lasting several hours, teachers and government reached a tentative deal to end the six-day-long strike on Sunday–just one day to the official start of the second...
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Nsibambi’s candle burns out at 78
Prof Apolo Robison Nsibambi, 78, the widely admired former prime minister and chancellor of Makerere University, died at his home yesterday at about 6pm, losing a protracted fight against prostate...
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Envoy to Ugandans: You go Sudan’s way
In an appearance last week on Radio One’s call-in prime talk show; The Spectrum, AlbRecht Conze, the German ambassador to Uganda, said Europeans can no longer be nudged to help Africa oust...
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Two shot dead in Nansana armed robbery
Two people have been shot dead and three others critically injured following an armed robbery at Cheap General Hardware shop in Nansana municipality along Hoima road today. The robbery took place at...
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Lubowa hospital funds reported missing
Parliament has started investigating reports that more than Shs 140 billion set aside for the construction of the Lubowa International Specialized Hospital has gone missing.In March this year,...
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World's tiniest surviving baby born in California
A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245 grams (8.6 ounces) -- the same as a large apple -- when she was born. The girl,...
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21-year-old commits suicide over Shs 40,000
Zombo police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of 21-year-old Bright Pimundu, a resident of Mawa village in Paidha town council. Pimundu’s lifeless body was found dangling on a...
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Namugongo ‘holy water’ to be treated by NWSC
The ‘holy water’ from the Martyrs’ lake at the Catholic shrine in Namugongo is set to be treated to make it safe for the faithfuls, the rector Fr Vincent Lubega has said. Many pilgrims who flock...
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Namugongo: Police issues terror alert
With only four days left to this year's Martyrs Day celebrations on June 3, security agencies have put pilgrims on the high alert for suspected terror attacks. Deputy police spokesperson Polly Namaye...
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Church fails to enforce 'kaveera ban' at Namugongo
Although the Uganda Episcopal Conference declared the Uganda Martyrs Catholic shrine at Namugongo, a kaveera-free zone under a campaign dubbed ‘Tuvve ku Kaveera’, the ban is yet to be enforced.Ahead of...
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Ethiopian PM: 'It's not proper to stay in power for long'
Editor’s note: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave his first interview to a Western news organization when he spoke to the Voice of America’s Horn of Africa service reporter Eskinder Firew, in...
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Pilgrims stranded as Museveni attends mass at Namugongo
Pilgrims at the Namugongo Martyrs Shrine endured long queues as Special Forces Command (SFC) halted access to the place ahead of President Yoweri Museveni’s visit. Museveni attended today's special...
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