Police shoot dead protestor in Bugweri
Police in Bugweri district shot and killed a young man while quelling a protest in Nawangisa A village. The deceased has been identified as 25 year-old Matia Isooba, a resident of Nawangisa. Police...
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Mak doctor speaks out on suicide rate
Without disputing the form or facts of the story titled; “10 students commit suicide every month’’ published in The Observer on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Dr. Caroline Birungi, a psychiatrist at...
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Mak students raise Shs 8m for suspended colleagues
Makerere University students hailing from western Uganda have collected Shs 8 million to help three of their suspended colleagues get justice. The suspended students are; Frank Bwambale alias Young, a...
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NRM wins Sheema North by-election
Naome Kibaaju, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party candidate has won the Sheema North parliamentary by-election. The Sheema district Electoral Commission returning officer, Deborah Asiimwe...
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NRM to punish its treasurer for voting against mobile money tax
The executive leadership of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary caucus is considering disciplinary action against its treasurer Mariam Naigaga for voting against the mobile money tax...
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CCTV cameras: Game finished for criminals - Museveni
With the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in urban areas, "the game is finished" for city criminals, President Yoweri Museveni has said. While launching the national safe city...
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Janet tells youth to stop 'blaming everybody for their situation'
The First Lady, also minister of Education and sports, Janet Museveni has challenged the educated youth to use their acquired school knowledge to turn around their future and that of the country. Ms...
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Uganda considers refugee policy change
Slightly after 4pm on Wednesday afternoon, a community meeting at Nkoma town council hall in western Uganda begins with land as a key highlight on the agenda. Nkoma is home to Rwamwanja refugee...
View ArticleFamily’s 30-year chase for NRA compensation
My name is Richard Kiiza. I was born in 1980 in Kyererezi, Kapeeka, in the greater Luweero triangle. In 1981, our mother Rachael Nantege Nakamya joined the NRA rebels led by President Yoweri Museveni...
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Gen Muntu has weakened FDC
In August, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), ousted Kasese Woman MP Winnie Kiiza from the coveted position of Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LOP)...
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Zimbabwe police ban protest against new tax, cite cholera outbreak
Zimbabwe police will stop planned protests by the labor movement against a new tax on money transfers on Thursday because of a standing order outlawing public gatherings in the capital following a...
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More NRM ‘rebels’ worry Nankabirwa
Right now, the math still favours the ruling NRM in parliament but the growing number of members defying party positions on critical legislative agenda has got the government chief whip Ruth Nankabirwa...
View ArticleMP Zaake returns today
Mityana Municipality member of parliament Francis Zaake returns to the country today Thursday after more than a month of treatment in India. Zaake travelled to India for treatment of injuries...
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Police whisks Zaake from Entebbe airport
Police whisked away the Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake Butebi shortly after his arrival at Entebbe airport and drove him straight to his home village in Butebi. Zaake jetted into the country at...
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Why Bakaleke disappeared
Even before the warrant for his arrest was issued last week by the Kololo based Anti-Corruption court, Siraje Bakaleke had disappeared. Shaken by more threats of death, the interdicted assistant...
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Urine can’t cure eye-diseases – health minister
The state minister for Primary Health Care Dr Joyce Moriku Kaducu has warned public against using local herbs and urine to treat eye diseases, saying the content in the urine is acidic and has been...
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Speaker Kadaga, Nankabirwa clash over Peter Nyombi
The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has fired back at the government chief whip, Ruth Nankabirwa over comments she made following the failure of parliament to convene a special sitting for fallen...
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Police casts doubt on Bobi Wine's Kyarenga concert
Bobi Wine’s much anticipated October 20 music concert hangs in a balance after police denied knowledge of the show. With Namboole stadium, the venue of the event, insisting on police clearance before...
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17 killed in fresh Bududa landslides
At least 17 people have been confirmed dead in today’s landslides and mudslides that swept across five villages in Bukalasi sub-county, Bududa district. The LC V chairman, Wilson Watila said the number...
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Mudslides kill 40 in Bududa, 400 missing
Over 40 bodies have been recovered so far after mudslides swept four sub counties in Bududa district according to local authorities. The sub counties include Bukalasi, Buwali, Nalwanga, and Bubiida....
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