Inside Uganda’s first mobile phone assembly plant
To get just one working mobile phone device fitted together from series of metallic and plastic components screwed, takes many hands and heads working together for several hours if not minutes....
View ArticleUgandans sweep all at MTN Marathon
Ugandan runners won the 42km, 21km and 10km races as hundreds of runners turned up Sunday morning to participate in the MTN Kampala Marathon focused on fundraising cash to improve maternal health in...
View ArticleLivingstone University postpones exams over floods
Livingstone International University in Mbale has postponed its forthcoming examinations after floods ravaged the institution's premises. The university was set to begin its semester one examinations...
View ArticleFloods cut off Moroto-Kotido road
Flash floods have cut off Moroto–Kotido road following three days of heavy rainfall. Rains pounded Moroto from Friday afternoon and went on for more than 72 hours causing R.Lopei to flood, affecting...
View ArticlePressure mounts on KCCA acting ED Kitaka to vacate office
Seven people identifying themselves as 'taxpayers and concerned citizens' have written to the acting executive director, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Andrew Kitaka to vacate office citing the...
View ArticleNew Budhagali oracle to ’inherit’ deceased’s wife
The new oracle of Bujagali falls who was unveiled to the public yesterday Sunday will inherit Mastula Lukowe, the wife to his predecessor Budhagali Nabbamba.According to traditionalists, the heir to...
View ArticleMuseveni Anti-corruption Walk a mockery, waste of time - Muntu
The forthcoming 'Anti-corruption Walk' by President Yoweri Museveni is a mockery to the nation because corruption is part and parcel of the current leadership, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, the national...
View Article'Peaceful' presidential election in Guinea-Bissau
The voting process Sunday of Guinea-Bissau's presidential election was "peaceful, calm and orderly," said Oldemiro Baloi, who heads international observers of the Community of Portuguese speaking...
View ArticleBotched C-Section: Medical Association blames gov't
The government is to blame for a botched C-Section at Jinja referral hospital when intern doctors pulled off an arm of baby during an operation on November 10, Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has...
View ArticleLow turn up as Muntada Aid offers free children heart surgery
Only 14 children with holes in the heart turned up at the Uganda Heart Institute when a UK-based charity organisation offered free surgery procedures to correct the defect, leaving the doctors...
View ArticleNo salary enhancement until after 2021 elections - Muhakanizi
Government will not be in position to meet salary enhancement requirements for public servants in FY 2020/21 due to shortage of funds, ministry of Finance has warned.According to secretary to the...
View ArticleUganda is dead without innovation – Matia Kasaija
“A country that doesn’t innovate as we head into the 4th industrial revolution is a dead one. Uganda should keep pace with the rest of the world in the field of science, technology and innovation to...
View ArticleMayiga: Why local companies collapse
Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga used the recent launch of Sekanyolya Systems’ new corporate office at Kingdom mall in Kampala to offer a few tips on how local top-tier businesses can...
View ArticleHow USMID program has turned around the face of municipalities across the...
Over the past five years, the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) program has enhanced institutional performance of 14 municipal local governments across the country to...
View ArticleWhy Mbabaali remains favoured in Bukoto South
As the 2021 general elections draw closer, political forces in the ruling NRM and the opposition are aligning themselves to win seats for parliament. In this week’s edition of 2021 Political Pulse,...
View ArticleBalaam to NRM loyalty: Learn to work hard
In a sit-down interview with Baker Batte Lule last week, music promoter and businessman Balaam Barugahara suggested President Museveni was right to appoint musicians Catherine Kusasira, Mark Bugembe...
View ArticleJustice Owiny-Dollo spills age-limit ruling secrets
Fifteen months after he led a Coram of five Constitutional court justices to uphold parliament’s removal of the constitutional age limits for presidential aspirants, deputy chief justice Alphonse...
View ArticlePanic as former Amama Mbabazi bodyguard stages 'armed' protest
There was commotion in Kampala city center this morning when Christopher Aine, the former bodyguard of the ex-prime minister, Amama Mbabazi staged a protest over being jobless. Aine, who was...
View ArticleUganda Embassy land in Addis Ababa grabbed
The Uganda Embassy land in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has been encroached on, according to an internal audit by the ministry of Finance.Uganda was supposed to build its Embassy house and a chancery on the...
View ArticleCameroon youths protest older politicians running for office
YAOUNDE - As Cameroon prepares for local and parliamentary elections, young people have organized protests across the central African state against the aging political leadership. Cameroonian youths...
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