The Ministry of health has sent a team of epidemiologists to Kween district, following the confirmation of an outbreak of the deadly Marburg haemorrhagic fever, which has so far claimed the lives of two people....
There is a confirmed outbreak of the Foot and Mouth disease in the four districts in Bugisu Region. The affected districts are Mbale, Manafwa, Namisindwa and Bududa. Dr. Felix Odongo, the Bududa District Veterinary Officer,...
Over 4700 farmers in Tororo are harvesting the benefits of practicing modern faming technologies as well as collective farming. The farmers, under various Farmers Based Organizations (FBO) in Tororo say that they are now harvesting...
The third Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Al Hajji Ali Kirunda Kivejinja has been involved in a motor accident at Magamaga, taken to Jinja hospital. A family source revealed that Mr Kirunda is complaining...
It is another routine win for the ruling National Resistence Movement (NRM) party as Brenda Asinde swept the Iganga District woman parliamentary by- election on Thursday. NRM’s Asinde garnered 4197 votes to beat her closet...
President Yoweri Museveni has Monday had a cherished encounter with his namesake, baby Kaguta, born two weeks ago in Busoga. Young Kaguta was a fortnight ago born to Brenda Suubi Asinde, the NRM’s Flagbearer in...
Jinja firm Sadolin group, the largest paint manufacturing company in Uganda, with more than 50% market share will now take on the new brand name Kansai Plascon – of a Japanese company. This follows a...
The leader of Muslims in Uganda, Supreme Mufti Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje has been named in a fresh land grabbing scandal in the eastern district of Mbale, a court says. In the case before Mbale Magistrates...
A total investment of $600m (Shs2.2 trillion) will be invested in Mbale Industrial Park that is expected to house 30 enterprises and create 12,000 jobs for Ugandans, Tian Tang Group chairman Paul Zhang, also the...
Regional steel giants Roofings Limited has condoled with the families of five people killed on Sunday, July 2, 2017, when a rental truck that was carrying their construction materials roared downhill black spot in Towei,...
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