Uganda is holding talks with Kenya to increase grain exports ranging between 600,000 and one million tonnes annually, in a deal that could earn the country an estimated $195 million to $325 million. The deal...
The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Hilary Onek says government and Police are committed to investigations into the abuse of funds for refugees. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Center this morning, the...
The National Oil Company is stuck with 40,000 barrels of test crude oil that it has failed to sell. The matter came to light when MPs on the PAC were quizzing officials from the ministry...
Medical interns have called off their strike after negotiations with the government and the ministry of health. Last week, medical interns announced that they had laid down their tools demanding the provision of essential medicines...
President Kaguta Museveni has today harvested what he planted last year during his water-bottle irrigation demonstration farm in Kawumu, Luweero. "It is an achievement to be poor in Uganda,” he believes. "All families show embark...
Old Kampala Police Station battled with members of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum who stormed the police station asking for a report on the rampant break-ins at their office. Civil society organization, Human Rights...
The Bishop Ruwenzori Diocese, Reuben Kisembo has defended his remarks to President Museveni that he should retire. While at the commissioning of St. Elizabeth Chapel at Kyebambe Girls' School on Saturday, Kisembo openly told the...
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has sued Kampala Minister Betty Kamya over what he termed as meddling in KCCA meetings. The Lord Mayor says they have explored all other avenues...
The Uganda Law Reform Commission has been called on to re-examine land rights in mineral rich areas. Nicholas Opiyo, Human Rights lawyer and crusader says the current form of the law leaves communities in mineral...
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) will enforce closure of 34 schools in Kampala that have failed to put in place required standards. This follows release of a report on the status on 48 schools that...
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