New shocking evidence has been uncover about the plot by the Finance minister Matia Kasaija to ring-fence the important office of executive director of Public Procurement Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA). As this news site had...
Hilary Obaloker Onek, Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees in the Ugandan Cabinet has announced that the country will expel Burundian refugees. Since Burundi's 19-months crisis triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run...
Former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye says his frequent appearances in Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court have affected him financially and cost him a lot of time, hence calling for adjustments from...
Uganda needs to brace itself for worsening drought in 2017, experts from Makerere university’s geography department have warned, blaming the current absence of rainfall on a dry climatic condition referred to as "La Nina”. People...
The new Indian envoy to Uganda has presented his credentials to President Yoweri Museveni The ceremony was held on Monday at State House Entebbe on Tuesday. Welcoming India’s new High Commissioner, Ambassador His Excellency Ravi...
The United States will give over $25 million in humanitarian aid to Uganda, to help the nation cope with a huge influx of refugees fleeing conflict in east Africa, the US ambassador in Kampala has...
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) law enforncement after several warnings have today kicked off an operation to demolish structures erected within gazatted road reserves along national roads. The roads body says in some instances...
Just months after withdrawing from their two-year sojourn in neigbouring South Sudan, Uganda has deployed in Equatorial Guinea. The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces’ latest deployment was confirmed as “another show of confidence in UPDF professionalism”...
A local NGO has dragged government to court challenging the Parliamentary ban on comprehensive sex education in schools. The NGO is also complaining about government delay to issue a policy on sex education in schools...
Parliament has today evaluated the capabilities of Brigadier Ronnie Balya, Uganda’s Ambassador designate to Juba, South Sudan who is set to replace Maj Gen Robert Rusoke. Balya who served as the deputy director-general of the...
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