Members of Parliament and locals in the restive Rwenzori region are furious. President Museveni has halted the Defense Committee from investigating on the circumstances that triggered the military assault on Rwenzururu Kingdom’s Buhikira palace last...
If you participate in any form of social media, you’ve probably heard of Mirundi’s Law: that inevitably, if any Internet discussion goes on long enough, someone will compare something to Museveni. There is, I think...
The head of Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA), Dr Muhammad Kiggundu has hit out at the University Council Chairman, Dr Charles Wana-Etyem, over incompetency after he claimed he is frustrated in his efforts to...
One of the remaining groups of Rwenzururu King Mumbere’s Royal Guards have been offered amnesty by government. The Rwenzori East Police Commander, Mr Agapitus Ecotu said on December 23 announced that a total of 167...
As weird as it may sound, Friday’s real hijacking of a Libyan Airbus A320 at Malta airport transpired in the midst of a film being shot based on a hostage situation that occurred 40 years...
Police from Kyenjojo police station are contemplating arresting scores of their own who are accused of robbing accident victims in which even seven people died on spot. The accident occurred on Kyenjojo Road near Matiri...
President Yoweri Museveni has given a green light to plans of reopening Makerere University. According to a December 24 letter from education minister Janet Museveni, the president has directed the university council to "make the...
As survivors narrate their ordeals from Kyenjojo KALITA bus accident and social media still awash with photos of the wreckage of the bus that was on Friday afternoon involved in the accident, the Ministry of...
After consultation with President Yoweri Museveni, the management of Makerere University is holding a press briefing Saturday afternoon to announce the institution’s reopening on January 2, to allow for the completion of the first semester....
We’ve had a year of major twists and turns; of optimism and despair; of great personal and national losses; of great and indelible pain; but also moments of joy, jubilation, and of some rare achievements....
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