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Facebook launched Monday a “Marketplace” trading platform that lets users of the vast social network buy and sell goods with each other in a mighty challenge to the likes of eBay and Craigslist. The new...

Police say they are holding up to 200 suspects arrested on various offences during the Kampala Capital City carnival on Sunday. Mr Joseph Bakaleke, the commander at Kampala Central Police Station (CPS), said those in...

Thailand Police are investigating circumstances under which a 22-year-old Ugandan woman jumped to her death from the 16th floor of a building in Bangkok on Monday morning. It is understood the unidentified woman received a distressing call...

Four-time challenger of President Museveni, Dr Kizza Besigye has described his arrest at Entebbe International Airport moments after he landed from a month trip overseas as ‘inhumane’. The opposition leader has been abroad for a...

Crowds gathered in the Californian city of El Cajon to protest against US police brutality after the killing of Alfred Olango, an unarmed black man, as the FBI joined an investigation into his death according...

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has on Thursday morning opened the National Records Centre and Archives. The facility along Lourdel Road in Kampala is under the Public Service ministry will be the home of all national...

The whereabouts of four Ugandans is still unknown, three weeks after their bus was ambushed enroute to Uganda from South Sudan. One person later succumbed to gunshot wounds while five others were injured following an...

The Roman Catholic Church in Uganda is facing a tough test as more priests walk away from the mainstream, threatening the harmony and discipline it has always been associated with. At Lubaga, the seat of...

Former vice president Prof Gilbert Bukenya has urged parliament to enact a law enabling President Museveni to rule for life. At his Katomi resort hotel in Wakiso on Friday, the former Busiro North MP told...

President Museveni’s former press secretary Tamale Mirundi has rubbished Monday’s event at Kampala Serena Hotel where Uganda’s MPs since Independence in 1962 were awarded Golden Jubilee medals as ‘miscalculated’. President Museveni decorated the more than...