Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere, currently being held at Nalufenya Police Station in Jinja district has offered support and sympathy to the families of those killed and arrested. “I express my solidarity at this sad time...
The Rwenzururu kingdom is a traditional monarchy around the mountains of Rwenzori – 340km (210 miles) west of the Kampala. Its people - the Bakonzo - straddle both Uganda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of...
In a bizarre development, President Museveni on Monday has embarked on visit to South Africa to hold ‘bilateral talks’ with embattled South African president Jacob Zuma. This news comes at the back of the recent...
The colonialists' tool of choice was 'divide and rule'. Using Toro Kindgom as a platform, they 'forced' all other tribes and feudal states in the region to be under that kingdom. They educated the Batooro...
International attention is now turning to Uganda. The government of Uganda has done it before, and it still has authority to disconnect commercial and private wireless networks—affecting both cellphones and the internet—in the event of...
Only eight of the ten people who drowned after the boat they were traveling in capsized on Lake Albert have been retrieved. Mr Julius Hakiza, the Albertine regional police public relations says the accident occurred...
Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr Kiiza Besigye has condemned the manner in which the Kabale case in which he is accused over inciting the public on July 14, 2012 is being handled....
The Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Shaban Mubajje has urged Muslim youth in the country to be at the forefront of promoting unity among themselves and people of different religious affiliation in order to prosper. Sheikh...
Scores of Muslims jammed Kunungu’s Kihihi and Butogota mosques to welcome the Mufti of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council His Eminence Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje on Friday. Mubajje who has traversed the country, told Kanungu...
President Yoweri Museveni has today installed his longtime confidant Prof. Mondo Kagonyera as the First Chancellor of Kabale University at Kirigime hill, Kabale Municipality, almost six months after his appointment was approved. Prof Kagonyera has...
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