Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1225 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. While official data shows spike in sexual crimes against oppressed caste women, report says access to justice is limited, especially in rural areas. Mumbai, India – In February last year, Divya Pawar*, 35, left home after a dispute with her husband to visit…
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Train derailment kills at least 17 in Iran.
Reports suggest that the train collided with an excavator near the desert city of Tabas. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1112 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. 17 people have died after a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency has said, while over 50 passengers were seriously injured. The…
Untold story of high Commodity.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1049 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. Let me take the opportunity of Prof Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo’s new book Uganda: An Indian Colony (1897-1972) to initiate a discussion on the current economic crisis, which on the face of it looks like the fuel and commodities problem. In fact, it is deeper. I was…
Report reveals shocking poverty.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1029 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. One in five people in Uganda is too poor to have Shs 6,000 per day, the new 2019/2020 Uganda National Household Survey found, casting a harsh spotlight on the poverty levels in Uganda. In absolute numbers, people living below the poverty line…
Bamasaba to Celebrate Imbalu Ritual without a King
Updated by Kafeero Twaha Tuesday, June 07, 2022 Imbalu candidates perform a traditional dance at Mutoto cultural site in Mbale City. The celebration of this year’s Imbalu (circumcision) ceremony in Bugisu Sub-region is expected to go on without a cultural head. The ritual, which will kick off in the first week of August at Mutoto…
Protests: Besigye wows to start from where he stopped.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1637 EAT on Tuesday 7th June 2022. Former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye has vowed to start from where he stopped with his protests against high commodity prices. Besigye made the statement shortly after being released from Luzira prison by Buganda Road Magistrate’s court. He has been in prison since…
Encroachers take over koboko airfield after years of neglect.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1243 EAT on Tuesday 7th 29 2022. Close to 500 people have encroached on the land of the defunct Koboko airfield. Found in Arumaji village, South Division in Koboko municipality, the facility which was established during the regime of President Idi Amin has been in a state of disrepair…
Will Uganda ever demand for 1000-year-old Luzira Head ‘loaned’ to British Museum?
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1324 EAT on Tuesday 7th June 2022 The ‘Luzira Head’, one of Uganda’s original artefacts held in the British Museum is still the property of Uganda, according to Samuel Kizaalwa the assistant commissioner of the museums. Kizaalwa says that any time Uganda wants back its 1,000-year-old artefact, the government…
