Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1211 EAT on Thursday 9th June 2022. The State House Health Monitoring Unit (SHMU) has cleared Mubende Regional Referral hospital of allegations of kidney harvesting. This follows investigations into allegations that the hospital had illegally removed a kidney from Peragiya Mulajijimaana , 20, a resident of Lwemiggo village in…
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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…
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…
Mining investors flee Karamoja as insecurity intensifiesp.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1203 EAT on Tuesday 7th June 2022. Investors have started withdrawing from mining sites in Karamoja citing increased insecurity in the region. Karamoja has experienced intensified unrest in the past months despite the disarmament exercise and security raids against suspected warriors. The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has admitted…
Uganda Catholic Church front 3 female martyrs for canonization.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe 1226 EAT on Saturday 4th June 2022. The story of the Uganda martyrs is more or less about men. The church has already canonized 22 young Catholic converts who were martyred in Namugongo and other places between 1885 and 1887. The Catholic church had 22 martyrs, the Anglican church 23…
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