Tunisia’s president denounced racism on Sunday and pointed to possible legal consequences for perpetrators 10 days after announcing a crackdown on illegal migration using language the African Union condemned as “racialized hate speech.” During a statement on February 21 telling security forces to expel all illegal immigrants, President Kais Saied called migration a conspiracy to…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2142 EAT on Sunday 5th March 2023. Security and Mulago hospital City Mortuary have finally released to the family the body of former National Unity Platform (NUP) lead lawyer Anthony Wameli. Wameli passed away last month in the US where he had been hospitalised since September 2021 after being…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2138 EAT on Sunday 5th March 3023. Nigeria’s Supreme court has declared the government’s rollout of newly-designed currency to be unconstitutional and ordered that old notes remain in circulation until the end of the year. The Supreme court ruling on Friday followed a lawsuit filed in February by 16…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2134 EAT on Sunday 5th March 2023. The parliamentary commission has abandoned the radio and television project it was pursuing to enhance media coverage of business in parliament, and has now donated the equipment to the national broadcaster, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC). Among the equipment donated to UBC are;…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2125 EAT on Sunday 5th March 2023. Tension is again growing in Lwengo district following the re-emergence of anonymous threatening leaflets that are being thrown in the area.  Aloysius Kibira, the LC III chairperson of Kkingo sub-county, says that fear has returned in their communities because unknown people have started…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1330 EAT on Saturday 4th March 2023. A new HIV/Aids self-testing kit piloted recently among seven universities in Uganda and found to be effective is to be distributed on a massive scale to the rest of the population, ministry of Health has said. Health minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, says…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1215 EAT on Saturday 4th March 2023. Absa Bank Uganda has been ordered to pay over Shs 6 billion for illegally selling a school it claimed had defaulted on loan repayment. According to the court records, in 2004, Progressive secondary school and its proprietors applied for two loans worth…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0934 EAT on Saturday 4th March 2023. Parents and old students of PMM Girls School Jinja, today Friday stormed the school premises to protest over accusations of homosexuality against one of the female teachers. Rose Kalembe, the chairperson of PMM Old Girl’s Association says that the protest was parked…