Updated at 2212 EAT on Sunday 26th February 2023. Lawyer Male Mabirizi has been released from Luzira Upper prison after serving just a year of his 18-month jail term for contempt of court.  Uganda Prison Services spokesperson Frank Baine said that Mabirizi was released on Saturday after completing his sentence. He said Mabirizi’s sentence was…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1226 EAT on 25th February 2023. The leaders of Botswana and Namibia have signed an agreement that will allow their citizens to cross the two countries’ border without passports. Starting immediately, citizens of the two southern African countries will only be required to produce their identity cards at crossing…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1224 EAT on Saturday 25th February 2023. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday Thursday declined to append his signature on an endorsement poster endorsing him for the 2026 elections. Museveni who has been in power since 1986 was requested by the area leaders and a section of voters in Omoro…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1216 EAT on Saturday 25th February 2023 Emmanuel Omoding, son of the late Patrick Okabe has replaced his father as Serere County MP after winning the by-election held on Thursday.  Omoding, an independent candidate emerged winner of the hotly contested race with 15,638 votes, beating four other contenders. He…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1208 EAT on Saturday 25th February 2023. Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda’s largest hospital and home to Makerere University college of health sciences held a paediatric surgical camp recently in which 48 children with various conditions were operated on.   The hospital, from time to time, organises such camps to…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2048 EAT on Thursday 23rd February 2023. NATO secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance has seen signs that China is considering supplying arms to Russia and warned Beijing against taking any move to provide military assistance to Moscow. The comments on Thursday came days after US Secretary of State…

Updated at 2016 EAT on Thursday 23rd February 2023. Mbarara district senior physical planner Julius Lucky has been approving building construction plans in the Bwizibwera-Rutooma town council without conducting field visits, the district public accounts committee has learned.  Lucky appeared before the committee chaired by Herbert Kamugisha, which is following up on audit queries in the reports for the third…