Museveni refuses to endorse his 2026 sole candidature.

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…

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Omoding wins Serere County by-election to replace his father.

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…

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48 children operated at Mulago, MUK paediatric surgical camp.

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…

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NATO chief warns China against supplying arms to Russia.

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…

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A physical planner approves constructions without site visits in Mbarara.

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…

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Nagirinya’s self confessed murderer: Turns state witness, pins colleagues.

Updated at 2004 EAT on Thursday 23rd February 2023. Isaac Ssenabulya alias Kisunsu, the self-confessed kidnapper and murderer of Maria Nagirinya and her driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa has pinned his co-accused Coprian Kasolo alias Arsenal as the leader of the B13 criminal gang.  Kisunsu took to the dock on Wednesday as the ninth prosecution witness, a…

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Russia’s war in Ukraine: After a year of conflict, what next?

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2304 EAT on Wednesday 22 February 2023. In a year, thousands of Ukrainian civilians and troops on both sides have been killed in Russia’s war, and tensions between Moscow and the West have risen to an all-time high. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin defended the invasion  he ordered on February.24….

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German man free from HIV 10 years after stem-cell transplant.

Updated by Nakayima Ritah at 1607 EAT on Wednesday 22 February 2023. A 53-year-old man from Düsseldorf, Germany who was equally HIV positive has remained HIV-free 10 years after receiving a stem-cell transplant for cancer.  According to the latest report published in Nature Medicine and discussed by scientists attending the annual Conference on Retroviruses and…

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