Flights canceled, rerouted over China’s drills near Taiwan.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0712 EAT on Friday 5th August 2022. Asian airlines have cancelled or rerouted numerous flights to avoid military exercises China is carrying out around Tiawan following Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the democratically-ruled island. The move comes after Beijing cautioned carriers to avoid six “danger zones” where the People’s Liberation Army is…

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Kisoro Tourist hotel manager found dead in toilet.

Updated at 1629 EAT on Thursday 4th August 2022. The manager of Kisoro Tourist hotel, John Musenga, has been found dead. Musenga’s body was discovered in one of the toilets of the hotel today Wednesday. The hotel belongs to king Caesar Mulenga of Mulenga kingdom who is also a Vietnam consular in Uganda. Musenga was…

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Three soldiers killed in renewed Nagorno-Karabakh fighting.

Updated at 1554 EAT on Thursday 4th August 2022. “But Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who also sincerely seems to want to sign the peace treaty, is being blocked by his own domestic political opponents, who periodically have staged big street protests and claim that he essentially committed treason by agreeing to a ceasefire in…

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Kawempe residents accuse police officers of carrying guns to bars.

Updated at 15044 EAT on Thursday 4th August 2022. Officers at Kikaaya police post in Kawempe Division are on the spot for allegedly carrying firearms to bars and other entertainment spots where they threaten residents.   The matter came up during a security meeting convened by the Kira-Road Division police commander Geoffrey Ssebuyungo in Kikulu Zone on…

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Ugandan woman sold off for marriage in Iraq found.

Updated at 1457 EAT on Thursday 4th August 2022 Security agencies have successfully traced and found a Ugandan woman from Kawempe who was allegedly sold off for marriage in Iraq. Officials from the Internal Affairs ministry started tracing the woman only identified by her pseudo name ‘Shifah’ at the beginning of July after her husband filed…

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Mbale flooding death toll increases to 29.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1609 EAT on Wednesday 3rd August 2022. The death toll resulting from the flooding in the Elgon sub-region has increased to 29, the ministry of Relief, Disaster and Preparedness, and Refugees has revealed.  The disaster followed heavy rains that pounded Bugisu and Sebei regions on July 30, 2022, forcing several…

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Angry arts teachers are not teaching.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1529 EAT on Wednesday 3rd August 2022. FILBERT BAGUMA, the secretary general of the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (Unatu) has suggested in this interview with Yudaya Nangonzi that teachers of Arts subjects are still enraged at government’s refusal to give them a pay rise. They were forced back in…

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India’s faltering rice output can cause a new food crisis.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1426 EAT on Wednesday 3rd August 2022. Rice could emerge as the next challenge for global food supply as a shortage of rain in parts of India, by far the world’s biggest exporter, has caused planting area to shrink to the smallest in about three years. The threat to…

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