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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US Justice Department sues Idaho over abortion ban.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1415 EAT on Wednesday 3rd August 2022. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Idaho over the state’s near-total ban on abortion, saying the stringent ban denies pregnant women potentially life saving medical care , and therefore “directly conflicts” with federal law. The DOJ announced the lawsuit on…

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Kyagulanyi, Besigye sign working agreement to oust Museveni.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0835 EAT on Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Opposition doyens Dr Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi have signed an agreement in which they committed to join efforts and strategies geared towards ousting President Yoweri Museveni from power. The agreement which was signed during a meeting held at Hotel Africana today…

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Mbale floods: Govt offers Shs 5m per retrieved body.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0823 EAT on 2nd August 2022. The government has pledged Shs 5 million to each of the families who lost relatives in the weekend floods that ravaged eastern Uganda and left more than 24 dead. Mbale city resident commissioner Ahamada Washaki says President Museveni has directed that each family…

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Al-Zawahiri: From Cairo clinic to al-Qaeda leader.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0813 EAT on Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who has been killed in a US drone attack in Afghanistan, was the group’s key ideologue and strategist, masterminding its global network and planning attacks on the United States. The 71-year-old Egyptian eye doctor had central roles in…

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US VP Harris to announce $1bn to states for floods, extreme heat.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0755 EAT on Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States, has called climate change an “immediate” and “urgent” crisis as she detailed Biden administration efforts to respond to disasters such as the deadly flooding in kentucky and wildfires ravaging her home state of…

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