‘Investigate UPDF Dealings In Karamoja’

Updated 1046 EAT on 18th April 2022. The Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has asked the Government to investigate shady dealings of Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) deployed in Karamoja sub region. Several UPDF detaches have been established along the Karamoja borderlines to curb the rampant cattle rustling in the region that has hit…

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Raisi Says Iran Will Target Heart Of Israel If It Acts Against Iranian Nation.

Published at 1035 EAT on 18th April 2022. Iran’s armed forces will target Israel’s heart if it makes “the slightest move” against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade on Monday. “If you make slightest move against our nation … our armed forces destination will be the heart of the Zionist regime,”…

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South Africa flood toll rises to 443 as delege eases.

By Kafeero Twaha at 1030 EAT on 17th April 2022 What you need to know. The loss of hundreds of lives and thousands of homes as well as the economic impact and the destruction of infrastructure calls for all hands on deck” said Ramaphosa. The death toll from the flood that has battered South Africa’s…

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Russian flagship Moskva ‘seriously damaged’ by explosion.

Russia says damage caused by ammunition detonating ‘as a result of a fire’, Ukraine says it targeted the vessel with missile strikes. Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1058 EAT on Thursday 14 April 2022. Russia’s Black Sea flagship leading the naval assault on Ukraine has been “seriously damaged” by an explosion that a Ukrainian…

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Kampala’s monumental ‘Sawa ya Queen’ goes missing.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1029 EAT on Thursday 14 April 2022. The monumental Queen’s Clock (sawa ya Queen) previously installed at Katwe Clock Tower in Kampala cannot be traced, 11 years since it was removed for maintenance.  The missing clock was installed on the tower at the Nsambya-Entebbe road junction in the 1950s…

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