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Lukyamuzi Takes on Odonga Otto Over Disappearance of Signatures Collected to Impeach the President

On the Senior Citizens Talk, veteran Ugandan politician Hon. John Ken Lukyamuzi, popularly known as The Man, revisits the controversial 2012 impeachment petition against President Museveni and addresses the alleged disappearance of signatures collected to support the motion. In this candid discussion with Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.), Lukyamuzi also shares his views on…

Uganda Political Transition: Bobi Wine, Gen. Muntu Stay Silent on Forgiving Museveni

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda & Eric KikomekoUpdated at 21:35, Monday, 1 December 2025 Nandala Mafabi and Male Mabirizi Emerge as the Only Candidates Willing to Forgive Museveni As Uganda heads toward the January 2026 general elections, the question of political transition dominated Sunday night’s highly anticipated Presidential Debate hosted by NTV Uganda. The debate,…

Unity and Diplomacy: VP Alupo and 25+ Envoys Gather in Kampala to Honour 71 Years of Algeria’s Liberation.

By Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.), Anastasias Gordon Sekandi, Faith Barbara Ruhinda & Princess Scovia K Kampala, Uganda — Updated at 2145 EAT on November 5, 2025 The Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Uganda on Tuesday hosted a colourful reception at the ambassador’s residence in Kampala to mark the 71st…

5 Players exit Uganda’s Insurance Business

The Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has authorised a total of 131 industry players to conduct insurance business effective January 1, 2022. Last year, at least five players in the sector exited Uganda’s insurance market. Metropolitan Life and Catherine’s Medicare will not conduct insurance business in 2022 after they choose to wind up operations. International Air…

Rwandans flee to DRC in order not to be vaccinated

By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 2312 EAT on 12 January 2022. Around 100 Rwandans have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent days claiming to be fleeing the Covid-19 vaccination, which is often mandatory in their country. They came in small groups by canoe to the south of the island of…

CDC says US COVID hospitalisations up 33% in past week

COVID deaths across the country rose by 40 percent as more than 841,000 in the US have died in the pandemic. By Ted Regencia, Arwa Ibrahim and Usaid Siddiqui and http://www.twitter.com/FaithNamagembeUpdated at 2300 EAT on 12 Jan 2022. Hospitalisations in the United States from the coronavirus are up by about 33 percent over the past…

South African King arrested for growing marijuana.

By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 2248 EAT on 12 January 2022. What you need to know: Their leader, wearing a traditional loincloth, clung to a shoulder-height plant as police dragged it across the presidential lawn in Pretoria before arresting him. South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside…

NEMA Renews Fight against Plastic Pollution

In a renewed fight against plastics pollution, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) have intensified enforcement operations. HICGI News Agency – Updated at 0155 EAT on Wednesday 12th Jan 2022 KAMPALA- UNBS executive director David Livingstone Ebiru said the two institutions are stepping up their operations starting…

COVID boosters not viable strategy: says WHO.

UN health agency calls for new vaccines that better protect against transmission amid emerging coronavirus variants. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 11 Jan 2022 at 2236 EAT Repeating booster doses of the original COVID vaccines is not a viable strategy against emerging variants, the World Health Organization (WHO) said as it predicts that more than…

US man recovers after pig heart transplant.

Surgeons hope genetic modifications will help patient’s body accept the organ and that pig organs could help alleviate shortages of donor organs Published By Faith Barbara Namagembe updated at 0735 EAT On 11 Jan 2022. A man with terminal heart disease is responding well three days after being given a genetically modified pig heart in…

2021 was characterized by high temperatures as emissions surged

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says the last seven years were the warmest ‘by a clear margin’ since records began. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0712 EAT on 11 January 2022. The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit…