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…
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…
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…
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…
Uganda 50 years after the expulsion of Indians
Thanks But the worst thing the Indian community business class ever did to Uganda in the colonial times was to frustrate and delay the formation of cooperative societies by Africans. By JOACHIM BUWEMBO August marks an important anniversary for two nation-communities; Ugandans and Ugandan diaspora Indians. 2022 marks the 50th year since the expulsion of…
Masaka district officials tasked to recover Shs 200m lost in irregular cash-outs.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1636 EAT on Thursday 21st July 2022. The parliamentary public accounts committee (local government) has tasked the accounting officers of Masaka district to recover close to Shs 200 million paid out in irregular salaries, gratuity and pensions. The questionable payments were effected in the FY 2020/21 financial year, according…
Museveni appoints Mao Justice minister in mini cabinet reshuffle.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1628 EAT on Thursday 21st July 2022. Less than 24 hours after signing a ‘working cooperation agreement’ with the opposition Democratic Party (DP), President Yoweri Museveni has today Thursday appointed DP president Norbert Mao as the new Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister in a mini cabinet reshuffle. Mao replaces…
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