Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0844 EAT on Saturday 6th August 2022. Fuel prices in Uganda, particularly in Kampala have continued to rise, but at a slower rate over the last two months, compared to the sharp increases registered between March and early July. Ordinary motorists in Kampala had predicted that by the start…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…