Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1324 EAT on Tuesday 7th June 2022 The ‘Luzira Head’, one of Uganda’s original artefacts held in the British Museum is still the property of Uganda, according to Samuel Kizaalwa the assistant commissioner of the museums. Kizaalwa says that any time Uganda wants back its 1,000-year-old artefact, the government…
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Mining investors flee Karamoja as insecurity intensifiesp.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1203 EAT on Tuesday 7th June 2022. Investors have started withdrawing from mining sites in Karamoja citing increased insecurity in the region. Karamoja has experienced intensified unrest in the past months despite the disarmament exercise and security raids against suspected warriors. The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has admitted…
Uganda Catholic Church front 3 female martyrs for canonization.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe 1226 EAT on Saturday 4th June 2022. The story of the Uganda martyrs is more or less about men. The church has already canonized 22 young Catholic converts who were martyred in Namugongo and other places between 1885 and 1887. The Catholic church had 22 martyrs, the Anglican church 23…
Stampede at Namugongo as pilgrims scramble for ‘holy’water.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 12:00 EAT on Saturday 4th June 2022. There was a stampede at the Uganda Martyrs Catholic shrine in Namugongo during the Martyr’s day celebrations on Friday afternoon as thousands of pilgrims fought to have at least a drop of water from the famous Martyrs’ lake. All hell broke loose…
Chief Justice Dollo closes Supreme court building over ‘flooding’.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1003 EAT on Thursday 2nd June 2022. Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has ordered the immediate closure of the Supreme court building in Kololo until further notice. In a memo dated May 31, 2022, Dollo says that following the fire that gutted part of his chambers earlier in April, there have been water…
Army denies killing 400 in Karamoja killing aerial bombardment.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0949 EAT on Thursday 2nd June 2022. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has denied media reports accusing the army of killing over 400 people in Moroto district during aerial bombings. Early last week, local media quoted Emmanuel Chero, chairperson of Karamoja Youth Agenda Vision 2040 alleging that UPDF…
Angry councillors block Budaka’s Shs 30bn budget over ‘anomalies’.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1122 EAT on Tuesday 31st May 2022. Budaka district councillors have refused to approve the FY 2022/23 Shs 30 billion budget, citing several anomalies which they claim they cannot proceed to approve. The budget which the council was meant to approve has the health sector taking Shs 4.8 billion,…
Female pilgrim trekking to Namugongo knocked dead in Lyantonde.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1105 EAT on Tuesday 31st May 2022. Jovita Tukahiirwa, one of the 44 pilgrims trekking a 395km journey from Ntungamo district, western Uganda has been knocked dead by a speeding car in Lyantonde along the Mbarara-Kampala highway. Tukahiirwa, 54, was killed by a speeding Toyota Harrier registration number, UBH…
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