Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1338 EAT on Saturday 9th July 2022. Last week, Mukono Municipality MP Betty Bakireke Nambooze travelled to the United States of America for treatment after being cleared by the Uganda Medical Board (UMB). This development came after three years of being rebuffed several times by UMB, the government agency charged…
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Jinja woman arrested for beating to death daughter, secretly burying her.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1259 EAT on Saturday 9th July 2022. A 34-year-old woman, Suzan Mutiibwa has been arrested by police in Kiira region on allegations of beating to death, and burying her 7-year-old daughter, Mercy Namugaya. She allegedly committed the crime in Nkalange village, Busedde sub-county in Jinja district; where she dug up…
How far can we go to save our fragile ecosystems?
Updated at 10:00 EAT on Friday 8th July 2022. Growing up in Kosim village, Atoot sub-county in Ngora district was fun. Blessed with a serene environment and a beautiful atmosphere, Kosim was a place to live. Even with the majority of the residents living in grass-thatched houses, nearly all households had access to basic needs…
Scattered’ MPs demand for offices under one roof
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0940 EAT on Friday 7th July 2022. The speaker of parliament Anita Among has tasked the attorney general to expeditiously process the acquisition of offices for MPs under one roof, because the legislators are ‘scattered’ in different buildings and parliament is spending colossal sums of money on rent. Among…
Uganda now middle income country, govt insists.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2323 EAT on Thursday 7th July 202 The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) insists that Uganda has entered into the threshold for lower-middle-income status based on its own statistical data computations, despite a divergent view by the World Bank. In a statement released Wednesday, the government statistical body indicates that…
4 students of Lyantonde SS arrested over attempts to burn school.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2218 EAT on Thursday 7th July 2022. Police are holding four students of Lyantonde senior secondary school in Kaliiro sub-county, Lyantonde district on accusations of attempting to torch their own school. The suspects, all senior four candidates, were arrested following a fire outbreak at the administration block on Wednesday…
Museveni ready to prosecute Col Kaka.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1220 EAT on Wednesday 6th July 2022. Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has said President Museveni is willing to have his former director general of Internal Security Organisation Colonel Kaka Bagyenda prosecuted for gross human rights abuses. Kaka is accused of superintending an ISO regime…
Broke families cannot survive on Shs 50,000.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 12:01 EAT on Wednesday 6th July 2022. Higher fuel prices and the rising cost of basic commodities like food, sugar, and gas are altering lives – many Ugandans have begun to forgo many purchases including the smallest luxuries. In a tweet on July 03, 2022, retired Assistant Inspector General…
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