Fuel Tanker explodes killing Over 50 people in Tanzania. Saturday morning, August 10,2019. At least 57 have died after a fuel tanker exploded after an accident at Morogoro,200 kilometres west of the capital Dar es Salaam. “We have been saddened by reports of an accident involving a fuel truck in Morogoro, which caught fire and …
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The Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Richard Sezibera is reportedly admitted at a Kenyan hospital in Nairobi capital in critical condition. Amb. Sezibera has been missing from the public in Rwanda since the start of July following a foreign trip to United Kingdom and France before he fell very sick. According to a source …
The Inspectorate of Government (IGG) has confirmed that it has arrested the secretary of the Judicial Service Commission, Dr. Rose Nassali Lukwago, and others over abuse of office leading to poor service. The Judicial Service Commission’s mandate is to recruit judicial officers and regulate their conduct. The other two are; Dr. Opio Okiror, former commissioner …
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Uganda – The Court of Appeal has on Thursday,August 8, 2019 ordered convicted serial killer, Richard Arinaitwe to serve 24 years, and 9 months in Luzira prison for the brutal murder of an American Volunteer worker Cecilia Goetz, at Hotel Equatorial in Kampala,in 1998. This was after three Justices Elizabeth Musoke, Helen Obura and Eziekel …
Western Uganda – The Kisoro grade one magistrate Mr Raphael Vueni on Wednesday,August 7,2019 remanded eight people to Kisoro Central Prison over their alleged participation in the assassination of Kisoro based lawyer Isaac Sendegeya,who was shot dead on Sunday, July 21,2019,2 am. The lawyer was gunned down at his home in Mukingo village, Nyakinama Sub …
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Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) staff members have gone to court to officially block the reappointment of Prof Celestino Obua as the vice-chancellor. This comes after Prof Celestino Obua announced his reappointment during the Senate meeting held on July 25, 2019, at Kihumuro campus. He further stated that he will serve MUST as …
Western Uganda – Residents of Kikonkoma 2 Ngoma Ward Mwizi sub county Rwampara district are fearing for their lives after finding anonymous letter notifying that assailants want 50 human heads and breasts. An anonymous letter found in Kikonkoma trading centre on Wednesday,August 7,2019,notified residents that the assailants will kill 50 people and take their body …
The Lawyer representing Roko Construction Company, in the controversial proposed International Specialized Hospital in Lubowa, has asked the High court in Kampala to commit to civil prison the owner of Finasi International FZC, and a one Moses Matovu for contempt of court. Enos Tumusiime from Tumusiime Kabega and Company Advocates argues that on 4th July 2019, …
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has criticized the international community for failing to make good of their financial contributions to support refugees in Uganda as they had pledged during the Kampala Solidarity Summit on Refugees in 2017. Addressing the 10th Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments and Senates at the Pan-African Parliament in Midland, …
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Mary Luwum,93,wife to the late Archbishop Janan Luwum is dead. Luwum was the archbishop of Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1977,who was arrested in February 1977 and died shortly after,during Idi Amin’s regime. In a statement, All Saints’ Cathedral, Kampala revealed that Mama Mary Luwum died of cancer of the gallbladder at 3 p.m. …
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