Residents of Rubengye Sub County in Buhweju district are living in fear after four women succumbed to a strange illness in this month and one other person is admitted at a health centre IV. The deceased are Annah Komugisha (27), Jenipher Namusisi (35), Edith Natusasira (40) and Stellamalice Kamaranzi (30). Peace Tugumisiriza (37) is currently admitted …
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Police in Mbarara is holding two students of Kakoba College of Computer and Vocational Studies who were on July 18, 2019 morning arrested by Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) patrol in Orubiri cell at 3 AM near Makenke Army Barracks. The Institute director Mr. Godson Zabashaija says the arrested,who hail from Kasese District,will be dealt …
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The Minister of Ethics and Integrity,Father Simon Lokodo has revealed that Government is considering closing down controversial preacher, Aloysius Bugiingo’s church known as House of Prayer Ministries located in Makerere-Kikoni Kampala central Uganda. Lokodo made the pronouncement in a media interview with journalists at Parliament on July 17,2019 in which he described Bugiingo as a …
A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years after he was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. El Chapo escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2016, but was …
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Health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Uganda have released a joint statement that they are identifying contacts of a person from the Democratic Republic of Congo who visited Uganda to trade in fish in Mpondwe market,Kasese before returning to DRC,where she later died of Ebola this month.
Police have confirmed the arrest of John Bosco Mugisha who has been arrested several times and has been to Luzira Prison on charges of robbery and theft before . Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango on July 17 noon said that the suspect, John Bosco Mugisha, was arrested at Nsike 1, Ndeeba in Rubaga division …
Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries minister,Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja during the official opening of the 27th Source of the Nile Agricultural Show in Jinja, said this will be done to fulfill international market requirements. Uganda is still facing a challenge of ticks and diseases especially in western Uganda.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and other officials are already in Kenya for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) High Level Business Summit and International Trade Fair to be held in Nairobi, from today 17 to 21 July 2019. The event will be jointly hosted at the Kenyatta International Conference Center, …
UGANDA – Buganda Road court has set 1st August 2019 to decide the fate of Makerere University Researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi, accused of cyber harassment and offensive communication against President Museveni and his Late Mother Esteeri Kokundeka who died in 2001. Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu who has been trying Nyanzi, set the Judgement after …
Students’ leaders from public universities around Uganda are dragging government and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to court over the new move by the tax body to collect tuition on behalf of the universities. While addressing a joint press conference in Kampala on July 15,2019, the guild presidents from public universities say, the move will cripple …
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