Busoga kingdom premier and National Planning Executive Director Joseph Muvawala has rushed to his home area in Busoga to calm down angry and rowdy youths. Disgruntled youths in Jinja yesterday upset the areas of Namulesa, Kivubuka, Mafubira and Wakalenge in early morning protests against the rising cost of living. Transport was paralysed, shops remained closed…
Soroti East by-election unites opposition in an unprecendeted way. Uganda,s opposition kingpins Dr. Besigye and the leader of the redcard movement are jointly campaigning for the FDC candidate Moses Attan Okia in Soroti with the NUP supreme Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Dr. Besigye on his third day in Soroti where he is drumming support for FDC,s…
The Kampala High Court has stayed the warrant of arrest it had on July 13, 2022 issued directing Police to arrest Businessman Shukla Mukesh on sight; pending determination of the main application Mukesh has filed challenging the amount due to Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi; as exhorbitant. It should be noted that Shukla Mukesh was…
The Ministry of Health has Tuesday, received 2,400 test kits for Monkeypox from the World Health Organization Uganda. The test kits will help support the testing of Monkeypox in the country. To- date, the country has carried out 70 tests and all turned NEGATIVE for Monkeypox. The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the unprecedented…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, also the NRM National Chairman, in a politics rally urged the people of Soroti City East to cast their votes in favor of the NRM flagbearer for effective service delivery. The President made the call today while campaigning for the NRM flag bearer for the Soroti City East by-elections, Hon Herbert…
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who arrived in Uganda Monday night, will later today hold bilateral talks with president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and address a joint press conference at Entebbe State House Entebbe. The Minister, is on a two-day working visit to Uganda staring July 25-26, 2022 as part of his tour of…
Authorities in the new tax park have resented KCCA’s plan to relocate hawkers into the park. The authorities say the relocation of hawkers back into the park will congest the areas. They now argue that the exercise could result into increased criminality. The New tax park was one of the major operational grounds for the…
Kampala Capital City Authority plans to light up the city’s largest market of Owino. Through the United Nations Development Program, KCCA will roll out the project meant to improve the security of persons and property. The Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority Dorothy Kisaka says the UNDP funding will help them improve the market….
