Sadab Kitatta Kaaya
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Daughter: Minister Kutesa wants change
Speaking before an adoring crowd of constituents on September 14, 2019, Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa announced his surprise retirement from elective politics and tapped his daughter Shartis Nayebare Musherure to replace him in Mawogola North, a constituency he has represented since his election to the Constituent Assembly in 1994. His retirement marks the end of an active… → Read More
Ebola: 4 Kasese sub counties under surveillance
The ministry of Health has placed four sub counties in Kasese district under surveillance for any possible cases of Ebola. According to Allan Muruta, the commissioner for public health emergencies, the ministry is maintaining full surveillance over the sub counties of Kisinga, Bwera, Nyakiyumbu and Karambi which are considered to be Ebola hotspots. “They are the hotspots where the cases – those… → Read More
Uganda: Why We Have Left - Former Opposition FDC's General Muntu
After a bruising tenure as president of FDC from 2012 to 2017 and an equally divisive, and unsuccessful re- election bid in November last year, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu publicly confronted the prospect of parting ways with the main opposition party. → Read More
Uganda: I Can Do Away With Parliament
In the past, fights between President Museveni and parliament have broadened into uneasy standoffs but there's no sign either side has learned anything about avoiding them. → Read More
Uganda: Bobi's Health
They travelled in the same van to Makindye Military Police barracks to see the jailed Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine but on return, they had a different narrative of what they saw. → Read More
Bobi’s health: Who is telling the truth
They travelled in the same van to Makindye Military Police barracks to see the jailed Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine but on return, they had a different narrative of what they saw. On August 15, Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga set up a six-man committee comprising MPs Doreen Amule (Amolatar Woman), Andrew Aja Baryayanga (Kabale Municipality), Medard Lubega… → Read More
Uganda: UAE, Kampala Row Deepens As Arab Country Demands Apology
A diplomatic row is simmering between Uganda and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Arab country has reportedly demanded an apology from Kampala for criticisms leveled against it by MPs recently. → Read More
Uganda: First Baby Giraffe Excites Conservationists at Lake Mburo
In June 2015, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) translocated 15 giraffes from Murchison Falls national park to Lake Mburo in western Uganda, as part of the conservation body's efforts to diversify the animal species as well as create a safe population of the animals. → Read More
Uganda: 900 Apply for Phosphate Firm's 92 Jobs
When Chinese firm, Guangzhou Dongsong Energy Group, through Tororo area radio stations called for job applications, over 900 people applied for the advertised 92 job slots. → Read More
Uganda: Constitutional Referendum
President Museveni will be limiting his foreign travel until the planned referendum on Article 105(1) of the Constitution is concluded, sources say. The scaling down on external trips comes after the ruling party, on February 25, launched a campaign, Align and Arrive, ahead of the plebiscite to decide whether to extend Museveni's term by two years. → Read More
Uganda: Govt Chief Whip, MP Spill Age Limit Secrets
During last December's noisy and hugely divisive push to amend the constitution, a lot went on behind the scenes as NRM regime honchos plotted to delete Article 102(b). → Read More
Uganda: On Board UWA's Executive Tourism Bus
On January 9, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) officially opened its executive tour buses to the public with a 'feel the comfort' drive around Kampala city. → Read More
Ekalungar hits Kitatta Gang from his grave
A boda-boda rider flees from the burning Boda Boda 2010 offices in Nateete on Monday The dramatic sequence of events around the weekend arrest of Abdallah Kitatta and 28 others has renewed public interest in the savage killing of Francis Ekalugar, former accountant of Case hospital, Kampala. Ekalungar’s badly burned body was found dumped in Kajjansi on January 2. A police investigation into his… → Read More
Uganda: Inside Ruling Party Plot to Kill Petitions Against Age Limit Bill
After the Uganda Law Society filed a petition on Monday challenging the scrapping of presidential age limits, and the extension of the MPs' term by two years, NRM top officials have intensified efforts to frustrate the gathering legal challenge. → Read More
Uganda: 25 People Face Trial Over Online Posts
By the close of the year 2017, at least 25 Ugandans were facing trial in different courts over charges related to use of the internet to express themselves, a report by the Unwanted Witness, a digital rights NGO has indicated. → Read More
Uganda: 25 People Face Trial Over Online Posts
By the close of the year 2017, at least 25 Ugandans were facing trial in different courts over charges related to use of the internet to express themselves, a report by the Unwanted Witness, a digital rights NGO has indicated. → Read More
Digital freedoms: 25 users face trial over online posts
Makerere University's Dr Stella Nyanzi is one of those facing trial over her online posts By the close of the year 2017, at least 25 Ugandans were facing trial in different courts over charges related to use of the internet to express themselves, a report by the Unwanted Witness, a digital rights NGO has indicated. In a statement issued on January 18, the World Internet Freedom day, Dorothy… → Read More
Uganda: Put Lake Bunyonyi On Your Bucket List
In many traditional African cultures, it was abominable for an unmarried girl to get pregnant. Among the Baganda, that girl would be sent away to live with a distant relative. → Read More
Put Lake Bunyonyi on your bucket list
Akampene or Punishment Island where unmarried pregnant girls were dumped to die In many traditional African cultures, it was abominable for an unmarried girl to get pregnant. Among the Baganda, that girl would be sent away to live with a distant relative. But among the Bakiga in southwestern Uganda, it was worse; unmarried pregnant girls were abandoned on a tiny island in Lake Bunyonyi and left… → Read More
Stalemate at EALA as Tanzania, Burundi walk out
All was set for the election of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) speaker at the resumption of the regional parliament's sittings in Arusha, Tanzania, but the process could not go on after a walk-out by Tanzania and Burundi. Both countries presented candidates for speakership, but it's Rwanda's Martin Ngago appeared to have overwhelming support. Ngago's nomination was seconded by… → Read More