More than 70 students from Lubiri High School in Mengo narrowly escaped a potentially fatal crash on Saturday morning after their school bus developed a mechanical failure while descending Mengo...
Foreign Affairs Minister Adonia Ayebare with His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates.
The United Arab Emirates has...
Kampala recorded low public participation in Saturday’s National Cleaning Day, with many residents staying indoors as Kampala Capital City Authority teams moved through some communities urging...
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A throwback video of Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire telling Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to prove his leadership credentials beyond being President Yoweri Museveni’s son has...
Uganda’s digital number plates do not themselves track vehicles, despite the impression that the plates were designed to provide that function, a parliamentary inspection has found.
Members of...
Local Government minister Balaam Barugahara has ordered the immediate closure of Yalelo Fish shop in Busia town following complaints from local fish traders over its operations.
Barugahara...
Ugandan politician and women’s rights advocate Dr. Miria Matembe has expressed a wish to see Uganda have a living former president while a sitting president is in office, citing Kenya as an...
New details surrounding the death of Afrigo Band co-founder Moses Matovu suggest that he may have been attacked while intervening in a confrontation involving a woman, rather than being...
Police in Uganda’s East Kyoga region are holding a student of Soroti Senior Secondary School after 22 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from his residence.
The student was arrested last...
Travellers entering Uganda no longer need to present a yellow fever vaccination certificate, according to the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC).
The certificate is no...
Kira, on the outskirts of the capital Kampala, is growing. New homes are going up, businesses are opening, and more people are plugging into the electricity network. But the infrastructure...
Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has escalated his public confrontation with Minister of Water and Environment Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, saying the minister will be arrested...
“I fought Idi Amin, was I safe? I fought Milton Obote for five years. I would rather die on my feet fighting than live on my knees begging,” Gen. Kahinda Otafiire declared.
The veteran bush-war...
“When you see a General who prefers violence as the best means of solving problems, then there’s a problem,” Major General Kahinda Otafiire has said.
Speaking during his maiden address to the...
The High Court in Kampala has ordered Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to pay Shs24.9 million in damages and compensation to the family of Olive Basemera, a street vendor who drowned in the...
Members of Parliament have urged government to replicate the construction and cost-control approaches used by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) in other public projects.
The MPs on the...
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Uganda have received 6,638 metric tonnes of rice valued at USD6.1 million (about Shs22.5 billion) from the Republic of Korea to support school...
Three armed men dressed in army-like uniforms allegedly robbed a Kombucha Products Ltd sales team of Shs5.51 million and other valuables along the Iganga–Kaliro road on Thursday.
Kenneth...
Kenyan President William Ruto has thanked President Yoweri Museveni for what he described as his role in advancing investment discussions involving businessman Aliko Dangote.
Speaking at the...