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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 Hill Road. The students were travelling to the UMA Show Grounds in Lugogo for an educational expo...

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 longer listed among the entry requirements on Uganda’s e-visa portal or the DCIC website. However...

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 after rejecting calls for him to apologise. In a series of Posts on X on Friday, Muhoozi first said...

The veteran bush-war commander and Minister of Water and Environment delivered the defiant response during a public lecture at Valley University of Science and Technology in Bushenyi when asked whether he felt safe. His words came as he firmly distanced himself from the Patriotic League of...

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 Nakivubo drainage channel in August 2017. Presiding judge Boniface Wamala found KCCA liable for...

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 feeding programmes for more than 200,000 learners in Karamoja. The donation was handed over on...

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 Twinamastiko, 32, a salesman at the company’s Iganga branch, said he was travelling with company driver...

Police in Busia District have arrested a man in connection with the alleged kidnapping and murder of a three-year-old girl after he reportedly demanded Shs7 million in ransom from her father. The suspect, identified as Edrine Bwire, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday, October 1, in...

The National Drug Authority (NDA) has warned Ugandans against consuming an illegal concoction marketed as an energy drink under the name “Boisson Energétique Très Puissante.” NDA spokesperson Abiaz Rwamwiri said laboratory analyses conducted by the authority found that the product is...

VIDEO: Passengers at the Katooke stage in Kampala’s New Taxi Park were forced to disembark on Thursday night after the side door of a commuter taxi collapsed as the vehicle prepared to leave. The incident comes despite the 100-day enforcement operation (Ganyegenya) launched in late August by...

It's only God who has to intervene.

One person was shot dead following an armed attack on Bugiye Sub-county Police Station in Kasese District at around 2:00am on Wednesday, police have said. Police spokesperson ACP Kituuma Rusoke said the deceased was among an estimated six people armed with pangas who attacked the station and...

Tunachokijua Claim A post circulating on Tiktok by account- @freedomfighter uses an authentic video of Maj. Gen. (Rtd.) Kahinda Otafiire and claims that he said, "Muhoozi can never be president of Uganda when I’m still alive." What we found •The video is authentic and shows Otafiire speaking...

Speaking during his maiden address to the 12th Parliament, the Minister of Water and Environment cautioned military leaders against making violence their preferred approach to resolving conflicts. Otafiire argued that true military greatness is not measured by the number of bullets a General...

Wakiso District has banned nursery schools and lower primary classes from keeping children below the age of six in boarding facilities, warning that schools that violate the directive risk closure and prosecution of their administrators. The directive follows new guidelines issued by the...