Uganda Moves to Celebrate World Youth Day
Uganda is set to celebrate the international youth day under the theme: The Road to 2030; Eradication Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Production and Consumption. This year’s celebrations will take...
View ArticleGunshots at State House as Court Sends NRM Youths to Jail
There have been reports of gunshots at Entebbe Magistrates’ Court, a few meters near State House, as police battled a group of NRM youths whose colleagues had just been sent to jail by the court. The...
View ArticleMuseveni, Kagame, Bashir Attend Chad President Idriss’ Inauguration
President Yoweri Museveni has attended the inaugural ceremony of Chadian President-elect, Idriss Deby Itno at a colorful function held at Grand Hotel, N’Djemena in Chad. President Museveni who is on a...
View ArticleNRM Summons Caucus Assembly to Save 76 MP Seats
The National Resistance Movement Members of Parliament are set to convene on Tuesday morning to debate the Constitutional Court petition that threatens the seats of about one fifth of legislators....
View ArticleBagungu Community: We Need Ministerial Appointment to Benefit from Oil
A group of people of the Gungu community from the western Buliisa District led by the former Buliisa County Parliamentary candidate Godwin Angalia, have called upon President Museveni to appoint one of...
View ArticleBesigye: I’ll Be Happy to See Gen Kayihura in the Dock
Former FDC presidential candidate and opposition strongman Dr. Kizza Besigye has said he cannot miss witnessing the Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura in court charged for brutalizing his...
View ArticleUYD Protest Against Grabbing of Public Land
Opposition Democratic Party (DP) youth wing, the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) have Tuesday held processions in Kampala City demonstrating against what they called continuous grabbing of government land...
View ArticleDPP Clarifies: We’re Not in Hurry to Prosecute Baguma
The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has cleared the air on the matter concerning former CPS DPC Aaron Baguma, who is implicated in the murder of Donah Katushabe, a Kampala businesswoman....
View ArticleNew Headquarters to Save URA UShs15Bn in Rent, Operations
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will be looking to save approximately UgShs. 15 billion annually in rent and operational costs once its new Nakawa headquarters are completed. The 22 floored facility...
View ArticleMinister Urges as Teenage Pregnancy Surges
The minister for general duties in the ministry for health, Hon Sarah Opendi on Tuesday reiterated government’s commitment to end teenage pregnancy, and urged on the local communities to join in the...
View ArticleParliament Takes on Court; Okays 76 Constituencies
Parliament has moved ahead of the Judiciary and recommended the creation of 76 Constituencies, which is already being challenged in the Constitutional Court. Last week, City Advocate Andrew Tumusiime...
View ArticleUganda to Host 4th East Africa International Arbitration Conference
Uganda is set to host the 4th edition of the East Africa International Arbitration Conference (EAIAC) which will take place in September. Now in its 4th Edition, the EAIAC has grown to become an...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Pro-Kayihura Protest Rocks Makindye Court
Supporters of Gen Kale Kayihura have as well protested outside Makindye Magistrate’s Court, saying the Police chief must be left alone to enforce law and order in the country. Kayihura is among senior...
View ArticleKayihura Diehards: We’ll Not Allow Besigye at Makindye Court
The protest at Makindye Chief Magistrate’s Court has taken yet another twist with Gen Kale Kayihura’s supporters vowing to stop opposition strongman Dr Kizza Besigye from attending the police officers’...
View ArticleDPP to Take Over Police Chiefs’ Case
The much-anticipated trial of Gen Kale Kayihura and senior police officers accused of beating up opposition supporters could not take off after both parties fell short of attending Wednesday’s session...
View ArticleMagistrate: DPP Free to Take Over Police Chiefs’ Case
Opposition’s hopes that senior police officers including Gen Kale Kayihura would appear in the dock at Makindye Chief Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to answer to charges of highhandedness were dashed...
View ArticlePolice Case: Security Tightened as Lawyers Fear Being Lynched
Police have deployed anti-riot personnel at Makindye Chief Magistrate’s Court amid fears that lawyers representing complainants in a case of suspected police brutality would be attacked. Pro-police...
View ArticleParliament Demands Report on FDC’s Sam Mugumya
Parliament has tasked government to issue a report about former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) stalwart, Sam Mugumya who has been detained in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for now...
View ArticleInside the ‘Fierce Mission’ to Rescue Kampala Lord Mayor Lukwago
Tempers started rising hours before the case in which the Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura and his senior commanders were sued for human rights violation started. A group of unknown...
View ArticleKayihura Case Goes to Chief Justice
The lawyers who were Tuesday afternoon entrapped at the Makindye Magistrates Court as the courthouse fell under siege from supporters of the Gen Kale Kayihura, have sought intervention of the Chief...
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