Former UPDF top ranking officer and 2016 presidential candidate Maj. Gen Benon Biraaro was over the weekend rushed to Kampala Hospital, Kololo in a critical condition. A family member has confirmed. According to close friends, the former UPDF bush war Gen is currently admitted in a special isolation room and the family has restricted some…
Government has dispatched more that 20000 litres of pesticides to Amudat district in Karamoja sub-region to aid the aerial spraying of locusts that entered Uganda through the northwest Pokot area on Sunday. The chemicals were loaded and airlifted this morning from Kololo airstrip by ministry of Agriculture and Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) personnel to…
The newly elected Chairperson of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa also President of South Africa has noted with concern that Africa still remains a hotbed of terrorism and conflict saying it is a cancer that needs to be eradicated. In his address to the African Union Heads of State and Government during the 33rd Ordinary…
Four Chinese have been arrested following a circulating video of one of them caning a Kenyan staffer in Nairobi Kenya. Detectives from Kilimani raided Chez Wou Restaurant in the suburb Kileleshwa on Sunday and arrested the four. Eight Kenyans who work at the hotel were also taken for interrogation. Officials said the Chinese man caught…
The East African Court of Justice sitting at Arusha in Tanzania has dismissed an application lodged by lawyer Male Mabirizi Hassan Kiwanuka seeking an interim order halting the 2021 elections. Mabirizi ran to the East African court challenging the 2018 Constitutional Amendment Act that scrapped the upper and lower cap on the presidential age, effectively…
Police in Kawempe on Sunday February 9, 2020 arrested and detained Lt. Col. Juma Seiko after shooting and injuring three people along Mambure road in Kampala. According to Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, the incident happened at around 1:15 pm when Seiko caused an accident but shot at the two other vehicles…
A student at Law Development Centre (LDC) has run to court seeking Shs 215 million from the state minister for Housing Dr Chris Baryomunsi over alleged defamation. Godfrey Akampulira aka Akampa in his notice, claims that between August and November 2019, Baryomunsi and five others posted malicious statements on a WhatsApp group known as “Esau…
Ugandan Government, farmers and pastoralists are in panic mode after Swarms of deadly desert locusts Sunday entered the country through Amudat District, Karamoja region. According to reports, government officials are in a crisis meeting to prepare how to prevent the locusts that have ravaged several parts of Kenya, from spreading to other parts of Uganda.…
The Managing Director of Ruparelia group who is also one of the trustees of the foundation, Mr Rajiv Ruparelia, has promised to continue giving a helping hand to the ghetto community and urged corporate companies to come on board with a supporting hand. Mr Rajiv made remarks on Friday February, 8, 2019 while appearing on…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has flown to Ethiopia to attend the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council officially opened at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The meeting is being held under the AU Theme of the Year 2020, “ The 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council…
