The Government of Uganda is planning to borrow over Shs10.3trillion from external lenders in the FY2021/22 that starts in July. This website can confirm that according to the latest Budget Framework Paper, maintaining the country’s momentum towards the debt crisis level, the new loans are intended to plug the project revenue shortfalls to fund the…
The troubled Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi has changed her name a few months after being charged with corruption. In accordance with the Registration of Documents Act, the embattled EOC chairperson who is battling corruption charges has renounced and abandoned the use of the names Ntambi Sylvia as it appears on…
Fighting broke out early Monday along Somalia’s border with Kenya, leaving at least nine dead and several injured on both sides of the frontier, according to officials and witnesses. Somalia accused Kenyan troops and Somali fighters it says were trained by its neighbour of entering the border town of Bulohawo and attacking federal army bases…
Frank Lampard has been sacked by Chelsea after just 18 months as head coach. Former Blues midfielder Lampard enjoyed a good first season in charge at Stamford Bridge, taking the club to the FA Cup final and securing qualification for the Champions League. But after being given more than £200m to spend on new players…
The High Court on Monday ordered police and military to vacate the home of former National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, in Magere ,Wakiso District. Mr Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine says he has been held under house arrest since the country’s presidential elections on January 14th. He first announced that he had been…
At least 189 suspected terrorists have been killed by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) raid on Al-Shabaab hideouts in the thickets of Sigaale village 99.5KM from Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The interdiction and on spot ground target operations in Sigaale, Adimole and Kayitoy villages, neighbouring Janaale in Lower Shebelle region, also saw the forces destroy…
Police training school at Kabalye,has dismissed a total of 220 trainees, who had reported for the Initial Probationer Police training course on medical grounds and falsification of their academic documents. According to police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that all trainees underwent very thorough individual medical assessments at the training school, where it was established that…
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni who was the National Resistance Movement’s presidential candidate made a triumphantly entry into Kampala from his home in Rwakitura. Museveni who garnered 5.8 million votes translating into 58. 64% beat 10 other presidential candidates to be declared the winner of the 2021 elections. The President who was returning to Kampala…
The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices were raided, said…
The Uganda Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has revealed that internet shutdown by the government during the just concluded presidential and parliamentary elections helped to prevent the incitement of violence and use of malicious language. The minister made remarks while presenting a formal brief to Heads of Diplomatic Missions and International organizations on Wednesday at…
