President Yoweri Museveni has given a small, five-month window to the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a major funder of civil society organisations in Uganda, to operate. But does that mean the end of DGF, whose activities were suspended last year, or is another strategy by the President to beat the NGOs into line? Museveni announced…
St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu is protesting the more than 50 percent reduction of its primary health care budget. The hospital director, Dr. Martin Ogwang, says that they have been receiving Shillings 600million under primary health care, which accounts for 5 percent of the annual budget of the hospital but the health ministry reduced…
Information from opposition corridors of power indicates that National Unity Platform ‘NUP’ party president Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine is secretly fronting Hon.Flavia Kalule Nabagabe for the post of Leader of Opposition (LOP) in parliament in a bid to replace Hon. Mathias Mpuuga. Insiders say Kalule has secretly been nursing ambitions to unseat the…
Joint security forces have recovered 148 firearms from Karamojong warriors since they launched the cordon and search operations across the nine districts in Karamoja. The cordon and search operations started on May 16, 2022, after registering resistance from the armed rustlers. Michael Longole, the Karamoja regional police spokesperson said that cordon and search operations were…
The Ministry of Health has directed hospitals across the country to reserve ten beds to be able to isolate and admit people who present with COVID-19. The decision was made as new cases were averaging 120 per day creating fear that the country could see a new surge in infections following a decline that started…
It takes a real billionaire to keep a cool head and stay investing when you wake up on a hot Kampala morning to find out you’re about to lose $5 million in income. Sharing with Billionaires Tomorrow Magazine, Sudhir said the first few months of 2022, looked so good for his hot rose business, on…
