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Iran To Start A Tractor Manufacturing Plant In Uganda
The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda. The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential the country possesses in the…
Kadaga Receives Death Threats For Exposing UPDF Torture On Fisher Men
Parliament has passed a motion to inquire into the conduct of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF). Sponsored by MP Paul Mwiru (FDC, Jinja Municipality East), the motion received unanimous support, save for Local Government Minister Col Tom Butime and Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso (UPDF). Debate on alleged torture by the army has been amplified…
Socialite Bryan White Sues Mike Mukula Over Illegal Detention
Tycoon Kirumira Brian aka Bryan White has dragged to courts of law the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman for Eastern Uganda, Captain Mike Mukula. In November this year, police raided Bryan White’s Buziga home in Makindye and arrested him. He was taken to CID headquarters in Kibuli over alleged debts amounting to Shs1bn.…
Go Seek Justice In Your Own Courts Of Peoples Govt-Judge Kakuru Chases Away Dr.Besigye
A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offense of unlawful assembly in the Penal code Act. The panel comprising five Justices Kenneth Kakuru, Cheborion Barishaki, Elizabeth Musoke, Steven Musota and Geoffrey Kiryabwire delivered its verdict Thursday morning. On…
UPDF,South African Forces To Share Intelligence-Brig.Kandiho
Uganda and South Africa have appreciated the role played by sharing intelligence information in neutralizing global challenges. This was discussed in a meeting between the South African Chief of Defence in charge of Intelligence (CDI) Lt Gen Jeremiah Nyembe and UPDF Chief Of Military Intelligence and Security Brig Gen Abel Kandiho. In a meeting attended…
Plastic Jubilations As FUFA President Magogo Is Ushered Back In Office
There was a Fan fare as the football fraternity warmly welcomed back to office the FUFA President Eng. Moses Hassim Magogo. FUFA Executive Committee members, Delegates, FUFA Judicial bodies, members of the secretariat, fans and the media gathered at the home of football, FUFA Headquarters in Mengo, Kampala as early as 8 AM. A special…
Min.Anite’s Husband Kajik Finally Graduates With Masters Degree From KYU
Among the over 8,000 students who graduated from Kyambogo university on Wednesday, Allan Kajik, the husband to State Minister for Privatisation and Investment Evelyn Anite. Uganda Radio Network [URN] reported that Kajik was among the 151 masters degree graduands at 16th Graduation Ceremony. To the awe of onlookers, when Kajik’s name was read, an overexcited…
M7 Consoles Bundibugyo,Bududa Land Slides Victims
President Yoweri Museveni has expressed his condolences to victims and relatives of Ugandans who were affected by mudslides in parts of Eastern and Western Uganda last week. Museveni passed on his condolences in a statement published on his social media accounts on Tuesday, in which he revealed that government will do everything possible to relocate…
Ethiopian PM Abiy Receives Controversial Nobel Peace Prize
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, mainly for the 2018 deal he reached with Eritrea to end a long-running border conflict. In accepting the prize in Oslo on Tuesday, Abiy insisted the prize also belonged to his “partner and comrade in peace, President Isaias Afwerki, whose goodwill trust…
Kanyamunyu Brothers Murder Case Flops, Pushed To 2020
Hearing of a murder case against the Kanyamunyu brothers in the High court has been scheduled to start next year in January. Mathew Kanyamunyu and two others are accused of murdering child activist, Kenneth Akena in November 2016. Kanyamunyu is jointly charged alongside his Burundian girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari and his elder brother, Joseph Kanyamunyu. Today Wednesday,…