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Hospitals Urged To Reserve 10 Beds For Critical Covid-19 Patients As Cases Rise
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…
Disarmament: Security Recovers More 148 Firearms From Karamojong Warriors
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…
Distrust: Bobi Wine Secretly Fronts MP Flavia Kalule Nabagabe As Leader Of Opposition
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…
Lacor Hospital Protests Primary Health Care Budget Cut
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…
Museveni Gives DGF Five Months
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…
Two Prime Suspects Arrested Over Mukono Spice Supermarket Armed Robbery
Police have revealed that they have arrested two suspects in the ongoing operation to hunt down armed suspects who attacked Spice Supermarket in Mukono and stole unspecified amount of money The incident happened on Friday night last week on 23rd June 2022, when armed thugs who were two in number holding guns robbed spice supermarket…
NUP Faults EC For Suspending Women Council Elections
The National Unity Platform has lashed out at the Electoral Commission for suspending the women council and committee elections over lack of funds. According to NUP spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, the suspension of the women council and committee elections may be a well-orchestrated plan by the ruling NRM to prevent the NUP party from winning these…
Buganda Kingdom Approves UGX 157.8Bn Budget
Buganda Kingdom’s Lukiiko has approved a budget totaling 157.84 billion Shillings to support different activities of the monarchy in the coming financial year 2022/2023. The budget was approved following its presentation by the Kingdom Minister of Finance, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa. The new budget under the theme, “Enhancing Service Delivery to the People As a United…
Two Suspects Arrested In Connection With Mukono Supermarket Armed Robbery
Police have confirmed the arrest of two suspects in connection to the armed robbery at Spice supermarket at the junction of Kampala-Jinja-Bugerere road in Mukono municipality. Three robbers armed with an AK47 raided the supermarket on Friday evening where they shot a cashier identified as Irene Nakandi in the back and took off with an…
Attorney General Defends Gov’t Decision On Pinetti Coffee Deal
The Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka has asked High Court to dismiss with costs an application by two lawyers challenging the controversial coffee deal between the government of Uganda and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited. Henry Byansi and Micheal Aboneka petitioned the High Court in April 2022 challenging the agreement signed by Ramathan Ggoobi, the Secretary…