Uganda Police has confirmed the arrest of four suspects to help them in investigations into the murder of a Muslim cleric in Bugiri on Friday evening. Sheikh Masudi Mutumba, 60, the Iman for Lwemba Mosque in Lwemba parish, Lwemba sub-county in Bugiri district was shot dead as he returned home from prayers at around 9:45…
Police in Fort Portal is investigating circumstances under which a senior Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) officer survived being lynched by erant students over allegations that she had attempted to kidnap a student of St Leos College Kyegobe. Sources reveal that UPDF Lt. Col. Carol Nyakaisiki Basaliza, on Wednesday February 12, 2020, at 10:00PM, in…
Uganda Police in Bugiri District, are hunting for an unidentified armed assailant who shot and killed one of the area imams. Sheikh Masudi Mutumba was reportedly shot dead at his home in Iwemba Parish, Lwemba Sub County at around 9:45pm, according to Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament (MP), Asuman Basalirwa. “One of my constituents; an…
Exporting labour is perhaps one of the most delicate undertakings any country can indulge in, especially if its policy makers appreciate it from the purview of a quick fix to the biting unemployment ravaging impoverished countries in the third world. It is, for all intents and purposes, modern day slavery euphemisms as human trafficking and…
It was a shock and grief on Monday February 10, 2020 evening when a UPDF soldier attached to Gulu Military Baracks took a gun and Shot dead three people in Gulu town. The incident that claimed lives of Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St.…
Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee, a government officials has confirmed. The plague of locusts has already caused extensive damage to pastures and crops and threatened food security in several countries in the east and…
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 Parliament of Uganda has called on government to avail funds for the implementation of the Prohibition of the Female Genital Mutilation Act, 2010. The motion presented by the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Hellen Asamo sought to improve efforts to curb female genital mutilation(FGM) in Sebei and…
The third Quadripartite Summit on Uganda-Rwanda, Angola and DR Congo has ended Sunday evening in Luanda, Angola. The meeting called by Angola President João Lourenço was attended by Félix Tshisekedi (DRC), Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Yoweri Museveni (Uganda). It discussed security matters and regional cooperation and reviewed the August 2019 peace deal signed by Museveni…
Police in Sembabule District have arrested a Local Defence Unit (LDU) officer for shooting dead a police officer. Jamada Luwaga, a resident of Rugusuulu Sub County in Sembabule District, allegedly shot dead Corporal Gerald Olweny, 32, a police officer attached to Rugusuulu Police Station on Wednesday night. The two had gone to Rugusuulu trading centre to…
