Rwanda president Paul Kagame has told diplomats in Kigali that he is not about to tell his citizens to return to Uganda because he has no control over their safety outside their home country. Addressing more than 60 diplomats at the home of the Presidency in Kigali on Wednesday evening, Kagame said there were still…
Uganda Police Force in Wamala Region is investigating an incident where a police officer accidentally shot dead a 13 year old pupil in an operation. Patick Manihiro, a pupil at Bukuya Primary School, was accidentally shot and killed by a stray bullet, when officers at Bukuya Police, responded to a disturbance call about an aggressive…
The Attorney General, Hon. William Byaruhanga has dismissed allegations of the impropriety acquisition of land in Kampala by Mesas Pine Investments as false and baseless. According to Byaruhanga, the allegations made by Kawempe North MP, Hon. Latif Ssebagala in December related to improper acquisition of school land in Kampala are false. “On 18 December 2019,…
A diet of cassava, Irish potatoes and indigenous vegetables helped Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni shed 30kg (4 stone), he told the BBC. “I am always fit but the doctors pointed out the mistakes and then I decided to shed off,” Mr Museveni said. The 75-year-old leader said he had not been watching his weight, which…
The body of a Ugandan national, Teojen Ndagijimana recently shot dead last week by Rwandan security operatives has been brought back into the country. Ndagijimana, 25, a resident of Kabingo village, Murora sub-county in Kisoro district was shot dead on Saturday at Kumugu trading centre Musanze district in Rwanda, about three kilometres away from the…
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has summoned the Minister for Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa to explain to the house the growing tension between Uganda and Rwanda. Her summons come in the wake of reports that three Ugandans were shot and killed in Rwanda over the weekend plus the ongoing arrests of some…
Uganda Police Force with sister Security operatives have arrested and detained a one Paul Mugerwa, for illegal possession of a Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF chain commonly known as dog tag. The suspect who is currently in custody at Kawempe police station is a resident of Kiganda Zone in Kawempe Division, Kampala District. According to police,…
It’s been a shocking morning in Uganda when a high profiled World Bank chief Anne Namara Kabagambe, took on her social media Twitter handle and uttered inner most hurting racist comments onto Mogul, and Uganda’s Tycoon Dr. Sudhir Rupaleria. Ms Kabagambe a Rwandan, who is currently the World Bank board director supervising 22 countries in…
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit led by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema has resumed fresh investigations on how Bank Of Uganda under the reign of a former Deputy Governor Dr. Louis Kasekende allegedly swindled over Shs478 billion and among others, how old currency supposed to be destroyed was smuggled out by BoU officials who again returned…
The Uganda Police together with the Uganda Communications Commission and telecom operators have arrested and detained eight suspects over SIM boxing/ electronic fraud. According to a statement issued by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the operation conducted in Masanafu a Kampala suburb over the weekend let to the recovery of one (1) SIM box with 545…
