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Tips to achieve higher fuel mileage

Full tank. When you fill up with gas, fill up completely and try and keep your tank above one third full. If your fuel runs low, the engine might not receive a steady supply of gas (since it will splash around while you’re driving and it might momentarily splash away from the tube that leads gas out of the tank). Not having a steady supply of gas will make your engine less efficient.

CinemArena films change communities

After making giant strides in a series of highly successful projects in Mozambique, Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia, CinemArena is finally in Uganda doing its rounds in social transformation, thanks to the Italian cooperation and Amakula Film.

Business community counts its losses

The first thing I encounter when I enter Kalita Bus Services Park, located next to Nakivibo stadium, is a security check. The officer runs a metal detector across each passenger’s body and luggage, searching for explosive materials. Less than a week after the Kyadondo and Ethiopian Village Restaurant bombings that left 74 dead and over 50 injured, the city is still clearly engulfed in fear.

Union plans rescue of Bududa coffee

Region was leading Arabica producer in Uganda before landslide On March 2 several villages in Bududa district, which sits on the edge of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda Bugisu region were buried under a landslide that killed approximately 350 people and destroyed, infrastructure, buildings, businesses, crops and animals....

Coping with 7/11 aftermath

On the night of the attack, it seemed, everyone was in shock. Talking to a young couple who had been watching the World Cup Final at The Lion’s Den – a bar immediately opposite Ethiopian Village Restaurant, the site of the first blast – their faces told the story much more fully than their words: wide-eyed, blank and static. When they spoke it was slow and confused, they would lose their way in a sentence and let it tail off into silence....

Unwanted guests

Rwandan refugees forced back across the border The sprawling Nakivale Refugee Settlement in south-western Uganda is home to over 50,000 asylum-seekers and refugees. At one time it represented a testament to Uganda’s reputation as one of the most refugee-friendly countries in Africa. ...

Clinics of death

When children play with healthcare waste, tainted blood, needles The air is pungent with urine, fecal matter and cow dung. The narrow walkways are littered with garbage and stagnant water with barefoot children running around innocently. Others rummage through the garbage piles for items to sell. One pile is full of used needles, syringes, blood stained bandages, surgical blades, used gloves and numerous blood transfusion tubes, some of which st...

UPM Calls for fresh elections after Dec. 10

Movement lists malpractices One of the political parties contesting the forthcoming elections - the Uganda Patriotic Movement - has called for immediate fresh elections after the December 10 poll to ensure peace and stability in the country.

EC registers 15m voters, NRM enrols 9m; do the figures lie?

Politics is a game of numbers. The more numbers of members you have the more votes you may talk about in an election. Every political party has been making claims of how their membership and voter strength have gone up. During its National Executive Conference in January, the NRM declared it had registered 8 million members including the under-age.

Al-Shabaab and Museveni’s bumpy roads

The road from Kampala to Ntungamo, 400km away, is bumpy, especially the 120km stretch between Masaka and Mbarara which is under construction. Fortunately, as our five-car convoy snaked along, we had a police escort car with siren blaring to cut through the mass of slow moving evening traffic, which was jammed at some spots. The road is in the Ankole-Masaka cattle corridor, which is a semi-desert, with very little rain and lots of dust....

Security find new clues on the terror attacks

Gen. Aronda informed Museveni  7 days to the attacks Terrorists now using women to spy on targets ADF Infiltrated intelligence On July 4, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, received a threat assessment from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) detailing a serious threat from Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terrorists working in conjunction with the Somali-based, al-Shabaab militant group....

Rwanda editor murdered

Regime denies involvement, international community shocked Police in Rwanda say the murder of Jean Leonard Rugambage, the editor of Umuvugizi, a vernacular newspaper was a revenge attack for his participation in the 1994 genocide. Rugambage was murdered on June 24 by unidentified people.  The police said in statement released on June 27 that they had arrested two men in connection with the murder....

Jamwa’s arrest shows NSSF needs reform

When he appeared before a magistrate judge in the Anticorruption Court to hear about his bail application, the former managing director of National Social Security Fund David Chandi Jamwa looked serious.