NEWS

By Ronald Musoke A recent surge in Africa’s human population has left the continent’s lion population on the decline, says a survey released on Dec.4 by the US-based Duke University. The report said the lion population, one of the major tourist attractions in Africa, has dwindled to as low as …

By Julius Businge The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) Executive Director, Cornelia Sabiiti is leading a team of 19 professionals to a regional procurement forum in Bujumbura, Burundi that runs from Dec. 5 to 7, the procurement body said in a press statement released on Dec. 5. …

By Aloysious Kasoma The opposition party, Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has described the current situation in the country as a sign that the ruling National Resistance Movement party is on the verge of collapse after failing to track down the theft of public funds. Okello Lucima the UPC spokesperson said …

By Joan Akello Justine Kasule Lumumba, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) chief whip has said she was the ring leader of members of the ruling party causing chaos in parliament last week. Lumumba said this while appearing before the parliamentary committee on rules, discipline and privileges that is investigating last …

By Ronald Musoke An application called ‘Winsenga’ that performs ultrasounds on pregnant women and detects problems such as ectopic pregnancies or abnormal fetal heart beats has earned three students from Makerere University’s College of Computing and Information Sciences a Microsoft award. The three, Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma …

By Sarah Namulondo Uganda has regained its 2009 position of the 130th most corrupt country in the world. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Uganda scored the same as Ivory Coast and Nicaragua in the corruption perceptions index. This is a great leap by 13 from last year’s …

Parliament, Uganda | Joan Akello| Some Members of parliament (MPs) have criticized the speaker Rebecca Kadaga for failing to control the house after members turned rowdy on the 27th of November. They also fault her over suspending parliamentary sessions. The MPs said that there was no reason for the suspension …

By Julius Businge The central bank of Uganda has marginally reduced the central bank rate to 12% in December down from 12.5% in November, in a bid to boost economic growth. The country’s economy grew at 3.2% in the year 2010/2011 down from 6.7% in 2009/2010, partly because of the …

By Ronald Musoke Police in Masaka Municipality has halted the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) ‘celebrations’ of President Museveni’s ‘75th birthday’ which they say falls on Dec. 4. Reports from Masaka say by 6:00AM Police had cordoned off the Mayor’s Gardens and all adjacent streets as they anticipated the youth to …

By Sarah Namulondo A total of 10 countries in the Great Lakes Region including (Angola, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Burundi) have resolved to form a joint force of 4,000 troops to contain the insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Defence …