Africa Cup of Nations draw LIVE: 8.30pm Pot 1 – Gabon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria Pot 2 – Tunisia, Mali, Burkina Faso, DRC Pot 3 -Cameroon, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt Pot 4 – Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Guinea Bissau Uganda Cranes, back at the high table of African football for the first time in 38 years, will find out …

Job opening International WASH Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant, Accra, Ghana Apply nowJob no: 499551 Work type: Consultancy Location: Ghana Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp

Job Opening Posting Title: Chief, Printing and Publishing Unit Job Code Title: ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER Department/Office: ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Duty Station: ADDIS ABABA Posting Period: 14 October 2016 – 12 December 2016 Job Opening Number: 16-Administration-ECA-68500-R-Addis Ababa (G) APPLY HERE   Share on: WhatsApp

VIDEO: How did Uganda National Roads Authority degenerate into the mess it finds itself in? How did Chinese firms beat legal and construction processes to access billions in shillings, which billions according to the committee of parliament were meant to compensate those affected by the road construction works? As Joseph Sabiti attempted to dig deep …

VIDEO: Once a media darling, Speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has turned controversial with a number of accusations against the media.  Kadaga eventually dragged the media into the Parliamentary committee, an occurrence which is also a first of its kind. The question is, how did the media fallout happen? Share on: WhatsApp

Beijing, China | AFP |  Two Chinese astronauts entered the country’s new orbiting space laboratory for the first time on Wednesday, state media reported, as Beijing works towards having its own space station. Mission commander Jing Haipeng was first to float into the Tiangong-2 (“Heavenly Palace”) lab, the official Xinhua …

Bujumbura, Burundi | AFP |  President Pierre Nkurunziza on Tuesday signed legislation enabling Burundi to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). A copy of the law seen by AFP and dated October 18 allows “the Republic of Burundi’s withdrawal from the Rome statute”, the ICC’s founding treaty. The next …

Paris, France | AFP |  The UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted a controversial Arab-sponsored resolution condemning Israel’s actions at a flashpoint holy site in east Jerusalem that has sparked fury in the Jewish state. The UNESCO resolution on “occupied Palestine” was drafted by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar …

Gossip is one of the themes of the clay works collections at Dr. Lilian Nabulime’s ongoing show at KfW in Kampala. Nabulime has keenly observed that Ugandans enjoy gossip – the habit of engaging in idle talk by revealing real or made-up information about other people to those who have …

The General Court Martial at Makindye has set November 8, 2016  to commence hearing of a treachery case against jailed Nakawa Municipality MP Michael Kabaziguruka. This after lead prosecutor Maj. Raphael Mugisha informed the 7-member court chaired  by Lt. Gen Andrew Gutti that investigations  are complete and he is ready to summon witnesses to …