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By Matthew Stein There is a road full of pebbles and dust that winds through an endless stretch of green; up one side and down the other, interrupted only by a cluster of indistinct homes with papyrus roofs or the well defined figure of a labourer pushing a bicycle strapped …

By Rosebell Kagumire In December 2008, 15 km from the Ugandan border a British doctor saved the life of a teenage boy in Rutshuru in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, by amputating his shoulder. Dr. David Nott had succeeded in carrying out a life saving operation using his mobile phone …

By Agnes Asiimwe Two deadly strains of TB are quietly and steadily spreading and will claim more victims if deliberate efforts arent put in place to check the spread. The multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or MDR – TB and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR TB are both very difficult and very …

By John Njoroge Rewinding clock to the second that took his life There was excitement in the village of Magezi-Tonyeze in Mityana district that Saturday afternoon. The second leg of the KCB Pearl of Africa Rally 2009 was coming that way and there was no missing the fast and furious …

The Independent Team Justice John Bosco Katutsi, head of the new Anti-corruption Court, on April 8 delivered what the public described as a landmark judgement in the fight against graft when he convicted former director of economic monitoring in Presidents Office, Teddy Seezi Cheeye, for embezzlement and forgery. Cheeye was …

By Agnes Asiimwe Scientists excited about a very promising trial A powerful new HIV prevention tool may be on the horizon.  Scientists are saying they could be on the verge of ascertaining whether taking anti-retroviral drugs before exposure to HIV could be an effective prevention tool. The Pre-exposure prophalyxis (PrEP) …

By Rosebell Kagumire He was such a huge man, was the first reaction from the cultural leaders after spotting a skull at one of the burial sites. He must have been an LRA fighter, said another Acholi elder on the team. The leaders had trekked through the shrubs and thickets …

By Patrick Kagenda On November 3, 2008, Arthur Asiimwe Kirimani 25 was on his way to Baghdad Airport to board a plane that would return him to Uganda after a 10-month service with a private American security firm  EODT. The firm that is stationed at Forward Operating Base in northern …

By Bob Roberts Katende Road accidents continued to plague the travelling public throughout the year and so did the blame games as to who is responsible for this carnage. In the region, Uganda ranks highest with road fatalities at 160 deaths per 1000 vehicles per year. Neighbouring Kenya’s road deaths …

By Steven Kibuuka July 18, 2008 was the day when Buganda Kingdom tested the wrath of  government as its  minister of information and cabinet affairs Charles Peter Mayiga, his deputy Medard Lubega, and Ms Betty Nambooze, who heads the kingdoms committee set up to campaign against proposed changes to the …