What keeps Ugandans unprepared for the next disaster? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The eastern mountainous sub-region of Bugisu-Sebei is used to receiving more rainfall than most parts of Uganda. And the people there are used to seeing their homes, roads and gardens ruined as the rains batter the …
Read More »Court declines to release Sipapa’s wife
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Makindye Magistrates Court has declined to release Shamirah Nakiyemba, the wife of businessman Charles Olim commonly known as Sipapa who wanted to be released temporarily on charges of aggravated robbery. Sipapa and Nakiyemba were on Monday produced in Court to be updated on …
Read More »Court confirms charges of aggravated child trafficking against Bishop Fiarce Nkurunziza
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of High Court in Kololo has confirmed charges of aggravated child trafficking against four religious leaders from Nansana Municipality. The four are Bishop Fiarce Nkurunziza and Reveland John Nsiyemana, both Rwandan nationals and Charles Ndora and Valens Byakusenge who are …
Read More »Missing Bweyogerere man died of suffocation in sister’s car
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police pathologists have ruled out any acts of foul play in the death of a Bweyogerere man who was found dead inside his sister’s car. Steward Bakkabulindi’s decomposing body was discovered by Mbalwa residents Bweyogerere Division, Kira Municipality, about a fortnight ago. Bakkabulindi’s relatives …
Read More »What next after the anti EU petition on oil gets 7,000 signitures?
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The debate on Uganda’s Oil industry by the European Union Parliament and a subsequent resolution condemning the crude pipeline continues to draw mixed reaction across the country. An online petition to counter the EU legislator’s resolution garnered the intended 7000 signatures in three days …
Read More »Crackdown on unregistered boda bodas flops
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The planned crackdown on unregistered Boda boda operators in Kampala has failed to kick off. As the mandatory Boda boda registration closed on Friday last week, the Minister for Kampala, Hajati Minsa Kabanda warned that unregistered motorcycle taxis commonly known as Boda boda will not be …
Read More »Museveni again skips UN General Assembly
Political pressure keeps President away from annual gathering since 2017 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On the week beginning Sept. 19, world leaders will descend on the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S. for the 77th General Assembly. But President Yoweri Museveni will not be part of them. …
Read More »Journalists and security forces
The question of professionalism when the two parties meet in the field Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | November 2022 is a month that Henry Sekanjako and Timothy Murungi, all journalists with New Vision are waiting for to receive justice for their case reported to court in February last year. The …
Read More »Inside Museveni’s private favours
How the president’s approach of allocating favours to individual firms has undermined the development of a robust private sector THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On August 15th, President Yoweri Museveni wrote the prime minister an instruction titled “Support of Local Companies in the Construction Sector”. He said …
Read More »Europe bias against EACOP
Don’t dismiss it. Disprove it Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH WERE | Days after the European Union passed a resolution condemning ongoing investment in fossil fuels in Uganda, the basis for the censure remains unclear. The Lake Albert Development Project consists of several partners, with the French multinational oil company TotalEnergies (Total) …
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