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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd-L) poses with his fellow Foreign Ministers L-R: Kenyan Foreign Secretary Amina Mohamed, Somalia Foreign Minister Abdisalam Omer, South Sudan Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol, Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour, and Uganda Foreign Minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa after a meeting and working lunch that …

Bujagali sale goes bad: President Yoweri Museveni’s push to cut the cost of power from the 250 MW Bujagali dam has put him at the centre of a fight with investors and technocrats at the Energy Ministry over the sale of a stake in the dam project writes Haggai Matsiko …

Japan has promised to provide a $116 million loan to improve Kampala metropolitan infrastructure. Japan is already involved in several projects aimed at improving the road network in Kampala, including building fly-overs. Japanese Prime Minister, Chinzo Abe gave the assurances at a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni at the  6th Tokyo …

African leaders to adopt President Museveni’s paper as blue-print to guide continent on development African leaders have agreed to use President Yoweri Museveni’s paper on bottlenecks facing Africa’s development as a blue print to guide the continent. President Museveni’s presentation on Friday at the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) meeting in …

The Supreme court has today given its detailed reasons for their ruling in the Uganda Presidential Election Petition No 1 of 2016 and identified 10 key reforms that it wants the Attorney General to implement ahead of the next elections. “The Attorney General must follow up the recommendations made by this court with the other …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has halted the process of organising Uganda’s Local Council (LC) 1 and 2 elections until they get full funding. The chairman of the commission Badru Kiggundu while meeting members on Parliament’s Legal Committee today, said that the commission has decided to halt the exercise due to lack of funds. …

Amatrice, Italy | AFP | The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 250 on Thursday as rescuers continued a grim search for corpses and powerful aftershocks rocked the devastated area. The bulk of the confirmed deaths — 193 at the latest count — were in …

COVER STORY:  Bujagali sale goes bad An American company  that owns a majority stake in the 250MW Bujagali dam wants to sell its shares in Bujagali Energy Ltd, but President Museveni and technocrats at the Energy Ministry are yet to reach a consensus on the right investor to buy the …

The National Police Service of Kenya and Uganda Police Force will cooperate to help ease tension among residents of Migingo Island.  The joint operation will also fight terrorism, smuggling and human trafficking across the common borders on Lake Victoria. At a joint press conference in Nairobi on Wednesday at which they released a joint …

The US has awarded $41.4 million (sh138 billion) to Uganda for malaria prevention and eradication. The non-profit organization Malaria Consortium got the sh138 billion contract last week from the US Mission In Uganda to oversee implementation of the Malaria Action Program for Districts Project, a flagship program to help eradicate malaria in …