Natalie E. Brown also career member of the Senior Foreign service is tipped to replace Malac. Natalie currently serves as the Chief of Mission of the USA to Eritrea.
Read more ...45-year-old Alice Adong, 45 breathed her last at Pajule Health IV in Pader district on Wednesday evening where she had been admitted in critical condition.
Read more ...The ordinance was passed in 2018 by Pader district council to regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol. However, its enforcement was never been implemented, angering the leaders.
Read more ...The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga issued the directive after the Presidency Minister, Esther Mbayo, failed to state how much money government requires to fulfill President Yoweri Museveni’s pledge to supply free sanitary pads to primary school girls.
Read more ...Betway Power on Wednesday night stopped Uganda Christian University 59-56 to win game one of the National Basketball League semifinals.
Read more ...Edward Kiwanuka, a member of the Taxi Park Management Committee, says they have no intention of stopping the municipality or land owner from selling the land but the proposed development must cater for a taxi park. He notes that Mukono shares the busiest highway in the country whose traffic jam will worsen if they are displaced from their current location.
Read more ...Out of the 54 African states, 34 have ratified the charter. They include Ghana, Sudan, Rwanda and South Africa. Uganda, Burundi, Somalia, and Zimbabwe signed but have not ratified it, while 6 states, Tanzania, Egypt, Botswana, Eritrea, Libya and Morocco have not signed or ratified.
Read more ...On Wednesday, transport was paralyzed for several hours when more than 60 vehicles transporting passengers and merchandises got stuck on the road between Attiak Sub County and Alia in Pakele Town Council due to numerous pot holes, mud and poor drainage resulting from heavy rains in the recent weeks.
Read more ...Information obtained by URN from reliable security sources indicates that suspect assaulted and raped an elderly woman before fleeing to Kampala in March last year from where he is believed to have been recruited into the rebel outfit.
Read more ...According to Bahinyoza, Baritonda and her baby were rescued by residents alive and rushed to Nyabwishenya Health Centre III for treatment. He says their efforts to rescue Nyiramutuzo and Nyamishana didn’t yield results as they were swept to River Rwafi, which flows into the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read more ...Bosmic, however, didn’t downplay public speculation that he is upgrading his academic credentials because of his ambition to contest for the Kitgum Municipality MP seat. The seat is currently occupied by Beatrice Atim Anywar.
Read more ...“The Commission provided reintegration assistance to 338 reporters who were waiting for reinsertion support in communities. Six of them from DRC, 40 from Kiryandongo, 112 from Gulu, 29 from Kasese, 126 from Kitgum and 25 from the Central region” the report states in part.
Read more ...Though Nkrunziza said he had picked the children from Kasese District for medical treatment in Kampala, the CID Spokesperson, Charles Twine, says the children are suspected to have been trafficked from Kabale District.
Read more ...Katureebe says more judges will have to be recruited and deployed in the Commercial and Civil Division of the High Court to return the idle funds in public circulation. He says the four judges in the Land Division of the High court alone have 9,020 cases to preside over.
Read more ...Kadaga says MPs shouldn’t meet and agree with the Executive on matters before the House. She cited the 1995 Uganda Constitution and Administration of Parliament Act, 2000, which provides for among others the independence of parliament as one of the arms of government.
Read more ...12-year-old Sowedi Mugulusi reportedly fell on the floor during the fight and bruised his head before he breathed his last.
Read more ...Kadaga told parliament that she forwarded the names of individuals implicated for the theft of Shillings 24 billion meant for the bridge to the president, adding that she is waiting for his response.
Read more ...According to documents before the High Court Civil Division, Kampala Archdiocese instructed Byenkya, Kihika and Company Advocates in 2018 to recover Shillings 17 billion from the Finance Ministry being rent arrears for two pieces of land in Nsambya including the one hosting Nsambya Police Barracks.
Read more ...Gulu Municipality MP Lyandro Komakech while raising a matter of national importance in Parliament questioned why the students were barred.
Read more ...Justus Babigumira, one of the residents says the jigger infestation in the area started early this year but was never attended to.
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