Libreville, Gabon | AFP | Gabon’s failed presidential candidate Jean Ping on Monday called for a general strike after days of violence following incumbent Ali Bongo’s disputed re-election, saying an economic blockage would “topple the tyrant.” But the centre of the capital Libreville was its usual bustling self on Monday, …
Read More »DPP drops charges against 17 in case of Muslim killings
The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) has dropped charges against 17 suspects over the killing of Muslim Clerics in Uganda. They will however face new charges of treason. The 17 were part of a group of 31 awaiting trial over the killing of Muslim Clerics. Principal Senior State Attorney Lino Anguzu …
Read More »The bailout question
COMMENT: David Chandi Jamwa Bailout – How to get it done and done right without using taxpayers money For the past three months or so I have been seeing myriad opinions, sentiments, emotions, rebuttals, re-rebuttals, postulations, reverse-postulations, forwardings, withdrawals, denials, and in several cases outright rubbish, flying around the Ugandan …
Read More »How 63 acres of Uganda Prisons land was leased for sh1.5million
VIDEO: Members of Parliament on the Defense and Internal Affairs Committee of Parliament are left in shock after they learnt that the prisons department leased out 63 acres of land for only shillings 1.5 million shillings. The said land is found at Kigungu, and was reportedly rented to Son Fish Limited. The …
Read More »LIVE: Excitement as Cranes fans storm Namboole
PICTORIAL: The nation expects. The stage is set. Will Cranes finally deliver in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying on Sunday when they take on Comoros? ?? #MujjeTulumbe #CranesNamutima #UgandaCranes #PrayersUp ?? pic.twitter.com/fUJsrZwkT2 — Helena Mayanja (@QBDMaya) September 4, 2016 Is it too early to make one’s way to Namboole? …
Read More »Security Council urges South Sudan to acccept ‘protection force’
Juba, South Sudan | AFP | The UN Security Council on Saturday urged South Sudan to drop its opposition to the deployment of a regional protection force to beef up a large UN peacekeeping mission in the war-scarred country. Echoing a call made earlier Saturday by South Sudanese religious leaders, …
Read More »Serere MP Bishop Okabe’s election nullified
Soroti High Court on Friday nullified the election of Serere County MP Bishop Patrick Okabe (NRM), blaming the Electoral Commission for organising elections without complying with Uganda’s electoral laws. The ruling followed a petition filed by Joseph Linos Opio against Okabe, Electoral Commission and National Council for Higher Education. Justice Billy Kainamura ruled that the …
Read More »VIDEO: Comoros here for Uganda Cranes clash
VIDEO: Comoros might have nothing to play for but pride but that has not dampened the spirit of the players and fans alike. At the arrival of the first of the contingent to the country, they were welcomed by singing and dancing by their fans plus a promise to give it …
Read More »VIDEO: Minister Kibuule, female guard’s family reconcile
VIDEO: The two families of State minister for Water Ronald Kibuule and that of Hellen Obuku a security guard of a private company he is accused of beating have reportedly resolved to withdraw criminal charges which they had preferred against each other at Mukono police station. Kibuule’s maternal uncle Davis Lukyamuzi …
Read More »Aisha Kabanda’s petition thrown out, Mirembe is Butambala MP
High Court has dismissed with costs an election petition filed by Aisha Kabanda seeking to nullify the election of Lydia Mirembe Daphine as Butambala Woman MP. In his ruling read to court by Deputy Registrar Alex Ajiji, Justice Vincent Okwang ruled that Kabanda failed to produce satisfactory evidence before court to show that the …
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