A 45-year-old soldier from the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) is said to be on the run after allegedly shooting dead three civilians and critically injuring three others in Agago District, northern Uganda. Number RA/249451 Pte Bony Ameny, a resident of Ocini Tetulu village, Kamdini
When the machines at the factory first started roaring over a decade ago, its senior management pledged to turn the venture into “an engine for development to support the livelihoods of vulnerable populations”. More than a decade since its inception in 2013, Atiak Sugar Factory con
Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said on Friday during a visit by the Haitian prime minister intended to speed up deployments to the force. At least 10 countries have promised to send a tota
Independent presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane on Friday threatened to call a nationwide strike and bring Mozambique to a standstill if ruling party Frelimo claimed victory in the presidential election. Mondlane told Reuters that, based on figures collected by his delegates at poll
Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said on Friday during a visit by the Haitian prime minister intended to speed up deployments to the force. At least 10 countries have promised to send a tota
While on the campaign trail ahead of the 2021 poll, Bashir Kazibwe—who would go on to become the Kawempe South lawmaker—was eager to be seen hobnobbing with Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine, the National Unity Platform (NUP) principal. All this would change after Kazibwe joine
Renowned city pastor Robert Kayanja yesterday took to the witness dock and testified how nine people, whom he had taken on to be part of his church's security team, turned around and accused him of sodomising them. Pastor Kayanja, the senior pastor of Rubaga Miracle Cathedral, narrated t
Israel warned Iran on Monday that nowhere in the Middle East was beyond its reach and hinted at a land invasion of Lebanon after assassinating the leader of the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group, one of its biggest adversaries, in a Beirut suburb last week. "There is nowhere we will not go t
It is great to see you recuperate from the injuries you sustained in the melee that occurred in Bulindo a fortnight ago. How do you feel now? Health-wise, I am feeling better and all the small wounds on the skin are covering up. However, there is still excruciating pain in the inner part
A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world's largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area in Darfur into famine. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tensions had been building for months before fighting betw
