A team of six health workers at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital took eight hours to operate on Samuel Akamumpa, an 9-year-old boy who was forced to swallow four dozen needles and many pieces of broken pens in Mitooma district. The team comprised of an anesthetist, three pediatric surgeons, and
vicious family war has exploded inside the wealthy family of former Minister of Health and Works Shaban Kirunda Nkutu, decades after the powerful minister was brutally killed by the regime of dictator Idi Amin in 1973.What started as a mourning period following the death of family matriarc
Police in Soroti City are investigating a tragic traffic crash that took the life of 30-year-old Esther Agato near the Lale Road Junction along the Soroti-Lira Highway.The incident occurred around 12:25 PM on Monday, April 11th, 2026, and involved a Sino Truck Howo trailer, with registrati
Kampala wore an unusually calm face on Tuesday as President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for a seventh term, with reduced business activity, light traffic and heavy security across the city.From the usually bustling Kampala Road to the crowded streets of Kikuubo, Nakasero and Owino Market,
President Museveni, accompanied by his daughter Natasha Museveni Karugire, arrived at about 8:40pm to applause from dignitaries gathered for the ceremonial dinner, which was held under tight security at the lakeside Munyonyo resort.President Museveni and daughter Natasha Museveni Karugire
Museveni has hailed what he termed overwhelming National Resistance Movement victories in the 2026 elections while warning against electoral violence, urging stricter enforcement of electoral laws and praising regional allies for supporting Uganda’s stability, as he framed continued political d
When President Museveni shot to power in 1986 by gun after a five-year guerrilla war, he famously declared that Africa’s biggest problem was leaders who overstayed in office.Four decades later, the same man has just taken the presidential oath for the eighth time — and his seventh as a
Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. He has been tweeting his frustration with mass and endemic corruption in Uganda’s public sector How the abuse of the public trust through looting of public funds is going to cause a terrible backlash at the perpetrators
Outgoing Makindye West MP Allan Ssewanyana has declared that he is stepping back into Uganda’s football leadership race, setting his sights once again on the top seat at the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA).Ssewanyana says he is now entering the contest with more experie
An application by Hill Water Uganda seeking to overturn a default judgment in a debt dispute with General Moulding Uganda has been dismissed, bringing to an end a lengthy legal battle over unpaid goods worth Shs 45.8 million.Justice Dr. Ginamia Melody Ngwatu of the Commercial Court dismiss
