Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction and murder of another of its party leaders. The reported cases may taint the reformist image o
African lawyers have written a protest letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC), claiming they were racially edged out of the institution’s recruitment process to pick a lawyer to defend warlord, Joseph Kony. In their protest letter dated August 26, the lawyers under their asso
In early March 2017, panic-stricken officials from Uganda’s ministries of Works and Finance, dashed to Dar es Salaam to “compare notes” with their Tanzanian counterparts on among others, variations in prices of their disassociated Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) projects. President Mu
More than 80 percent of women seeking treatment for breast cancer in Uganda are diagnosed at a late stage of the disease. According to Global Cancer Statistics 2022, breast cancer accounts for about 23.3 percent of all cancers in women, making it the second most common cancer among women in
While travelling recently, I drank watermelon juice that I believe was bad because it caused my face to swell, itch, and made it difficult to breathe for the first time in my life. HK Dear HK It seems like you are experiencing symptoms of oral allergy syndrome, which typically affect
The hope of paving roads from the Ugandan border to cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo has got a lease of life after the transport ministers of both countries signed an amended agreement to develop them. The Uganda Minister of Works and Transport, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, and h
Controversy has continued to brew over the government’s Rationalisation of Agencies and Public Expenditure (Rapex) with the Uganda National Road Agency (Unra) and Uganda Road Fund (URF), the latest entities to show a stomach for fighting to the bitter end.
Soon, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other digital devices may be available for use by learners and teachers in primary and secondary schools. This follows the launch of the Digital Agenda Strategy by the Ministry of Education on August 22. A significant development, indeed, for our
Finance Minister Matai Kasaija has said Uganda has installed a total of 4,354 kilometre of fiber cables across the country, connecting 1,523 key government service delivery units to the National Backbone Infrastructure. Speaking during the 15th National Competitiveness Forum in Kampala,
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
