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23 May '26
Rukungiri Municipality today held an emotional farewell ceremony in honor of its long-serving mayor, His Worship Charles Makuru, recognizing his decades of dedicated leadership and contribution to the development of the municipality.The event brought together various municipal departments,
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23 May '26
Uganda has confirmed three new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), raising the country’s total number of confirmed infections to five, as regional health leaders convene at Speke Resort Munyonyo for a high level meeting aimed at strengthening cross-border preparedness and coordinated outbreak r
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23 May '26
Tea farmers in Bushenyi have expressed anger and frustration after the High Court dismissed their case against the Igara Growers Tea Factory board, ruling that the matter should have been handled by the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, leaving the leadership dispute unresolved.Tea farm
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23 May '26
An official attached to the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Joshua Ekule, has been remanded to prison after being accused of extorting money from residents seeking national identity cards.Ekule was arrested during an operation by Soroti Resident District Commissi
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23 May '26
Bukono County MP Persis Namuganza has entered the Speaker of Parliament race after the NRM Electoral Commission accepted her expression of interest, despite earlier declarations that independent MPs would not be allowed to participate in the process.Bukono County MP Persis Namuganza has fo
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23 May '26
political storm is intensifying in Uganda following fresh claims by political analyst Leon Oketch Okumu, who has linked the ongoing investigations into Speaker Anita Annet Among to an alleged fallout with Muhoozi Kainerugaba.In a statement, Okumu—who describes himself as a close personal
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23 May '26
Detectives earlier today stormed the country home of former Speaker Anita Among in Bukedea district for more heightened search operations sanctioned by the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the last 10 days as the Bukedea Women MP comes to terms with the fall from Grace to Grass and being aban
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23 May '26
President Museveni is deliberate about the IGG playing a very big role in the Anita Among investigations in order to sanitize and give credibility to the entire exercise because that is the sort of work the Aisha Naluze-led office is mandated to do under the Constitution.The Inspectorate m
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23 May '26
Uganda has demanded USD 4.3 million in compensation from Kenya for the families of three Ugandan geologists and two Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) officers killed by Turkana warriors in 2022. The figure was tabled at a high-level bilateral meeting in Kampala, following President Yoweri M
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23 May '26
Ronald Balimwezo Nsubuga was officially sworn in as the new Lord Mayor of Kampala on May 20, 2026, ushering in a new political era at City Hall after the end of Erias Lukwago’s 15-year dominance of the capital’s top political office.The swearing-in ceremony took place at Kampala Capita