Trade at the Mpondwe border point in Kasese District is thriving, fuelled by high demand from the Democratic Republic of Congo.Yet behind the apparent boom, small-scale vendors—especially the youth—are raising alarms about punitive taxes and the absence of political leadership to advoc
Eight years after former Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Andrew Felix Kaweesi was killed, emerging details show that a key report from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been hidden, and may be part of the reason the case has stalled.
A police officer based at Mpondwe Police Station in Mpondwe Lhubiriha Town Council, Kasese District, has died after being struck by a falling tree during a Sunday afternoon rainstorm.The officer, whose name had not been released by press time, was inside the police depot when the tree—ap
Police in Kasese District have arrested a Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) invigilator for allegedly facilitating examination malpractice during the ongoing exams administered by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB). SP Nelson Tumushime, the Rwenzori East Regional Police s
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
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
President Museveni has commended the outgoing United Nations Childrenâs Fund (Unicef) country representative Dr Munir Safieldin for âsupporting government programs, especially in the area of health.â âDr Safieldin assumed office during the Covid-19 period in 2021 but
The amount of money that the Uganda Electricity Transmission Co Ltd (UETCL) spends to transmit electricity has significantly risen due to an ageing grid, a 2023 value-for-money audit by the Auditor General (AG) has revealed.The audit shows that the actual expenditure for some of the activi
