Arrests in Lubigi Eviction Raise Questions Over Use of Force and Due Process
More than 10 people were arrested in Lubigi Wetland on Wednesday as Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers and anti-riot police moved in to evict holdout sq...
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Oil pipeline layoffs signal job cuts surge in sector
As construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) nears completion, the project company has initiated mass layoffs in Uganda and Tanzania, triggering anxiety...
S.3 Mbale High School student Catherine found hanged at home
The police in Mbale city, Eastern Uganda, are investigating the death of a 16-year-old student of Mbale High School who was found dead at her home in Industrial Division...
NRM flagbearers in Hoima still in tears and disbelief over what the former Speaker did to them
If there are people who are praying so hard that it would be possible to send the former Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, to hell very fast, they are the NRM fla...
Armed Robbers Raid Wholesale Shop in Kitgum, Escape with Shs10 Million
Armed robbers raided a wholesale shop in Omiya Anyima Sub-county, Kitgum District, on Tuesday night and escaped with more than Shs10 million in cash, prompting a security...
M7 Urged to Intervene As Nsambya Hospital Becomes Death Trap-ROT HAS BEEN ON FOR YEARS
Responding to initial media reports indicating that everything that can go wrong at a private not-for-profit health facility has happened to Catholic Church-owned St. Fra...
Five Congolese Nationals Arrested at Pakwach Checkpoint
Security personnel at the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) checkpoint in Pakwach have arrested five nationals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who...
Journalist Solomon Sserwanja reportedly Arrested
Investigative journalist Solomon Sserwanja, Executive Director of the African Centre for Investigative Journalism, has been arrested by plain-clothes security personnel...
No strike at Katakwi High School, Head Teacher Opule clarifies
The head teacher commended the school’s management team and security personnel for their swift intervention, which he said helped maintain calm and order within th...
From AU to UN, East Africa holds the line as peace missions shrink
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inspects a guard of honour during the flagging-off of Uganda’s first AU peacekeeping contingent to Somalia on March 1, 2007. East...