Defying norms: Nakasongola women take to the waters
It is a cloudy day over Lake Kyoga. At midday, four women, oars slung over their shoulders, slowly walk through Zengebe Mayinja Landing Site, making their way to the lake...
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Defying norms: Nakasongola women take to the waters
It is a cloudy day over Lake Kyoga. At midday, four women, oars slung over their shoulders, slowly walk through Zengebe Mayinja Landing Site, making their way to the lake...
No love lost as NUP set out to unseat Ssemujju
Since its inception in 2020, the National Unity Platform (NUP) has turned introduction ceremonies (customary marriage) in its Buganda cradle into spaces used to spread it...
How refugee project is changing lives
For nearly 20 years, 54-year-old Patrick Aluma Waigo lived a modest life as a subsistence farmer in Aluru Sub-county, Lea Parish, Moyo District in northern Uganda.His asp...
PDM: LCII chairperson detained over extortion
A Local Council official in Bukamansimbi District has been arrested on the directive of the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) on allegations of soliciting bribes from...
Why Uganda’s rich remind the poor to enjoy eggs and milk
During the French Revolution of 1789 Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI and privileged Queen of France was controversially made very famous by four words. It was cl...
Parliament wants review of salary enhancements for security forces
Minister Muruli Mukasa said the salary enhancements were being guided by a 2017 Cabinet decisionParliament has advised Cabinet to rethink salary enhancements for security...
Salaries of police and prisons chiefs doubled
The monthly salaries of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abbas Byakagaba, and Commissioner General of Prisons (CGP) Johnson Byabashaija and those of their deputies h...
NAADS distributes over 3,000 pigs to Catholic Church, other farmers
Government of Uganda through the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has resumed the distribution of livestock materials mainly pigs to special interest group...
Uganda’s government by loot
Why we need to rethink the ethics of our inherited state institutions and the democratic politics that underpin them.THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The revelations...