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Kakwenza narrates escape to exile

May 18, 2022 by OUR REPORTER

Exiled government critic and author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija caught the nation by surprise when he fled to exile on February 9. It...

Public debt soars as Uganda seeks to borrow Shs 9.7 trillion

May 18, 2022 by GEOFREY SERUGO

Government is set to borrow Shs 9.7 trillion in a bid to finance its Shs 47 trillion 2022/2023 financial year...

Offensive communication: Ssemakadde's lawyer wants to cross examine pr…

May 18, 2022 by URN

Buganda Road court grade one magistrate, Marion Mangeni is to determine whether or not state prosecutor, Ivan Kyazze should take...

The pain of a human rights educationist

May 18, 2022 by Ernest Jjingo

MAUREEN NALUBEGA is a policy analyst, human rights educationist, motivational speaker, wife and mother of three lovely children. However, what stands...

  • MPs disagree on salary deductions towards Oulanyah Education Fund

    Parliament has found itself in a catch-22 after a section of legislators complained about deductions of Shs 1 million off their salaries as contributions to the Jacob Oulanyah Education Trust Fund. The fund was set up two months ago in memory of the former speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah. It…

  • Vintage car owners lobby parliament to preserve original number plates

    Vintage car owners in Uganda have lobbied parliament to support them in their bid to maintain the old plate number registrations of their vehicles as a historical emblem and vital legacy that the cars denote. Vintage cars are automobiles manufactured between 1919 and 1930. Enthusiasts and collectors have categorized the cars…

  • Arua company vanishes with customer boda boda loan deposits

    Over 100 people in Arua city, West Nile sub region in northern are in still in shock after officials of Sky Motors Limited, the company they deposited money with to secure motorcycles on loans unceremoniously disappeared and switched off their phone lines.  Sky Motors opened operations in Manibe ward, Ayivu Division…

  • Opposition pins France on its silence on human rights abuses in Uganda

    France is not blind to ongoing human rights abuses in Uganda, French Ambassador to Uganda, Jules-Armand Aniambossou has told opposition MPs. He disclosed this while meeting the Leader of Opposition (LoP), Mathias Mpuuga and a section of opposition legislators at parliament on Monday.

  • 3 killed, 9 injured in Nakasongola taxi accident

    Three people have died and nine others injured in an accident which occurred in Migyera town council along the Kampala-Gulu highway today.The accident involved taxi registration number UAX 303F travelling from Masindi to Kampala. According to Savannah Regional police spokesperson Isah Ssemwogerere, the taxi lost control after its tyre burst…

  • Gen Muhoozi’s birthday parties, tweets treasonous – Prof Oloka

    Makerere University School of Law don, Prof Joe Oloka-Onyango has described Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s actions to organize birthday parties and political utterances as an attempt to overthrow Uganda’s Constitution. First son, Muhoozi the current commander of the Land Forces of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has been organizing different…

  • Govt lacks capacity to validate locally fabricated buses

    Government does not have adequate resources to validate the quality of fabricated or modified buses before they are licensed to transport Ugandan passengers.  The majority of buses on Ugandan roads are originally lorries or trucks whose chassis have been converted into buses. Although the majority of this alteration is done…

  • North Korea reports 42 COVID deaths on 4th day of lockdown

    North Korea said on Sunday that a total of 42 people have died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country's first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.North Korea's admission on Thursday that it is battling an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak has raised concerns that…

  • Police fails to trace 7 Ugandans reported missing after arrest

    Police investigators have denied knowledge of the whereabouts of at least seven people whose names keep appearing on the list of missing persons. The missing persons are part of another 66 cases of disappearance reported to the police by the parliament's human rights committee in March this year for further investigations. They…

  • Police vows to maintain siege at Besigye's home

    Police have vowed to continue besieging former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Kizza Besigye's home in Kasangati so as to prevent him from mobilising masses to protest against the rising commodity prices.

  • UPDF soldier jailed for 35 years for murder, blames act on poor training

    A Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier who was convicted of murder has said he was inadequately trained and did not have the required knowledge and skill to perform his duties at the time of his deployment. Private Moses Solomon Omuge, a soldier attached to 37th Battalion was convicted of murder…

  • Gulu cleric Fr Uma criticizes Museveni over cassava statement

    Reverend Father Justine Eric Uma, the parish priest of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Gulu city, northern Uganda has criticized President Yoweri Museveni for asking Ugandans to eat cassava if they cannot afford bread. During this year's International Labour Day celebrations at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, Museveni lashed out at Ugandans for…

  • Welder arrested over National Theatre fire

    Police in Kampala have arrested a metal welder following a fire that gutted one of the kiosks in the precincts of the National Theatre.

  • Jinja businessman shot dead

    Police in the Kiira region has commenced investigations circumstances into how a Jinja-based businessman Shaban Malore was shot dead on Saturday night.

  • China warns Uyghurs against divulging 'state secrets' before UN rights chief

    Chinese officials in Xinjiang are warning Uyghurs not to divulge “state secrets” during a visit by United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet this month, officials in the western region said.

  • Fort Portal Link Bus accident blamed on human error, suspension lifted

    A probe report into the Link Bus accident that killed 21 people has ruled that the cause of the accident was human error. The accident occurred at Sebitoli along the Fort Portal-Kampala highway. Following the crash, a joint team comprising ministry of Works officials, police, and the Uganda National Roads…

  • Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate remanded to Luzira prison over ADF terror links

    Jamal Kiyemba alias Tonny Kiyemba, the Imam of Masjid Taqwa Zana in Kirimanyanga Zone in Makindye Ssabagabo Division, Wakiso district has appeared charged and remanded on allegations of belonging to the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). The prosecution told Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court presided over by Dr Douglas Singiza…

  • FDC flag bearer fails to turn up for nomination

    Dick Denis Owani, the flag bearer for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party in the Omoro by-election failed to turn up for his nomination on Thursday at Omoro town council. This comes amidst reports of his abduction on Wednesday evening along Bobi-Aboke road in Adyeda village in Bobi sub-county…

  • Congolese national sentenced to 7 years in jail over parrots

    The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate's court has sentenced a Congolese national, Bobs Mbaya Kabongo to seven years in jail after finding him guilty of unlawful possession of protected species. 

  • Do the Uganda martyrs still do miracles?

    Globally, one of the most iconic things about Uganda is the issue of Uganda martyrs. Between 1885 and 1887, the group of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic Christianity converts in Buganda were killed on the orders of Ssekabaka Mwanga.

  • Uganda Heart Institute on the spot over failure to declare Shs 1.7bn

    The Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is under the spotlight for failing to declare a donation of Shs 1.76 billion contrary to the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act, 2015. According to the Auditor General’s report for the FY 2020/21, the institute received Shs 1.76 billion in off-budget financing that was…

  • Bwera hospital ambulance catches fire, kills two occupants

    An ambulance belonging to Bwera General hospital in Kasese today burst into flames allegedly killing two and injuring two of its occupants. 

  • Luuka district engineer indicted over abuse of office

    Luuka district engineer Rajab Musisi has been indicted over abuse of office. Musisi is accused of conniving with road contractors and sub-contractors in Luuka and the neighbouring districts to allegedly illegally hire out the road equipment.

  • Why colonels, generals support Gen Muhoozi

    A fringe politician no more, First Son and Commander of the Land Forces Lt. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has catapulted himself to the national political stage using a string of provocative tweets, speeches, a fanatic legion of youthful supporters, and a countrywide birthday celebration. Lt. Gen Muhoozi is many things to his…

  • Is Uganda’s international ‘coffee-break’ tenable?

    The last couple of months in Uganda have been flustered; and awash with enraged sentiments concerning the country’s position on coffee. First, by the country [Uganda] revoking its membership of the International Coffee Organization [ICO], and, its subsequent questionable involvement with a fishy Italian investor — Enrica Pinetti - in an…

  • Uganda's first satellite complete, awaits launch into space

    The development of Uganda’s first satellite has successfully been completed with the country’s aspirations of venturing into the field of space technology coming closer. In April 2020, Uganda began the path to launch its first satellite into space by sending three graduate students to obtain training in satellite design, manufacture…

  • Kampala in rice shortage as traders strike over 18% tax levy

    Rice traders have halted importations from Tanzania in protest over the reinstatement of the 18 per cent value added tax (VAT) levy. For the past two weeks, no single rice truck entered the country, pushing a kilogram of rice to Shs 4,000 from Shs 3,500. On Monday, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)…

  • Lawyer Mabirizi can't have internet services while in custody - Luzira prison

    Jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi cannot be given internet access while under custody, the assistant officer in charge of Luzira prison, Herbert Kaheeru has told the High court in Kampala. Kaheeru affirmed the position while appearing before criminal division judge Isaac Muwata to explain why it was not possible to give Mabirizi…

  • Ambrosoli International School teacher arrested over defiling 3-year-old pupil 

    An international school teacher has been charged and remanded until May 24 on charges of aggravated defilement of a three and half-year-old pupil.Police spokesperson Fred Enanga identified the suspect as Belly Kirimwimana, a Burundian national teacher at Ambrosoli International School located in Bugolobi, a Kampala city suburb who was arrested…

  • Indefinite suspension of Chapter Four irregular, High court rules 

    The High court has declared that it was irregular for government to indefinitely suspend the activities of human rights non-governmental organization, Chapter Four Uganda.  On August 18, 2021, the National Bureau for NGOs ordered Chapter Four to stop operations with immediate effect so the Bureau can conduct comprehensive investigations into their activities…