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High court declines to hear bail application of 36 army-jailed NUP sup…

March 6, 2021 by URN

The High court has declined to hear the bail application for 36 supporters National Unity Platform (NUP) party supporters who...

Statement: Uganda receives 864,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines

March 6, 2021 by OUR REPORTER

Uganda yesterday received the first batch of the 3,552,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shipped via COVAX, the world’s facility...

Pope Francis makes first-ever papal visit to Iraq

March 6, 2021 by VOA

Pope Francis Friday began a long-desired trip to Iraq, the first to the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham by any head...

Museveni promises to unconditionally release 51 'misled' protestors

March 6, 2021 by URN

President Yoweri Museveni has announced that security will unconditionally release some 51 people recently arrested from across the country. 

  • Bizonto comedians granted bail

    Local comedians commonly known by their stage name as Bizonto have been granted bail, hours after they were arrested from Radio Simba premises today morning. They were re-arrested on Friday on charges of promoting sectarianism and offensive communication. The three, Julius Sserwanja is also known as Kidomoole, Mbabaali Maliseeri (Uncle Luyuguumo)…

  • Supreme court okays withdrawal of Kyagulanyi's election petition

    The Supreme court has okayed the withdrawal of the election petition filed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi seeking to overturn the reelection victory of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

  • Bizonto comedians arrested again after God-appeal skit

    Popular radio and social media comedians, Bizonto have been re-arrested on charges of promoting sectarianism and offensive communication.Julius Sserwanja also known as Kidomoole, Mbabaali Maliseeri (Uncle Luyuguumo), and Gold Ki Matono, also known as Opeto were arrested today from Radio Simba after posting another satirical skit which, according to the…

  • African women less affected by COVID-19 - WHO report

    Women are slightly less susceptible to COVID-19 infections and deaths than men according to a preliminary analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out in 28 African countries.The analysis based on gender-sensitive COVID-19 epidemiological data provided by countries, reveals that women account for around 41 per cent of COVID-19…

  • URA insists Bobi Wine's 'bulletproof' vehicle must be re-examined

    Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has asked the High court in Kampala to dismiss an application in which Kyadondo East legislator and opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi is challenging a decision to recall his new vehicle for a tax verification process.The tax body argues that the application filed…

  • Own goal: EC posts fake results to dispel "fake news"

    In an attempt to counter what it calls "fake news", the Electoral Commission (EC) has released the declaration form from Anyang polling station in Padyere county, Nebbi district. However, the figures on the declaration form don’t add up and contradict what is on its tally sheet. The declaration form tweeted by…

  • Kalangala fisherman commits suicide after apologising to residents

    Nicholas Kiwanuka, a 33-year-old fisherman at Nkose landing site in Mazinga sub-county, Kalangala district has committed suicide.

  • FUFA fines Police's Kasingye Shs 2.5m over corruption allegations

    The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) ethics and disciplinary committee has sanctioned Police FC chairman AIGP Asan Kasingye and handed him a suspended 6-month ban from football-related activities. He has also been fined Shs 2.5 million to be paid within 30 days.  The decision announced today follows Kasingye’s misconduct during…

  • Kyagulanyi petition withdrawal flops, his lawyers have no practising certificates

    The Supreme court has this morning adjourned the hearing of an application seeking to withdraw the presidential election petition filed by former National Unity Platform presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu after his lawyers said their practising certificates had expired. Medard Lubega Sseggona, the lead lawyer and Abubaker Ssekanjako said they couldn’t…

  • Nwoya Football club sues Makerere over 'doctored' COVID-19 test results

    Nwoya district-based Young Elephantss football club has sued Makerere University over alleged fake COVID-19 test results. In their application through their lawyers of Brian Ronald Watmon and Geoffrey Borris Anyuru of Odongo and Company Advocates, Young FC says that they submitted 20 players to the Makerere College of Health Science’s laboratory…

  • Will KCCA’s new infrastructure campaign solve mess in the city?

    Very many areas of Kampala city are currently undergoing major infrastructural development changes as Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) seeks to solve the transport and drainage problem as part of the roads improvement and reconstruction programme. ERNEST JJINGO traversed several areas of the city and through interviews and observations; authorities have…

  • South Sudan plane crash kills all 10 on board

    South Sudan’s civil aviation authority has sent a team to investigate a plane crash Tuesday in Jonglei state that killed 10 people, including two crew members. Kur Kuol, director of the South Sudan Civil Aviation Authority, told VOA’s South Sudan in Focus Wednesday that preliminary investigations suggest both engines failed minutes…

  • Mother spends Shs 8 million in futility searching for kidnapped sons

    December 8, 2020, will forever stay inked in the memory of Solome Nakibuuka, 44, a resident of Busabala, Wakiso district. It’s the day when her two sons; 23-year-old Denis Matovu and 25-year-old Richard Sonko went missing. Nakibuuka says her sons were cab drivers, with Sonko often chauffeuring money-loaded South Sudanese nationals…

  • Covid-19 triggers schools sale spree

    More than just a respiratory infection, Covid-19 has wreaked havoc not just on people’s health but also on everything from business to politics, culture and daily life. Covid-19 and the pandemic-induced year-long lockdown have shattered livelihoods and accelerated a rash of business shutdowns. Schools have not been spared either –many are…

  • Bobi petition: Would Chief Justice Dollo pass the impartiality test?

    “The power of judiciary lies, not in deciding cases, not in imposing sentences, not in punishing for contempt, but in the trust, faith and confidence of the common man,” former USA chief Justice John Marshal. The doctrine of judicial recusal demands that a judge may recuse himself from proceedings if he…

  • Bobi petition: Clock ticking on Mayambala

    In a crowded field of 11 presidential candidates, Willy Mayambala was a fringe candidate in the January 14 general election. He was among the four less visible and least noteworthy candidates. But his desire to inherit the Supreme court election petition challenging the victory of President Museveni, abandoned by Robert Kyagulanyi…

  • New Kajjansi oxygen plant to produce 100 cylinders daily

    On January 5, Peter (not real name), was rushed to a private medical facility in Kampala in critical condition after testing positive for Covid-19. Like most Covid-9 patients, Peter was desperately gasping for breath. The hospital where Peter was admitted was short on oxygen supply. Oxygen cylinders had been taken for…

  • Why many children are dying of cancer

    At the Uganda Cancer Institute, at least 5,000 cancer cases in children are treated every year and worldwide 400,000 cases are recorded. However, only 20 per cent of children diagnosed with cancer survive – that is, if they complete their entire treatment regime from early diagnosis to supportive care. The low…

  • Culturally wrong to bury Kasango at in-laws - Tooro kingdom

    It is an abomination for lawyer Bob Kasango's widow, Nice Bitarabeho Kasango to even contemplate having her husband buried at her home in Fort Portal, officials of Tooro kingdom have said.  "It is unheard of!" a flabbergasted Peter Sunday Rusoke, the Tooro kingdom cultural minister said moments after Kasango and Bitarabeho's families…

  • Approved Ndeeba church land compensation inflated by billions

    Parliament has in an unprecedented move halted the disbursement of Shs 5.29 billion recently approved under the ministry of Lands and Uganda Land Commission (ULC) to settle outstanding land compensation.The money in question was meant for the compulsory government acquisition of land of the Ndeeba Church of Uganda valued at Shs…

  • Uganda to start COVID-19 vaccination next week

    Uganda will start COVID-19 vaccination next week after the anticipated arrival of 864,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines on Friday, the ministry of Health has said. Addressing journalists on Tuesday about the deployment plan, Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said that drugs are part of 3.5 million doses that are expected…

  • WFP welcomes donor fund increments to support refugees in Uganda

    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has today welcomed donor fund increments to support the 1.26 million refugees in Uganda. According to a press statement by the WFP country director El-Khidir Daloum, the European Union, Ireland and the United Kingdom have provided an additional €3.5 million, €1 million and £6.8 million respectively, as…

  • S.Sudanese national conned out of $350,000 in fake gold deal

    A South Sudanese national has lost $350,000 (about Shs 1 billion) to fraudsters in Munyonyo, a Kampala suburb. Charles Twine, the spokesperson of the Criminal investigations Department (CID), says the victim only identified as Malisa lost the money in a fake dollar scam involving four fraudsters.In her statement at Kabalagala…

  • Kasango's body snatched from A-Plus Funeral undertakers

    There was drama at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala as two families fought for the body of lawyer Bob Kasango. The casket containing his remains was grabbed from the A-Plus pallbearers by a group of relatives from Tororo district in eastern Uganda who said he must be buried at his ancestral…

  • 'Hold accountable those opposed to global access to COVID-19 vaccines'

    Drawing from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) vision to ‘leave no one behind’, particularly low-income countries, a research report on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, contends that more big pharmaceutical companies need to buy into the COVAX initiative. COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, abbreviated as COVAX, is a global initiative aimed…

  • Zimbabwe VP Kembo Mohadi Resigns over sex scandal

    Zimbabwe Vice President Kembo Mohadi has resigned following an alleged sex scandal linking him with several married women and girls. The ministry of Information posted Mohadi’s resignation letter on Twitter in which he apologized to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his cabinet and all Zimbabweans for his alleged infidelity. In his letter, Mohadi said…

  • Bobi Wine petitions court as URA recalls his bulletproof vehicle

    National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has petitioned the High court in Kampala challenging the decision by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to recall his bulletproof vehicle for a verification process.Through his lawyers; Wameli and Company Advocates, Kyagulanyi says that he has been targeted since he participated in politics…

  • Kidnap: Detainees forced to eat 3kg of posho, 1kg of beans in 20 minutes

    Gruesome stories continue coming out of Uganda's torture chambers as survivors describe the physical and mental mistreatment they were subjected to by members of the armed forces following their arrests. More than 1,000 people were subsequently arrested and more than 54 shot dead following violent countrywide protests on November 18 and…

  • Gayaza school orders students to trim hair before UCE exams

    There was panic at Gayaza Road secondary school this morning when school administrators ordered some candidates to shave their hair before they could be allowed to sit the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams.

  • Convicted lawyer Bob Kasango dies in prison

    Convicted city lawyer Bob Kasango has died in prison due to heart-related complications, Prisons spokesperson Frank Baine has said. He passed away in Luzira prison on Saturday evening.  The flamboyant Kasango has been in prison on a journey of serving a 16-year sentence handed to him in 2018 by the Anti-Corruption court…

  • China denies requiring US diplomats to take COVID anal swab tests

    China’s Foreign ministry denied it ever required US diplomats to submit to COVID-19 anal swab tests, disputing media reports that some personnel had complained.

  • Ugandans lose 15 mobile phones to thieves every day

    Ugandans lose 15 mobile phones every day worth Shs 4 billion a year to thieves, statistics by Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) indicate. Data shows that thugs stole at least 5,630 phones in 2019 worth Shs 4.29 billion. Police investigators including the cyber-crime unit claim to have ably recovered mobile phones worth…

  • Kidnappers release 27 Nigerian schoolboys, 317 girls still missing

    Gunmen in Nigeria today Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the northern state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for 317 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state. Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by…

  • Traffic police to ditch white uniform for khaki

    The police leadership has resolved to replace the white uniform for traffic officers with khaki fabric starting with next week.A reliable source has intimated that the logistics and welfare directorates have been spearheading the sewing of a new khaki uniform which is expected to be distributed to all traffic personnel…

  • Winnie Nwangi sues MTN over Kwata Esimu caller tune

    Telecommunications giant MTN Uganda has been dragged to court over the alleged sale of “Kwata Esimu” song, which belongs to Winnie Nwagi and Mubarak Adams Mandela alias Free Boy as a caller tune. Viva Entertainment Limited in its suit before the Civil Division of High court on behalf of the two…

  • DPP withdraws charges against Maj Kiggundu murder suspects

    The director of public prosecutions (DPP) justice Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn terrorism charges against eleven people who were accused of killing Maj. Muhammad Kiggundu in 2017. The suspects are Abdulaziz Abdushakur Musoke, Sulaiman Wayaba alias Bashir Lukenge, Bashir Nyangisho alias Abdallah Katata Byansi alias Abdallah Katata, Sulait Majid Lukwago and …

  • Bukedea police shoot dead teenager for violating COVID curfew

    A teenage boy, Patrick Otimong has been shot dead by Bukedea police for allegedly violating the night curfew.  Otimong, a student of Sironko senior secondary school was allegedly shot dead by a special police constable (SPC), Simon Okurut who found the teenager partying with others at Kanyipe trading centre. The locals had been granted…

  • Mbale city expresses concern over Shs 16bn contract awarded to Dott Services

    Mbale district local government authorities and residents have expressed concern over awarding a road works contract to Dott Services to implement the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) project. In November last year, the government through the Lands, Housing and Urban Development ministry contracted Dott Services to undertake the reconstruction…

  • Uncertainty as contracts of two deputy IGGs come to an end

    Uncertainty looms large at the Inspectorate of Government as the contracts of the two deputy inspector generals of government (IGG) near the end.The country has been without a substantive IGG for close to eight months now, since the expiry of justice Irene Mulyagonja’s contract on July 5, 2020.  She had…

  • IGG tells Bobi Wine to justify bulletproof car donation else it becomes govt property

    National Unity Platform president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine must declare his armoured (bulletproof) car donation by March 31, 2021, else it becomes government property, the acting Inspector General of Government (IGG) George Bamugemereire has warned.  Last week, Kyagulanyi excited his local supporters when he declared on social media that his…

  • Niger ruling party's Bazoum declared winner of presidential run-off

    Niger ruling PNDS party candidate Mohamed Bazoum is promising to be president to all citizens after being declared winner of Sunday’s presidential run-off election.

  • Police decline to take responsibility for army abductions

    The police leadership has declined to take public accountability and responsibility for the over 200 missing persons whose whereabouts still remain unknown.  President Museveni in his address barely a fortnight ago, confirmed that the army was holding over 200 suspects, who he referred to as terrorists. Museveni said he deployed military…

  • Bobi petition collapse: the inside story

    The Monday decision by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu to withdraw his Supreme court election petition has raised new legal and political question. The political question, however, is clear and to the point; what is the next course of action for Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine? In the past, Kyagulanyi, the former presidential candidate…

  • Angry losing MPs withdraw ambulances

    To strengthen her re-election bid last September ahead of the NRM parliamentary primaries, outspoken minister of state for Investment and Privatisation, Evelyn Anite donated an ambulance to her constituents in the West Nile town of Koboko Municipality–creating one of the most critical services in this sub-region where too few ambulances…

  • How democratic was 2021 election?

    With tougher policing, tighter ministry of Health sanctioned guidelines to slow the march of Covid-19 and violent clashes between the military and opposition presidential candidates, the 2020/2021 general election campaign got off to an ominous start. In the end the general election offered a perfect guidepost on how heavy use of…

  • NMS to hospitals: submit medicines request on time

    To enhance availability of drugs all over the country, government health facilities must lodge their medicine requests within set deadlines, National Medical Stores (NMS) has said. “Currently, we serve over 3,000 health facilities across the country and while a great number of them submit their requests on time, we still face…

  • Ugandan news websites implicated in NRM-aligned social media campaign

    Facebook pages associated with seven Uganda-based news websites were removed for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on January 8, 2021, six days before the country’s presidential elections. Journalists, editors, and founders of the websites were also included in the large network that Facebook linked to the ministry of Information and Communications…

  • Museveni not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 - minister Aceng

    Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has dismissed media reports indicating President Yoweri and his inner circle have already been vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19). Addressing the media at the ministry of Health headquarters, Aceng said the only COVID-19 vaccines that have so far come into the country were from China and…

  • Defiant Owiny-Dollo refuses to recuse self from Bobi Wine petition

    The chief justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has declined to step down from being part of a panel hearing the case in which National Unity Platform president, Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert is challenging the election victory of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.

  • Floating island blocks MV Kalangala docking pier in Kalangala

    A floating island has interrupted business after blocking part of Lutoboka landing site in Kalangala district. The floating island blocked the docking pier of MV Kalangala and some beaches in Kalangala town council on Sunday.

  • Italian ambassador to DRC killed in ambush

    Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. The UN World Food Program says at least two other people were killed and several more injured in the attack Monday that killed Italian…

  • Musician Nambala arrested with 48 passports at Sheraton hotel

    Local female musician Ameria Nambala is under investigation after she was found in possession of 48 genuine passports whose owners can't be traced. Nambala was arrested from Sheraton Hotel Kampala on Friday by plain-clothed security personnel from the presidential guards, Special Forces Command (SFC) and Internal Security Organisations (ISO).   Crime intelligence and…

  • Uneb in financial crisis ahead of O'level exams

    Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) is battling financial challenges that might affect the preparation and management of 2020 final examinations. According to sources in the examinations body, the board lacks funds to finance a number of activities ahead of the Uganda Certificate Examinations (UCE) scheduled to start on March 1.   

  • Bobi Wine withdraws election petition citing court bias

    National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has announced the withdrawal of his election petition challenging President Yoweri Museveni's election victory last month citing bias of the Supreme court.   Kyagulanyi who filed the petition about two weeks ago, says the case will now be taken to the public…

  • 5-day internet shutdown didn't create communication blackout - UCC

    Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has downplayed the effects of the 5-day internet shutdown, saying it did not leave Ugandans in a communication blackout since postal, courier and radio communications remained available.  This is contained in a filed affidavit by Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo, the executive director of UCC in support of the…

  • Police fires teargas to disperse FDC supporters in Kitgum

    Police on Saturday fired teargas to disrupt a procession by opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) supporters in Kitgum municipality.About 100 locals joined a procession to welcome FDC party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi and former FDC party presidential candidate Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye in Pandwong Division.

  • Niger votes in presidential runoff to usher in first democratic transition

    Niger voted today Sunday in the second round of a presidential election that is expected to usher in the first democratic transition of power since the West African nation gained independence from France in 1960.   Ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum is seen by many as the favourite after leading in…

  • Russia donates 300 million Covid vaccine doses to Africa

    Russia has donated 300 million doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines to the African Union. The vaccines were donated through the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) set up earlier by the AU. This adds to the 270 million doses that the entity had previously secured from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson…

  • UPDF soldier shoots self dead in Bunyangabu

    A Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier shot himself dead in Bunyangabu district on Friday.Private Godfrey Nandasaba reportedly took his own life from inside his army tent at Kisogi-Rwimi army detach in Kabonero sub county. 

  • Kyagulanyi petition dealt another blow as court rejects new evidence

    In a majority ruling of 8:1, justices of the Supreme court have declined to allow an application by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu to file more evidence to support his petition challenging President Museveni’s victory in last month’s presidential election. In a short ruling read by justice Percy Night Tuhaise…

  • You can't intimidate us to rule in your favour, court tells Bobi Wine

    Chief Justice Alfonse Owinyi-Dollo has warned National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine that he can't intimidate or induce favours from the Supreme court to rule in his favour by blackmailing the judges.   Kyagulanyi petitioned the Supreme court to have President Yoweri Museveni's reelection annulled on grounds of…

  • 8 killed in Buhweju mudslides

    At least eight people have been confirmed dead in landslides that devastated Karungu sub-county in Buhweju district. The mudslides followed a heavy downpour on Thursday. 

  • Museveni warns EU ambassadors off Uganda's affairs

    President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has warned European Union envoys to Uganda to stop getting involved in matters they don’t understand. Speaking on Thursday at State House Entebbe while meeting EU envoys led by their head of the delegation, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici, Museveni said such interference in the past caused…

  • Makerere University professor Kerali found dead in his bedroom

    Makerere University associate professor, Anthony Geoffrey Genmungu Kerali has been found dead in his bedroom. Kerali died at his home at Plot 1, Prince Charles Drive in Kololo in Kampala. The cause of his death is yet to be established. Kerali was a lecturer at Makerere's college of engineering, design…

  • Floods fill Nakivubo police fire directorate with garbage

    The Thursday morning heavy rainfall left the police’s fire and emergency response directorate at Nakivubo filled with all sorts of washed-up garbage and mud.The directorate which is located opposite the Clock Tower near Queens Way in Kibuye was flooded for the better part of Thursday morning with police officers forced to…

  • Gold prices rise from Shs 70,000 to Shs 200,000 due to water shortage

    Artisanal miners in Karamoja region have increased gold prices by three-fold due to shortage of water.In December 2020, the miners were selling a gram at Shs 70,000 but are currently charging as much as Shs 200,000 per gram. Several miners in Rupa sub-county in Moroto district said that they decided to…

  • 7 UPDF soldiers jailed for beating journalists

    Seven soldiers who were part of a group that assaulted journalists yesterday near the United Nations offices have allegedly been charged and convicted for conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF). Seven journalists from different media houses are nursing wounds after military police personnel pounced…

  • Zanzibar's VP dies at 77 after testing positive for COVID-19

    The first vice president of Tanzania's Zanzibar Island, Seif Sharif Hamad, died Wednesday morning, weeks after being hospitalized with COVID-19. Announcing the death Wednesday, Zanzibar's President Hussein Mwinyi said he had learned with great sadness of the passing of Hamad, a prominent politician who was also the chairman of the Alliance…

  • Kitgum Woman, 26, jailed 28 years for killing husband over Shs 10,000

    A 26-year-old woman was on Wednesday evening sentenced to 28 years and eleven months in jail for murdering her husband over Shs 10,000.

  • American conned out of $6m by police officer in gold scam

    The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has charged two police deserters accused of conning $6m (about Shs 21.9 billion) out of an American national, Anastasios Belesis in a gold scam. Former police constable Martin Bwayo alias Capt Bob and his alleged accomplice Enock Katwesigye alias Col Frank, according to Belesis, masqueraded as…

  • MPs approve mid-term access to NSSF savings

    MPs have passed the National Social Security Fund Bill 2019, giving Ugandans aged over 45 years and those who have saved for 10 years access to 20 per cent of their savings.Parliament chaired by speaker Rebecca Kadaga also resolved that there should be dual management of the fund with the minister…

  • Military police beats up 8 journalists covering Bobi Wine at UN offices

    At least eight journalists from six media houses are nursing injuries after military police mercilessly pounced on them and beat them with batons near the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights offices in Kololo today.  The journalists were covering National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, who had gone to deliver a…

  • Election observers baffled by 100% voter turnout at 409 polling stations

    Election observers are baffled by 100 per cent voter turnout at 409 polling stations in the recently concluded January 14 presidential elections.   In total, President Yoweri Museveni polled 161,864 votes at these polling stations representing 95.8 per cent of votes cast with the rest of 10 presidential candidates sharing 4 per…

  • EC yet to receive DR forms from 23 polling stations in Kampala

    Results from 23 polling stations in Kampala did not make it to the Electoral Commission’s final tally sheet after their declaration forms disappeared before reaching tally centre in Kyambogo.   The said polling stations account for 22,103 registered voters and are part of the 83 stations across the country whose…

  • Covid-19 report rates govt interventions

    A DGF supported study done by Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) in 31 districts in Uganda tracked every Covid-19 government intervention and the performance of the implementing district task forces.