Western Uganda – Police in Rukiga district has arrested a man for allegedly impersonating as the Western Region National Resistance Movement-NRM mobilizer. Johnson Kahiji Amumpaire, a resident of Kanungu district who is now held at Rukiga police station was picked up today by police officers at Bukinda police post on orders of the Rukiga Resident […]
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Health ministry in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the first case of Ebola in Goma, a major transport hub with a population of two million people. Officials say a local pastor in the city tested positive to the virus in a screening centre in Goma after arriving Butembo town. For long, health workers […]
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The High court has convicted two people who have been on trial for the alleged murder of a Columbia University Student in 2015 in Kampala. Andrew Gatare, 19, then a student of electrical engineering at Columbia College in Canada, was killed during his on new year in 2015 while on holidays in Uganda. Justice Flavia Anglin […]
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The Uganda People’s Defense Forces has on July 15 started a countrywide Local Defense Units’ recruitment exercise. The UPDF early this month announced its plans to recruit 3,000 from districts in Central, Eastern, Northern and Mid-Western Uganda regions. The exercise that started today July 15 will end on July 31. According to Maj. Biral Katamba, […]
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FDC party president Patrick Amuriat, has announced that the party has suspended its nationwide meetings and rallies because of police brutality. Mr Amuriat added that police brutality meted on its members is the reason the party has boycotted the Inter-party Organisation for Dialogue summit. Last week, the party had embarked on nationwide party consultations in […]
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Western Uganda – The Ankole Royal tombs have been left to waste as they are now in a poor state despite once being a tourist attraction. This burial site for the Ankole kings at Nkokonjeru hill in Kamukuzi Division in Mbarara Town is no more as most of the land has either been sold off […]
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Children born to obese mothers are up to 57 percent more likely to develop cancer, according to new research. The researchers, who analyzed more than 2 million births and 3,000 cancer cases in Pennsylvania, believe disruptions to insulin levels at crucial points in the fetus’s development could set in motion dangerous cell changes that lead to […]
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The Anglican Church of Canada — which has more than 500,000 members — has rejected a motion to modify its definition of marriage to embrace same-sex unions. The motion heard at the church’s general assembly, called a synod, would have changed its marriage canon to remove references to unions between a man and a woman. […]
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Police has arrested one suspect identified as Nayebare Robert 24yrs a resident of Mahuki cell Ngoma parish Nyakyera sub county Ntungamo district after he reported himself at Ntungamo Central Police station that while at home he cut his young brother Mpigika Innocent 19yrs using a panga to death. This prompted District Ass. Superintendent of Police […]
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The State Minister of Finance for Planning David Bahati has cautioned students against engaging in pre-marital sex and bad peer groups, if they are to be successful in future. Minister Bahati made the call today while speaking as the guest during the closure of a two day annual youth conference at Lake Bunyonyi Community Vocational […]
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