Kiconco Eunice. Following the closure of 5 hotels which accommodated guests who later tested positive for COVID19 last Friday in Mbarara with the country registering 5 deaths so far, the public in Mbrarara is still reluctant about observing the ministry of health guidelines on the prevention of COVID19. The hotels whose operations were suspended last […]
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Parliament’s Public Accounts committee has quizzed the Undersecretary to the Judiciary Maureen Kasande on Shillings 398m expenditure which lacked accountability in form of documents supporting the expenditure as per the auditor general’s report for the 2018/2019 financial year. Kasande had appeared alongside other accounting officers of institutions under the Justice Law and order sector. The […]
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The Electoral Commission has been ordered to pay costs to City Lawyer Stephen Kalali following a consent that was entered between the two agreeing that Prisoners and Ugandans living in the Diaspora shall be registered to vote in the 2026 General Elections. The Consent has been entered before High court Judge Esta Nambayo following discussions […]
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Over three people have reportedly died as a result of taking excessive alcohol, in different parts of Rukungiri district, in a space of one week. Last week on Monday, Julius Twesigye, 64, a resident of Kamujegye cell in Rwerere Town Council, allegedly took excess alcohol while he had gone to visit a friend Justus Mbuyani […]
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Court of Appeal judge Catherine Bamugemereire is under fire over what stakeholders in the land sector have described as unfair and unconstitutional recommendations that she says would streamline the administration of the sector. Justice Bamugemereire chaired the seven member team of the Commission of Inquiry into land matters that have proposed that the government starts […]
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This is Bobi Wine’s Official Statement. WE CAME TOGETHER AS A GENERATION. I have seen a few posts from people who purport to struggle for change in Uganda, casting doubts on some of the closest people I work with. Some of the doubts are premised on these comrades’ past relationship with the NRM regime, while […]
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Ainembabazi Dorothy. Kabale regional referral hospital has suspended the admission of all non-emergency patients after the facility registered a COVID-19 positive case. The patient is a 56-year-old Imam, a resident of Nyakijumba in the southern division, Kabale municipality who has been admitted at the hospital since Sunday 26th July, 2020. He had traveled by bus […]
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At least 360,000 teenage pregnancies occur each year in Uganda. Four in every 100 teenage girls are either pregnant or have had their first child, according to 2016 Demographic Health Survey. Experts warn that these figures would get worse due to effects of Covid-19 such as closure of schools that is throwing more teenagers to […]
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Ainomugisha Aaron. Mbarara regional referral hospital director, Dr Celestine Barigye has called on government to provide more funds to support the hospital in combating COVID-19 pandemic because the hospital has run out of funds as the shs270 million has been consumed in three months. Speaking to crooze fm, Barigye revealed that the 270 million they […]
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