The president of the rotary international, Sakuji Tanaka, arrived in Uganda on August 1, 2012 for a visit that will end on 3rd August. As head of one of the world’s largest humanitarian service organisations, he is in the country to recognise the work of rotary clubs in Uganda by visiting various projects […]
Grief has befallen on the people of Ntungamo in Western Uganda following an outbreak of Ebola in in Kibutamo LCI in Ntungamo District. The reports from this district indicate that over 10 people have died of suspected Ebola and over 35 others are admitted at the different health centres in the district. The dead […]
Following an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, the Uganda Prisons authorities banned all visits to prisons including Luzira prison. But the FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye says this could be a ploy by the government to block the assistance FDC has been sending to political prisons whom president Museveni’s government imprisoned without trial. However […]
Many people in the world find it difficult to care for HIV-positive children. Some parents whom we interviewed for purposes of writing this story said that their children keeps on asking them why they give them medicine even when they are not sick. Doctors tell us that the appetite for some of the children […]
Clinical trials to test the effectiveness and safety of virginal rings are being carried out currently in different countries around the globe. Some of the countries that have done these trials include Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. These virginal rings contain anti-retroviral drugs, which are inserted into the vagina in a bid to […]
The governor bank of Uganda Tumusiime Mutebile has ordered commercial banks to reduce their lending rates because the Central Bank has also lowered the Central Bank Rate. The rate at which Bank of Uganda lends to commercial banks standards at 17% in this month of August 2012 down from 19% in July the same […]
Muslims across the globe are in a month long period of fasting to fulfill the third pillar of the Islamic faith. The Muslim fasting is based on a special calendar (Lunar calendar) which starts when the thin crescent Moon is sighted in the sky after sunset. The Muslim calendar is 11 to 15 days […]
Activists for Change (A4C) activities were banned by the Uganda government a couple of months back. But its activities are back in Business as usual on Facebook. Col. Kiiza Besigye, the president General of FDC says that A4C is active online because there are no Cyber Laws in Uganda for Cyber Crimes. He says […]
Police have arrested a man who claims that he killed his wife because she had stolen his money. The Kabale district OC CID, Tobias Mbonekirwe has identified the man behind the murder as Dominic Twinomuhangi, 50, the Chairman of the business community in Kabale District. The police say that the suspect accused his wife […]
Security has started its (dirty) work in Kasese district woman MP by election campaigns. The news our reporters in Kasese send to us have it that Police and soldiers in plain clothes have arrested local council Councilors from Busongora North. The security network blames the councilors (most of them members of Forum for Democratic […]