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New ACME Report: The Widening Gap between Uganda’s Media Laws and Constitutional Protections

CREDIT - ACME.   Uganda’s media sector faces mounting constraints from restrictive laws, expansive regulatory controls and financial pressure, according to a new report by the African Centre for Media...

UGANDA: Children’s Home Director Sentenced to 46 Years for Trafficking & Raping Young Girls

The Director of a Community Based Organisation (CBO) has been sentenced to serve 46 years in prison on...

Crisis in Journalism

PRESS RELEASE. LONDON/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Independent media outlets around the world are facing an unprecedented crisis, according to...

World Day Against Child Labour: 138 million children still trapped in child labour

On this year’s World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June, the International Trade Union Confederation-ITUC has called on...

How Trans Ugandans are building power through business

Achen, not her real name, is a soft-spoken 26-year-old from northern Uganda. She never imagined she would run...

CORRUPTION: Isingiro councilors want the CAO transferred & punished

Isingiro district councilors have mobilized against the Chief Administrative Officer-CAO Ms Alice Rushure, accusing her of corruption, connivance, bribery, misuse of district resources and...

Statement: 2 people arrested following fire outbreak at Ministry of Agriculture drug stores

STATEMENT ON THE FIRE OUTBREAK AT MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE DRUG STORES. The territorial Police at Wandegeya Kampala has today 3/04/2022 registered a fire outbreak at...

Mbarara woman arrested for stripping naked & assaulting her juvenile housemaid

Police in Mbarara City South division Mbarara City is holding a woman identified as Namale Sumaya,who appears in a viral video where she stripped...

Anomalies in Local Governments budgets hindering the fight against HIV/AIDS

BY AARON AINOMUGISHA. Local Governments will have to include HIV?AIDS activities in their budgets as the added measure to realise the desired target in...

Karamoja & cattle rustling: Security operations or massacres?

Human rights activists, politicians and concerned citizens have "quickly" come out to condemn the killings in Karamoja,northeastern Uganda amidst operations by Uganda People's Defence...

Prominent lawyer Robert Aguma dead, body dumped in Bundibugyo

Police in Rwenzori West are hunting for suspected assailants that have murdered the Bundibugyo district National Resistance Movement-NRM registrar Robert Aguma Kifunga, who is...