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Karamoja Still Trapped: CSOs Call for Enough Govt Funding

Civil society organizations (CSOs) have warned that Karamoja sub region will continue to suffer deep-rooted poverty unless the government boosts funding for the region and addresses long-standing inequalities. At a...

INJUSTICE: Mbarara PFF Mobilizer & Science Teacher in Trouble over Illegal Money Lending 

Authorities in Mbarara city and Mbarara district have been asked to investigate illegal money lenders that are conniving...

CSOs Condemn UN’s Move to Dismantle UNAIDS

Civil Society Organizations-CSOs have condemned the United Nations proposal to dismantle the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS-UNAIDS...

EXPOSED: Charles Mwesigwa,a man running a sex ring operating out of Dubai’s most glamorous neighbourhoods and exploiting vulnerable women 

Charles Mwesigwa, who says he is a former London bus driver, told our undercover reporter he could provide...

Cisco: Africa presents AI leapfrogging opportunity

Additional reporting by Paula Gilbert, Connecting Africa. Africa's entrepreneurial workforce and young population can help catalyze an artificial...

IS M23 RECRUITING REFUGEES IN UGANDA? AFC/M23 Rebel Leader David Baraka Elonga Arrested in Kyangwali Settlement

A high ranking official of the armed M23 rebel movement has been arrested by police for recruiting Congolese refugees in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in...

UPDF BRUTALITY CITED IN DR CONGO-UGANDA BORDER CLOSURE

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC have temporarily closed the border with Uganda in Nkuringo town council Bukimbiri constituency in western Uganda,...

AL-SHABAAB BUULO MAREER SOMALIA ATTACK: 2 UPDF COMMANDERS SACKED FOR COWARDICE

The General Court Martial has sentenced two Uganda People’s Defence Force-UPDF commanders to dismissal with disgrace from the army for cowardice and running away...

INSIDE PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S NATIONAL ADDRESS AMID TERROR THREATS

President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni has assured Ugandans that security agencies are working tirelessly to eliminate the Allied Democratic Forces-ADF, as he addressed the...

TERROR THREATS IN UGANDA: PRESIDENT MUSEVENI TO ADDRESS THE COUNTRY TODAY

President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni will address the country today evening on matters relating to security, the Presidential Press Unit (PPU) has confirmed. “President...

HOW 15 SUSPECTS ESCAPED FROM RWAMPARA POLICE CELL

Police and other security agencies in Rwampara district and western Uganda at large are hunting for 15 male suspects who escaped from a police...