Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on Tuesday returned a total of 259 street children to Karamoja Sub-region. While there, the authority looks to rehabilitate them before it reunites them with their families. Ms. Dorothy Kisaka, the KCCA executive director, said the authority has positioned teams in various divisions of the city with a job of locating street children. In addition ...

Opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), has said it had started compiling evidence in the by-election in Soroti East with which they will petition court challenging the results. Christine Eyu, the Soroti District returning officer declared Mr. Herbert Edmund Ariko from NRM as the winner of the by-election. He garnered 9,257 votes against Mr. Moses Attan Okia (FDC) who ...

Police has warned the public of criminal gangs operating in Kampala with fake vehicle number plates used to evade security surveillance cameras. Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said the gang usually operates in taxis and on boda bodas. They rob unsuspecting passengers using untraceable plates. “We have been receiving complaints where criminals in conspiracy with rogue taxi drivers and conductors ...

On Sunday, a US drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Al-Qaeda terror group. He is the mastermind who orchestrated the Kenyan bombing that claimed the lives of over 200 people in 1998. On Monday, 1 August, 2022, President Joe Biden announced that Osama Bin Laden’s ally had been killed by a drone strike. He described the successful ...

Dr. Kizza Besigye ’s lawyers, his sister and the Observer Media Limited have demanded over Shs240m in legal costs. The developments came after they won a defamation case against the former Crime Intelligence Director, Col Ndahura Atwooki. Col Atwooki sued Ms Olive Kobusingye, Dr Besigye’s sister, in 2012. He accused the latter of defaming him in a 213-page book: The ...