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The Uganda Railway Corporation has confirmed that the train accident that occurred on Monday was caused by a gauge shift. The accident happened at about 10 am at the Mukwano roundabout railway crossing. The cargo train derailed and blocked traffic at the roundabout for over two hours before engineers disentangled the locomotive from the wagons. They cleared the road and ...

The demand for democracy and support for elections as the best means for choosing the country’s leaders have declined since 2011, new Afro Barometer survey findings have indicated. According to the survey, although large majority of Ugandans feel free to say what they want 83%, free to choose whom to vote for 93%, join any political organisation 88%, people have ...

Former US President Donald Trump is urging his Republican supporters to get the vaccine against Covid-19, saying he would recommend it. In a TV interview, Trump said the vaccine is “safe” and “something that works”. Mr Trump’s conservative fan base has been one of the main groups resistant to the vaccine programme. The media criticized the former president himself during ...

Makerere University has released Bobi Wine’s academic papers which has caused jaws to drop. The information on the papers there has caused a saga in his age. According to the papers handed over to EC, Bobi wine was born in 1982. However, in the released Makerere academic papers, they show his year of birth as 1980. Just last year, Attorney, ...

Pressure for regulation on Jack Ma’s business empire has continued to grow. The Chinese government recently ordered Alibaba to sell off its vast collection of media assets according to a report.This request represents another escalation of regulatory pressure that has continuously heaped upon Ma’s empire. This, however, followed the spectacular failure of Ant Financial to go public in November 2020.Earlier ...