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About 80 Percent of Kampala adolescent girls  have been sexually harassed by taxi tots, Irene Kagoya Plan Uganda Country Manager for advocacy has revealed. Kagoya on behalf of civil society organisations therefore demands parliament to put strict clause in the proposed traffic and road safety Bill 1998 to ensure that perpetuators are prosecuted for the offence. “We demand parliament to ...

President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni presided over the pass out of 18 pilot cadets and 20 aeronautical graduates at the Gulu Airforce wing. He congratulates the graduates for successfully completing this course. The exceptional performance demonstrated here, with the fighter aircrafts, is very commendable. This training is vigorous and requires a lot of coordination because any mistake made can ...

Effective July 2020,Mbale and Masaka districts will become cities, local government Minister Jenipher Namuyangu has announced. She however says the two cities will require additional 12.3bn in the financial year 2020/2021 by finance ministry to be operationalized. “Amotion for the approval and creation of 15 cities will be ranked by minister of local government within two weeks,”Namuyangu said. Meanwhile Nakasongola, ...

Uganda is set to hold the first ever joint business Forum with DR Congo on 9th November at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Permanent Secretary ministry of foreign Affairs Ambassador Patrick Mugoya says the joint business Forum will provide platform for Uganda to highlight trade opportunities and mutual benefits of two countries in doing business partnerships. “the republic of Uganda and democratic ...

A man identified as Oyolo Bernard has been detained by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) at Huruma Police Station in Kenya’s capital Nairobi after killing wife. Check also: Villagers Left In Shock After Son Kills Father Over Cup Of Milk After strangling his wife Okoth Anyango Leila to death, the middle-aged mechanic who is employed at Jua Kali Westlands, Nairobi quickly ...