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As the Anti-Homosexuality debate continues, Mr. Jan Sadek, the European Union Ambassador to Uganda has said they will continue supporting the development agenda of Uganda. He said they are willing to continue despite the disagreement over the Anti-Homosexuality bill which parliament recently approved. Earlier this week, the Europe Day celebrations took place in Kampala. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Sadek ...

Recent events had a pre-dawn air strike by Israel on an apartment in the Gaza Strip kill a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander. It also left one other person dead. The warplane attacked an apartment on the fifth floor of a building in Hamad residential city. It should be noted that on Wednesday, a number of militants were seen ...

The United States Geological Survey said that an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 rattled Tonga on Thursday(May11). The US Tsunami warnings system said there was no tsunami warning after the earthquake. The USGS stated that the quake hit at 1602 GMT about 100 kilo meters off Tonga’s remote volcanic island of Niuatoputapu at a depth of 210 kilometres. Gary Vite, chief ...

Unknown hackers have apparently accessed Uganda’s parliament Twitter page and deleted it from the social media platform. A statement was released by the Director of Communication and Public Affairs of Parliament, Chris Obore on how the August House’s Twitter page was hacked. It should be recalled that the action took place last month. A thing that threw the lawmakers into ...

Parliament yesterday paid their last respects to the fallen state minister for labour Charles Okello Engola who was shot dead by his guard, Wilson Sabiti last week. Among the propositions to honor him was to elevate him to the rank of Brigadier General. By the time of his death, the minister was at the rank of Colonel. This proposal was ...