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Concern is rising that budget cuts to key ministries like Agriculture may lead to food insecurity. In December 2022, the government tabled the draft budget estimates for the financial year 2023-24. The projected expenditure had been increased by Shs1.8 trillion from Shs48.1 trillion in the current financial year to Shs49.9 trillion. However, to note, if agriculture doesn’t receive more resources, ...

NRM spokesperson, Rogers Mulindwa, has revealed that the NRM is set to catch some big fish from NUP very soon. For a long time, we have seen political parties strengthen themselves at the expense of others. This is by poaching some of the strongest individuals from the rival political parties. A common character of the NRM, Mulindwa says that they ...

A bomb blast in a church in Eastern DR Congo has killed at least 10 people and injured 39 others. The attack blamed on suspected Islamists happened yesterday. The specifics on the attack are a little hazy but reports say the attack happened in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province. After the bomb blast, authorities arrested a Kenyan at ...

Social and political analyst, Frank Gashumba, has assured Ugandans that the first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba must be the next president of Uganda. Gashumba said this after Gen Muhoozi showed interest in succeeding his father President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Twitter. Muhoozi made the tweets last year in 2022. In one of the tweets, he said he wants to become ...

Sam Bambanza, an activist and executive director of Hopeful Victims of Road Accidents, is calling for a compensation policy for accident victims. This call comes at a time when the country is experiencing a steep rise in road accidents. The latest police report has showed that 79 people were killed in the first week of January 2023 and hundreds were ...