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Namugongo is home to Uganda’s Catholic and Anglican shrines. On the 3rd of June, Ugandans will celebrate the martyrs who died for their faith. This has always seen pilgrims move long distances to the Uganda Martyr’s Shrine in Namugongo to pay tribute to them. Over the years, the number of pilgrims has only kept in going higher for an unknown ...

MP Kazo County, Dan Kimosho has said Rtd Gen, Kizza Besigye, is only using the situation of the high commodity prices to regain his fame. According to him, Besigye has been looking for an opportunity to come back to the limelight and this is the perfect time he saw. “Besigye is using this situation of commodity prices to reclaim his ...

Joseph Kabuleta, the principal of the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) claimed that government has a group of people looking to turn Ugandans into slaves in about 3 decades from now. These remarks from Kabuleta followed comments from some westerners who dismissed a common narrative that the region is more privileged compared to others. According to Prossy Ayebare from Isingiro, ...

The Forum for Democratic Change party, FDC, has expressed concern over their women activists that Police arrested yesterday. These women were protesting skyrocketing prices of commodities and the long detention of their former party president Dr. Kizza Besigye. The women in question include; Soroti Woman MP Anna Adeke Ebaju, Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura and Margaret Wokuri, a woman ...

Taiwan said it has deployed fighter jets to warn off the 30 warplanes that China sent into its air defense zone. The Monday incident marked the biggest incursion since January. This incident came a few days after US President Joe Biden warned China against invading Taiwan. It also happened on the same day a US official visited the island to ...