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The leader of the National Unity Platform, Hon Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, has come out to bluntly tell President Museveni that he should forget about extracting oil in Hoima. The singer and politician said that as a country, resources and wealth are needed. However, he and his comrades won’t allow these to be overseen by a “thief and ...

Elders and clan leaders have been strongly warned against their involvement in sexual abuse cases leaving aside the police. While sensitising the west Nile region in refugee camps, Anatoli Muleterwa, the head of community policing pointed out that although local leaders and elders are mandated to prevent crimes such as gender based violence, they are not allowed to handle capital ...

Ebola death toll in Uganda has climbed to eight after the Ministry of Health confirmed that one of their doctors has succumbed to the disease. Dr. Mohammed Ali is the first health worker to succumb to the fifth Ebola outbreak in Uganda. He also becomes the eighth person to succumb to the recent Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda. He ...

Elgon zonal police have launched an investigation into circumstances surrounding six deaths over suspected food poisoning. The six deaths all happened in the past week with the last being a mother along with her two children in Namakwekwe suburb. Apparently, the father of the children also battled for his life at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. “We heard their father groaning ...

Veteran Journalist, Baker Batte, has said yesterday while in Parliament, all they could hear was noise because legislators were shouting. Due to this, they didn’t hear any candidate articulate their points. “We don’t have six representatives from NRM, we have all the nine from NRM. Politics is about greed. I was in the gallery, but we couldn’t hear the candidates ...