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Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has registered increased cases of cancer this covid season. UCI Executive Director Dr Jackson Orem says cancer has more than doubled from the previous years incidence this covid pandemic. “Cancer is on the rise. Cumulative statistics indicates 350 cancer cases per 100,000 population from  previous  2010 150 cases per 100,000 population,” Orem said. Orem however cast ...

The late Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga is set to be laid to rest on Monday next week according to an announcement by the Orthodox Church. Sylvester Kisitu, the Gulu and Eastern Uganda Orthodox Bishop made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday.According to Bishop Kisitu, Lwanga’s body will arrive in the country from Greece on Saturday morning. He confirmed that ...

President Museveni is today expected to speak as the guest of honor of prayer ceremony organized by Pastor Kayanja. They named it the world prayer day and day of atonement. Pastor Kayanja has been running a conference since the beginning of this month and today will be the grand finale. President Museveni is going to be the main speaker today ...

Uganda after independence saw the rise of cooperatives which would later become a household name among farmers. With them, farmers did not have to worry about the prices of their farm products. Almost every region had a cooperative society to which a farmer belonged. Then came Uganda’s post-independence crisis of the 70s and 80s which saw the economy crash. This ...

Members of the Afghanistan national girls football team have fled across the border into Pakistani dressed in burqas. This has happened a month after the hardline Taliban swept back into power according to officials from the country. Last month, the group of junior players and their coaches and families had tried to escape the country but in vain. A devastating ...