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Bobi Wine Protests made November 18th and 19th 2020 to come off as the darkest days of the year for Kampala. It’s been a year since a number of people lost their lives in the riots around the capital and the outskirts. However, the most disturbing news is that no family of the victims has ever received justice up until ...

According to the investigations carried out regarding the explosions in Kampala, the main target of the terrorists were the MPs. Apparently, the death of MPs would make bigger news. Authorities collected this information from Musa Mudasiri, who was part of the gang. Mudasiri told police before he succumbed to injuries that their main target was the Parliament. He confessed that ...

A construction startup has made a breakthrough in supplying clean water to schools in rural areas. It uses locally available material to build big stone tanks to harvest and save rainwater. The 100,000 to 500,000-liter ‘Walugendo Model Tank’ could become the game-changer in rural schools without access to piped water. Through a three-year pilot project, UMUDRU, the company behind the ...

Solan Kolli, an Ethiopian journalist on Tuesday won the Rory Peck prize for his coverage of the Tigray region. He won in the news category for a report commissioned by Agence France-Presse on massacres of civilians. Upon granting the award, the judges noted that the conflict had been underreported. They added that Kolli’s work contextualized and addressed the political realities ...

Makerere University Business School has suspended the entry of students carrying bags into the university until further notice. Apparently, they will only allow transparent bags with books inside the university. The announcement came due to the rising terror threat after twin bombs went off; one exploding at IPS building along Parliamentary Avenue, and another at CPS in Kampala. The bombings ...