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 ...
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Water NGOs Boost Preparations For Re-Opening Schools
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 ...
Read More »Ethiopian Journalist Wins UK Award For Tigray Reporting
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 ...
Read More »No Bags Allowed- MUBS Orders Students As Terror Threat Grows
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 ...
Read More »Journalists Are So Unprofessional In Their Delivery – Betty Nambooze
Betty Nambooze, Woman MP of Mukono Municipality has accused journalists of unprofessionalism in their delivery. Nambooze said this regarding the way some journalists were reporting about the explosions that happened today. According to her, most of the journalists clearly didn’t know how to report without implicating anyone. She said it is so unprofessional for journalists to report about security deployment ...
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