Uganda news

National Unity Platform (NUP) president Bobi Wine has said believes that the soul of Anthony Wameli, their departed head of legal team is in heaven. Wameli breathed his last on February 8th 2023 while in the USA where he has been taken for treatment. For so many years, Anthony Wameli was struggling with stage 4 cancer. He hoped for a ...

Up to 100 senior house officers will resume work today following a suspension of their industrial action by the Uganda Medical Association General Assembly.The strike had entered its 14th day yesterday and it happened in protest of delayed payment of monthly allowances. The senior officers said this among other grievances led them to hold the strike but will be expected ...

Rukiga District police recently launched an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a 60-year-old man. Apparently, the deceased’s body was discovered after his killers took off with a few of his body parts. Mr. Elly Maate, the Kigezi region police spokesperson identified the deceased as Michael Kyarugahi. Michael has been a resident of Rushebeya Cell, Rwamucucu Sub County in ...

Experts have warned that Uganda is currently experiencing increased population growth. They said that the estimated growth, placed at 47.2 million in 2022 is growing at 3% per annum.They revealed that this rate of growth has a serious impact on gender, health, the environment as well as development. Apparently, this in turn leads to changes in social values and cultural ...

Hon. Judith Nabakooba, the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, recently made a trip to Mityana. While there, she urged the residents to embrace the government’s poverty eradication program. The program she assured them of is dubbed Parish Development Models (PDM). Nabakooba visited Mityana’s sub-counties on March 2nd to deliver the PDM advice. She told residents that the PDM ...