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The Minister of Internal Affairs Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire has warned NRM not to bring back the things that took them to the bush. He says if Parliament endorses the proposal to have MPs elect the president, then the five-year bush war that brought NRM to power was meaningless. He said this while at the 41st Terehe Sita anniversary celebrations ...

The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) took time off their Defence Week leading to the 41st Tarehe Sita Anniversary marked on Sunday. They took off this time to help expectant mothers deliver their babies safely. For the last two weeks, the medics from army reached the hard-to-reach areas of the Elgon and Sebei sub-regions that form the Elgon zone. ‘’So ...

A 24 year old man identified as Michael Wachira from Kiambu County is living with his fiance Grace. He is currently employed as a cashier in Grace-view supermarket. Two years back as he was still living with his mum, his older brother brought his daughter to stay with them for few days as he was traveling. I was not ready ...

A few days ago, hell broke loose for the vendors in the Kampala Business District when Uganda police deployed heavily armed Field Force Unit members. The police manned all operations in the central business district with the backing of the military police. In some scenarios, the UPDF and the elite presidential guard dubbed SFC intervened. The joint security operations ended ...

Muslims have expressed disappointment in the government’s failure to fulfill their promise of renovating the Old Kampala Mosque. Sheikh Imran Abdnoor Ssali, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council(UMSC) secretary in charge of Preaching and Islamic Propagation (Dawah), said in the run-up to the 2016 general elections while at old Kampala, Museveni pledged to renovate the national mosque on request from the ...