Uganda news

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says a total of 4.8 million people in the country will have been vaccinated by they end of this year. The categories of people to receive the vaccine include frontline workers such as teachers, health workers, students, among other categories. The president said this will lay a solid ground for the reopening of the country’s economy ...

Leader of Opposition in parliament, Mathias Mpuuga has demanded that President Museveni accounts for his 10 point Program of 2018 regarding security. Mathias says they need to know the successes registered so far. He insisted that government owes the public accountability. Apparently, the measures they drawn and budgeted for cost taxpayers’ money. “We want to demand of him to come ...

The police counter-terrorism unit and bomb squad personnel on Wednesday rushed to Nakasagazi village in Sembabule to retrieve a bomb discovered in a forest. Apparently, children found the bomb as they were fetching firewood from a nearby forest. While there, they discovered an old rusty projectile that somebody had abandoned for some time. The youngsters took the metal to a ...

On May 3, 2021, President Yoweri Museveni issued a directive to have all illegal miners evicted from Kisiita Mines. In addition, he guided that the illegal miners be given a 6-month grace period, for them to voluntarily vacate from the mining site. The State Minister for Mineral Development set November 3, 2021, as the final date for the victims to ...

Former presidential candidate, Bobi Wine has said that Museveni is always looking for repressive tactics to control opposition politicians. Bobi Wine said this quoting a headline in the observer that read that they have ordered the MPs to make sure the bail bill must pass. He said this is evidence that Museveni is hell-bent on making their lives very difficult. ...